Bah

[prillalar]

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.

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[yonmei.livejournal.com]

I got spoiled for the season finale of 5th-season Buffy three times over, the last time on the day it aired: once by The Scotsman (tedious rag!), once by one of my best friends, and once by an American online magazine that evidently figured no one outside the US was reading it.

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.

[prillalar]

My god, shouted down *three times*? Time to get out the clue bat.

And I know the media is still clueless about spoilers and the international nature of the internet, but I expect more from my flist.

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

but I expect more from my flist.

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.