Accidentally read spoilers *No actual spoilers*
POSTED BY: chronicthehedgehog
UPDATED: Sunday, May 15, 2005 04:11
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Today I got spoiled. Twice. Once I could cope with but two huge spoilers in the space of 12 hours. I don't even know how it happened, just trawling through here, AICN and the OB and they just popped out at me.
Has this happened to anyone else?
How do you deal with it?
How do I not tell my friends for 5 months?
Help!
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Originally posted by chronicthehedgehog:
Today I got spoiled.
How do you deal with it?
I am really sorry you got spoiled,
the official board is the WORST for spoiling,
and I'm afraid it is necessary to just stop going there...
probably the best way of dealing with it?
is to go into denial and pretend it isn't so...
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How do I not tell my friends for 5 months?
I've seen the Advanced Screening but I have a lot of friends who haven't
and I have to remain very careful to keep things vague...
it is hard, I started to talk about the dispuits between fans...and then realized I couldn't even discuss that without getting too close to spoilers...
so I just keep repeating how much I loved the film,
how much I am longing to see it again,
and I am looking forward to going with my friends to see it!
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It's not all THAT big a deal, is it Chronic? I mean, most of the storytelling Joss does isn't overwhelmingly original or anything. If we sat down and thought much we could probably make some pretty good guesses what's going to happen anyway. Fortunately, with the way Joss and crew do things, it's all about the way it's done, not the what. I didn't really appreciate the series eps fully until I'd seen 'em two or three times anyway. Just sayin' there's a lot more meat on the bone than plot surprises.
SergeantX
"Dream a little dream or you can live a little dream. I'd rather live it, cause dreamers always chase but never get it." Aesop Rock
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Originally posted by SergeantX:
It's not all THAT big a deal, is it Chronic? I mean, most of the storytelling Joss does isn't overwhelmingly original or anything. If we sat down and thought much we could probably make some pretty good guesses what's going to happen anyway. Fortunately, with the way Joss and crew do things, it's all about the way it's done, not the what. I didn't really appreciate the series eps fully until I'd seen 'em two or three times anyway. Just sayin' there's a lot more meat on the bone than plot surprises.
SergeantX
I think that's the problem, I'm not seeing what I know in context, just the events that occur. It stings because I don't know why it happens, just that it happens. To understand the why I need to either read more spoilers or see the film, and I can't see the film and don't want to read more spoilers! It's all very weird.
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I saw one particular and particularly horrible spoiler -- and I can't say I didn't walk into it with my eyes open, it was clearly marked -- but just the same it burned a hole in my brain. Luckily for my sanity, just a few days later I saw another spoiler that completely contradicted the first.
Given that Joss is still editing the final release cut; and given that ten seconds worth of insert can totally change the outcome of a film (Spock touches McCoy's face, says "Remember" for example), given all this, I'm not going to stress too badly. And if I somehow luck into an advance screening, I'll consider it my duty not to spoil things for anyone else.
(Psst -- It turns out that Vader is actually Luke's father! Pass it on!)
"Do you know what the definition of a hero is? It's somebody who gets somebody else killed." -- Zoë Warren
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I dealt with it by having a total breakdown and going into denial about what I'd read. 
Tash got spoiled so many times he had to abandon the site for a few months.
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Inara: Who's winning?
Simon: I can't really tell, they don't seem to be playing by any civilized rules that I know.
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I've been spoiled, but that was out of choice. I wanted to see what those people who went to the screening much MUCH earlier on this year thought of the film... and I found out one spoiler. But it was pretty vague so I just accepted it.
PsychicRiver
"Two by two, hands of blue." 
"We can take care of each other. I'll knit!"
Summer Glau to me - "You are so photogenic."
Me - 
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Not all the spoilers are real. People are putting up fakes as a joke, so you may not have been spoiled.
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Originally posted by Wren:
Not all the spoilers are real. People are putting up fakes as a joke, so you may not have been spoiled.
well, in my opinion faking 'joke' spoilers are just crass.
They still interfer with my watching of the film
(instead of being totally obsorbed into the story I'm worried about and looking for when the spoiler will happen),
but the only way to remain totally spoiler free is to completely avoid any and all websites.
Which is a big price to pay
(I feel very lucky I got to see the BDM on May 6th before I was spoiled at all)
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Yup, there's fake spoilers all over the place so if you just saw titles, they may well be false. I know of at least two that are persistent (and untrue).
I'm also really glad I got to see the movie in February, way before anyone else could spoil me (although I think I'd probably manage to avoid them as I avoid the lower pit of hell that is AICN)
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