Subject: Re: Lets stop this SPOILERs stuff
From: ADMN8647@Ryerson.CA (Linda Birmingham)
Date: 1991-01-22, 07:49
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <1991Jan22.145839.15801@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, krol@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Ed
Krol) says:
> >
> >Lets decide on a meaning for spoilers because it is used far
> >too much on this news group.  In the grand scheme of mystery
> >solving a SPOILER is a spoiler when you have figured something
> >out before the appropriate time in the story (The same as
> >blurting out he answer when watching Jeopardy with a bunch of
> >people - antisocial behavior).
comments deleted
> >Certainly not a spoiler.  I think we should define spoilers as inside
> >information which is likely not available to the general public.
> >Like, you were sitting on an airplane next to Lynch and he said
> >blah blah....

I was under the impression we were supposed to use this when
discussing what happened because not everyone was using the
North American distribution and therefore European viewers were
getting the information before they saw the show. I vaguely
remember someone requesting this quite some time ago.  Plus I
do remember a very angry exchange between someone who posted WKLP
without using *spoiler* and another reader had not seen the show
yet.  So obviously some people want this distinction made.

Would putting the episode date eliminate this problem?


 Linda
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