Worst Spoiler Experience?

[Silvercrest]

I'm a little afraid to read this thread. I'll get something spoiled by accident. (I haven't seen the ending of Lost yet, for example.)

If it happens, the thread itself will be the answer to its own question. Strange thought.

 

[OmahaStar]

I'm a little afraid to read this thread. I'll get something spoiled by accident. (I haven't seen the ending of Lost yet, for example.)

If it happens, the thread itself will be the answer to its own question. Strange thought.

It was all a dream of a little boy named Tommy. He's looking at a snow globe, and inside we see it's the two islands. All the characters were part of his autism-induced imagination.

 

[Alex1939]

Vulcan being destroyed in Star Trek the Star Trek.

Ellen Tigh as the last of the final 5.

Sandra Diaz-Twine winning Heroes vs. Villains of survivor as well as Parvarti and Russell losing as part of the final 3.


Can't say any of those really ruined the experience of the movie, show, or reality show.

 

[Gaith]

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.

Has a thing for incredibly annoying "characters", does she? Myself, I cheered.

 

[DevilEyes]

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!"

Oh yes, that one too. I got it spoiled by reading a really stupid review in a magazine. I hate it when reviewers do that.

 

[Aragorn]

Rosie O'Donnell was offended by Fight Club. She didn't give away the twist ending, but thought it didn't work and compared it to the twist ending of The Sixth Sense. All she said was that Bruce Willis and Toni Collette never meet, and just like that, I knew the twists of both movies before having seen them.

The destruction of the Enterprise in ST: TSFS

They gave that away in the trailer!

 

[Greg Cox]

I came back to my dorm room and found a note from my best friend waiting for me. I read the whole thing before I realized what it was. It's still burned into my brain:

"Han gets the princess. Vader is Luke's father."

Need I mention this was a few weeks before THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK opened?

Believe it or not, we're still friends.

 

[Sindatur]

I'm a little afraid to read this thread. I'll get something spoiled by accident. (I haven't seen the ending of Lost yet, for example.)

If it happens, the thread itself will be the answer to its own question. Strange thought.

It was all a dream of a little boy named Tommy. He's looking at a snow globe, and inside we see it's the two islands. All the characters were part of his autism-induced imagination.

You forgot to mention one of the islands is a giant Turtle

 

[startrekwatcher]

I hate spoilers! It isn't just the internet and careless posters putting spoilers in the damn title of a thread but any publications like TV Guide spoil things and even the episode descriptions put out by the networks for the next week's episodes do it as well. I even avoid the trailer's for the next new episode because they spoil things as well. After a series has wrapped up I go back over the threads and out of curiousity to see what was actually had been spoiled and what I might have been spoiled to had I looked in them and it is astonishing how much gets out before the episode or film airs. And it isn't anything really new either because I looked over the old archive TrekToday news page from 99 and it spoiled a lot of DS9's Final Chapter.

Thankfully I've been pretty fortunate navigating it and haven't been really spoiled unless I wanted to find them but that usually only involves crappy shows that I am almost certain to drop it but seek out spoilers for a few episodes ahead to see if maybe things will be improving i.e. Caprica, V.

I managed to avoid spoilers for shows like LOST, S1 of Heroes and BSG whose viewing experiences are enhanced by not knowing what is coming.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

I've avoided most of the bad ones in this thread. I sometimes wonder if I might have heard that Vader was Luke's father or heard something that made it less than totally surprising - someone mentioning a big shocker regarding Vader and Luke in ESB? - my memories are pretty fuzzy - I remember being a lot more shocked about Luke's hand being cut off (WHAT??? He can't LOSE!!!) than the big revelation moments later. Yoda's identity was also a big surprise to me.

Other than Shannon's death on Lost (big whoop), the only sci fi spoilers I've been subjected to are for Trek XI - Vulcan's destruction, Spock/Uhura - but that was my fault, I was too curious to wait.

Oh yeah and one time on another sci fi BBS, during DS9's final season, I ran into a flurry of frantic threads all about the Defiant one day, all marked SPOILER and MASSIVE SPOILER etc. I didn't look but well, gee, I wonder what that could be about. You don't start talking about a ship unless it's going to get blowed up real good. So that was technically a spoiler by inference.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

My first spoiler experience of the sort that I remember noticing was "Vader is Luke's father." I didn't care so much, but this guy I was hanging out with just freaked when this woman (editorial staff at Starlog) told us. She was tickled - "I'm so pleased to find someone who cares."

 

[Jack Bauer]

I wish I had never read the surprise reveal at the end of Lost's season 3 finale.

 

[DevilEyes]

I wish I had never read the surprise reveal at the end of Lost's season 3 finale.

I'm so happy that this one wasn't spoiled for me. I managed to avoid most of spoilers for Lost. I wasn't that lucky with a bunch of other shows. Whenever you're watching a show that's years old, you're going to be spoiled in advance. Thanks to the Internet, I even already know spoilers about shows I've never even seen!

 

[TheSeeker]

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...

Wow. What a douche.

 

[Aragorn]

I remember going to see an action movie with my family when I was a kid and my dad ran into someone he knew at the theater. When that guy found out what movie we were seeing, the VERY FIRST THING he said was that the star dies at the end!

 

[DimesDan]

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...

Wow. What a douche.

The guy who revealed a plot point of a film or the poster who said that he would never forgive him for revealing said plot point? Personally, I'd say the latter.

As for spoilers, reading what happens and then seeing what actually happens to me are two different things and I don't get bent out of shape if I know something already.

 

[Candlelight]

Someone on these boards revealed in the thread title that Data bought the fat one in Nemesis.

Pity the rest of the thread didn't reveal how bad the movie was.

My wife got wickedly spoiled over Dumbledore's death when we were in Canada. We visited the Police Museum in Vancouver, and in the morgue area the bed cubicles (whatever you call them) were all labelled with famous dead people.

 

[6079SmithW]

I have never watched Lost but due to its popularity and constant mention on internet sites I know that

Spoiler: Lost

they are all dead and everything that happens on the show takes place in Purgatory.

 

[Aragorn]

I have never watched Lost but due to its popularity and constant mention on internet sites I know that

Spoiler: Lost

they are all dead and everything that happens on the show takes place in Purgatory.

Not true.

Although it was funny listening to Jason Smith on ESPN radio complaining about the ending of Lost even though he didn't watch it and was strictly going off the incorrect articles online.

 

[6079SmithW]

^ I guess I should actually watch it instead of going off of what some random people on the internet say that I misunderstood/misread.