Revised Spoiler Policy
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sisabetI had a bad night. I am neurotic and blame season 4 QaF Spoilers. The fact that I would lose sleep over a spoiler is ridiculous. One should not be this attached to a television show. Has "The X-Files" taught me nothing?
Apparently, not. I don't watch that much TV. A few shows and that is it. It just so happens those shows mean more to me than to the average American. If I like a show it becomes very important.
So I am revisiting my Spoiler Policy:
Smallville: Spoil me. Go ahead. Tell me what is gonna happen - it will not distract from my new-found fascination with this show. The only thing that distracts from my enjoyment is Clask's insistance on wearing a shirt. Thankfully, this has not been an issue this year. I do ask if you are putting a Spoiler in the comments to clearly label the post as containing a spoiler and putting a space there so no one is accidently spoiled in my LJ. Or you can do that nifty white test thing. I'll try to remember to edit entries if spoiler talk goes no in the comments.
Angel: Spoil me and I will beat you to death with a shovel [tm![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
heres_luck]. Any mention of anything pertaining to a future ep (unless it is a promo) is beyond my coping abilities. Unless your name is Luminosity and it is for a vid or just general hype. Cause Lum knows how to give me info with out really letting me know what the hell is going on. It is very cool so she has dispensation. Oh - if it is something that you think I need to know in advance so that I can prepare (i.e. Lilah's death last year - I was warned so I wouldn't freak out, have a nervous breakdown, quit my job and join an apocolyptic cult) then go through Dawn. She'll know what I need to know and if it is really bad I get sushi when she breaks it to me.
Queer As Folk: Okay - I've decided no more spoilers unless they are specifically about Justin. I don't want to know anything that has to do with Brian or Michael or Ben or Ted or any other cast member - just Justin. So if Justin saves a family from a burning building and has to have oxygen at the scene in ep 4x01 than I want to know about it. If, when he gets to the loft, Brian bitches cause he stinks from the fire - don't tell me. Justin Spoilers=good, Justin/Brian Spoilers=bad. I think I can live with this.
Apparently, not. I don't watch that much TV. A few shows and that is it. It just so happens those shows mean more to me than to the average American. If I like a show it becomes very important.
So I am revisiting my Spoiler Policy:
Smallville: Spoil me. Go ahead. Tell me what is gonna happen - it will not distract from my new-found fascination with this show. The only thing that distracts from my enjoyment is Clask's insistance on wearing a shirt. Thankfully, this has not been an issue this year. I do ask if you are putting a Spoiler in the comments to clearly label the post as containing a spoiler and putting a space there so no one is accidently spoiled in my LJ. Or you can do that nifty white test thing. I'll try to remember to edit entries if spoiler talk goes no in the comments.
Angel: Spoil me and I will beat you to death with a shovel [tm
heres_luck]. Any mention of anything pertaining to a future ep (unless it is a promo) is beyond my coping abilities. Unless your name is Luminosity and it is for a vid or just general hype. Cause Lum knows how to give me info with out really letting me know what the hell is going on. It is very cool so she has dispensation. Oh - if it is something that you think I need to know in advance so that I can prepare (i.e. Lilah's death last year - I was warned so I wouldn't freak out, have a nervous breakdown, quit my job and join an apocolyptic cult) then go through Dawn. She'll know what I need to know and if it is really bad I get sushi when she breaks it to me. Queer As Folk: Okay - I've decided no more spoilers unless they are specifically about Justin. I don't want to know anything that has to do with Brian or Michael or Ben or Ted or any other cast member - just Justin. So if Justin saves a family from a burning building and has to have oxygen at the scene in ep 4x01 than I want to know about it. If, when he gets to the loft, Brian bitches cause he stinks from the fire - don't tell me. Justin Spoilers=good, Justin/Brian Spoilers=bad. I think I can live with this.
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Date: 2003-10-29 05:57 am (UTC)Smallville? Unless it gets off its big red S this year, spoilers are meaningless. What's the point of telling you that there's another kid who was affected by kryptonite, and his explosive diarrhea is a super power? OTOH? SV is prettie, and we could play the drinking game together, long distance!
Angel? I don't go looking for spoilers, but I do stumble across them. After some generalized squeeing in the case of nekkidity, I usually sit back and think about them in terms of vidding possibilities. Only after that do I even consider it in emotional terms, or how it's going to affect Angel. [because I just can't deal sometimes] Sometimes I'm oblique enough to let them slip to you--like flesh sightings, but usually I just keep them to myself. Of course, in the case of a Lilah-magnitude spoiler, I'd hie myself over to drdawn and spill. Let her take the heat.
QAF? Is that a show?
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Date: 2003-10-29 06:17 am (UTC)*cough* Okay, that's so much more than you wanted to know. Sorry :)
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Date: 2003-10-29 06:19 am (UTC):)
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Date: 2003-10-29 07:09 am (UTC)Yes, I am lame today.
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Date: 2003-10-29 06:57 am (UTC)Angel is my refuge.
Gearing Up For High Holy Day
Date: 2003-10-29 08:00 am (UTC)SV is prettie, and we could play the drinking game together, long distance!
I'd love to play the drinking game - but you know what a lightweight I am! I'll be sloshed before Angel's opening credits. Which actually, could work to the creative advantage...but not the typing.
Of course, in the case of a Lilah-magnitude spoiler, I'd hie myself over to drdawn and spill. Let her take the heat.
God, that was rough. She broke that news to me and we both cried. I was all, "Well, Angelus will turn her (we thought he killed her)cause Lilah would be the perfect vampire - he could really have fun with her." And that is when Dawn lost it and wailed, "Wesley cuts her head off!" and the finality of that was...well it was a dark, dark day for us. Of course, it made it that much better when she showed up in "Home" and I am so glad I was not spoiled for that.
Right now I can't think of anything that would get to me like that this season. I mean - I know they won't kill Angel and as long as he remains undead, I can deal. Which concerns me - since I just am no longer as emotionally invested with the rest of the crew. I like Fred and Gunn and Lorne, but I can't imagine taking their death harder than Lilah's or Connor's. If Connor came back to die - I might need advanced warning, depends on the storyline. I like Spike, but I am pretty much okay with anything and any direction they take his character in as long as I can vid it. I'm interested in what will happen, but if it is not positive, I'm more than okay with that. I'm fairly certain he is sticking around, but I'd be okay if he didn't. Which leaves Wes. If Wes dies, I need to know a head of time. That would be rough. Just thinking about it upsets me - Gah, poor Angel! Actually - if that happens, I should be the one to break it to
Now I am worried about Wes. That would be it for Angel, you know? I don't think he could come back from that. It would be an interesting storyline to explore since it will mean that Angel has in effect lost all core members of his group (Cordy, Doyle, and Wes) as a direct result of him being who/what he is. But I'm okay with exploring that outcome in fic, because I don't see that there could be any resolution for Angel at all in that situation. I think it would be Game Over and he is already knocking on that door anyway. He's given up. Now the goal is to get the group to wake up and realize he isn't playing anymore and to get him back into the game. Possibly the mind-wipe is distorting their perception of him right now (that and working for W&H just can't be good for your evil-ometer). See, it all goes back to the fact that they forgot about Dre, I mean Angel, and I think part of him (the petty bitch part) sees this and is kinda pissed off. I mean, cry for help much, Angel? And it is his own damn fault that they forgot about him and just can't see what is happening, but that does not mean he has to be rational about it. I love his irrational bitchy pettyness (pettiness?) to peices. And you know what I want to happen - who I am counting on to figure it all out - and not just to fulfill my rap-induced fantasies.
QAF? Is that a show?
LMAO - hee. I am so glad that today is High Holy Day, cause I can let go of what I heard yesterday and wallow in the vampires by the light of the disco ball. And really? That is just gay enough. I makes my heart swell.
I'm not built for Spoilers.
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Date: 2003-10-29 06:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-29 08:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-29 06:30 am (UTC)Yes. Exactly.
Spoil me and I will beat you to death with a shovel.
Heh. Actually, I think that's ™ Doug Petrie and I'm just stealin'. I love that ep.
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Date: 2003-10-29 07:33 am (UTC)And yes - we love our television shows because we are picky and only allow a few close to our hearts. And we know the pain of cancellation all to well as a result, but we also know the joy of taking apart the medium and examining it as more than sum of an episode. I'm still thinking about Farscape and how excited I am that you are starting on season 2. I can't wait to read your take. And then I can't wait to see what you have to say about season 3 and then 4 and you see where I am going with this?
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Date: 2003-10-29 08:02 am (UTC)This is what I love about fandom. I can get all into Farscape three years after the fact, when it's not even on the air anymore, and be surrounded by people who are still psyched about my journey into the show and will be interested in the vids that are inevitably going to come out of it.
Man, I am just filled with fandomlove at the moment. Fandomlove and the fear of spoilers, in about equal measure.
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Date: 2003-10-29 08:11 am (UTC)And I am deep in fandom love as well. Despite the squabbles and silly stuff that goes around, which is usually the result of intelligent people without enough to think about needing to be entertained in some way related to their passion (which just happens to be a television show) and I can understand that. But the best part of fandom is the exchange of ideas and love of the process and finding out that there are other people who are just as mentally inclined as you are to lose themselves in a mutual fantasy world. Well, that and the llamas. Llamas are up there in the Making Fandom Worthwhile column.
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Date: 2003-10-29 06:56 am (UTC)Only thing I DO want to know is when is it due to start again?
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Date: 2003-10-29 07:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-29 08:30 am (UTC)Are they TRYING to kill us??
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Date: 2003-10-29 08:36 am (UTC)Luckily, there are vampires until then. That and Prison!Justin Fic and Prison!Justin Fic Spoilers.
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Date: 2003-10-29 02:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-29 01:48 pm (UTC)*breathes* Okay...as long as Showcase lines up with that, that is slightly better than the week before my Birthday in April like last year...but come on...S1 and 2 started in January. *sigh*
Agree with you about staying away from spoilers though...they just result in badness and sucking all the fun out of everything, because I've had too much time to obesses beforehand. I learned that way back when Roswell was in it's first season and Canada was 3 weeks behind the US.
But...March? *sigh*