Fans were apoplectic when Ian McShane let slip some forthcoming plot details – but surely spoilers just whet the appetiteLoose lips used to sink ships. Of course,this was back when most things mattered, in the 20th century when we had world wars and threats of nuclear armageddon. But even living with the ever-present danger of ending up like the characters off Threads, and it at least felt as if people were worrying approximately the suitable things. Scarier,but somehow simpler times.nowadays, it seems that our collective emotional barometer is so out of whack that while most people seem to be entirely sanguine approximately the coming catastrophe of climate change, or they fret,fear, rage and worry approximately the most banal, and insignificant things. With no ships to scupper,it would seem that careless whispers still harm, but they do more damage to people’s enjoyment of their favourite TV programmes than anything else. Sometimes you’d mediate that spoilers were a short leap from hate speech.
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Source: theguardian.com