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Posted 10/17/2012 1:43:00 PM

Spoilers are annoying. NOTE: legitimate spoilers are annoying.

Someone discussing the ending to a movie that was released a year ago, or content that's already been revealed in a trailer does not constitute a spoiler.

If this were the week after The Empire Strikes Back was released, and I came on air going on about how blown away I was by Vader being Luke's dad, THAT would be a spoiler.

Now why am I discussing this?

Yesterday I talked about The Governor being unveiled on this season of The Walking Dead. He's the villain of this season and if he's anything like he was in the comic, he'll be the worst dude ever.

 

BUT the key thing to remember here. HE'S THE VILLAIN. What does that mean? He'll get his. That's the way things work. Did you think he was gonna wipe out the entire cast and suddenly be the new main character as we watch him rape and pillage his way through several seasons of television?

No, cause you're not a schmuck.

Well some people are. I got this e-mail immediately after my break was done ...

Hey Asshat! Thanks for the spoilers on Walking Dead Season 3. Sorry we can't all be hip enough to have already read the comic books, but nevertheless, it would be nice to not know all the possible plot details. Sincerely, Irate Listener
From: Kit

Good point. Reading is only for the hip. But considering the content has been all over the internet in muliple trailers and discussion boards for months you'd think he'd know. Well maybe he's not a big fan? Either way, I didn't have time to waste on how much of a wiener he was being so this was my reply:

Seriously?

That's it. That's all. I don't have that much time to waste.

Then I get THIS reply:

Yes seriously. I'm very much looking forward to this new season, and like a lot of people I haven't read the comic books, and don't plan to. Feel the same way about Game of Thrones actually: love the show, not about to start reading the books. And that's precisely what annoys me about certain people reading the Game of Thrones novels, is that they seem to always want to inform me about some upcoming intrigue because they are the ones who know and can impart prescient wisdom to the ignorant. Doesn't matter how ambiguous they try to keep it ("Waa-ait'll you see what happens to that character! You'll never see it coming!"), it's always [french word for seal] annoying. I'm investing time and emotion into these stories and characters not so I can have some asshat on the radio tell me what's going to happen next and how I should feel about it. 

And that is exactly what you did today, sir, with your talk of "The Governor" and how evil he is, and but oh! how he's "going to get his", etc. We're all proud of you for your magical future-telling abilities, having already read the source material and all, and I assure you, your awards and accolades are on their way. But please, for the sake of Christmas, keep your damn mouth shut about the show I'm hoping to discover on my own. I'd have gone ahead and turned the radio down when you started enlightening us all with your amazing powers of knowing, but I'm at work and it would be ridiculous. 

Thanks in advance, and keep the up the good work otherwise. 

Sincerely, 

Calm and Reflective Listener 

This stuff really annoys the piss out of me. You're dealing with subject matter that's years old, on a show that's VERY different from the comics. And this guy gets all high and mighty about me even talking about things anyone with a brain should already be aware of.

THE BAD GUY DIES!!!!!!!!!!

DUH!

If I was to say, "at the end of the Expendables 2 the good guys win." would anyone get mad? No. Cause it's accepted.

Either way, I was so annoyed I had to send THIS as a reply:

Well you're gonna be super sad when you see what happens to Rick ...

Yes.

I wonder how mad he got at that.

Posted By: Fearless Fred  

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  1. ReneM_8 posted on 10/17/2012 03:26 PM
    This is why they should introduce Punch in the face over TCP/IP. Some people kids.
  2. MichelleNicole posted on 10/17/2012 03:27 PM
    LOL I like what you did there, giving him another spoiler instead of responding to ANYTHING in this long-winded email. However I gotta admit I guess I'm as guilty as he is because a friend of mine posted on Facebook about something that happened in season 5 of sons of anarchy and I got pissed. Just started watching the dvds of ge show last month and I was in season 3
  3. ReneM_8 posted on 10/17/2012 03:37 PM
    Ned Stark come back as a walker and eats all the Lannister, in the next season of Game of thrones.
  4. JodyH_2 posted on 10/18/2012 01:25 AM
    I wonder if this guy has ever read a book that became a movie/TV show,...scratch that. I wonder if this guy has ever read a book.
  5. Bruno posted on 10/18/2012 07:51 AM
    If your thought are aligned with Kit. Just know that in the books Dale live MUCH longer than in the show and he was the one that was amputated. So, the show and books are related, but completely independent.
    1. ElliottL_8695 posted on 10/18/2012 09:09 AM
      @Bruno You are a sheep. Clearly kit has read a book or two. Did you even bother to read kit's well written response? If you agree with Fred's argument, have something intelligent to add to the discussion...I realize this response adds nothing to the original discussion, but this comment really annoyed me.
  6. KitL_8753 posted on 10/18/2012 10:48 PM
    Hey so here's the final email I sent to "Fearless" Fredington, just in case anybody was interested, not that more than 5 people actually read this blog....

    Hey man, sorry to hear my last email annoyed the piss right out of you. That sounds like a serious medical condition. Take care of yourself Fred, don't let random emails angry up the blood to the point of incontinence. I certainly don't want to cause any more email related accidents, but I'd like to say a thing or two in my defense.

    Now, it is true that many a bad guy has "gotten his" throughout the years. However, a lot of good fictions, even conventional ones, are crafty enough with the storytelling to suspend that common cultural understanding, and create the illusion that the bad guy might not get his after all. And occasionally, even non-French films go so far as to subvert that understanding completely by having the bad guy not lose. (If you've ever seen the slasher flick Wolf Creek you'd know that [spoiler alert!] that bad guy doesn't get his at all, not even remotely). I'd also like to point out here that there is a subtle difference between a bad guy not totally getting his comeuppance, and that same bad guy murdering and raping the entire cast of characters and taking over the whole show. Just saying.

    One last thing, just because a person hasn't read The Walking Dead comics, in spite of those comics having been around for years, does not actually mean that person has no brain as you seem to have bizarrely suggested. At any rate, I hadn't noticed any trailers for the upcoming season of Walking Dead, so I wasn't aware that the antagonist had already been revealed, which is why I avoid watching trailers--and reading discussion boards on the series for that matter, which according to you are spread across the entire internet--but I can't really condemn you for sharing trailer info on the radio, as much as I'd like to. However, gleefully sharing your fancy fanboy knowledge of the new villain's juicy demise is pure spoilage, which makes you a douche.

    I'd also like to add that Fred's assertion that anything more than a year old is open to spoilage of any kind, is bullshit, considering how much pop culture is out there these days and how long it takes to digest said pop culture, compared to, say 1980, when "Empire Strikes Back" was released. Not an apt comparison at all, asshat!

    Anyway, that's it, that's all, that's all there is.
    1. KyleB_3000 posted on 10/19/2012 10:46 AM
      @KitL_8753 Dude you are waaayyy too butt hurt over this. If someone ruining a couple plot points of a show you like to watch is apparently the worst thing to ever happen to you, be thankful.
    2. SalimC posted on 10/20/2012 08:06 PM
      @KitL_8753 @KitL_8753 -- Your an asshat.
      That's it, that's all, that's all there is.
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