You could read the book and be finished in a week or so ;).
I hate spoilers too. But what do you really expect when the book predates the adaptation by this many years?
Did you expect spoiler free discussion for LOTR or every time a new Romeo & Juliet movie gets made?
What % of people are watching the miniseries who did not read the book?
This is what I wish people would do. If it says no spoilers, and you know spoilers, don’t freaking post there at all, gorrammit.
Hahahaha, awesome. :)
I actually tried, and got to maybe 20-30 pages before getting fed up and stopping. My girlfriend – who has read the books – says the show moves along much faster, and I’d probably like it better than if I tried to read the books again.
Sot people can post about this stuff(Game of Thrones as an example) three different ways(at least):
Book readers, involves the books. Don’t read in here until you’ve read the books or don’t care about spoilers for such.
Tv show, with spoilers. Tv show talk, knock yourself out with spoilers too.
Non spoiler tv show talk. Pretend like all you know about this story is what has been shown on the series to the current point in time.
Why the hell you’d want to hop over the two spoiler friendly possibilities to even post a “I can hardly wait to see how they handle what happens to her later” type comment is one of those mysteries of the modern age. To some of us who have only seen the tv show, that kind of comment isn’t just spoilery, it’s irrelevant. I know I don’t give a crap if you can hardly wait to see how they handle whatever it is you’re all worked up over.
This kind of thing is different in my opinion than old fashioned spoilers. I was watching, as in the theater while the movie is playing, the 70s Invasion of the Body Snatchers and the kid in the seat in front of movie spoiled the ending right before it happened, by whispering to his friend “watch, right now…”. Despite the whisper, the quiet of a movie theater combined with the fairly close seating meant I could hear it.
That’s one idiot talking to another one, oblivious to the fact there are others around who might hear what they say. Posting spoilers in a designated nonspoiler thread I think qualifies as a deliberately malicious act.
It certainly feels like that sometimes.
I agree with Brian. It’s tough when you want to interact with folks and add to your enjoyment when many of those people (accidentally) ruin things.
Just call them out and post their names someplace until they take down the spoilers. It’s usually unintentional so no reason to go too crazy.
I’m behind on The Killing so I don’t even bother to check out the thread and I won’t until I’m caught up.
I’m most of the way through my second or third read of GoT. I’m avoiding threads about the show because I don’t want to be spoiled about how the show handles things.
Not being particularly spoilerphobic myself, this is the only thing I fear in my dealings with Qt3, that I will carelessly reveal something regarded as a spoiler and call down the wrath of the horde.
Vader is Luke’s FATHER!!
My bad.
I did get burned on the Dumbledore spoiler the night before I received my copy of the book that it happens in.
Never read that shit until you’re all finished with whatever it is. You’ll never be able to trust the discussion, and it’s never worth it anyway.
I’m not sure why someone who hasn’t seen the latest episode of a show would read a thread dedicated to it, even a thread that said non-spoilers. What exactly is one going to discuss in a thread that doesn’t even allow you to talk about the episodes that have already aired? X-Box vs PS3? Obama’s birth certificate?
Is this true? If so… that sucks. I kind of wanted to watch the last couple movies. I didn’t expect that kind of shit in thread about spoilers.
Oh shit, really? GOD DAMMIT, WE CAN NEVER WIN!
Eh, no biggie. The story is 3+ years old at this point. Obnoxious, but no biggie.
You’re behind on the movies, then. It happened two movies ago.
Yep I had that spoiled here as well, in a thread that had nothing to do with Harry Potter.
To me the slight disadvantages of having spoiler tags here are completely overrun, mauled, chewed up and spit out by their obvious advantages. It’s the one thing I wish was different about this place. That and the stupid joke thread that’s more like one sad little guy’s blog.
Totally agreed.
Forum tag of the year.
I only post non-spoiler-y spoilers.
Snape…uses magic!
Darth Vader is Luke’s…opponent in several light saber battles.
Soylent Green is…not actually all that good tasting.