I come from Buffy fandom where Joss Whedon absolutely loathed Spoilers and said so in several interviews. He tried to keep things buttoned up, but in those last couple of seasons, it seemed he was fighting a losing battle.

How about you? How do you feel about them? Would you rather nothing leak out so that plot points will come as a complete suprise or do you see them as a way to build more audience because people will want to see it play out on screen?

TIA,

Alane

ideally you want people to come to the show with a clean slate (or tabula rasa, as it were) - it would be great if you could keep the world spoiler-free, but the world refuses to comply, so you have to endeavor make the show truly sing in order to make sure the journey is worth the arrival -

- some people want to be spoiled, what can you do? there's way too much media out there to keep everything fully suppressed, but we try our best.

thanks for the question!

ja
vi

ideally you want people to come to the show with a clean slate (or tabula rasa, as it were) - it would be great if you could keep the world spoiler-free, but the world refuses to comply, so you have to endeavor make the show truly sing in order to make sure the journey is worth the arrival -
- some people want to be spoiled, what can you do?* there's way too much media out there to keep everything fully suppressed, but we try our best.

thanks for the question!

ja
vi


Thank you for answering. :)

For me, I can live without Spoilers ... *if* they aren't out there. Then, I'm perfectly happy simply to speculate. But if I know they are there, the logical side of my brain says that I might as well read them -- no use to speculate on hypotheticals if there's something more concrete. At least, that's how I rationalize it to myself.

I do agree that the journey is all-important. Yes, Hamlet dies at the end. Oh, Ulysses finally made it home. But how did they get there? What obstacles did they face? What did we learn about the human condition through these stories? These are the questions that can separate a good story from a great one.

Alane