OK, I know I screwed the pooch before with the Quantum Leap thing, and I'm sorry about that. But what is the official position about discussing the *current* season of an ongoing show? I'm actively trying to avoid stepping on people's toes here, but most people who are watching the show are at least up to date as far as the end of last season, do they all need to cover their posts with spoilers to protect the relatively few who haven't watched that far? Might it not be a better idea for the people who haven't gotten as far even as last season to avoid this thread, or at least consider that there will be plot points discussed that go past where they have watched so far? Just as a f'rinstance, in case people think I'm being unreasonable ... last year on another board, I got into a discussion on 24, which I had never seen before. It got me interested, so I then got the previous seasons on DVD. Now , as a result of reading that thread, several key plot surprises were given away to me before I got a chance to watch them myself. It would have been great to have gotten to be surprised by them as everybody else did, but I see it as my own damned fault for reading the thread in the first place. By the same token, I am currently avoiding threads discussing The Shield, because I am now watching the past seasons on DVD. If I, say, record a particular show and haven't watched it yet, I don't expect threads on them to shut down until I get time to watch it, I just don't read them until I am caught up. All IMIO, of course.