Tonight, Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones<\/i>, opens in theaters nationwide. (Tonight, that is, as in right after Midnight.)<\/p>\n
Margie and I aren’t scheduled to see it until Sunday evening.<\/p>\n
And Friday evening I join a bunch of ubergeekfreunden<\/i> to play … Star Wars<\/i>.<\/p>\n
What do you think the chances are that I will stay un-spoiled until I get a chance to see the freakin’ movie?<\/p>\n
I’ve already turned away from two radio reviews, and I suspect that I’m going to have to serious reel in my blogosphere antennae, too, lest I inadvertently read someone’s gushing over the details — especially where couched in the middle of a post on something else: “So we ordered pizza tonight, but the guy brought pizza with anchovies on it, which was just as unwelcome a surprise as finding out that Princess Amidala was the one who killed Mace Windu …” <\/i>or “Yassir Arafat is as much of an evil genius as Jar-Jar Binks, whose canny and unexpected ascent to the position of Emperor caught everyone by surprise in Episode II …”<\/i><\/p>\n
So if you need to gush, please: spoiler warnings <\/b>are always welcome, and Moveable Type, at least, has a very nice Extended Entry feature that lets you hide part of your post until someone clicks on the “More …” tag.<\/p>\n
Please have respect, courtesy, politeness and restraint for those who haven’t seen the movie quite yet.<\/p>\n
At least until Monday morning ….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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