spoilers
I am kind of ambivalent about spoilers. Just so you're forewarned, this post is full of them and THERE ARE NO CUTS.
Sometimes I will go out of my way to avoid spoilers for certain shows I like. Unfortunately, I love the Internet, and the Internet loves all my favorite shows. I accept that one of the hazards of going on the Internet is finding out information about media I haven't consumed yet, even if I don't go out of my way looking for it. This is how I got spoiled for Sarah Connor even though I haven't watched the last two episodes.
So Kal Penn is taking a job with the Obama administration. Congratulations to him! But! He left the TV show House in a pretty spectacular way, by killing himself. NPR reported on this without including a spoiler alert, and they got earfuls from angry listeners who'd recorded the episode on their TiVo but hadn't watched it yet.
To which my reaction is, what fucking babies!
I wonder, how many of these people ever bothered to complain about anything else on NPR? The economy's going to pieces. Global warming is real. We have a black president now just finishing up his first European tour. Republicans are the minority now. Still assholes.
He's the DEAD person!
Luke is the father.
Romeo and Juliet die.
Sometimes I will go out of my way to avoid spoilers for certain shows I like. Unfortunately, I love the Internet, and the Internet loves all my favorite shows. I accept that one of the hazards of going on the Internet is finding out information about media I haven't consumed yet, even if I don't go out of my way looking for it. This is how I got spoiled for Sarah Connor even though I haven't watched the last two episodes.
So Kal Penn is taking a job with the Obama administration. Congratulations to him! But! He left the TV show House in a pretty spectacular way, by killing himself. NPR reported on this without including a spoiler alert, and they got earfuls from angry listeners who'd recorded the episode on their TiVo but hadn't watched it yet.
To which my reaction is, what fucking babies!
I wonder, how many of these people ever bothered to complain about anything else on NPR? The economy's going to pieces. Global warming is real. We have a black president now just finishing up his first European tour. Republicans are the minority now. Still assholes.
But I guess none of that compares to people's entitlement NOT to know something about a show.
The whole focus on spoilers bugs me because at some point in order to talk about a show, a book, or a movie in any significant way, you have to discuss what's actually in said media. Spoilers ruin plot points in the story but without that particular plot point the story does not exist.
He's the DEAD person!
Luke is the father.
Romeo and Juliet die.