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

Oh now I'm intrigued (but go on Monkey admit it, you're just angling for a Valentines date to the latest one... )

I really could not have predicted that this is where a thread about Hamilton spoilers would end up.

Also a lot of movies have had a second life on stage, where we are all aware of the story from seeing the movie, this doesn't diminish my enjoyment for the stage form, my enjoyment can be intensified by seeing something bettered for the stage.

In the context of the 50 Shades of Grey discussion that comment takes on a whole new meaning...

Nooo, 50 Shades on stage?

I don't think anyone has anything against you, people just assumed very reasonably that this is a plot that most people know as it's very much a well-known story in the public domain.  Therefore to my mind nothing in this show is a spoiler except perhaps the lyrics and melodies of the songs.  The overall plot certainly doesn't fall within what I'd term a spoiler, so I wouldn't have thought to use the spoiler tag at all.  

If you go by what you're asking, the whole board would be spoiler tags and nothing else, as there'll always be someone who hasn't seen something!  The point is whether it's something new that practically no-one will know except those who have seen the show (like the Harry Potter play before the script was published), or is it something familiar.  If the latter, then I think it's perfectly reasonable for people not to consider it a spoiler.

The Girls is based on a film that came out well over 10 years ago, which itself has already been the subject of a successful play.  I honestly don't see how it could possibly be considered a spoiler any more than the likes of Les Mis ever has been.

And I have to admit I don't really understand why if you wanted to avoid being spoiled you ventured into this thread - it's not difficult to avoid a thread/avoid reviews/avoid listening to the score or Youtube videos etc. until you've seen a show if you're desperate to go into it blind, like I'm doing with resisting downloading the Hamilton cast recording before December!  That's all entirely within your control, it just depends how much you want to be going into a show completely blind.  Just my opinion though.

No, no, no... the general public have this knowlage of Calender Girls: women get naked for charity calender. That is the general consenus for people, even those who haven't seen the film, play or musical, but they don't know the story unless they have seen these incarnations.

I did not know a single thing about the story, other than what i said above, as did probably have the people on this board. And I feel it may have just been spoiled for people, including myself. Its all well and good saying don't come to this thread, but we have managed however long this far with a well known story without giving away what I am assuming is, for a first time viewer, a pretty big spoiler until now. I have been reading this thread for months and still had no idea what happened in the show until you spoiled it. I am not asking what was sid to not be said, but have a bit of consideration, especially as the show has just opened and the vast majority haven't seen it.

And I don't feel everyone has something against me, but I do feel that, recently, I have been ganged up on or attacked on here for no reason or for unfair reasons. But, as I comtinuoiusly feel I am saying, thats just me and my mind.

Thank you for the apology, im grateful. And my most recent post, I got confused with board names, so it sounds like it is aimed at you but I was just confused.

Apologies if it seemed like I was attacking you, that was not my intention - you were the one who raised the point so it was your post it felt appropriate to reply to.  I was just making a general point about my own opinion on what reasonably could be considered a spoiler or not., which is a subject everyone is entitled to have an opinion on just like anything else.  I was just giving my two cents.

I haven't seen anything on here that wasn't in the film as far as I recall (haven't seen it in years), so I don't think anyone who has seen the film or the play would really be spoiled by anything that's been posted here.  I think it's a difficult line to tread between having a board that's so full of spoiler tags that there's barely anything else, and letting people talk freely about what they've seen.  I don't recall many threads at all on this board using spoiler tags a lot at all, so it seems to me it's more "at your own risk", which I think is how it should be on a forum - people shouldn't have to tag everything just in case it happens to be a spoiler who people who haven't seen or read the source material - once a show has opened I think it's fair game to expect that people will discuss it, and it's even more fair game if it has any sort of widely known source material.  If it's completely and utterly new and no-one knows a thing about it, that's different, but this show isn't in that category.

I get your point about managing however long without you reading something you considered spoilery, but to my mind that's just luck - at the end of the day if a person decides they want to see a show completely unspoiled, they will always be taking a risk in going into a thread about that show.  If you want to take that risk, that's entirely your prerogative, but if you then come across a spoiler, then that's just the way it is - you could have remained unspoiled through temporary avoidance, but it was your choice not to do so.  People are entitled to be excited and discuss a show, that's the whole purpose of this forum, and I think it would be a real shame if everything was hidden behind tags.

Yeah, come back to me on that when you get the level of crap I do on here for mostly no reason, pretty much on a daily basis. You do start to feel like you are being attacked. And it's not just casual members I have felt this from either, if i could share my PM's, I would.

Wow... thanks for the selfishness from some tonight, it is much appreciated. Was actually starting to look forward to this show as well.