Looking forward to TDKR

As you know, I have a thing for Batman, and I really enjoy the Nolan vision of Batman that has been presented in the first two films of the series...TDK was a great film and probably my favorite comic book film (with the first Iron Man and, surprisingly, Captain America rounding out the top three, in that order) and I really enjoyed the Knight Saga arc from the comics.

And the trailer for The Dark Knight Rises looks great.



See? There is a bunch of information about how the story should work and what it is about without giving away the entire premise. I want to be surprised when I walk in to the theater. I want to be filled with the sense of wonder that TEA has when he sees these films because he is not so infected by pop culture malaise (there will be more on this particular issue in another post) and being spoiler free is a good way to maintain that.

But this is the age of ubiquitous connectivity it is impossible to avoid spoilers...or at least difficult.

And when I saw this article pop up on a friend's Facebook wall, I had to take a look.

Tom Hardy’s Bane Is Scary, Bald in ‘Dark Knight Rises’ Set Photo

Accompanying the article was this picture:

(Plus, it was written by Will Leitch, whom I love, who has started writing for Yahoo apparently. How did I not know this?)

And it was a plea to avoid spoilage or at least keep the folks from Pittsburgh away from the set...at least that was part of it.

Anyway...

Will it be possible for me to avoid the stories about the movie or will I be too tempted by every bit of fanboy news that comes through the tubes?

Is it better to wait and be excited or to know what you are getting into?