Worst Spoiler Experience?

[Klaus]

OK, by definition this thread is going to contain spoilers for lots of things [assuming anyone replies lol] so reader beware!!!

Here's the question -- in your time as a fan, what is the biggest regret you have about having read/seen a spoiler for something? The thing that as soon as you knew it, you said to yourself "Frak! I wish I didn't know that!"

For me, it was the classic blurb in Starlog magazine referencing the stolen script for ST:TMP that said, w/o warning, that V'ger was Voyager... I read it in utter disbelief that they'd printed it, and was instantly really angry. This was in the infancy of spoilers and I had never dreamed they'd print something like that and blithely read along until it was too late. I watched my friends in the theater figuring it out and got even madder that I'd never had the chance.

To be honest, it still pisses me off three decades later.

So what was yours?

 

[Australis]

The destruction of the Enterprise in ST: TSFS

 

[JoeZhang]

"You should go see that film, that one with Bruce Willis as a ghost".

 

[trekkiebaggio]

When I was at uni my housemate was showing me all the Rocky films. We were watching Rocky 3 and my other friend comes in and says "oh yeah it's cool, sucks that Apollo dies in the next one though".

Oh wait that's not sci-fi/fantasy is it hmmm. I've mostly managed to stay spoiler free, there's probably a few Lost ones I came across that I later regretted.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

"You should go see that film, that one with Bruce Willis as a ghost".

Same one I got spoiled on. I didn't see it right away and the fucking spoilers were everywhere.

 

[Artemis]

A commentary on my grief by the fact that Starbuck exploded: "One word. GANDALF!"

-.-

 

[Ethros]

There was about a month or so gap between the BSG Season 3 finale airing in the US and the UK.
I remember I was just playing some Youtube video of a track from the Season 1 soundtrack, scrolled down to read the comments without really thinking, and someone had fucking written who the four Cylons revealed in Crossroads pt.2 were. Luckily I quickly averted my eyes so I only read 3 of the 4 names, but I was still super pissed off.

 

[Starkers]

Soundtracks are terrible!

I remember picking up the CD for The Phantom Menace and reading the tracks on the back...oh, Qui Gon's Funeral!

 

[marillion]

"You should go see that film, that one with Bruce Willis as a ghost".

Same one I got spoiled on. I didn't see it right away and the fucking spoilers were everywhere.

Somehow I missed the spoilers and was quite shocked at the end.. I was even more shocked by the fact that my wife had to explain it to me.. A fact she's NEVER let me forget...

My big spoilage disaster was when a friend of mine posted that Connor MacCleod dies in Highlander: Endgame... Boy was I pissed...

 

[DevilEyes]

Usual Suspects - totally ruined by me having seen interviews and covers that spell out exactly who Keyser Soze is...

The Sixth Sense

Fight Club

 

[Roshi]

^
LOL!

My sister came back from that movie and told me "I cannot believe the whole movie was in fact a big fat lie!!!"

 

[ToddKent]

"You should go see that film, that one with Bruce Willis as a ghost".

Same one I got spoiled on. I didn't see it right away and the fucking spoilers were everywhere.

Yep, I got spoiled on that one too. I always try to avoid spoilers. I hate knowing what's going to happen and can't understand why people would want to know but, hey, that's up to them I guess.

But I was reading something online that had nothing to do with the Sixth Sense and some jerk in a talkback felt it necessary to make sure that everyone knew that he knew the ending of the movie. It was very important to him. Jerk.

[Buffy Spoilers] That's also how got spoiled on Tara's death in Buffy. That's a shame too b/c I really think that would have shocked me.

I was also spoiled on Kirk's death in Generations but that was my own fault.

 

[js]

"You should go see that film, that one with Bruce Willis as a ghost".

Same one I got spoiled on. I didn't see it right away and the fucking spoilers were everywhere.

Yep, I got spoiled on that one too. I always try to avoid spoilers. I hate knowing what's going to happen and can't understand why people would want to know but, hey, that's up to them I guess.

But I was reading something online that had nothing to do with the Sixth Sense and some jerk in a talkback felt it necessary to make sure that everyone knew that he knew the ending of the movie. It was very important to him. Jerk.

Two guys in my office were having a conversation about "The Sixth Sense" which I hadn't yet seen and I had intentionally avoided all spoilers. I begged them to stop talking about it:

Me: "Guys, PLEASE don't talk about this movie, I haven't seen it yet and I don't want to know the twist."
Guy: "Yeah, but..."
Me (shouting): "Seriously! NO SPOILERS! I do NOT want to know what the twist is!"
Guy (grinning): "Yeah, but you totally would figure out that Bruce Willis is dead anyway."

Me: (devastated as a I REALLY REALLY did not want to know and it ruined the whole movie for me): "I will never forgive you for that."

And I haven't. And he was a writer. You would think if anyone had respect for story and audience...

 

[Gaith]

I heard about the end of Inglourious Basterds, and while I still enjoyed it immensely, I wish it'd been a surprise...

Usual Suspects - totally ruined by me having seen interviews and covers that spell out exactly who Keyser Soze is...

Eh, a stupid and bad movie anyway.

I saw some thriller a while back, having heard that the protagonist dies, and was thus waiting for him to kick it... what was that movie...

 

[Fist McStrongpunch]

The Sixth Sense - My dad apparently assumed I knew and blurted out, "He was dead the whole time."

Fight Club - Dude in my math class "Turns out they're actually the same person."

The Empire Strikes Back - Back when TNT or whatever network would show the trilogy over three nights. My uncle told me that Darth Vader was Luke's dad just hours before I was going to watch it.

Here's one of my wife's experiences. It's a little bit different. She accidentally found out on livejournal that someone died in Serenity, so when the first major character died, she decided it was ok and she could live with that. She was still unspoilered about the spike incident and was horribly traumatized as she had let her guard down after the first death.

 

[issreliant]

Darth maul using the double-bladed lightsaber in the trailer for Episode 1. (Why hide the double LS, and have a big reveal of it at the end, but give it away in the trailer?)

 

[Galileo7]

The destruction of the Enterprise in ST: TSFS

Agreed.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Oh, there was also the one about Dumbledore that achieved legendary status. People would go around shouting this particular spoiler to folks waiting in line to buy the very book that they spoiled.

 

[Deckerd]

One of the Naked Gun films (I think but of that genre) had in its list of credits at the end of the film: "Crying Game - he's a guy!"

 

[Sindatur]

Several LOST deaths, and when Book 5 of Harry Potter came out, the Big Death in that was spoiled for me.

I'm fine with knowing a big death is coming, it increases the anticipation, but, don't tell me and how <sigh>