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Since I\u2019m such a man of the times, I\u2019m currently on book five of\u00a0Game of Thrones: Song of Ice and Fire<\/em>.\u00a0 Unlike a lot of epic literary series, I\u2019ve actually enjoyed GoT in written form a great deal, and I look forward to completing book five, and subsequently be like all other GoT novella fans, and (im)patiently await the sixth.<\/span><\/p>\n On that note, it goes without saying that I am very much behind in the television series, as it moves at light speed on screen in comparison to the pace of the novels.\u00a0 I\u2019ve just finished watching the second season of the show, and upon hearing news not too far ago about how things in season five of the television series will spoil plot points for what lies ahead in the not-yet-released book six, I can say that I will probably not watch any of season five, if I can help it.<\/span><\/p>\n Yes, I am one of\u00a0those<\/em>\u00a0snobs, who always plays the game of comparisons between book and screen.\u00a0 This should not be one iota of surprise to anyone.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n However, it\u2019s no secret that whatever is on screen typically wins the favor of the masses over the same story\u2019s written form.\u00a0 It\u2019s no surprise, we\u2019re mostly a visual society, and pretty pictures and named-actors are vastly more efficient at portraying stories than a bunch of boring old words.<\/span><\/p>\n So despite the fact that I\u2019m going all old testament as far as my indulgence of Game of Thrones is concerned, millions of other people are alternatively getting (mostly) the same indulgence by simply tuning into HBO and watching the story, chopped down to consolidated hours at a time.<\/span><\/p>\n And when you have a million people watching the same thing, there will always, always be\u00a0at least<\/em>\u00a0a thousand of them, ready, and god forbid willing, to bitch about it on the internet.\u00a0 And when enough people bitch about a similar topic, that topic is then deemed as \u201ctrending,\u201d and when something starts trending, it becomes worthy enough to be forced upon everyone\u2019s Facebook pages, whether they want to see it or not.<\/span><\/p>\n Unfortunately for me, anything that pertains to GoT is something I do not want to see, as I am paranoid of being spoiled.\u00a0 Unfortunately for me, as long as a topic is trending, it\u2019s beyond anyone\u2019s control that I have to see it anyway.<\/span><\/p>\n Spoilers ahead.<\/span><\/p>\n Without having seen the latest episode, and solely on the trending things that I saw that I wish I could have unseen but cannot, it\u2019s pretty obvious to what happened in the latest episode, and it\u2019s for all intents and purposes, spoiled, for me.<\/span><\/p>\n At first, it was a trending topic on GoT and a supposed \u201ccontroversial\u201d plot twist.<\/span><\/p>\n Then, it was a trending topic of a popular website or two deciding that they would refuse to plug HBO or promote GoT due to the nature of a particular controversial plot twist.<\/span><\/p>\n Then, some feminist rally in regards to some rage they have over a particular controversial plot twist from GoT.<\/span><\/p>\n And finally, actress Sophie Turner begins trending, as she comes out to discuss the nature of this particular controversial plot twist.<\/span><\/p>\n From those four topics alone, that I saw out of the corner of my eye, and wished that I never did see, it\u2019s pretty easy to deduce that in the latest episode of GoT, Sansa Stark is involved in some sort of unpleasant sexual encounter.\u00a0 This is quickly confirmed, and suddenly, I now know something that happens in the future, that I have yet to get to myself.<\/span><\/p>\n I don\u2019t really care that such event may or may not happen in the book, because ultimately, I still plan on catching up to the HBO series, and enjoying them episode by episode.\u00a0 And sure, I don\u2019t know the context behind it, but eventually when I get to season five, there\u2019s going to be this mental reminder in the back of my head that\u2019s going to say \u201coh yeah, this is the season where Sansa is sexually taken advantage of<\/em>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Obviously, this isn\u2019t the first time that something\u2019s been spoiled for me over the forced information on what\u2019s trending, but I\u2019ve tried really hard to avoid anything any everything in regards to potential GoT spoilers.\u00a0 It\u2019s obviously difficult seeing as how I\u2019m about 15 years late to the party when it comes to GoT fandom, but I\u2019d managed to traverse four books without any notable spoilers to this point.<\/span><\/p>\n I don\u2019t really understand the importance of knowing what\u2019s trending at all times, but then again, Facebook is ultimately trying to take over the world, and be the one-stop shop where we can skip visiting news sites, if the\u00a0very important<\/em>\u00a0topics like GoT spoilers can be brought directly to us; 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