You've had a lot of problems recently with leaked spoilers. What's your message to those people who do leak important plot points?
It’s funny, because I just wrote a letter to one of the guys at Ain't It Cool News and basically said, "I want you to understand what our perspective is, which is that we love that people care so much about the show, but we work so hard to bring it to you fresh and we work so hard to surprise you and entice you and do all of this stuff."
That’s the stuff of our daily living, trying to work an audience from week to week and really bring them the best we can give them and when stuff gets spoiled... I said this in the letter, that people unwittingly give stuff away. If it gets into the public consciousness there’s ways that you could find out, even if you’re not someone looking for spoilers. You know how someone ruins the end of a movie unwittingly, it just sucks, and I just hate that that information gets out there for people who don’t want it.
It really just diffuses the energy of what we try to do, so I wrote him this appeal just saying, "Look..." - because a lot of the stuff they have is not correct, but there are bits and pieces that are - "if you love the show, this is about helping us keeping that energy going." In fact, he surprised me because he wrote back and said, "You know, you’re really right and we’re really sorry and can you feed us information, of course..."
It’s mostly about that, it’s about trying to protect the audience’s enjoyment. We get such a kick out of making people feel things, that’s what we live for and when we feel like the endeavour gets messed up by the internet, it just really frustrates us. It’s all about "Let us entertain you, let us make you smile".
