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I sometimes read summaries of episodes I've already watched, but for shows where I'm not yet at the latest episode, and read things like "Person X is presumably killed".

Now I immediately feel spoilered, knowing they're still alive and will reappear at some later point.

I understand we can't write "Person X is killed", because that just wouldn't be true.

But is there a way to phrase those things differently, so that it's both true and non-spoilering? And if there's not yet, can we create something like that?

I could only think of the phrase "spoiler neutral language" to describe that, and haven't found anything via Google.

Side note: I'd love to have created the tag 'spoilers' for this question, but don't have the reputation to do so.

Alexander Engelhardt
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    Frankly this is off-topic for this site. It's asking for something to be done and that's not what we do. Of course it would be possible to write summaries in a non-spoiler fashion but a summary is, by default, spoilery if you haven't seen the episode. What exactly should they leave out not spoil something? – Paulie_D Mar 29 '24 at 09:17
  • To clarify: I read summaries for episodes I have already watched (e.g., where a person gets "presumably" killed). I'm just not up to date with the show, and at a later episode (which I haven't yet watched), it will turn out the person wasn't killed. – Alexander Engelhardt Mar 29 '24 at 09:18
  • How do you know that the summary is written with the knowledge of future episodes? Just because the word "presumably" is used doesn't mean the person isn't dead just that (IDK) they might be dead. Writers love to subvert expectations and resurrect "dead" characters all the time. Regardless, the question is still off-topic. – Paulie_D Mar 29 '24 at 09:21
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    Side note a "spoiler" tag would be what we call a "meta tag" and those aren't encouraged as they are tags that don't say anything by themselves - you can't tell what the question is about unless they're paired with some other tag – Paulie_D Mar 29 '24 at 09:53
  • I’m voting to close this question because it does not appear to be about movies or TV, within the scope defined in the [help/on-topic]. – galacticninja Mar 29 '24 at 12:49

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