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I think a complex show like Lost generally benefits from spoilers, in that they usually indicate whether the writers/producers really have a cohesive plan, or if they're making things up on the fly. A show that I think is too liberal with the spoilers is Heroes. My gawd, that show leaks like the Titanic post-iceberg. And the durn near complete episode rundown here at TV Squad of "parasite" was a new low, says me. There's "surprise is overrated", and then there's "why bother tuning in?"

24 and Galactica are pretty low-spoiler shows. I'd like more, but the suspense is good too.

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I think spoilers are fine, it's like reading the book before you go to see the movie based on it or watching a repeat of something you've seen before.

If a show is good you can still enjoy it even if you know what's going to happen or how it's going to end.

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My personal beef is not with spoilers so much, but with people that scream spoiler police all over the internet. I understand that you don't want to know about the show in advance, which I don't really, and people should respect that, but after it's aired it's your own damn fault if you can't keep up. In this age of DVDs and TiVo, I have people yelling at me for spoiling Buffy's death and resurrection, an event that happened almost six years ago. Same thing for Usual Suspects, Se7en, etc. There's got to be a limit people...

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I like spoilers, but I think there is such a thing as too much information. It's better to know that something big will happen to someone rather than the specific event that will happen to the specific person. Most of the time anyway. There are definitely instances where a spoiler gets me more excited for an episode(like Patricia Wettig returning to Prison Break).

But with Lost last season, knowing of Shannon's death completely ruined that episode for me. It was so anticlimatic. The same goes for the deaths of Ana Lucia and Libby, though the way it happened shocked me.

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Ausiello doesn't really count because he gets his spoilers handed to him by producers. Kristin doesn't count because she steals from me. At least Spoilerfix gives me credit.
SAM

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I think spoilers can be a good thing for many regular viewers of a show. I do not think the casual viewer is checking out spoiler sites. Can a spoiler bring a former viewer back? Quite possible, I know that I would go back to watching CSI if I were promised that the Electra Slide was killed off and it was paired with a news item stating that Jorja Fox was either not renewed or was fired.

Notice that I look for a confirming source since some spoilers do not get it right and you absolutely can not trust the network promo monkeys!

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I used to be a spoiler fanatic during the late 90's with regards to The X-Files, but with that show finding out the premise of an episode didn't totally blow the entire season. With 24, Lost, Battlestar and Heroes being ongoing serials (way moreso than the X-files was) getting ruined on a specific plot point can ruin your enjoyment of a large chunk of episodes.

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No matter how much info gets leaked beforehand, I never think it ruins an episode - I could have the whole script in my hands, but I'd still tune in to see it with my own eyes. It never turns out quite the same as you imagine it from reading the spoilers alone.

Frankly, I wouldn't be able to stand it if I didn't have at least a few hints on a regular basis for shows I enjoy. It gives me something to think about during rerun weeks, so I know what to look forward to. If it's good news, then I get that much more time to anticipate it, and if it's bad, then at least I have time to get mad about it and complain and probably cool off by the time it actually airs, so I don't walk away entirely.

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Michael Ausiello earned my respect last year by keeping the deaths of Libby and Ana Lucia secret until the day after. That showed class. With Ain't it Cool News I was spoiled about the deaths in X-Men 3, and they didn't just spoil a few deaths, they described almost every detail of the plot! That was NOT classy! I wasn't sure if the spoilers were real, but I still had to keep this secret from everyone I knew. After I saw the movie, I made it a point never to return to that site.

I love spoilers and I regularly check in to Ask Ausiello and I scan the previews frame by frame. I know a personal experience where network spoilers backfired is when Josh Schartz, creator of The O.C. fed Ausiello a false scoop by saying that someone who would "hover near death" in last years season finale would be Sandy. This wasn't a hover, Marissa clearly died! Maybe it was my small crush on Mischa Barton, but I was so shocked I didn't tune back in. For me, it isn't about the mystery, it's about the journey.

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Wow... The legendary SecretAgentMan! Your Lost spoilers are tasteful and always well-founded. I hate the InsiderScoop spoilers though because they're complete summaries of a yet-to-air episode, sometimes week(s) in advance. I like hints, casting news, and location spoilers, but when huge bombshells are spelled out it takes the magic out of watching the show.

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I love spoilers and do not find them to detract from my viewing pleasure at all. When my kids were younger I used spoilers to gauge the suitability of their viewing a certain episode. Now I use spoilers mostly in self-defense.

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I am completely and thoroughly spoiled for the last 2 eps of Battlestar Galactica and I love it. The actual ep differs from reading about plot points, so it doesn't mess with my enjoyment of the show. I go looking for spoilers and I love them - so I don't mind hearing every little detail.

My view is: if you don't want to be spoiled for an show, don't look for spoilers.

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I am completely and thoroughly spoiled for the last 2 eps of Battlestar Galactica and I love it. The actual ep differs from reading about plot points, so it doesn't mess with my enjoyment of the show. I go looking for spoilers and I love them - so I don't mind hearing every little detail.

My view is: if you don't want to be spoiled for an show, don't look for spoilers.

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I am completely and thoroughly spoiled for the last 2 eps of Battlestar Galactica and I love it. The actual ep differs from reading about plot points, so it doesn't mess with my enjoyment of the show. I go looking for spoilers and I love them - so I don't mind hearing every little detail.

My view is: if you don't want to be spoiled for an show, don't look for spoilers.

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I hate spoilers. I was given a gift subscription to Entertainment Weekly and I can't read anything about my favorite shows like LOST because they give away so much. I read the first two paragraphs about LOST and they tell me a detail about an episode that doesn't air for 5 weeks afterwards - no thank you. I would rather be surprised when it actually happens.

On another note, I hate when previews give out too much information. Being a fan of Prison Break, I haven't watched a "On next week's Prison Break" promo since the 5th or 6th episode after I realized that all the previews they were showing weren't just giving me information on the next week's episode, bur most of the stuff that they show doesn't happen in the next episode. When I watch the next episode, it just feels like I've watched filler because I know what's going to happen eventually and in the hour of TV I just sat through, they never got around to it. LOST has been doing that this season as well. If I want to know what's going to happen down the road, I'll visit one of the many spoiler sites, but networks shouldn't be doing it to their viewers.

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