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Screw ABC.COM for giving away spoilers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

posted 8 years ago by moviefool09
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For various reasons, I was previously only able to watch Episode 1 on tv and today, logged onto ABC.COM to see if any episodes were available for free streaming. At the top of the page when you click on "Full Episodes" are all kinds of SPOILERS, such as "ADAM IS ALIVE! SEASON FINALE!". And just to FULLY make sure ABC gave everything away, they posted a picture of the missing found character!!!!

WHAT IDIOTS DESIGNED THIS WEBSITE, TO GIVE AWAY SPOILERS LIKE THIS????

There's pretty much no reason for me to watch beyond episode 1 now.

Morons.

"This is dead air, Barry....dead air."

[–] unholywible 8 years ago

they are morons. They shouldn't even be advertising anything for the show when they canceled it. *beep* them. Sorry they spoiled it for you.

[–] moviefool09 8 years ago

Thanks. I unfortunately won't be watching anymore eps, since their website ruined it for me. I'm sure there are other mysteries in the show but the fate of the REAL Adam was the main one and they mucked that up for me. You'd think a network would want to ENTICE people to watch, instead of giving away key plot outcomes.

Pathetic.

Not sure if it'll make a difference but I sent them feedback from the site.

"This is dead air, Barry....dead air."

[–] lk-802 8 years ago

Adam being alive was no surprise and in my opinion it's irrelevant. The show was a guilty pleasure for me, I wouldn't recommend it seriously but I found it addictive

[–] moviefool09 8 years ago

Adam being alive was no surprise and in my opinion it's irrelevant.

I meant the REAL Adam. They even show a picture of him and everything, on the website!! That's a VERY big spoiler and one of the main plot points of the series, given away by ABC on their own website.

"This is dead air, Barry....dead air."

[–] tb-sch 8 years ago

Yes and no. It would be a spoiler if it was a surprise. But the only surprise about the reappearance is that the writers went for something that awefully constructed and forseeable, letting everything they built up to that point tumble into the realms of the ultra conventional.

You should be thankful that ABC just saved you from wasting time on a bad tv show.

[–] lk-802 8 years ago

I agree with you that it was stupid of them to do that but what I mean is Season 1 is not about whether Adam is alive or not, had he been dead it would have made no difference.

[–] desertdude1953 8 years ago

I don't regret watching the show and I have been reading spoilers all season. I guess I don't get that upset over spoilers.

Finding out that Adam is still alive wasn't that big of a deal since it was going to be a season 2 storyline.

While I was disappointed that the show ended with so many loose ends, I don't regret a single hour that I spent watching the show.

If you feel spoiled by reading something that was written about a show or a movie then I don't ever recommend you read a book before the movie about it is made. There are a lot of spoilers in books.

[–] moviefool09 8 years ago

I understand that you can't always get away from spoilers but it's pretty ridiculous for a network to spoil its own show on its own website! Especially since it's on the Video page where episodes are located!! Some moron didn't bother to think that just maybe, someone wants to push Play on an episode they haven't seen yet.

This is one of the most pathetic spoiler situations I've ever come across.

I've only seen the first episode, so I still have questions- such as, how and why did the fake Adam get to be there, was the Andrew McCarthy character really implicated, etc. Well, since I got the spoiler that the real Adam is alive, I know he didn't kill him. As for the other intrigues, I'm so pissed off at ABC for giving a major spoiler away and combined with the fact that there won't be a season 2, I feel no incentive to continue.

A real shame.

"This is dead air, Barry....dead air."

[–] Tree_Woman 8 years ago

desertdude wrote:

While I was disappointed that the show ended with so many loose ends, I don't regret a single hour that I spent watching the show.

Same here, Dude. I quite enjoyed it.

As for spoilers, I liked those preview clips because when I saw the segment in the actual show, it made things clearer. So many subtle things happened that show; one ill-timed trip to the fridge and I could miss something really pivotal. I like re-watching things because you notice stuff you didn't see before.

"You're so analytical! Sometimes you just have to let art... flow... over you." The Big Chill

[–] desertdude1953 8 years ago

TW the thing that I think is ironic about this thread is that the person who started it thought they could just go to ABC.COM and watch everything after the fact. By then ABC had removed the episodes from their website and just had summaries of the episodes. There hasn't been an entire episode since a week after the finale aired.

If you are late to the party, why would you worry about being spoiled? If you wanted to watch the show, show up about 13 weeks earlier. Or if you want to watch a 13 episode series, buy a DVR or a TIVO, rather than being mad at the network.

I watched each episode when it aired, or a few days after from my DVR. Why should ABC.Com be a poor person's TIVO/DVR?

[–] Tree_Woman 8 years ago

If you are late to the party, why would you worry about being spoiled? If you wanted to watch the show, show up about 13 weeks earlier. Or if you want to watch a 13 episode series, buy a DVR or a TIVO, rather than being mad at the network.

I watched each episode when it aired, or a few days after from my DVR. Why should ABC.Com be a poor person's TIVO/DVR?

Well said, Dude. Perhaps because we are old enough to remember the days BEFORE all this technology, we have a different perspective.

I remember, back in the 80s, my husband purchasing our first VHS recorder. He was so excited; we didn't have to worry about getting home in time for him to watch 'Dynasty'...he had a thing for Linda Evans, LOL...and we could watch the tape over again whenever we wanted. Of course he purchased the best available, and upgraded as soon as anything new was available.

Then, while I was homebound for months because of chemo, he bought the best (HUGE) satellite dish available, to keep me distracted from my circumstance. None of this TV and movie watching technology was FREE; it was considered worth the cost, and it changed how the world viewed entertainment.

The younger generations now expect INSTANT gratification and free streaming of anything and everything, with their sense of entitlement. They forget that the networks make money by displaying advertising as they air the show once a week. What incentive do the networks have for providing free access to their shows? In the immortal words of 'John McClane' in all the "Die Hard" movies, "It's about the money...when has it not been about the money?" (I had a thing for Bruce Willis, LOL!)

"You're so analytical! Sometimes you just have to let art... flow... over you." The Big Chill

[–] tb-sch 8 years ago

They forget that the networks make money by displaying advertising as they air the show once a week. What incentive do the networks have for providing free access to their shows?

Pretty much sums up why the concept of networks for such content is failing. Networks are for second screen rubbish, cable is for real entertainment.

[–] boxerrebellion 8 years ago

A lot of times there aren't spoilers in books because the movies change things so much. For example, the third movie in the Divergent series went so far off book as to change the end of the series completely.

[–] Starlet4 8 years ago

The show is over. ABC has every right to post whatever they want on their website about a show that's already aired.

Try hulu next time.

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[–] moviefool09 8 years ago

The show is over. ABC has every right to post whatever they want on their website about a show that's already aired.

If you are late to the party, why would you worry about being spoiled? If you wanted to watch the show, show up about 13 weeks earlier. Or if you want to watch a 13 episode series, buy a DVR or a TIVO, rather than being mad at the network.

Ok, so in your viewpoint, if you didn't watch the show on the DAYS IT AIRED on the network and are "late to the party", you should expect to have the entire series spoiled for you and you have no right to expect to enjoy the show in a suspenseful manner via another platform.

Hogwash.

There's NO EXCUSE for giving away spoilers. NONE. And on your own website? Even worse.

I do understand that the longer you don't watch something, the better the chance of having the experience spoiled in social media, etc. But on the show's very own network site? That's laughable and ridiculous, especially in this day and age where content is accessed at MANY varied times, even months or years after an air date.

I'll say it again: There's NO EXCUSE for giving away spoilers. NONE.

It's like going to Netflix and clicking on a mystery and seeing a big headline that says, "By the way, the wife did it".

Your argument: "But the movie came out 3 years ago. Not their fault for giving it away".

Moron.

If you must know, I DID DVR the entire season of The Family. Watched the first episode very recently and enjoyed it. I am hearing-impaired to a certain degree and I began episode 2 and the subtitles were all mixed up, for some reason. I thought (stupidly, according to you....smh) perhaps the rest of the episodes were still free to watch on the ABC website.

When I logged on and clicked on EPISODES to watch, the stupid headline SCREAMS what happens in the finale, along with a picture of the missing character who was found!!

Why would anyone logging into the website want to even watch episodes if spoilers are given away??? Do you understand the phrase "defeats the purpose??????"

Whoever runs the website is an idiot. Say you missed just the last episode or two and wanted to log online and watch it. ABC made CERTAIN your experience would be spoiled LONG before clicking play.

Your viewpoint is incredibly cynical and makes no sense. In a way, you're worse than ABC's site.

And, one last time, since you're obviously too dense to understand:

There's NO EXCUSE for giving away spoilers. NONE.

Nothing you can say will prove otherwise.

"This is dead air, Barry....dead air."

[–] ladydog1980 8 years ago

Well, I never saw a spoiler...but they canceled a great show!