Spoilers & Vague-booking Vs Facebook ------------------------------------- I suppose a few thoughts on how I deal with FB and my attitude toward Spoilers is warranted. I come to facebook to interact with people not in my physical proximity. To share what is going on in my life and find out what is going on in the lives of my friends. I do not care about sports, I dont watch reality tv, so I couldnt be paid to care about contestants on faux-reality competitions that are cast and staged and edited to create a brand-image winner. I loathe The Real Housewives of __________ and will unrepentant ridicule and mock people who extoll the entertainment value of them (while simultaneously, in many cases, decrying the cruelty of capital punishment.....they are ok with taking voyeuristic joy in watching people suffer on tv but killing a criminal is beneath them), and quite frankly the bulk of whats being churned out on TV is shit I could care less about because clearly the networks have stopped placing an emphasis on quality over crap. That being said.....I dont enjoy dealing with the epidemic of people posting vague hints at something they found shocking on a television program. I have a friends list that is HUGE and thus a see, over and over and over and over every week of prime-broadcast season OMG!_____________*!!!!! (*vague reference to American Horror Story, Game Of Thrones, Walking Dead.....) which is exceedingly annoying both for its vagueness and the sheer number of people who do it. I dont care about spoilers.....even on something I like and follow. Knowing the end details of an episode or series is like knowing the ingredients of a recipe.....it doesnt do more than hint at the end result.......if the writer is doing his/her job then the punch comes in the HOW not the plot point factoid. I have told people repeatedly, you can tell me how __________ ends because knowing the fact wont diminish my enjoyment of the writers and actors work in breathing life into it. Of particular annoyance to me are the people who reveal their aversion to reading by squealing like skewered pigs when one mentions characters in Game of Thrones who die. These books have been out and widely in print for years....decades in a few cases.....mentioning that so-and-so dies so youd best not get too attached is not even remotely a spoiler since its bern in print so long. Red Wedding was written ages ago and youd think a bunch of people all had their favorite imaginary friend killed at the same time when people started discussing plot points in the books before they aired on tv. So just know......vague-booking is chucking a boomerang. When it comes back at you it will be in the form of spoilers about something you may not want spoiled.
Posted on: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 19:35:45 +0000
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