In which I am a delicate flower about spoilers

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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.

Comments

[eilowyn.livejournal.com]

OOh, did I spoil too much about the BSG quadrangle of doom? If so, I'm sorry. I expected that you'd want warning of the frothy, messy soap dish to come. I'll try better next time . . . except you should know that Dean and Castiel TOTALLY HAVE SEX*.





* In the minds of millions of fangirls

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Naw, the quadrangle of doom warning was fine, especially since I didn't know who was in it. :)

Are you a Dean/Cas shipper, too? I'm a little bit disturbed by the unanimity of my flist. (Although so far as I can tell the only other shipping option is the incest, and I'm glad to know that my flist is too sensible for that.)

[eilowyn.livejournal.com]

I'm a Dean/character who I don't want to spoil you about shipper. I adore this character who I don't want to spoil you about. I have too much of an incest squick and too little of a slash gaze to ship any of the three main characters with each other. I just think they're brothers who can't express the fact that they love each other like brothers, and that the angel is their best buddy. That's all. See how careful I'm being? I'm not even putting up any of my SPN icons up to spoil you!

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I have too much of an incest squick and too little of a slash gaze to ship any of the three main characters with each other. I just think they're brothers who can't express the fact that they love each other like brothers, and that the angel is their best buddy.

I hear you. I very much suspect that I will come to exactly your conclusions, and for much the same reasons.

Aw, thank you. :)