I’ve just been reprimanded twice for bringing up Lost. Five days after the finale. At Entertainment Weekly. And I hadn’t even watched it until last night! As soon as I said the word "Jacob" I got shushed with a wretched "AGGGGGH" sound effect and then an even harsher "Zip it." Honey, please. My intended complete sentence was the exceedingly harmless "I’ve been thinking a lot about Jacob’s facial hair," so get off my back.
Enough is enough. If you get spoiled at this point, I say you had it coming.
What’s the longest you’ve waited before watching a piece of major event television? Is it safe yet at your office?
More ‘Lost’:
EW’s ‘Lost’ HQ
Doc Jensen’s ‘Lost’ season finale recap
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I DVR everything but still manage to watch important episodes that night or the next at the latest. I’m tired of people whining about spoilers. If a show is that important to you, I’d think you could get around to watching it sooner.
Times up, folks! With appointment tv like LOST, you do whatever you can to watch it THAT NIGHT! Your friends should give you a one day forgiveness period – after that FORGET IT! It was the season finale, for Pete’s sake!! If you haven’t watched it yet, you’re not a real fan anyway – barring imprisonment or coma, anyway!
I’m not a ‘Lost’ watcher, but I have been shushed twice today when mentioning Thursday’s ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ finale.
Annie -
I am still getting the “SHHHH” from people. It’s American Idol’s fault really. How dare they counter program with people?! The DVR has made us a nation of casual viewers and not appointment TV anymore. Any decent person would have watched LOST right after American Idol ended… like I did (blush). But 5 days is to to long! I say it has to be watched by Saturday or all bets are off.
My girlfriend just got season one dvd’s and started watching them last night. She is on episode four……so I will not be able tot talk about it for quite some time.
Everyone had the weekend to watch their DVRed Lost finales. You had your chance to watch the episode. Now it’s your fault if you get spoiled.
Sorry – Once the weekend is over, all should be free to discuss. Most people get Saturday and/or Sunday off, and there is plenty of time to squeeze in 2 hours for a show that aired days ago. Even if you work Sat. or Sun., there is usually nothing else to watch, so it’s a great time to catch up. Spoiler-free zone be damned – fire away!
I think we should talk about shows the day after, that way people are forced to watch live TV, like they should.
Sean, any decent person would not be watching crap like Idol to begin with. As far as the finale goes, give people through the weekend that follows and then it’s fair game. A lot of Game 7′s last week, and you really can’t DVR sporting events to watch days later.
oh if only i had an office where people were cool enough to even watch lost. are you guys hiring at ew?
On Thursday, a non-Lost-watching-co-worker of mine said she tuned in for a few minutes of the finale (I missed it when it aired on Wednesday night), and she said there were “some people called the others, and a giant foot.” Luckily she did not drop any spoilers, but she did feel really bad when I said I hadn’t seen it yet.
Of course, I have seen it by now, and it was AWESOME!
Unfortunately, I was “that guy” with the LOST finale . . . I had it taping and started watching at ELEVEN THAT NIGHT. People were already posting crap on Facebook and Twitter! I try to watch it as soon as I can (I work at night and don’t own a DVR), but c’mon, at least give me a day people!
I would say a two day grace period is okay, like with Lost…if you hadn’t seen it by Friday, well thats your problem! If its a finale, you would think you’d be looking forward to watching…and not leave it for five days! That’s way too long.
Yeah, the Lost finale is fair game at this point.
Anybody who hasn’t watched it yet either cant watch it, doesn’t care about it, or doesn’t have time to watch it in the first place and will probably not see it for months.
I had a co-worker yell at me today for mentioning the “Everybody Hates Chris” season (series?) finale parodied the finale of the Sopranos..cause he hadn’t seen the Sopranos finale yet. AI, The Office, and HIMYM are the only shows I watch immediately, everything else can wait.. and I have no problems reading/hearing spoilers. I cheerfully read about who dies on Smallville even though I probably won’t get around to watching the ep for another couple of weeks.