TV Series

[youngbob]

You are confirming his insult with this over reaction.

Just add spoilers.

I just want to know where the cut-off point is for spoilering TV show discussions in this thread. I understand spoilering posts about shows that are either still running or only ended in the last few years (so, say, I wouldn't openly discuss the finales of Game of Thrones or Better Call Saul, or chat too openly about Stranger Things or something). But surely we should be allowed to publicly discuss the end of things like Breaking Bad, The Sopranos, Mad Men, etc. without needing to add spoiler tags? They all ended years ago - in fact, they're from a different era of TV altogether, and should be discussed in the past tense - and if you haven't caught up with them and don't want to be spoiled then that's your fault as far as I'm concerned. I just want to know where the line is.

I haven't seen The Wire, for instance, or Friday Night Lights or The Americans or The Shield, but I wouldn't want anyone to spoiler their posts about their respective endings because it's my fault for not getting around to them yet when I've definitely had the time over the last 15 years or so.

Are there any established rules for this thread that I'm breaking by not spoilering a post about a TV show that literally debuted in the last century? If there aren't any published, official rules about spoilering TV show chats in here then surely it's a matter of preference? I'm arguing that something like "preference" is open to individual interpretation. Wherever the line is drawn regarding spoilering posts is ultimately going to be an arbitrary line, but that's fine. I'm drawing my arbitrary line somewhere between 2018 and 2019. If someone thinks that the line should be drawn in 1995 or 1968 then that's fine, but until it's written as a rule, it's just a suggestion in a debate we're having.

 

[GX Blue]

I just want to know where the cut-off point is for spoilering TV show discussions in this thread. I understand spoilering posts about shows that are either still running or only ended in the last few years (so, say, I wouldn't openly discuss the finales of Game of Thrones or Better Call Saul, or chat too openly about Stranger Things or something). But surely we should be allowed to publicly discuss the end of things like Breaking Bad, The Sopranos, Mad Men, etc. without needing to add spoiler tags? They all ended years ago - in fact, they're from a different era of TV altogether, and should be discussed in the past tense - and if you haven't caught up with them and don't want to be spoiled then that's your fault as far as I'm concerned. I just want to know where the line is.

I haven't seen The Wire, for instance, or Friday Night Lights or The Americans or The Shield, but I wouldn't want anyone to spoiler their posts about their respective endings because it's my fault for not getting around to them yet when I've definitely had the time over the last 15 years or so.

Are there any established rules for this thread that I'm breaking by not spoilering a post about a TV show that literally debuted in the last century? If there aren't any published, official rules about spoilering TV show chats in here then surely it's a matter of preference? I'm arguing that something like "preference" is open to individual interpretation. Wherever the line is drawn regarding spoilering posts is ultimately going to be an arbitrary line, but that's fine. I'm drawing my arbitrary line somewhere between 2018 and 2019. If someone thinks that the line should be drawn in 1995 or 1968 then that's fine, but until it's written as a rule, it's just a suggestion in a debate we're having.

There’s no cut off or rules but from a personal point I tend to just give whatever shows I like a review, say what I liked and what I didn’t and then score it out of 10.

If you want to speak about specific happenings in a program you’d prob want to consider a spoiler.

I class this as more a tv review topic than a discussion about what happens in shows but that’s just me (and most others by the looks of the previous posts).

 

[JRockBlues]

I just want to know where the cut-off point is for spoilering TV show discussions in this thread. I understand spoilering posts about shows that are either still running or only ended in the last few years (so, say, I wouldn't openly discuss the finales of Game of Thrones or Better Call Saul, or chat too openly about Stranger Things or something). But surely we should be allowed to publicly discuss the end of things like Breaking Bad, The Sopranos, Mad Men, etc. without needing to add spoiler tags? They all ended years ago - in fact, they're from a different era of TV altogether, and should be discussed in the past tense - and if you haven't caught up with them and don't want to be spoiled then that's your fault as far as I'm concerned. I just want to know where the line is.

I haven't seen The Wire, for instance, or Friday Night Lights or The Americans or The Shield, but I wouldn't want anyone to spoiler their posts about their respective endings because it's my fault for not getting around to them yet when I've definitely had the time over the last 15 years or so.

Are there any established rules for this thread that I'm breaking by not spoilering a post about a TV show that literally debuted in the last century? If there aren't any published, official rules about spoilering TV show chats in here then surely it's a matter of preference? I'm arguing that something like "preference" is open to individual interpretation. Wherever the line is drawn regarding spoilering posts is ultimately going to be an arbitrary line, but that's fine. I'm drawing my arbitrary line somewhere between 2018 and 2019. If someone thinks that the line should be drawn in 1995 or 1968 then that's fine, but until it's written as a rule, it's just a suggestion in a debate we're having.

Personal feeling is that if I ever write anything plot based for any form of media on a general forum it goes behind a spoiler warning regardless of age. The only time this doesn't apply is if the thread in uestion is title specific then it's fair game and if people click on it then that's their own fault.

 

[TonyM]

Just watching the Daryl Walking Dead Oo-la-la show and it struck me that it's so stupid that they cant sort this shit out.

Surely this isnt a spoiler.....

If everyone wore Hannibal Lectur masks, motorbike helmets or dog muzzles then they couldn't bite someone if they were "turned". Or if everyone knocked out their teeth and replaced them with falsies it'd be the same. So dentists and crafties should be thriving.

But they don't fuckin bother.

And it'd probably take them about 6 months to eliminate all the zombies going off the rate that German Nazis rounded up and murdered innocents in WWII. Or 6 months to build impenetrable communities, I.e. more than a high fence ffs.

But they don't fuckin bother.

They should call it The Lazy Living instead.

 

[N1985]

Just watching the Daryl Walking Dead Oo-la-la show and it struck me that it's so stupid that they cant sort this shit out.

Surely this isnt a spoiler.....

If everyone wore Hannibal Lectur masks, motorbike helmets or dog muzzles then they couldn't bite someone if they were "turned". Or if everyone knocked out their teeth and replaced them with falsies it'd be the same. So dentists and crafties should be thriving.

But they don't fuckin bother.

And it'd probably take them about 6 months to eliminate all the zombies going off the rate that German Nazis rounded up and murdered innocents in WWII. Or 6 months to build impenetrable communities, I.e. more than a high fence ffs.

But they don't fuckin bother.

They should call it The Lazy Living instead.

I wish they'd all just fucking turn and have done with it.

 

[supercity88]

I just want to know where the cut-off point is for spoilering TV show discussions in this thread. I understand spoilering posts about shows that are either still running or only ended in the last few years (so, say, I wouldn't openly discuss the finales of Game of Thrones or Better Call Saul, or chat too openly about Stranger Things or something). But surely we should be allowed to publicly discuss the end of things like Breaking Bad, The Sopranos, Mad Men, etc. without needing to add spoiler tags? They all ended years ago - in fact, they're from a different era of TV altogether, and should be discussed in the past tense - and if you haven't caught up with them and don't want to be spoiled then that's your fault as far as I'm concerned. I just want to know where the line is.

I haven't seen The Wire, for instance, or Friday Night Lights or The Americans or The Shield, but I wouldn't want anyone to spoiler their posts about their respective endings because it's my fault for not getting around to them yet when I've definitely had the time over the last 15 years or so.

Are there any established rules for this thread that I'm breaking by not spoilering a post about a TV show that literally debuted in the last century? If there aren't any published, official rules about spoilering TV show chats in here then surely it's a matter of preference? I'm arguing that something like "preference" is open to individual interpretation. Wherever the line is drawn regarding spoilering posts is ultimately going to be an arbitrary line, but that's fine. I'm drawing my arbitrary line somewhere between 2018 and 2019. If someone thinks that the line should be drawn in 1995 or 1968 then that's fine, but until it's written as a rule, it's just a suggestion in a debate we're having.

You are taking this a bit too far with your analysis. Just stick it behind a spoiler. I've never seen the Sopranos and would quite like to watch it at some point. I've never heard what happens, never been part of a discussion about the ending so perhaps it wasn't as widely discussed as you think. I don't think it matters if it's historic, it's just common courtesy not to spoil it. If it's the Titanic or Romeo and Juliet it's a bit different, but this is more of a thread for people to recommend or indeed put people off watching certain TV shows rather than going into detail about specifics. Just go back and stick it behind a spoiler rather than argue the intricacies of it.

I wouldn't want to spoil The Wire or any of those other shows for you. It's not someone's fault for not watching it at the time. It can come down to the cost of the platform and general life circumstances which mean people can't watch it initially. Those people usually avoid all talk about those shows to preserve them.

 

[PragueBlue]

Watching (again) every episode of Columbo from first to last. I like to do that every few years.

Also watching Endeavour and Vera from start to finish for a bit of murder variety!

 

[kaz7]

I just want to know where the cut-off point is for spoilering TV show discussions in this thread. I understand spoilering posts about shows that are either still running or only ended in the last few years (so, say, I wouldn't openly discuss the finales of Game of Thrones or Better Call Saul, or chat too openly about Stranger Things or something). But surely we should be allowed to publicly discuss the end of things like Breaking Bad, The Sopranos, Mad Men, etc. without needing to add spoiler tags? They all ended years ago - in fact, they're from a different era of TV altogether, and should be discussed in the past tense - and if you haven't caught up with them and don't want to be spoiled then that's your fault as far as I'm concerned. I just want to know where the line is.

I haven't seen The Wire, for instance, or Friday Night Lights or The Americans or The Shield, but I wouldn't want anyone to spoiler their posts about their respective endings because it's my fault for not getting around to them yet when I've definitely had the time over the last 15 years or so.

Are there any established rules for this thread that I'm breaking by not spoilering a post about a TV show that literally debuted in the last century? If there aren't any published, official rules about spoilering TV show chats in here then surely it's a matter of preference? I'm arguing that something like "preference" is open to individual interpretation. Wherever the line is drawn regarding spoilering posts is ultimately going to be an arbitrary line, but that's fine. I'm drawing my arbitrary line somewhere between 2018 and 2019. If someone thinks that the line should be drawn in 1995 or 1968 then that's fine, but until it's written as a rule, it's just a suggestion in a debate we're having.

The ending of any show of any age , somebody will want to watch a series no matter how old , just be considerate and put things in a spoiler , it is no skin off your nose to do it

 

[youngbob]

The ending of any show of any age , somebody will want to watch a series no matter how old , just be considerate and put things in a spoiler , it is no skin off your nose to do it

By the same token it's no skin off anyone else's nose to just accept that I'm evidently more passionate about the rules regarding the open discussion of TV spoilers for shows that ended more than a decade ago and to just drop it.

 

[Roger Mellie]

By the same token it's no skin off anyone else's nose to just accept that I'm evidently more passionate about the rules regarding the open discussion of TV spoilers for shows that ended more than a decade ago and to just drop it.

Christ are you still whining about this.

Just use the bloody spoiler function and stop being an arse