Season 1 Symbiosis *Spoilers*

[Finn]

Perhaps, but one poster made a good point. These forums are full of spoilers, especially in TNG. For example- the first page of TNG forum contains threads about five episodes from latter seasons.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

Didn't your mother ever teach you that?

This doesn't make any sense.

The thread titles don't always warn you about references to episodes in latter seasons. I even see posters make references to a episode later in a series' run in the Misc forum.

To expect one avoiding discussing or asking questions about a TNG (or any other series) episode late in the series' run out of respect for new viewers would render the forum poinless. The forum is here for fans to discuss. There are many topics that many long time posters discuss over and over (there are episodes from all shows (same goes for certain movies) that has been analyzed to death, and posters keep on starting threads when they know or have read earlier threads on the same topic/episode/issue). Some posters like to make a top 5 or 10 episode lists (favorites, worse, best, most wtf moment, etc,etc) which would give away the plots of certain episodes. The forums usually have a couple at any given time. Characters are often analyzed and discussed in threads that would give away the plot of an episode (or more). It would be tough for a new viewer to browse the TNG forum without finding a spoiler.

Even the caption it contest threads can give away the episode (whether if it's for the episode the screenshot was from or from a different episode. About a half of them will give away a certain scene from the second TNG episode....

 

[Yeoman Randi]

Suggestion: perhaps instead of putting *spoilers* in the title, a poster that is new to TNG could put something like "First time TNG viewer", or something to that effect in the thread title, thus warning everyone else who has seen the entire series not to post spoilers in that thread?

I know i misread his original post thinking he was trying to warn other first timers that his post had spoilers in it, as opposed to warning us not to post spoilers.

good god, does this make sense to anyone other than me? (run on sentences much?)

 

[Sakrysta]

I'm really liking TNG so far. Picard, Data, Riker, and Geordie are all great.

Maybe I'm the only one who read this and realized he was a first-time viewer. Between that and the spoiler warning, I thought it was pretty clear.

 

[ReadyAndWilling]

Perhaps, but one poster made a good point. These forums are full of spoilers, especially in TNG. For example- the first page of TNG forum contains threads about five episodes from latter seasons.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

Didn't your mother ever teach you that?

This doesn't make any sense.

Come on, man. You just ran into the thread like a wrecking ball. You blurted out 10 major spoilers without talking about the episode.

It wasn't like you said "Yeah, good ep, this episode links in really well with the season finale because ...."

Anyway, surely it was clear I was a first time viewer.

 

[Neutral Zone]

It's amazing how many first timers there are out there, but if you read through these boards nearly everything could be considered a spoiler, after all there is a hell of a lot of disecting of episodes no matter which series or film you are talking about.

 

[Finn]

I didn't actually post clear spoilers. I mean Riker shagged a character from Cheers...that doesn't say much. I didn't actually name that Picard episode in full. And I used spoiler tabs for DS9.

 

[Hober Mallow]

Just nobody mention Picard's tragic death in "The Best of Both Worlds."

Ah, crap, sorry...