There have been a lot of complaints about spoile🌌rs recently, and there are a few categories you can slot them into. Sometimes, spoilers are careless, reckless, or just plain mean, deliberately (or selfishly) spoiling things for other people. Most of the time though, it’s your own fault, either because you set the bar too high or foolishly failed to protect yourself. We know how ‘spoiꦏlers’ work these days, and by now you should know how to navigate them.
Telling someone the end of the movie, like who the killer is in a murder mystery, is obviously a spoiler. Knowing the twist objectively makes the first watch worse. But then people consider it a spoiler to hear that the hero and the villain fight at the end of a Marvel movie, with the hero winning, is not much of a spoiler. Yes, it’s the ending, but where have you been for the last decade? You know what happens. We’ve becoꦐme so obsesܫsed with Easter Eggs and references that even the mention of a character’s presence, even if they’re in the majority of the movie, is considered a spoiler.
When reviewers mentioned that you fall through a time portal at the start of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Pokemon Legends Arceus, players complained it was a spoiler, even though it happens in the first six seconds. I’m not generally a fan of reviewers sharing the start up screen of a game they’re reviewing as it just feels like free advertising, but I remember people getting mad over 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Last of Us Part 2’s title screen featuring nothing more than a boat and some water being shared because it ruined the experience. Some people even refuse to watch trailers fo🔯r fear of officially sanctioned spoil🌸ers.
I don’t consider Easter Eggs, things that happen in the prologue, menu screens, or trailers to be spoilers, and I judge you a little bit if you do, but that doesn’t mean the only form of spoilers I believe in are ‘the butler did it’. While you need to just get over seeing The Last of Us’ menu screen, with the TV show it was a little different. Many were experiencing the story for the first time, away from the ga♕mes, but conversation quickly accelerated past what had been shown to speculation of what was coming next. Discussion threads for the show online were littered with mentions of David, Riley, Abby, and Joel’s fate long before the show arrived at those moments.
Here’s the basics though - spoilers suck, but you should avoid them. Should people be online talking abou🐻t what happens in TV shows right after the episode airs, or people spilling out of opening weekend movies instantly tweet about what they saw? Maybe not. Do you know they’re going to? Absolutely.
This all came to a head with Succession recently. I don’t watch the show myself, but have learned what I imagine is a crucial plot point over the last few days. What I’ve also learned is that there are hordes of Succession super fans who love the show so much but didn’t bother to watch it live. Sure, it’s on late, I used to stay up late for 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Game of Thrones or wake up early to watch it on record before work. Want to wait until the next evening? That’s fine, just stay off Twitter. You’re not on there for aꦏnything important. If you don’t want to know the result of the big game you don’t go to a sports bar f𒈔or some brewskis and wings.
Muting phrases rarely helps, because people misspell, or don’t use the name of the show, or individual screenshots can go viral. One of the joys of a show like Succession is that everybody watches at once. It’s not the binge model of streaming, and thanks to its prime time slot, even feels different to the likes of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Mandalorian or WandaVision which kept the weekly episode format but🐬 dropped them at midnight.
Succession is a water cooler show. Why are you standing next to the water cooler? Just drink bottled water, by which I mean live your life without idly checking social media while apparently being too busy to watch this th♑ing you love that eve🅰ryone else was able to carve out time for. I know spoilers suck. I also know they exist. Don’t drive to Spoiler City and complain about the architecture.
The one exception to this are 🌌things that aren’t out, so either The Last of Us fans talking about moments the TV show hasn’t reached yet, or leaks being maliciously circled. Kinda like what happened with The Last of Us. You know, for an article ostensibly about Succession I’m mentioning The Last of Us a lot. Anyway, these sorts of spoilers suck. I don’t know what else to say, I’m on your side man. But most other times it’s your fault. With Succession, it’s your fault.