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Seriously guys, did you have to put a spoiler in the the headline? Not all of us have had a chance to watch this weeks episode that's sitting on our TiVo. Lame!

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For me its not a spoiler if the show has already aired on both coasts. If you have seen it yet then that's a "you problem".

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I hope the new Dallas movie coming out doesn't ruin "WHO SHOT JR?" for me. I haven't seen the next episode yet.

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Yeah dude. You can't call 'spoiler' when the show aired two days ago.

Lame.

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So if someone gives away a movie's ending two days after it opened that's cool too? Wouldn't you be a bit miffed if there was a story saying 'Tom Cruise decided to kill off Ethan hunt, spend time with kid' (if you were planning to watch it next week)

I hadn't had a chance to see the episode yet so I think a bit of a warning would've been nice, especially given that people from other countries read this page too, you know

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Michelle's character seemed to have a great deal of potential to build on going fwd, so her "death" is strange.

The whole story line of Lost seems to be changing towards a more "evil" side. I am unsure what pattern is developing but it's decidely more evil with most of the killings being survivors killing survivors. We a re losing some interesting characters, sadly.

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Dinglepie, giving away a movie and a tv show episode are two different things, along with the inherent differences of how people watch new movies versus new tv episodes. A TV show is something that everyone (assumed) watches at the same time and by the end of the night, unless there are special circumstances, everyone has watched the show. I mean, if I hadn't watched an episode of a show I would hate to be spoiled. I would not go to any tv related websites because they are surely going to discuss any BIG NEWS.

I agree that the news should not be on the front page, it would be nice if there was a way to turn on and off anything that might be construed as a spoiler via site preferences (in a cookie) and javascript.

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"So if someone gives away a movie's ending two days after it opened that's cool too?"

Of course it wouldn't, but then again I would avoid a blog that talked about movies, especially a hit one, until I have seen it. The same holds true here. If I have not yet watched Lost, I avoid visiting TV Squad until I have.

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Okay the movie comparison wasn't fair, sorry, but the thing is there's nearly always a tv show I haven't watched (I haven't watched the 2 houses or the last ep of thief yet). If I followed your advice I'd never come to the site at all!

Anyway, I've watched the episode now and read the Aussiello interview and I believe that this was planned from the beginning, Rodriguez is a movie star(kind of) and it makes sense that she wouldn't want to get stuck doing a tv show for too long (she's got to get back to Hollywood and star in 'the Fast and the Furious 4' ;)

Plus why would Damon and Carlton bother lying if they did dump them for the dui thing?

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It's kind of hard to avoid a spoiler when it's right in the headline. I wasn't planning on reading about anything having to do with Lost until I watched this past episode. Unfortunately, my feed reader contained a spoiler right in the headlines for TV Squad. I never thought just scanning the headlines would ruin the episode for me. Maybe next time TV Squad could be a little more sesitive to this when writing headlines. I don't care about revealing spoilers in the main content of the article.

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not everyone is in the US. we are seven eps behind here in Australia, so this post just spoiled me in a big way. Like Bo Link, I read this vis my feed reader and the title was just there in the list of other feeds and completely impossible to avoid reading.

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Spoiled for me too! Just keep it out of the headline.

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I gotta admit, I'm with the spoiler folks above. This is the age of TiVo and it can no longer be reasonably assumed that people watch TV shows when they air. I suggest the no-spoilers (before the cut, of course) period be extended one week after a show's original airing.

(Does anybody else remember Slashdot's "The Lone Gunmen Are Dead" mega-spoiler?

http://slashdot.org/articles/02/04/22/0222221.shtml?tid=129

I'm still bitter about that.)

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I think the producers would lie if they were dumping her because of the DUI conviction. They'd risk losing a big part of their audience otherwise.
The show seems aimed at the demographic that's most likely to get arrested for driving drunk.

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This was a total spoiler for me also, via the RSS feed title. I skip articles about shows I haven't watched yet, and I only see the titles using RSS. Please use more caution with spoilers in the RSS title in the future. It shouldn't be that hard to avoid.

I usually watch Lost ASAP for this reason, but in this case I was out of town until Friday, and saw this post on Friday. :(

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I have to say this. I NEVER look at this site until AFTER I watch the episode. Otherwise, what's the point? I watch the episode then come on here to see what everyone has to say about it.

So maybe you guys that are worried about spoilers just shouldn't bother to come to this page until you watch it?

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I have a life , dont want to record and watch, If I miss an ep I want to read about it on-line. You people with TIVO must live in front of ur tv. U people need to get a life and stay on real time. Wake up and quit dreaming its not the end of the world if u see a spoiler. speaking of which Hawaii people have lived with this for what 50-75 years, they go home with the tv off so they wont hear sports scores before they see the time delay coverage. They have no problem with it so GET A LIFE

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I have to side with the people requesting "No Spoiler in the Title Line", please. I've been going to message boards for over a decade now. With Satellite TV, people in other corners of the world not getting the program until weeks later, & now Tivo. It just stands to reason that some people will see the program before others. At least a week has always the given clemency period on other boards I visit. I've even seen verbal warnings handed out to repeat offenders. At one time a Spoiler was enough to get you flamed.

I have to think the one's hollering "Get A Life", perhaps you should find a little discretion & tact. Not everyone can get to it that minute.

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Yeah right Rodriguez and Watros probably got better offers to do other tv shows and movies. I mean, why try to stick around for maybe a few more years and make a few more millions on the highest rated tv series. Yeah like they both would rather try their luck elsewhere? Its too much of a coincidence that they both got killed off after just a week of servicing their punishment. The producers bumped them off because they were liabilities and covered it up because they would get flack for firing the two over personal incidents instead of being professionally related. Retards, if you were the producers, cashing in on the multimillion dollar series, and will make you rich and sucessful, would you risk keeping these two f**k-ups on and risk potential problems?

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