Author: Zack Sharf / Source: IndieWire
Jonathan Nolan has introduced a controversial plan to preserve spoilers for “Westworld” Season 2. The showrunner took to his personal Reddit account to explain that he’d like to post a video on the “Westworld” subreddit page spoiling all the twists and turns from Season 2 of the HBO series in advance of the show premiering.
Similar to how “Game of Thrones” book readers preserved spoilers because they already knew them, Nolan reasons that “Westworld” fans would do the same.“I greatly enjoyed watching the friendly folks at this subreddit guess the twists and turns of [Season 1],” Nolan said, “[but] it creates a larger problem for us, though, in terms of the way your guesswork is reported online. ‘Theories’ can actually be spoilers, and the line between the two is confusing. It’s something we’ve been thinking about since last season. The fans of ‘Game of Thrones,’ for instance, rallied around and protected the secrets of the narrative in part because they already knew those secrets (through season 5).”
The final decision is reliant on Nolan’s announcement post earning upwards of 1,000 upvotes on his Reddit page. Nolan figures that once the video is posted, anyone on the “Westworld” subreddit who wants to the season to be spoiled for…
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