In which I am a delicate flower about spoilers

I have a ridiculously low spoiler threshold. I'm one of those people that doesn't like to read book reviews until after I've read the book. I treasure the shock or the gradual build-up of discovering things on my own. In general, I don't want to know if character X ever reappears on the show, or that A and B hook up down the road, or that Childhood Issue #2 is a major theme of the whole show.

I had the luxury of watching BtVS almost spoiler-free; I'd never seen so much as a clip before I started, and although while watching the show I stumbled across some things online I didn't want to know, there was a whole lot I had no warning for. For example: the entire Spike/Buffy ship. As in, I had no idea it was going to happen. (It was a very nice rock I'd been living under. Quite cozy.) Thus every step along the way - Crush, Intervention, The Gift, After Life - was gloriously uncertain.

While I don't have that same luxury with the shows I'm watching now because I know stuff via fandom osmosis, I still want to form my own opinions of characterization and arc execution and so forth, and it's easiest for me to do if I have as little idea as possible about what's coming.

I definitely don't want this to discourage commentary on my TV posts, because I love hearing from you guys! Sharing my reactions with all of you is at least half the fun. I just wanted to give a general head's-up about where I'm coming from and ask that you be gentle with the delicate flower. :)

Disclaimer: this is not directed at anyone in particular, but is sort of a "for future reference" post that I just hadn't thought to make before.

In which I am a delicate flower about spoilers

I have a ridiculously low spoiler threshold. I'm one of those people that doesn't like to read book reviews until after I've read the book. I treasure the shock or the gradual build-up of discovering things on my own. In general, I don't want to know if character X ever reappears on the show, or that A and B hook up down the road, or that Childhood Issue #2 is a major theme of the whole show.

I had the luxury of watching BtVS almost spoiler-free; I'd never seen so much as a clip before I started, and although while watching the show I stumbled across some things online I didn't want to know, there was a whole lot I had no warning for. For example: the entire Spike/Buffy ship. As in, I had no idea it was going to happen. (It was a very nice rock I'd been living under. Quite cozy.) Thus every step along the way - Crush, Intervention, The Gift, After Life - was gloriously uncertain.

While I don't have that same luxury with the shows I'm watching now because I know stuff via fandom osmosis, I still want to form my own opinions of characterization and arc execution and so forth, and it's easiest for me to do if I have as little idea as possible about what's coming.

I definitely don't want this to discourage commentary on my TV posts, because I love hearing from you guys! Sharing my reactions with all of you is at least half the fun. I just wanted to give a general head's-up about where I'm coming from and ask that you be gentle with the delicate flower. :)

Disclaimer: this is not directed at anyone in particular, but is sort of a "for future reference" post that I just hadn't thought to make before.

SPN: Hooked and Bugs

* I'm continually confused by the fact that this show has no opening credit sequence. I wait for it, and it never comes.

* Are Sam and Dean Winchester the manliest manly names you have ever heard, or what? Dude, they're named after a rifle.

* It makes sense that, if you were going to spend as much time in your car as Dean Winchester does in his, you'd have one you liked really, really well. OTOH, if you were going to spend that much time in your car, seems like you might want a more fuel-efficient one.

* Sam and Dean are - or at least appear very convincingly to be - marvelously well socialized and socially adapted, considering they apparently spent their entire childhoods on the road killing monsters. Realistically, I'd expect more awkwardness and much less cool factor. Although, they must have gone to school at some point, right? Otherwise Sam wouldn't have been able to get that full ride scholarship.

* When it comes right down to it, I'm a lot more interested in monsters than spirits. It's too easy for the writers to wave their hands and make "spirits" do whatever the writers want them to do with only the barest minimum of justification. And yet all such spirits are disappointingly similar.

( Hitchcock did it better with birds )

SPN: Hooked and Bugs

* I'm continually confused by the fact that this show has no opening credit sequence. I wait for it, and it never comes.

* Are Sam and Dean Winchester the manliest manly names you have ever heard, or what? Dude, they're named after a rifle.

* It makes sense that, if you were going to spend as much time in your car as Dean Winchester does in his, you'd have one you liked really, really well. OTOH, if you were going to spend that much time in your car, seems like you might want a more fuel-efficient one.

* Sam and Dean are - or at least appear very convincingly to be - marvelously well socialized and socially adapted, considering they apparently spent their entire childhoods on the road killing monsters. Realistically, I'd expect more awkwardness and much less cool factor. Although, they must have gone to school at some point, right? Otherwise Sam wouldn't have been able to get that full ride scholarship.

* When it comes right down to it, I'm a lot more interested in monsters than spirits. It's too easy for the writers to wave their hands and make "spirits" do whatever the writers want them to do with only the barest minimum of justification. And yet all such spirits are disappointingly similar.

( Hitchcock did it better with birds )

FIC: Ritual

So, uh, I wrote SPN fic? When I should have been working on the seasonal_spuffy story instead? Oops?

Ritual
Dean, general S1 spoilers, 150 words

( It’s a rule Dean has: wash your hands at the sink farthest from the door. )

FIC: Ritual

So, uh, I wrote SPN fic? When I should have been working on the seasonal_spuffy story instead? Oops?

Ritual
Dean, general S1 spoilers, 150 words

( It’s a rule Dean has: wash your hands at the sink farthest from the door. )