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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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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 :-)