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I am probably going to wait for the season to complete so I can binge watch. Am I the only one? My big concern is all of the media and spoilers that surround t

I am probably going to wait for the season to complete so I can binge watch. Am I the only one? My big concern is all of the media and spoilers that surround these popular shows. Why do I know who died in Orange is the New Black? Why does Google think I need this as part of my news feed that I check only once or twice a day because I just need the most important news items.

eddieroger 10y ago
I watch live for that reason. There aren't many shows that I do that for, but this is one, and Game of Thrones is the big other one. But I agree that the media spoils too much, though it's not unexpected - spoilers and discussions get big clicks these days.
- mobweb 10y ago
  I feel like I can one-up you on this. Here in Switzerland, the day after some popular shows in the US have ended (for example Breaking Bad, or a GoT season finale), some daily newspapers print two page spreads with all the spoilers from "last night's" episode - despite the fact that 100% of their readers are legally unable to watch that episode for probably another couple of months. And even those that do follow the show through non-legal channels probably haven't downloaded the episode yet, since it has aired in the middle of the night for us.
  - ufo 10y ago
    To mitigate this problem, I wrote some custom CSS with Stilish to block the "TV news" section of the online newspapers I visit most often.
grogenaut 10y ago
Agreed. I have the same problem with Google news and now and sports scores... I don't see why they're treated as general news... why can't it be more like books where time shifting has always existed and conversations have always been deferred. And yes I understand the legacy with sports news but we've evolved damnit!
djaychela 10y ago
Fortunately it's far less popular in the UK - indeed I watched it before any of the hype started, but I get what you mean. I have the same issue with watching F1 - I usually don't watch it until afterwards as my girlfriend and family have no interest, so I watch it when I get a chance rather than annoy everyone with it. But blurting out the result (even when it's not been on live on terrestrial TV) seems to be the thing that news readers do; if it's football they warn you - anything else, TOUGH!
xtreme 10y ago
I think the risk of being exposed to spoilers is something you have to accept if you want to binge watch and not keep up with the populace. I enjoy binge watching, so I always wait for the season to complete; sometime for multiple seasons. However, I don't find the occasional spoiler detrimental to my viewing pleasure. I can only speak for myself, but I have watched many classic movies with prior knowledge of the plot; and I believe they have not significantly affected how I perceived them. Of course, it is impossible to tell if I would have enjoyed them more had I not known anything about them
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snikeris 10y ago
My Google news feed also spoiled my TV watching. There was a news story about the final episode of Game of Thrones, and the title of the story was enough to spoil something that happened in the episode.
jordigh 10y ago
It appears I'm pretty unusual in that I actually like reading spoilers and they don't really spoil anything for me. The few times that people have had spoilers but still read or watch the story in question, I've asked them, "did you enjoy it less because you knew what would happen?" and they said "no". I don't know of someone who actually had their enjoyment of the story modified by knowing the story, but many people who loudly proclaim that spoilers make them upset. A good story should work even if you know what will happen. The components of the story (such as the easter eggs in the present discussion) should be more interesting than some gimmick of a big reveal. The whole concept of spoilers is extremely modern, probably invented by Hitchcock as marketing to sell more tickets to his movies. When you go see the ballet or an opera, you're given the whole plot upfront as part of the programme.
- partisan 10y ago
  > When you go see the ballet or an opera, you're given the whole plot upfront as part of the programme. How else would you know what is going on?
  - jordigh 10y ago
    They're both very expressive. Opera used to be in common languages instead of "foreign" languages like Italian or German, so people could actually understand the words. Nowadays, each time I've been to the opera it has had supertitles. It's not difficult to know what is going on if you don't read the programme. Ballet is a bit more like miming, but overall, the plots are still obvious, and frankly, very thin. We don't watch the Romeo and Juliet ballet wondering if they will survive or not, but rather wondering how they will express their anguish and suffering through dance.
- jonathankoren 10y ago
  The ferishizstion of spoilers is very modern. The very term dates from usenset I believe. However, the first movie that the had a mainstream "don't spoil" movement I can remember was The Crying Game. The meme at the time was "Don't tell the secret!" and "What is the secret of The Crying Game?" (Note the lack of the term "spoil.") The secret is that the girlfriend is trans. (There. I "spoiled" a 25 year old movie you probably had never had any intention of watching, that is really only notable for "the secret" and the socialization around it for a few months in 1992.)
bduerst 10y ago
I didn't even know someone died in the latest season of Orange is the New Black >:(

eddieroger 10y ago

I watch live for that reason. There aren't many shows that I do that for, but this is one, and Game of Thrones is the big other one. But I agree that the media spoils too much, though it's not unexpected - spoilers and discussions get big clicks these days.

mobweb 10y ago
I feel like I can one-up you on this. Here in Switzerland, the day after some popular shows in the US have ended (for example Breaking Bad, or a GoT season finale), some daily newspapers print two page spreads with all the spoilers from "last night's" episode - despite the fact that 100% of their readers are legally unable to watch that episode for probably another couple of months. And even those that do follow the show through non-legal channels probably haven't downloaded the episode yet, since it has aired in the middle of the night for us.
- ufo 10y ago
  To mitigate this problem, I wrote some custom CSS with Stilish to block the "TV news" section of the online newspapers I visit most often.

grogenaut 10y ago

Agreed. I have the same problem with Google news and now and sports scores... I don't see why they're treated as general news... why can't it be more like books where time shifting has always existed and conversations have always been deferred. And yes I understand the legacy with sports news but we've evolved damnit!

djaychela 10y ago

Fortunately it's far less popular in the UK - indeed I watched it before any of the hype started, but I get what you mean. I have the same issue with watching F1 - I usually don't watch it until afterwards as my girlfriend and family have no interest, so I watch it when I get a chance rather than annoy everyone with it. But blurting out the result (even when it's not been on live on terrestrial TV) seems to be the thing that news readers do; if it's football they warn you - anything else, TOUGH!

xtreme 10y ago

I think the risk of being exposed to spoilers is something you have to accept if you want to binge watch and not keep up with the populace. I enjoy binge watching, so I always wait for the season to complete; sometime for multiple seasons. However, I don't find the occasional spoiler detrimental to my viewing pleasure. I can only speak for myself, but I have watched many classic movies with prior knowledge of the plot; and I believe they have not significantly affected how I perceived them. Of course, it is impossible to tell if I would have enjoyed them more had I not known anything about them

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snikeris 10y ago

My Google news feed also spoiled my TV watching. There was a news story about the final episode of Game of Thrones, and the title of the story was enough to spoil something that happened in the episode.

jordigh 10y ago

It appears I'm pretty unusual in that I actually like reading spoilers and they don't really spoil anything for me. The few times that people have had spoilers but still read or watch the story in question, I've asked them, "did you enjoy it less because you knew what would happen?" and they said "no". I don't know of someone who actually had their enjoyment of the story modified by knowing the story, but many people who loudly proclaim that spoilers make them upset. A good story should work even if you know what will happen. The components of the story (such as the easter eggs in the present discussion) should be more interesting than some gimmick of a big reveal. The whole concept of spoilers is extremely modern, probably invented by Hitchcock as marketing to sell more tickets to his movies. When you go see the ballet or an opera, you're given the whole plot upfront as part of the programme.

partisan 10y ago
> When you go see the ballet or an opera, you're given the whole plot upfront as part of the programme. How else would you know what is going on?
- jordigh 10y ago
  They're both very expressive. Opera used to be in common languages instead of "foreign" languages like Italian or German, so people could actually understand the words. Nowadays, each time I've been to the opera it has had supertitles. It's not difficult to know what is going on if you don't read the programme. Ballet is a bit more like miming, but overall, the plots are still obvious, and frankly, very thin. We don't watch the Romeo and Juliet ballet wondering if they will survive or not, but rather wondering how they will express their anguish and suffering through dance.
jonathankoren 10y ago
The ferishizstion of spoilers is very modern. The very term dates from usenset I believe. However, the first movie that the had a mainstream "don't spoil" movement I can remember was The Crying Game. The meme at the time was "Don't tell the secret!" and "What is the secret of The Crying Game?" (Note the lack of the term "spoil.") The secret is that the girlfriend is trans. (There. I "spoiled" a 25 year old movie you probably had never had any intention of watching, that is really only notable for "the secret" and the socialization around it for a few months in 1992.)

bduerst 10y ago

I didn't even know someone died in the latest season of Orange is the New Black >:(