Not spoiling a 17 year old book isn't a reasonable expectation.

Especially since the series continually reaches for increasingly gimmicky "Ah ha, but no one expected ____" deus ex machina to keep its plot moving.

Yes it is.

You should always preface with a spoiler tag when writing about about a piece of fiction

O_o That is insane.

We can quibble over a reasonable length of an embargo, but it's not infinite.

Snape killing Dumbledore or Leia being Luke's sister or Paul Atreides becoming God-Emperor shouldn't shock anyone.

Media is released. People consume media. At some point, everyone who is interested can reasonably be expected to have consumed it.

A lot of people haven’t seen or read any of these books.

Randomly revealing key plot points in a discussion is just a dick move.

It's not my problem if people don't stay current on media.

And if someone cares that much about consuming something that already exists in another form... maybe also be curious enough to consume it there?

I'm certainly not going to censor myself for people who are a decade+ late to the party and refuse to read a book.

What do you mean, ~problem~?

Nobody is asking you to censor yourself. I am simply asking you to preface a plot spoiler with something.

Gilgamesh doesn't find eternal life. Oops, should have had a spoiler tag.

A story that is ruined by "spoiling" isn't worth watching anyways.

SPOILER:

It did actually.

Ah. Looks like I completely missed or forgot.. Wikipedia has this in Episode 5

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgment_Day_(3_Body_Problem...

> The avatar details how crippling Earth's scientific advancement will prevent humans from technologically surpassing them before they arrive