Great British Bake Off Spoiled?

Should I be giving spoiler alerts on a blog which consistently claims that spoilers don’t exist?  Yeah, because you don’t have to agree with me.  Don’t read this if you watch the Great British Bake Off but haven’t, for whatever reason, watched this season’s finale.

I, quite unsurprisingly, had the finale episode spoiled for me.  A number of people that I follow on Twitter are British, and that show is a big deal.  13.4 million people watched the finale (in a country of 64.1 million).  Dear reader, you will not at all be shocked to hear that I very quickly moved past the fact that the winner had been soiled for me.  Nadiya was certainly the favorite in my house from the earliest stages of the competition, though we were also fans of Tamal and Ian from the beginning.

I did wonder whether I would have been upset that the results had been spoiled for me if there had been one contestant who I hated and that person had been the winner.  Once again though, I came to the conclusion that what would have been bothersome wouldn’t have been knowing the result of the show without having seen the episode.  Even knowing that Nadiya had won, I still fully enjoyed watching the difficult technical and seeing the successes of each baker with their individual showstopper.  I would only have been bothered if the result was not what I had hoped for in the show.  At least in the way that I experience “spoilers,” I’m more upset at the outcome than I am about having someone else spoil the outcome for me.  Any negative response I have to spoilers is tied back to the emotion about the part of the show that was being spoiled.  Anybody else?  Agree?  Disagree?  Feel free to think either.  Bye.