This has nothing to with anything relationship and whatnot based, but it is a little bit of a rant. How did we find ourselves in a world where spoilers are okay? I know with the internet, it’s so easy to get spoilers out there, pirate out video of movies yet to be released, and even ruin the ending to your favorite book series. (I’m looking at you, ruiners of Harry Potter) So when did this become a good thing? I know we have a choice on whether or not to see these things, because most of the time we have to seek it out ourselves, but then…there’s (yes, more Harry Potter stuff) the shirt that was highly advertised around the time of the sixth book of Harry Potter. It proudly displayed the spoiler “Dumbledore’s dead”. That…was ridiculous. I mean, I had finished that particular book in about a day, but wow…was that bothersome.
Time zones, early releases, and just having access to all this information makes the world of entertainment really suck nowadays. I remember days when things were genuinely surprising. Now if you want to know the winner of a particular show or something, all you have to do is check out the local news from the other side of the country, or the other side of the world. I don’t bother wasting my time on results shows, because I can easily get that information 3 hours ahead of time, be surprised, not go through two hours of fluff, and be on my way. Maybe this is just me, but that’s sad. I don’t like that at all.
I’m glad that there are still people out there in the entertainment industry (as evil as they can be some…most…some…times.), that work hard at keeping things a mystery. They offer good teasers, sometimes even throwing people off the scent of what it could be about. I really like the new Muppet movie trailers, because you have no idea what the movie is about, but you’re still entertained by the parody of it all. How fantastic is that? It kind of is…
Then there are websites that are meant to aggregate all this spoiler information. So, for those who don’t want the mystery, can go ahead and find out what happened to so and so on Lost, or whatnot. I think everyone has a right to have spoilers available, and hell, I even listen to a podcast that’s all about spoilers, but can you all give us a little bit of a break. Give us a month, a month to catch up, and THEN you can spread out all those delicious spoilers. If I wasn’t willing to put in the effort to watch said show, read said book, or go to said event, then well…I must not have cared that much. So go ahead and “ruin” it for me. It’s all good.
