Spoilers!

It's day 24 in the exciting saga that is my life (or, you know, not). I wonder if maybe I should have picked a different month to blog because then things would actually be happening. As for today, I spent most of the morning watching trailers on youtube. And then this afternoon I've spent most of it re-watching Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Speaking of those trailers, I was really amused because the end of the Voyage of the Dawn Treader uses the same music as the Mass Effect 2 launch trailer. I find it funny how trailers (mostly) use the same music. Like the music in the beginning of the Dawn Treader trailer? I swear they use that music in EVERY single magical happy fun, this is a family movie, type trailer. Yes, a lot of trailers use the actual music they use in the product (I mean, you made an entire soundtrack, yes? Why not use it for the trailer too?), but there are a lot that seem to the same music. Actually, I liked the music that was in the Mass Effect 2 launch trailer so much, I went out and found it (which is why I recognized it in the Narnia trailer). It's Heart of Courage by this group of makes a bunch of music for trailers. .

Which brings me to another thought about trailers. I feel like I spoil myself a lot by watching the trailers. I mean, I love trailers and I love getting more excited for things that are coming. But, I know that a lot of moments in a movie or video game would have been a lot more surprising and more fun if I had just stayed away from the trailer. Like, there were a few characters in Mass Effect 2 that were character who'd come back from Mass Effect 1. I would have been a lot more surprised and excited while playing if I hadn't watched the trailers (or scoured the internet for every single interview and news post about the game). I completely spoiled the crazy beginning sequence, which would have been more awesome and WTF-worthy if I hadn't known going in what was going on.

Sometimes you can't really avoid being spoiled, like movie trailers at a theater or some idiot in your English class explaining the ending of a book you were halfway through reading (Grrrr, still mad about that, and I STILL haven't finished The Road...) Still, I wonder if maybe for Mass Effect 3 I should stay away from trailers and as much news as possible? I've been somewhat trying to do that for the Deathly Hallows movie. The only thing I've seen is the trailer, and I'm trying as hard as I can to stay away from production stills, sneak peaks, and behind the scenes clips. I've even stopped checking Mugglenet so I'm not accidentally spoiled for how the characters look in the epilogue or where the part 1 and 2 split is. I absolutely DO NOT want to know where the two movies are split.

So, we'll see how that works. Right now I'm beginning to be paranoid about the third book in the Hunger Games series getting spoiled for me. I ordered it from Barns and Noble and am getting it shipped to my house. This was apparently a bad idea because it didn't get here today. I should hopefully be safe on the internet since, while it is pretty popular, it's not Harry Potter. For the 7th Harry Potter book I shut both my phone and computer off until I had finished that thing. No way in hell was I getting my childhood spoiled by someone texting me the end when I hadn't read it yet.

What are your opinions on spoilers? Do you not care? Do you search for spoilers? Are you like me and you would have been willing to murder the idiots who yelled out who got killed in the 6th Harry Potter book to people exiting the midnight release? Because I so would have shoved my copy down that idiot's throat if I could have. Thankfully, no such event happened at my beloved Barns and Noble. But if it had...