The spoiler thing
Mar. 29th, 2011 07:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shapinglightI was thinking about spoilers today. It's a funny thing.
Spoilers within for the eps of SPN (season 1 ep3) and The Good Wife (latter third of season 1) I watched today, and please don't spoiler me for anything further.
Basically, I'm a spoilerphobe, unless I care so much about something that I need to know what happens in order to be able to keep watching.
So far, that's only happened to me once, which was during BtVS season 6. Once we got wind of the AR (which was way earlier in the season than you might think, perhaps when the last but one block of eps - the one that finishes with Normal Again was airing), I knew that from then on I would be spoilered. I hung on to every tiny tidbit that came our way (by our, I mean the Redemptionist side of the fandom), hoping to learn that there'd been a mistake, or Joss had changed his mind, or the person providing the spoilers had exaggerated - whatever. Then, when the AR happened and it was even worse than I feared (though still not as bad as it could have been), I became a full-blown spoilerwhore. Spent the summer once again desperate for spoilers - it was so important to me that Spike should have actively wanted a soul - and after that I had to know beforehand what was going to happen to him right till the end of NFA. Otherwise, I couldn't bring myself to watch.
So far, no other show - not even AtS when Spike wasn't in it - has made me feel that way. In fact, I don't like spoilers at all. They make me quite grumpy. For instance, I've now been so spoilered (inadvertently, but still) for the second season of Dollhouse that I feel like I can't be bothered actually watching it. I already know what all Joss's gotchas! are going to be, so basically what is the point?
One way I can tell whether I really like a show or not is how I feel about spoilers. The more I like it, the less I want them except in the very vaguest terms. Today, I made the mistake of reading the episode summaries on the DVD case for the remaining episodes of The Good Wife season 1- they're only summaries, I thought, the sort of thing you'd find in a TV programming book - only to find they were much, much more spoilery than I like. I feel quite cross now that I already know who is going to win the contest between the Sainted!Alicia and Cary. Buggerit!
As for SPN, I don't know as yet how I stand on that. I don't like it that much (yet), but I also don't want spoilers. That said, I did read the episode summaries on that DVD case and I'm glad I have. If some demon is going to leap out of a mirror and gouge people's eyes out, or someone is going to get their brain eaten by demon worms, I want to know about it, thank you very much, so I can look away now.
The ep I watched today was the one about the drowned boy in the lake, with Amy Acker guest starring. She didn't have much to do except get rescued, much like when she was Fred really. I didn't think it was a very good ep. The plot didn't make much sense to me, but oh well. Early days.
Spoilers within for the eps of SPN (season 1 ep3) and The Good Wife (latter third of season 1) I watched today, and please don't spoiler me for anything further.
Basically, I'm a spoilerphobe, unless I care so much about something that I need to know what happens in order to be able to keep watching.
So far, that's only happened to me once, which was during BtVS season 6. Once we got wind of the AR (which was way earlier in the season than you might think, perhaps when the last but one block of eps - the one that finishes with Normal Again was airing), I knew that from then on I would be spoilered. I hung on to every tiny tidbit that came our way (by our, I mean the Redemptionist side of the fandom), hoping to learn that there'd been a mistake, or Joss had changed his mind, or the person providing the spoilers had exaggerated - whatever. Then, when the AR happened and it was even worse than I feared (though still not as bad as it could have been), I became a full-blown spoilerwhore. Spent the summer once again desperate for spoilers - it was so important to me that Spike should have actively wanted a soul - and after that I had to know beforehand what was going to happen to him right till the end of NFA. Otherwise, I couldn't bring myself to watch.
So far, no other show - not even AtS when Spike wasn't in it - has made me feel that way. In fact, I don't like spoilers at all. They make me quite grumpy. For instance, I've now been so spoilered (inadvertently, but still) for the second season of Dollhouse that I feel like I can't be bothered actually watching it. I already know what all Joss's gotchas! are going to be, so basically what is the point?
One way I can tell whether I really like a show or not is how I feel about spoilers. The more I like it, the less I want them except in the very vaguest terms. Today, I made the mistake of reading the episode summaries on the DVD case for the remaining episodes of The Good Wife season 1- they're only summaries, I thought, the sort of thing you'd find in a TV programming book - only to find they were much, much more spoilery than I like. I feel quite cross now that I already know who is going to win the contest between the Sainted!Alicia and Cary. Buggerit!
As for SPN, I don't know as yet how I stand on that. I don't like it that much (yet), but I also don't want spoilers. That said, I did read the episode summaries on that DVD case and I'm glad I have. If some demon is going to leap out of a mirror and gouge people's eyes out, or someone is going to get their brain eaten by demon worms, I want to know about it, thank you very much, so I can look away now.
The ep I watched today was the one about the drowned boy in the lake, with Amy Acker guest starring. She didn't have much to do except get rescued, much like when she was Fred really. I didn't think it was a very good ep. The plot didn't make much sense to me, but oh well. Early days.