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Let's be clear about what constitutes a spoiler -- a spoiler is plot information leaked in advance. If someone posts a story on a news site about the upcoming season and mentions contract negotiations and whether or not an actor might leave -- that isn't a spoiler. That's public information. If you don't want to know things like that, then you would need to avoid the internet in general until season 3 is over.
It's particularly tough to keep casting news out of the discussion since the show airs in the UK so far ahead of when it airs here AND because those things are reported not just on entertainment sites, but on sites like CNN.com and HuffPo.
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.' - Isaac Asimov
I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, "... I drank what?"
Personally, I have no problem with public information. That is fair game. I have a friend who just loves to try to tell me story-related goodies. It's like she knows the next chapter, and she is bragging that she knows and wants you to know, too. I just don't get "the giggles and satisfaction" in that, even though she knows I don't want to know. You can see the disappointment on her face when I stop her. On this board, I've noticed that some people like to put spoiler tags around their opinions/guesses, which makes no sense to me. Maybe they just like playing with that feature?
Yes, spoiler tags probably get used more than they need to at times (I've been guilty of that myself), but it's nice to think people err on the side of being considerate more than not.
And mods can always remove the tags if they're not needed.
"Whatever you are, be a good one." Abraham Lincoln
Since this has already been posted on this thread multiple times, I guess it's not a spoiler. I'm quite disappointed that Dan Stevens isn't returning after season 3. When I read articles about his decision to leave, I just laugh a little. He really does think highly of himself. He's an okay actor, but his decision to leave that show? It's his business, but it sounds like a silly boy IMO. Time will tell. It brings to mind those super successful American tv actors who left when they got too big for their pants. Later as they sat waiting for their phone to ring, I wonder how silly they felt. Yes, I know Dan is on Broadway. I wish him good luck with that.
Here's a detailed article about it. WARNING SPOILIERS SPOILERS SPOILERS for Season 3.
Dan Stevens: Why I left Downton Abbey - Telegraph
I spoiled myself but haven't seen any S3 yet.Click to see Spoiler:
Agree with everyone regarding Dan Stevens. It's not like he was on a soap where they work fifty weeks a year or whatever and would never have any other opportunities.
Call the Midwife holiday special is on next Sunday on PBS.
I go back and forth on Nurse Jenny. She is quite judgmental which is understandable I guess, coming from a well-off upbringing and being thrown into post-war East End London (mind you, Chummy comes from an even more drastically different background and I've never found her judgmental). But then she -Jenny- gets all mad whenever anyone makes a judging comment about something she was judging twenty minutes earlier. I want to introduce her to a kettle. Don't even get me started on her mooning over her married lover who, from what little we've seen of him, seems utterly charmless.
But I'd watch any day of the week just for Chummy. She's the best. Her romance with the police officer has been just lovely.
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