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snick_backupI 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.
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.
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Date: 2011-03-07 01:02 am (UTC)Man, I was going to warn you against looking at some things, and then I realized that *that* had the potential to be spoilery.
I give up. Gabriel's an angel. His/her/hir/its hair isn't too bad. *g*