I have to say, I really didn't become a full spoiler ho (at least as far as I recall) until Buffy's third season ender was pulled due to Columbine.
I had to comb the 'nets for a description of the ender that showed in Canada but not stateside. Then once I had a taste, I was pretty much hooked.
I always thought that the April bot was the underlying hardware for the Buffy bot for Spike. Building a bot takes time, but hardwiring a new personality and reusing the basic skeleton and adding a new skin would mean that the build time would be vastly cut down for Spike's Buffy bot...
CaBil is me on this issue.
1. I never thought of that
2. Makes total sense
3. Ew
Plus, April and Buffy bot v.1 shared certain romantic obsessive tendencies, until Buffy v.2 was extensively reprogrammed by Willow. Considering Warren's work ethic (ie none) he may have simply done a search and replace of subjects names...
I was a huge spoiler whore for Buffy.
No spoilers for me,ever. Mostly because the show always surprised me. If it had become predictable I would have looked.
Beth is me. plus, I remember the first big spoiler that I knew (Angel turning human) and I spent the ep waiting for it to happen, I couldn't really enjoy the show until it happened.
I thought the Torez spoiler was about Spike turning up on
Angel,
right? Or possibly about Spike getting his soul back. I'm pretty sure it wasn't about Buffy returning in season 6, because... we all pretty much assumed that was going to happen.
The Office
and
Doctor Who
are the shows that I care about getting spoiled for these days, and even with those I don't care nearly as much about certain kinds of spoilers, casting and the like.