Spoilers or no?

[katikat]

And I'm back to contemplating my dilemma: To read spoilers or not to read spoilers, that's the question.

I read some awesome, amazing, great, fantastic spoilers for Supernatural, NCIS and NCIS:LA (especially the NCIS:LA stuff makes me want to roll in the pretty!) that have me all hyped and bouncy! But then I read some blah spoilers for Fringe and they actually put me off so much that I don't even feel like watching the show anymore.

And now that season finale spoilers are about to start trickling in... Should I read them or not? I'm especially talking about SPN here. That show is always better unspoiled, especially its "big" episodes like the mid-season and season finales... Argh! *hands*

Comments

[waldo]

For me it depends on why I'm watching.

I watch Hawaii 5-0 for the banter and the pretty, so spoilers don't bother me.

I watch White Collar for the plot (and the banter and the pretty, omg, the pretty), so I stay clear of the spoilers.

NCIS and NCISLA... I waver. I didn't read them last year, but I'm less sucked into the ongoing plots this year, so depending on the lead in I may or may not. If it's just, "Hey here's a thing about the finale" I may skip it. If it's, "OMG YOU PEOPLE DID YOU SEE THIS I'M GONNA SQUEE/SCREEM SO MUCH" it's entirely possible my curiousity will override my sense of wanting to be surprised.

[katikat]

I don't mind spoilers for shows with little to no arcs, for procedurals like NCIS, but for arc-heavy series like Supernatural... There I waver.

But the spoiler that I read for NCIS:LA made me SO DAMN EXCITED to see the upcoming episodes!