I wasn't going to say anything, but screw it. I'm pissed. I had the last three episodes queued up to marathon last night, came on TVSquad to check the guest lists for the late night shows, and scrolled right into this post. Episode reviews and cast announcements I know to avoid, but you have to throw spoilers around in an actor flashback/nostalgia post? Really? Or how hard is it to just add a damn "SPOILERS FOR DEXTER" in the first line line or black bars like everyone else? It's been two frickin' days - not long enough for this to be common knowledge by any stretch of the imagination and WAY too soon to stop taking precautions.

People who suffer from a psychotic level of spoilerphobia should either see a shrink or quit reading any TV fansite. The problem does not lie with the author of an article but with your insane expectations and demands.

TV viewing habits have changed,and with everyone TIVO'ing and record things in various ways and getting it On Demand and waiting for the full-season video, there is NO good time to discuss any show. Really.

When I come to this site and others like it, I expect that they'll be discussing shows, and I expect that they're not waiting a week until I get around to watching an episode. I think *usually* this site tries to avoid blatant "spoiling" but, ya know, crap happens.

Common sense. Don't expect a blogger to cater to your viewing habits because you didn't watch a show when it actually aired.

Here's the reality -

1) The show aired Sunday night at 9pm. Some people don't stay up that late and may watch Monday or Tuesday.

2) This site already did a spoiler-free review, so we're not talking about reviewing the show.

3) People are not going to visit the site if their favorite shows are going to be ruined.

I don't know why it couldn't have said, "Here's an old clip of Julie Benz" blah blah. I'd say 2-3 days is enough to wait before overtly discussing twists and episode happenings that are NOT behind a cut.

The reality is, if you want people to come to your site, don't ruin their shows for them. If you don't have enough content that you MUST talk about these things the day after they happen...maybe you need to review the content of your site.

"Are you still reeling over what happened to Julie Benz on last night's Dexter finale? Don't worry."

This is the first line of the article! I have no problems with the reviews of shows I haven't seen yet, I look at the title or picture and can breeze right by BUT since the title had an actresses name it in (not the show) that I thought was familiar I read the first line and this is what I found. That is why I have a problem with this. Other writers will give you fair warning or as I said you can see that the article is about the episode and skip it. I also had to skim the other comments because I did see some disturbing things that lead me to conclude what happened. I can not afford Showtime and have to wait for the DVDs to come out - sorry.

Pussies.

TV Squad is embarrassingly stupid. You can talk about whatever you want in articles with spoiler warnings, don't hint at huge spoilers in the titles of your articles. Any fan of the show who might have DVRed it would know exactly what happens based on this title.

Well, since we're discussing it here in a rational way, let me ask you guys this: How much time do you think should pass before we start talking about what happened on a TV show?

Thanks, Ian. I appreciate the note. It's a challenge to write about TV shows without revealing things, to be sure.

Check out my recent post I wrote on spoilers:

http://www.tvsquad.com/2009/11/16/lets-talk-about-spoilers/

Ashley - Was "This person died" on the front page somewhere? I'm not seeing it.

Knowing something big will go down is one thing (anyone could have died, anyone could have found out about Dexter etc) but plastering THIS PERSON DIED on the front page is a bit much.

Only just been able to watch and glad I avoided...well, everything until now.

Anyway, I shall miss Julie Benz. Rita got too much flack this season.