I played the game so I knew what was coming and when but I would have been sooo pissed if I had been spoiled before playing the game.
I totally agree with you that being too online ruins the watching experience. I figured recently that I just enjoy shows and movies a lot more when I go in completely blind so I've been trying to do that when possible. Funny story I was biking to work yesterday and listening to Hunter Harris's podcast and I had to stop and switch it off because they started talking about a docuseries that sounded super interesting and I didn't want to get it fully spoiled 😂.
I feel this so strongly. I was spoiled by a Vulture article a couple of days after the episode aired titled something like 'Yes, he's really dead' with a photo of Joel. Come on, how is that not a spoiler? It's also nothing new. When a major character died on Grey's Anatomy a decade ago, literally 10 minutes after the episode aired, I saw an article on FaceBook with a title like '[REDACTED] talks about their characters' shocking death...' with, you guessed it, a photo of the character.
I played the game so I knew what was coming and when but I would have been sooo pissed if I had been spoiled before playing the game.
I totally agree with you that being too online ruins the watching experience. I figured recently that I just enjoy shows and movies a lot more when I go in completely blind so I've been trying to do that when possible. Funny story I was biking to work yesterday and listening to Hunter Harris's podcast and I had to stop and switch it off because they started talking about a docuseries that sounded super interesting and I didn't want to get it fully spoiled 😂.
Hahah love Hunter's podcast, but I almost always have to pause at some point so I can first go watch what they're talking about!
I feel this so strongly. I was spoiled by a Vulture article a couple of days after the episode aired titled something like 'Yes, he's really dead' with a photo of Joel. Come on, how is that not a spoiler? It's also nothing new. When a major character died on Grey's Anatomy a decade ago, literally 10 minutes after the episode aired, I saw an article on FaceBook with a title like '[REDACTED] talks about their characters' shocking death...' with, you guessed it, a photo of the character.
I saw that Vulture one too! We really have to stay off the internet until we watch, which is of course... impossible. Thanks for reading!
The NYT spoiled it too! One of their headlines Monday morning was “Other series where a main character died” ☹️
Aw man. And again, with a spoiler "alert" after the spoiler ha.