To be (spoiled) or not to be (spoiled)?

#TalkNerdyToMeLover's According to Adam

I just got my copy of Entertainment Weekly in the mail, and right on the cover was Josh "Sawyer" Holloway, with lots of big headlines and teasers about the "Lost" finale.

Now, I used to be the kind of person who was obsessed with "Lost" spoilers. I wanted to know EVERYTHING about an episode before it aired, mostly so I could spend the episode dissecting it for clues rather than absorbing the actual information being presented. But this season I've gone in the complete opposite direction. I want to know NOTHING. 

This is the delicate line we walk as nerds. At some point, you've probably had something spoiled for you, and it really ruined the experience (for example... oh, and SPOILER ALERT... one of my friends got back from watching "The Sixth Sense" on opening night and casually mentioned that he didn't see the twist ending coming. He didn't even go into details on what it was, but just knowing there was a twist ending ruined it for me). On the other hand, there's probably been a time where you knew some amazing spoiler and just had to share it because it was so cool, not even thinking about what it would do to the person who hadn't yet seen the movie/episode/book/etc. 

So, to spoil or not to spoil? Would you rather be informed going in, or do you want to be completely surprised -- even if sometimes that surprise is really bad (I'm looking at you "X-Men The Last Stand")?

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