Anyone who posts Game of Thrones spoilers should be banned

[woolldog]

Instantly from DU. No exceptions.

[bkkyosemite]

1. I don't even know what that is?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. It's a very popular multi-season blockbuster. Tonight was the premiere of Season 6. n/t

[FarPoint]

26. The Super Bowl of TV Series...

Game of Thrones will help me stay defocused off the political Wars....I need the diversion and relief.

[Go Vols]

55. I thought it was a video game.

:/

[Skittles]

65. a TV show that people get way too excited about

[AuntPatsy]

2. Not a word from me.....promise

[Texasgal]

4. They died!!!

Oh...wait. I have no idea what Game of thrones is!

LOL!

[Lucinda]

20. From the times i've seen it, that would be pretty accurate spoiler on your part!

[Demonaut]

5. drawn and quartered!

[petronius]

6. Agreed! Also, I haven't gotten around to watching last season of GoT yet, so

could you all please not talk about that one either?

I'm totally up to speed on Vikings, though, so feel free to discuss that show...


(In truth, I'm not really down with the ban idea, but I will vote to hide a spoiler if I suspect it was posted with ill intent. So adjust your blacklists accordingly. But don't you dare talk about Blacklist, because I'm way behind on that one too...)

[LiberalFighter]

7. Game of Thrones did it

[Ron Obvious]

8. When you say "banned"....

... you mean "beaten with sticks", of course.

Yes, I quite agree.

[tkmorris]

9. Agreed

I think people who post spoilers of any kind are generally just being spoiled little brats without enough imagination to understand how that affects others' lives, or perhaps they are just too nihilistic to care. Either way, banning them is the least we should do. Fuck those people.

[cwydro]

32. "to understand how that affects others' lives"

Seriously? A TV show?

Woooeee, talk about a first world problem. smh

[tkmorris]

52. Don't be obtuse

I'm not saying that such a thing by itself is earth-shattering, but little things DO matter.

Maybe your kids don't call as often as you'd like. Maybe your spouse is grumpy today. Maybe your favorite pan is ruined and now you can't get a proper sear on that steak. Maybe your dog peed on the carpet. Or yes, maybe someone thoughtlessly spoiled a TV show for you. Or maybe they just posted a mocking ROFL smiley as a response to you on the internet.

None of these things by themselves is tremendously important, but they DO have an impact on your life. A negative one. It's such a simple principle, but so often ignored. BE A NET POSITIVE IN THE WORLD. Leave each room cleaner than it was when you arrived. Make each person happier that they chanced to run into you today. In every situation, make sure that you make things better than they would be if you were not there, if possible. At the very least, do no harm.

[cwydro]

57. Certainly a good post. I agree with the points you made.

But seriously, I've seen so much anger and misery on this board when someone posts a spoiler. I just find it funny.

It's happened to me, but I still enjoyed the show. I'm not much of a TV watcher, so maybe I just don't have that much invested.

Huge tennis fan however, so if I'm DVRing a major match, I stay off the internet, and I don't even turn on the radio lol. I tell my friends at the beginning of the day NOT to tell me who the winner is. Usually, I find out anyway, sigh.

[Fozzledick]

10. Winter is coming....

[LeftyMom]

11. I'm for giving any violators the Viserys,

but I'd consider downgrading to a quick Oberyn if they don't have priors.

[Gomez163]

12. Darth Vader is Luke's father

[Gomez163]

13. Also. That blonde chick gets nekkid

[Logical]

14. FFS, it's a tv show, lighten the fuck up. Or just quit the du. Nt

[Gomez163]

17. Or they could tape it and stay off thr internet until they watch it.

[11 Bravo]

50. Or people could not be assholes.

[HuckleB]

15. I think they should get free stars!

[HuckleB]

16. Maggie shot JR!!!

[TeamPooka]

18. Winter is coming. nt

[JHB]

19. The Butler did it.

[Aerows]

21. That show went down hill

after it became more rape fixated than Bill Cosby.

Do whatever you want to with it - it's a lost cause with me, and I read the books.

[BlueMTexpat]

22. I won't post spoilers.

But I thank you for the reminder that the new season has just begun.

It's so popular in Europe that local TV (RTS1) replays it in the original English version with French subtitles the night after HBO shows it in the US. So I'll be watching tonight. RTS1 also has a replay option for a week in case I want to watch the episode again.

After I've watched an episode, I usually read some of the online summaries. These are often hilarious. I love Rolling Stone, for example, also Vanity Fair and the Observer. The WaPo also does a good job. But there are LOTS of others that are great fun too.

[bigwillq]

23. No way. Stay off the internet.

I dislike when folks cry about spoilers when all they have to do is stay off the internet.

[avebury]

24. It is fictional story

that people take far too seriously.

[titaniumsalute]

28. Fictional? Yes. Too seriously? Really?

That is part of the fun escape for an hour on a Sunday night. Now while I don't think people should post spoilers on thread titles just to be dicks, I don't think there is anything wrong about enjoying a show.

My grandmother who was very well educated and probably the smartest woman I ever knew was NOT to be disturbed daily from 1 to 3pm so she wouldn't miss her "stories."

[Orrex]

25. Is that the show with the zombies and the crossbow guy?

[auntpurl]

40. ...maybe?

There are both zombies (of a sort) and crossbows in Game of Thrones, but I suspect you are thinking of Walking Dead. ?

[pinboy3niner]

61. Don't spoil this season's surprise character addition!

[yardwork]

27. I'm cool with that. I can't watch until tonight.

At the very least, don't put the spoiler in the subject line.

[AngryAmish]

29. I cannot believe the ship turned over after getting hit by the tidal wave!

[Warren DeMontague]

31. it's no "Mentalist" or "Big Bang Theory", that's for sure!

That Sheldon Cooper, he's a knee-slapper!

[LanternWaste]

47. It's adorable how you mistranslated simple passion for a tele show into authoritarianism.

It's adorable how you mistranslated simple passion for a tele show into authoritarianism. It's as though you have the super power to infer authoritarianism from anything.

Clever little fella!

[madinmaryland]

33. What is Game of Thongs?

[Ohio Joe]

64. My personal podcast...

It gets ugly

[djean111]

34. Oh, me too -

but maybe just have OPs with "spoiler" in the title?

Anyway, read recaps this morning, and some really interesting theories abound! when there is a thread available, would love to discuss.

[whatthehey]

35. Which season? Which episode?

Such angst over knowing plot points to come is a bit silly really to begin with, but then we have to worry about time periods too. Not everybody watches at the same time. Is it ok to talk about episode 1 after episode 2 is done? Too soon? 3 or 4? Can anything be spoken of about last season? How long after the finale was that ok?

This whole concept though flies in the face of how the show turns most of its profit - DVD sales. Why would anyone buy a copy of a show already seen if rewatching it entirely, let alone watching it with some partial Chinese Whispers foreknowledge of what might happen in one particular episode, were not worth time and money too?

Then we have every wannabe movie/TV buff crowing proudly about having seen X so many times. Why did they waste their time if they knew that Luke blows up the Death Star or Walter dies of a gunshot protecting Jesse or that Rosebud turns out to be his sled at the end (woops, spoiler alert)

[djean111]

38. For the same reason we re-read books or keep family and friends even after we feel we know all of

their foibles? Why look at any piece of art twice, then, by your outlook, if you have seen it once?

Everybody sees and appreciates things differently. May be hard to accept, much more difficult to order.

And then, as I told my grandson - it really is not necessary to have (or express) an opinion about every damn thing.

MY own grandmother said "Tend your own plate".

[whatthehey]

44. This is my point exactly though.

People, me included, do re-read and re-watch and re-examine with enjoyment. This is not just normal but pretty much universal, especially extending the question to human interaction.

That is precisely my point though. Given that that is so universally accepted, how can that be reconciled with the extreme fury if somebody mentions something about the work before you see it the first time? If absolute novelty and tabula rasa appreciation were so vital, nobody would watch, read, look at or interact with the same thing twice, ever. Since we almost all do, and with enjoyment, how is the first interaction ruined by partial foreknowledge when subsequent interactions are not ruined by complete familiarity?

I knew Macbeth gets to be king and is deposed before I read the play the first time. I knew Godot never shows up (the old chestnut; he's not in the cast list, waste of time waiting!), I knew Rocky lost and that Darth Vader was Luke's father before I saw the movies. I've re-read and re-watched all the above. Hell I have a bit of a guilty pleasure with horror movies, where many of the mediocre ones rely on jump-scares and shock-reveals. I'm not the only person who cheerfully rewatches them and their whole raison d'etre is the sudden surprise. How is that ok for such thin premises as scary monster in the dark but not ok for complex multi-layered intertwined epic story lines like GoT?

[djean111]

54. There is a difference between a fresh new movie, book, or TV show, and a classic.

Like a LOT of things, the first time should be special, if that is what one wants. Why deny that to others? No skin off anyone's nose, really!

[whatthehey]

56. I'm denying nothing, just questioning the importance of it

Every single piece of media or art I've consumed multiple times included a first time, as it has for everybody, and every classic had its premiere. The whole point is that anything which achieves classic status is one which rewards repeat consumption. I'm no TV guru by any stretch, but this show certainly has the potential; growing audience despite (or possibly in part because of) world-leading piracy, almost universal critical and audience acclaim absent some special interest groups and a few contrarians, symbiotic relationship with novel fandom. I doubt the most devoted fans will let this one die quicklly after one viewing.

[obamanut2012]

36. I love spoilers so very much, but I agree

I found leak info on episode 1 yesterday afternoon on Reddit, and was so very happy, but I told no one about what I read. Not everyone is a spoiler hound like myself.

[artyteacher]

37. so you can get banned ...

For talking about a fictional tv show but not for trashing the Democratic party? I'm fairly new but I'm confused about this place.

[auntpurl]

39. Believe me, you're not the only one.

[hobbit709]

41. Anyone who watches it should be shunned.

[AtheistCrusader]

42. Snape kills Tyrion.

[Capt. Obvious]

43. Or anyone who watches it

Banned instantly from DU. No exceptions.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

45. It's a cookbook!

[Phentex]

46. It was all a dream!

[pressbox69]

48. Gerard shot the one armed man

and Kimball is a free man.

[MurrayDelph]

49. My wife started listening to the audiobooks when we were travelling

I was very happy when she gave up on them.

Short version Game of Thrones: Oh, look! That looks like a nice person. Too late; he's dead!







(...or is he?)

[Myrina]

51. Wow, someone didn't get laid or drunk this past weekend ...

It's a damned tv show. Get a grip.

[Binkie The Clown]

53. And since I watch it on Netflix, that includes anything about the previous 2 seasons! n/t

[GOLGO 13]

58. The little guy was just killed. Trial by combat or something to that affect.

[JHB]

59. Porcelain Prince Pete muscles in on Loo Lord Lou...

[Gidney N Cloyd]

60. I'm sure you're only half serious but why don't you keyword-trash "Thrones" until you're caught up?

[Islandurp]

62. People took this topic way to seriously.

[bluedigger]

63. Let's just send them north of the Wall.

That should sort them right out.