Spoilers. I hate em, you hate em and we try to avoid them. Yet some companies can't avoid telling us what their product is going to contain anymore. Movies are half spoiled by the studios that put them out, video game endings get leaked and all that jazz. But the worst offender? Look you know I am gonna talk about wrestling. It's what I do.
The big one that just recently pissed me off is the fact that they spoiled that The Undertaker is going to appear on the 900th episode of Smackdown. This is huge because he hasn't appeared on WWE TV since Wrestlemania this April. But couldn't you appreciate it more if the gong hit to a surprise and you didn't know he was coming out?
The fact is, you can't do surprises anymore in WWE. The advent of social media and the news spoiling everything, making true surprises is really hard now. But the most recent spoiler is just a drop in the bucket. WWE willingly spoils things themselves, revealing the surprise returns and entrants for Raw, Smackdown and the various pay per views. They do it because they have to. They need the ratings and guaranteed draws like Goldberg and the Undertaker and even Brock Lesnar are bound to get numbers and "buts in the seats."
But take a look at the most recent Royal Rumble or Survivor Series 2014; the company worked hard to ensure that AJ Styles and Sting debuts would be a secret, even assigning a security detail to Sting to make sure no one saw him. The reactions they got were enormous and it made it better that the crowd was not expecting it. Just stick with that every once in a while and let us have a surprise.
Also seeing as how election day is tomorrow as I write this #TRUMP2016, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!