Spoilers... the eternal question

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[Poll #799321]
Edit: I should probably clarify that the fact that it might have an affect on my ship really doesn't matter to me, as my ship would take a good 5 seasons to realistically be canon, and this show is only ever going to have 3. And all that really really doesn't factor into my actual fandom activities with regards to ship. I could read good news or bad news and it's all moot.

I'm thinking I should just read it because I've been spoiled for a few basic things already. But... I'm concerned about detailed plot events. I don't want the whole episode to be ruined for me. But at the same time, I doubt it's THAT detailed, being that it's only an article.

::sigh:: It's hard to be spoiler-free when you want to read fanfic. Stupid negligent fanficcers with their stupid unlabelled spoilery fic summaries. And the REALLY bastardly ones who put spoilers in their fics and then don't tell you, but after five or ten fics you start to clue in to the reality of the spoilage you've been given against your will.

At this point, I fear most of the dammage is done.

On the other hand... I hate being spoiled! I want surprises!

But I also want to get the problem over with so that I don't have to get annoyed about it anymore.

I've already totally given up almost all Fruits Basket fanfic on ff.net for TWO YEARS because I didn't want to be spoiled for that series. I haven't even BROWSED the Furuba section of ff.net in all that time. How loyal do I need to be to EVERY show I watch, when it comes to avoiding spoilers?

... but I *like* surprises, you know?

Okay, lets look at the facts about me spoiling myself for A:TLA.

Reasons Against
-I'm a long time anti-spoiler campaigner
-I like to go into something with as little foreknowledge of major plot/character events as possible
-Being spoiled for the "big surprise" sucks all my enjoyment out of it.

Reasons For
-I'm already half-spoiled, including a major suprise casting spoiler that I would rather not have known
-It really won't affect my fanfic much, especially considering that I'm writing all AUs at this point
-It's clearly impossible to be spoiler-free in this fandom because they're all a bunch of babies who can't help gushing out the newest spoilers in their friggin' fic summaries and all over the major LJ comm
-They *never* cut for mood spoilers, and often that's enough to infer something and get spoiled for big stuff
-I'm grumpy and impatient

Comments

[jakia.livejournal.com]

Dude, I think they're fake. Seriously, they give away too much. With too much descriptions. Too accurate. Human memory doesn't remember that much, and this has one too many details in order to pass my test of whether it's real or not.

Course, come Sept. 15 I may have to eat my own words, but still.

[demonasadiablo.livejournal.com]

I have to slightly disagree with that. After one showing of an Inuyasha movie, I was able to describe the movie and quotes. Or it could be that the author of the article has a thing for keeping details of scenes like how people keep quotes after a movie? Though I agree with you with the human memory. It might be they kept thinking over and over about the two episodes after seeing it so repetition commited the arc into their long-term memory. Still, there are parts of that article that seemed off. Especially since the writers have a good rep of pacing things.