Spoilers!

My seven-year-old saw Toy Story 3 yesterday, as part of a classmate's birthday party. On the way home from the theatre, he completely gave away a surprise from the story. "Spoilers!" I said to him (too late). Then I had to explain what a Spoiler! is, and why someone might not want to know.

I've been keeping a secret from myself all week.

Tonight is the final episode for this series of Doctor Who, which aired earlier in the day (or the evening, if you were watching it), and I know almost nothing about it. I'd like to keep it that way for the next half-hour, before I have the chance to watch.

No previews were aired following last Saturday's episode (which ended with a thrilling cliffhanger, of course), and when one was made available a few days later, I almost watched it. But then I thought to myself, no, it'll be much more fun to be really, truly surprised.

Not too long after the series returned in 2005, word got out several weeks in that the lead, Christopher Eccleston, would not be back the following year. So we all knew what to expect at the end of thirteen weeks — The Doctor, near death, regenerates and takes on a new identity. That's a concept most everyone who watches the series would be familiar with, and anticipating it didn't make the rest of the series, or that final episode, any less exciting to watch — but it sure would have been such fun to have been surprised.

I'm not expecting anything quite so unexpected. But then again, you never know...