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I have never been so spoiled on LJ for a show as I have been for Doctor Who. I don't know why that is. It's not the first time I've been watching a show that aired in Canada a week or two behind wherever it aired first. (We were like that with Angel for a while, IIRC.) I don't even belong to any comms for the show -- this is just my flist.
I realise there has to be some statute of limitations for spoilers else we'd all be cut-tagging "Darth Vader is Luke's father", but I don't think a week and half is too much to ask.
And this isn't directed at any one person since there have been four or five that have spoiled me so far. I even took someone off my flist a few weeks ago because of it.
The audience is so much smaller than for most of the things I'm watching. Is that why, maybe? Less of a "fandom" feeling? Or just the assumption that anyone who is watching is either watching live or not reading LJ until they can d/l the file a few hours later?
Whatever the reason: no love.
I realise there has to be some statute of limitations for spoilers else we'd all be cut-tagging "Darth Vader is Luke's father", but I don't think a week and half is too much to ask.
And this isn't directed at any one person since there have been four or five that have spoiled me so far. I even took someone off my flist a few weeks ago because of it.
The audience is so much smaller than for most of the things I'm watching. Is that why, maybe? Less of a "fandom" feeling? Or just the assumption that anyone who is watching is either watching live or not reading LJ until they can d/l the file a few hours later?
Whatever the reason: no love.
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What? WHAT???????????????????????????????
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Grr!!!
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I got spoiled for the fourth season finale of the West Wing by a couple of Americans who evidently didn't care that people outside the US were reading their blogs.
I remember at a Trek panel at Redemption 2003, an American fan of Buffy was trying to tell us something about an episode of Buffy that had aired in the US but not yet in the UK, and got roared down - a la the crowd roar in The Mikado when Katisha is trying to tell them Nanki-Poo's identity. Rather like Katisha, she had to be yelled down three times before she gave up trying to spoil us.
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And I know the media is still clueless about spoilers and the international nature of the internet, but I expect more from my flist.
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I've learned not to. Fans are clueless too, when they live in the country of origin of the series, and are seeing it on the day it's broadcast (or at worst the next day). This was what I was trying to point out. I was on a mailing list once where I finally had to ask all of the North American fans to put Buffy in the subject line of any e-mail discussing Buffy, because I absolutely did not want spoilers and would rather just not read the e-mails - and several of these fans acted very huffy, as if I were asking for something highly unreasonable.
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And they also spoiled me for Angel right before I could have watched it.
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I'm a spoiler whore
However, before the X-Files episode "SR 819" aired, I'd read the spoilers, but FORGOT what I'd read and was pleasantly surprised that:
[SPOILER for that XF Season 6 episode where Skinner falls ill]
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Krycek was the guy in the wig.
Although I'm still a spoiler whore, I can totally respect that many fans love surprises. And I don't think there should be a statute of limitations on spoilers; fans who haven't been born yet deserve that courtesy.
But yo, for all those moviegoers who haven't read the Narnia books:
Aslan is Jesus.
Don't say I didn't warn ya.
Re: I'm a spoiler whore
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Secondly, by way of possible explanation (since you're not the first person to comment on this) may I suggest that it's because being Brits, and in some cases new to fandom over all, there are a lot of people in the fandom who've not come across the concepts before. It's very, very rare that Britian gets a show which is of international interest *before* the US/Canada. We are training the newbies-- and ourselves, as I know I've occassionally forgotten to cut-tag stuff-- but it takes time.
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Ah, well.
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Throughout the run, I've tried to be very careful about cutting spoilers and marking up their existence properly. Not all of my fellow fans have been that considerate, I suspect in large part because it's so rare for a show with the appeal of Doctor Who to be broadcast in Britain first rather than three months after the rest of the world.
I can only apologise. And hope that you enjoy the episodes anyway.
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I suspect in large part because it's so rare for a show with the appeal of Doctor Who to be broadcast in Britain first rather than three months after the rest of the world.
Interestingly, I've noticed both with Doctor Who and with Battlestar Galactica a bit of an "now the shoe is on the other foot, so suck it up, North America" attitude. Certiainly not from most folks I know, but here and there.
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I've seen that in a few places and it completely confuses me. Um, WTF? Shouldn't my fellow Brits be better than the Americans about spoilers because they get so damned annoyed by it? After all these years, you'd think that would make them more considerate.
But then, I'm ascribing logical thought processes to fandom. Which is, like, totally showing my insanity :-)