I am enraged because something I didn’t care enough to see for 4 weeks will no longer be a suprise - aka the entire world has catered to me.
- this entire thread

It’s like an open letter.

DUH! The person you’re addressing it to won’t read it. It’s a pretty standard thing to do, this addressing people, but knowing they won’t see it.
There is no reason to forget this just because someone told you Kilo Ren is Han Solo’s son. Oops.

Fuck you. I haven’t read Thursdays Jakarta Times yet!

In the context of someone not seeing the movie yet (aka the point of the article)...it was a funny joke.

You can (somewhat) reasonably argue that it was too soon. But, for example, no one thinks “I see dead people” or “Kevin Spacey is Keyser Soze”. The premise and structure of the joke is tested.

But what’s the statute…

Were any of those people “spoiled” before they saw it? Or did they know not read articles about a movie that came up a month ago?

I’m an emotionally stable person, so have at it...

I am about a third of the way through The Sandman comics for the first time.
I haven’t watched an episode of Breaking Bad, but it’s in my Netflix queue.
And I think I’m going to see The Revenant this weekend.

I feel like there should be a statute of limitations on being allowed to cry “you spoiled it”.
For me, there have been ample opportunities for people to see this film.
Maybe this opinion makes me a heartless jerk, who really wishes your mother were dead.
But at some point the anti-spoiler folks become the ones…

Yes. This was a spot-on, 100% strawman-free paraphrase of my comment. /s

I just can’t reconcile the idea that someone hates spoilers so much it enrages them...but they won’t make plans to see a movie within a month of it coming out.

The rest of the goddamn world shouldn’t have to put their conversations, jokes, comments…

, said the reasonable upstanding person who calls other human beings ‘piece of shit’ for mentioning a plot point 4 weeks after a movie was released.

True. But aren’t those also all very good reasons to gain perspective, and realize it’s a movie spoiler, it’s not worth freaking out about.

You’re an old curmudgeon who takes Star Wars too seriously if this legitimately upsets you.

Frankly, I’ve never gotten the angst over spoilers. Truly great movies, books, stories are more than the revelation of a plot point. If having that plot point revealed undercuts the quality of something THAT much...it probably…

If this makes you even more than a little annoyed (let alone the person who cried about it)...sorry, but you’re taking this shit too seriously.
Also the cognitive dissonance of “I’m so pissed you ruined it” and “But I still haven’t seen it yet” is staggering.

Is this the moment when “geek culture” goes from being bullied to being bullies?

Seriously, guys. If not now, it’s going to happen at some point. How do we feel about it?