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Do you like TV spoilers. You know, those ones that appear on fan websites. They tell you what’s gonna happen in your favourite show before it happens (its like time travel ....but more shit)
Do you like leaning the secrets of what’s to come or do you avoid them like the plague?
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I find people telling you in person a spoiler more annoying than actually reading about it on the web, for some reason. I don't mind things being spoilt too much, mainly because the things that I'm interested in most are more for the form and execution I guess (like soprano's - someone could tell me what happens in the final episode, and I'd be more interested in how they do it and get there). When people try and be clever and let something slip and then try to hide it by over talking about stupid things that blatently aren't going to happen, that gets on my nerves.
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These days there are so many opportunities to stumble across a spoiler, so much information out there so quickly that the idea of, say, the entire country holding their collective breath to see who shot J.R. (or something interesting but of that magnitude) seems almost unimaginable. Recently, even many film trailers seem to have given up trying to preserve any element of surprise.
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The one that's going to be a complete nightmare will be the final Harry Potter book. At least with a TV programme most people get to see it at the same time. With this book it's going to be a race against time to get to the end before someone else blurts it out or it gets discussed on the radio when you're not expecting it.
There should be some sort of agreed sign that people who know the ending can use to each other to show they're OK to discuss it.
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Nobody yet seems to know about the location, scope, characters or period of GTA IV, which I find quite striking in the current climate when, as Jones says, it's so hard to keep anything under wraps.
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quote:Originally posted by jonesy999: These days there are so many opportunities to stumble across a spoiler, so much information out there so quickly that the idea of, say, the entire country holding their collective breath to see who shot J.R. (or something interesting but of that magnitude) seems almost unimaginable. Recently, even many film trailers seem to have given up trying to preserve any element of surprise.
Also, I think there are still successful cliffhangers around Lost, and to some extent people were holding their collective breaths for the final installment of Star Wars, without knowing quite how it was all going to play out.
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Although, Darryn, the English tabloids do love a good spoiler themselves - luckily it's mainly for drossy soap opera's. Easily avoidable, for the most part. But Dr Who is often splashed across their grubby pages.
Interesting thing about Doctor Who is that it has been mainline news on ITV that the show is returning - why? It's a BBC show. Is the news really that slow at the moment?
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Popular show going against our own ratings doing okayish Primevil returns to television on rival channel, was more my issue - why make it a big news deal on ITV?
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And it really isn't news - it's entertainment, but it was in the ITV news as a big leader, probably ahead of 15 sailors kidnapped by nutbar nuclear anti-semite - probably.
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There's plenty of speculation, yet no 'confirmed' spoilers..
That's the British way.
And why ? Because they air here first.
You'll always know what happens in US shows as they've been on TV in the Untidy States an age before they hit our Brittle screens.
But American shows do have spoilers even before they have aired there.
And as I watch most American shows the day after they are on air for the first time the effect of having months for the information to trickle down to me about what is going to happen, doesn’t exist
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