What is your opinion of spoilers revealing the plot of show?

I mean I've got terrible news for everyone who's aware Hamilton is based on historical events and real people, they're ALL dead now. Sorry!

Just came back to say I have little sympathy for the OP because
(a) this subject line is redundant and made me laugh
(b) even if you're not from the US, Hamilton has been out for long enough where people feel comfortable talking about its various plot points -- even those who forgot everything they learned in US history (if they even took it)
(c) I grew up in California, three hours behind basically every American award show other than the Oscars. That's when you learn to not care as much about being spoiled for the outcome. You just look forward to the process.

Apollo 13. We all know it gets back in the end but this is a classic example of process being the interest . I could watch that one again and again! Movies are good at this. While I would love to have been in the very first audience for Hamlet, I'm not now bothered that I know he dies in the end ( hope I haven't spoilt that for anyone going to the Almeida later this year ) I know Hedda kills herself at the end. I was still, like the rest of the audience holding my breath and my hands near my ears. The skill of the writer is to create and build on anticipation. If someone dies in Hamilton, someone who is an historical character presumably the writer has sorted this out and we will feel whatever we are meant to feel, pity, relief, joy ....I actually don't know that much about this part of American history. If he has added a few people for creative reasons, well, let's see how it works. Now we live in this any time age we can be caught out sometimes when for example, they always publish in the newspaper the following morning the Strictly exitee when I haven't watched the programme yet, but you can avoid this kind of thing if you try hard.

On the other hand, if I knew someone was going to Hamlet and had somehow managed to know nothing about the play, I would definitely do my best to preserve the surprise for them. I was so annoyed by the snobbery around Cumber-Hamlet and all the complaining that Cumberbatch fans were seeing the play without actually knowing anything about it. That's the best way to see it!! I took someone to see the Martin Freeman Richard III who had never seen/read the play before, and I was giddy with delight when I saw the fish tank and realised that she had no idea what was going to happen with it. To her, it was just a bit of set-dressing. I got to vicariously experience that moment for the first time with her.

Then again, I was spoiled for Sixth Sense by some utter Tw*t in the audience of a live TV programme saying what the twist was - but I still very much enjoyed watching the film. 

I think, on both sides of it (and in life) the phrase 'just don't be a dick about it' springs to mind...if you want to remain spoiler free, fine but don't be a dick if someone accidentally spoils it. Likewise if you like spoilers/already know, don't be a dick to those who don't.

(as an aside, being the uncultured swine that I am, Freeman's Richard III was the first time I'd encountered it so I had no idea. But there are many who would judge ME for that, for not knowing all the Shakespeare you're right Kathryn, and you know what I probably had a better time with that element of surprise)

me either! I'd kind of like to know just to save me the bother of sitting through it...

I love the irony of your user name. A bit of info you've not freaked over.

If it goes the way many of these threads go then it'll never end. It will outlive the universe.

Surely the ending would be the last post in the thread in that case, so the mods would have to keep an eye on this and determine the appropriate point to lock it?

The BBC programme Points of View (allowing people to comment on other BBC shows) once had a viewer complaining that the identity of the killer had been given away in a comedy show. And what did Points of View do? They replayed the clip identifying the killer.

So although I haven't seen the play, or the comic who gave away the ending, I still know what happens