Update: 8th October With more spoilers coming out I thought it was a good time to "bump" this up.
I've noticed that a number of you have decided to attempt to go spoiler free for the final season of Lost or at least cut down on the larger spoilers. I applaud all of you who are trying and I strongly suggest that unless your are a real Spoiler Junkie like me that you try to enjoy this final Season of Lost as spoilerfree as possible.
I thought I'd write a little guide that may help reduce the likelihood of getting spoiled this season, whilst still enjoying the online Lost Experience here at DarkUFO
1) Avoid the Internet and all Human Contact
This is the simplest and ONLY way to avoid spoilers. Stay indoors, shut the TV off, pull out your modem, cut your phone line, put your mobile phone in the bin and finally wrap your head in Tin Foil.... Then each week just turn on your TV just for Lost :) Rinse and Repeat for 16+ weeks and then resume normal living.
Obviously this is not practical for most so here are some more practical and useful tips.
2) Avoid unmoderated Forums
I cannot stress this enough. Do NOT go onto forums or message boards that do not have a good record of Moderation eg IMDB. You will get SHOTGUN spoiled. Avoid these like the plague. If you do get spoiled at these sites, you only have yourself to blame. These are NOT safe places.
We here at the SpoilerTV forums have a dedicated and skilled team of Moderators from all around the world providing protection 24 hrs a day. Obviously trolls exists but we normally deal with these withing 5-10 mins of a bad post and they are IP and email address banned for life.
3) Avoid the Spoiler Section
Obviously don't visit the spoiler sections of sites such as DarkUFO, they will be choke full of spoiler goodness.
4) But I want Mild Spoilers
But what if you want just mild spoilers like Episode Titles, Casting News/Calls, Promo's etc.
I know that a LOT of people like just the little spoilers.
So with that in mind, we have an episode guide thread in the Spoiler section
http://spoilerslost.blogspot.com/2009/05/season-6-episode-guide.html
This will have the episode titles, casting calls and links to filming reports. They will also contain the Official Press Release, Promotional Photos and Guest lists as and when ABC release them. Use this if you just want the basics.
NOTE: As with all sections of DarkUFO, the comments are initially collapsed. You are advised not to Expand and read the comments as people could well be discussing other spoilers in there. Just read the thread and not the comments.
If you also want to watch Trailers and Sneak Peeks, these can be found on this link.
http://spoilerslost.blogspot.com/search/label/Trailers
Again, don't read the comments as you run the risk of being spoiled from people commenting on other spoilers that relate to videos.
If for some reason you don't get to watch Lost when the rest of us do, do not visit ANY Lost site, Twitter Account, RSS Feed until you have. You would be amazed at the number of people who are surprised they get spoiled by Lost sites discussing the show they just watched. WTF are you doing on a Lost site, seriously. It's like missing a ball game and not wanting to find out a result and then going into a sports bar and hoping that no one is discussing the game :)
Hope this helps a little and good luck to all of you trying to remain Spoiler Free this season! If you have any suggestions of your own, please leave them in the comments.
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49 Comments:
Spoilers all the way
greatest spoilerphobe guide i've ever seen! lol.
I'm excited at the prospect of getting any new information! I put myself in the Medium category.
Great points, especially #5. Love the idea of a mild spoiler page. I don't want to know everything but little bits here and there help the summer go by. Thanks!
I am now a Medium, because in the past I read what would happen scene by scene for one particular episode and it truly ruined the LOST experience so to speak, but love the "are you sure" prompt, and from now on will be alot more careful with my spoiler selections. .. and,Dark,thank you so much for this site!
Thanks for this Dark.
At the minute I'm looking at everything but I'm going to try really hard to stay away from the big things like episode synopsis'. I will still look at promo's and episode titles etc.
I just watch the episodes, that's all. After that I do some Lostpedia reading and maybe a bit in the forums but too scared of them really so not that much.
Sometimes I know episode titles before, but that also ruined some things for me so I'm gonna try to even stay away from them for the final season.
I do understand people who like spoilers but for me it just ruins everything. I tried it for shows that I don't care too much about so it wouldn't bother me too much but it still did in some cases.
Just titles and promos for me.
90% spoilers for 6.01 and 6.02 just to ease the wait
0% spilers for the rest of season 6.
I manage to stay spoiler free every season, with the exception of the odd spoiler that makes its way onto my screen. I just stay away from this sites spoiler and rumour sections. Don't open any suspicious looking threads on forums and only chat with people who I know won't spoil me. It's really not that hard, my only main concern for season 6 is the final episode. I fear that once the spoilers for that are out (on DarkUFO) it will be very difficult to avoid someone purposely spoiling you on a forum. I hope the spoiler addicts of this site respect everyone else's (and the producers) wishes.
I just love the Tin Foil Hat.
@ Dark: That last part of you post was Just too funny, sports bar indeed!
Go spoilers!
Love the tin foil hat.
I sometimes plan to go spoiler-light but then binge on anything I can lay may hands on. Greedy girl.
Although I know it ruins things for some, for me spoilers enhance the whole Lost experience. They make it in to so much more than just 1 hour a week of enjoyment.
Keep it up Dark!
Great post, Dark! I concider myself as "Mild", only episode titles for me
Just titles and promos. Great guide btw.
I like to read episode titles, and info from Darlton.
Maybe some Kristin or Ausiello info, but I hate when it's based on total spoilers (the flashforward spoiler kind, I try to avoid those).
I'd like a code or something in the entry's title, like:
[Darlton Spoilers], [Kristin, Ausiello, Whoever, Little Spoilers] [Heavy Spoilers] [Total Spoiler] XD
Just promos and the title of the next episode
There must be some spoilers coming in soon if Dark is warning us. Or maybe he just doesnt want to see whining like there has been in the past seasons?
I don't quite understand how a title to an episode would be a spoiler. It is like going to a movie and not knowing what it is called. The title is part of the meaning of an episode. To not know it is like missing a conversation between Ben and Locke: unacceptable.
I would probably put myself somewhere between medium and high. I don't want to know everything by any means and I even avoid most of the sneak peeks in between episodes, but will allow myself some leeway depending on my mood.
Anyway, thanks for the article and the sensitivity to people who want to be as fresh as possible going into an episode.
This just makes me that much more excited about the season. Can't wait for the Blu-ray of season 5 to come out.
LOL.. A bit from Column A and a bit from Column B :)
Set photos and filming reports will start coming in soon...
There really needs to be a site for 'minor' spoilers and a site for 'major' spoilers.
Some spoilers like Kristen and such have really minor spoilers.
Like... person X is rumoured to be a guest star or something. Or set photos because they digitally manipulate and change the set so much you can't ever tell what it is anyway :)
But there are some that completely give away that someone is going to die.
There needs to be a way to not be able to see them.
Maybe more of the major ones (instead of only the REALLY major ones) need to be behind buttons?
I always like to read episode titles as soon as they come in, which is why I like the episode guide on this site. I can see the latest titles without getting info from the episode. I also like to know who is centric. I agree with the post above that an episode title is like a movie title. You don't hear people saying "OMG Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer! Now I know it's going to be about the Silver Surfer, I'm completely spoiled!"
This is why I love it. 90% spoiler free for me. I'll watch the promos and episode names. That's it. No casting or anything.
Last night I wanted to go to the movies..I booked my ticket online,arranged to meet friends before for a beer and maybe a bite after the movie to discuss what we saw....after a hard days work I showered and looked forward to getting out and chillin for a few hours....but just before I left the house I WENT ONLINE AND READ WHAT HAPPENED AT THE END OF THE MOVIE,so I cancelled everything and stayed home feeling like a fool for ruining my night!!!!!! DOH!
Same old situation every year...you dont want to be spoiled...dont read spoilers...
I went spoiler free for the whole of the last season - not even sneak peaks - show was soooooo much better for it - the suspense and surprise is what this show is all about....
I was determined to go 100% spolier free this season. Then what was the first thing shown on DC&PB? The first episode title. lol Oh well it's not revealing, sometimes they are. Hopefully I can avoid the rest of them. The only thing I'm ok with is promos the rest is spoilers to me. I am concerned about what's going to be in that last frame at DC&PB though.
I've even decided not to blog with my friends during the show but to wait until it's over and then blog. I'm going to sit back and enjoy and absorb every minute this season uninterupted. You hear that family-telemarketers? :)
God, this year I ruined Dan's death in his episode.. I had to sit there watching the episode knowing full well what would happen at the end.. =[
After that, I think I'm going to strictly stay OUT of the spoiler section from now on. It's amazing how much LOST survives off of shock factor and twists, ruining those ruins the entire show for me.
That said, I'm in the UK and no doubt I'll be back to my normal self - pulling all nighters every Wednesday night so I can watch it and chat with you guys, as soon as February comes =D
I agree with David suspense and suprise is what the show is about. That's why I don't like to know episode titles.
Let's see if I can explain my reasoning using the movie analogy. To me Season 6 is my movie title. So if I went to see Spiderman I wouldn't want a title to pop up every 10 minutes or so saying something like Peter Parker gets a kiss right before the kiss.
Sure you don't know who kisses him but you can figure it out and I would like to experience that emotion fresh.
Now most of the episode titles don't give anything away but occasionally they do. Like Ji-Yeon, from that we know it's a Sun centric episode that she has her baby, that she didn't possibly miscarry, that it was a girl and that she named it Ji-Yeon like Jin wanted her named.
I know that doesn't seem really important but it does take away some of the suspence and surprise.
I hope this season we all can get the amount of spoilers we want and don't want. :)
i pretty much ruined all of season 4 for myself and my mates kept on having a go at me asking me why i read the spoilers, as none of them do, but i can't help it.
last season i read some spoilers for the first half of the season but the second half i stayed away. i didnt want to know anything and the show was much better for it. although i saw the casting of mark pellegrino as Jacob so i knew we'd see Jacob which was a shame as at the beginning of the incident i knew instantly who the chap with the sowing machine was, whilst me mates were all more curious.
the problem is though, after months on end without Lost, i just want to know something about what the feck is going on so cant help but look at the spoilers. once the show kicks in though, i'm sure my fix will be cured. i don't really want to know anything about this season. but i doubt i will be able to resist.
BTW good post Dark and thanks for this freakin awesome site which is always the first site i check before any other each day. i'm not looking forward to when this show ends as i doubt there will be much on this site to keep checking :(
THAT BEING SAID, something needs to be done in terms of light moderation for "episode re-cappers".
Dark, I don't know if that's something that has been addressed in the past or not. I can think of a number of minor spoilers revealed by episode recappers (for example: "I can't wait for next week's John Locke - centric goodiness, etc) wherein it seems innocent enough but for those of us who attempt to remain 100% spoiler-free, you almost need to avoid episode recaps as well.
More on that subject: I can think of numerous episode recappers who were obviously aware to some degree of the spoilers for the end of the season. In their efforts to maintain (what appeared to me) "relevance" and "interesting theories" there were NUMEROUS recappers on the Darkufo mainpage that made reference to John Locke - as - smokey way back during recaps for Dead is Dead. While it's POSSIBLE that they had a theory about it, it's certainly NOTHING I picked up on while watching Dead is Dead, but they kept hammering the point home as if to certify their-own predictive intelligence, saying "Something seems different about John Locke, something seems different, something seems different, is he Smoky". While it wasn't a spoiler, per se, by the time we got to the finale, I felt totally unsurprised by any of the revelations therein.
Part of the joy of watching Lost is discussing the intricacies of past episodes. I'm afraid I can no longer enjoy the show if the episode recaps are going to reference spoiler material under the guise of "predictive genius-ness".
Is there anything that can be done about that, Dark? I'd really appreciate other people's thoughts on the subject. I'm not just some kook trolling the board here. I think it's an actual problem that could be addressed.
Thank you
Nice of you to post a guide like this, thanks :)
i think it would be highly unlikely i could detox from darkufo. getting little snippets of info here and there only intrigues me more.
Is it so strange to stay spoilerfree? And whats up with the poll its absolutely riddiculous.
And wow wow wow that ad is not ok...
As for the recapping complaints, I wonder if everyone is watching the same show. It was perfectly obvious at Locke's first entrance on the beach (at least to me) that something was amiss. That feeling just kept on with every scene.
I'm glad I wasn't alone and appreciate the recappers and their individual ideas. Many bloggers also post after a show in the comments as well. Like Dark warned, just don't read the comments where the episode is likely being discussed. Many of us like to know what others got from the episode and discuss it.
How is knowing the title of an episode even considered a spoiler? I love to know the titles, mainly because how else can you find out about it? You have to know before the episode what the title is, because it is never listed in any episode of LOST.
I understand the warning many bloggers warn...only better.
I love spoilers and get really excited to be thrown a few scraps of info before the show comes on. Reading a full run-through pre screening is too far IMO as I did that last season and was disappointed. But I do like to know casting info (was well chuffed to know about the Jacob casting in advance) and filming/script rumours.
Mild - wouldn't call myself 100% spoiler free by a long shot (I read minor spoilers here and there, glance at the headings but don't read in-depth) but I absolutely never watch the promos or sneak peeks. It amazes me that they put those out before the episode airs, they give away too much!
I'm aiming to be 100% free of all season 6 spoilers that've come out since about 20 days ago. Doing an ok job so far, it's easier than I thought!
;)
Honestly, I don't see the need to take drastic measures in avoiding spoilers. I go to docarzt and darkufo every day, and am never spoiled. It really isn't that hard if you have self control.
But, I guess alot of people don't have that when it comes to lost :L
Seriously, if you want to remain 100% Spoiler Free see guide #1....
You can't really expect to remain 100% spoiler free if you are on a website dedicated to the show..... As Dark has pointed out, a few tidbits get through... it happens...
As for me personally, I am all for spoilers!!! I can't get enough of them!! I read everything i can get my hands on... Well, anything on this site anyway, since it's the only one I'm truly dedicated to!! I think it helps me follow the show better cause we all know it can get a little obscure at times...
Anyway... Dark, as always, YOU ROCK!!! Thanks for all the hard work you (and the rest of the crew) put into this site!!!
I am not sure I get it.... but then I am always behind the times. Most of my time on Lost forums is just catching up on past information/characterization/plot and so on. But to me, what can be a real spoiler? Yes I might find out a dead character comes back, or some general thing, but hey, it's Lost. I expect anything to happen at anytime. I personally feel that no one is close to predicting how this is gonna wrap up....
I love the sense of mystery and the unknown. I suppose if I really thought a spoiler would actually spoil that for me, I'd stay away. But considering how intricate the story is (love a good story better than anything!!!!) I can't see that happening. They have done so well keeping all the complexities under wraps and I assume they will do so this last season, so I don't mind getting a few little hints.
I just want to add one bit of advice: you might not want to go into "Polls" section.
It has ruined things for me twice since I've grasped that rule =)
Especialy this coming season: when you go into polls and see that the opinions (answers in the polls) have shifted dramatically for no visible reason, you know that is because particular spoilers are out.
It is very visible when the poll is on a major thing.
Damn those polls =)
Good luck.
Spoilers all the way!
Agreed, nodecode. And I think I know which poll you're talking about. The one about how season 6 will start, right?
You should add YouTube, some people there seem to want to ruin series for others by posting Spoilers in fanvids. Id recommend all spoiler free people like me, to start being very precatious about it.
At first I was "Are you Sure? - Tell me Everything!", until Damon left the message with The ODI. Then I realized Damon's was right so now I'm "100% Spoiler Free!"
This is excellent, and most appreciated! I peeked at one spoiler and it did, in fact, ruin the scene for me when the episode aired. I've learned my lesson. This is a great guide, and thank you.