I'd suggest no spoilery film talk, not even whitefonted, in the main FF thread.
For how long? A couple months?
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§ ita § - Sep 28, 2005 4:09:27 am PDT #5663 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Topic!Cindy - Sep 28, 2005 4:17:34 am PDT #5664 of 10001
What is even happening?
Is the film being released world-wide at the same time? That is, will people like Nilly, billytea, and Madrigal be able to see it soon? What about the UK Buffistas? Continental Buffistas?
§ ita § - Sep 28, 2005 4:22:39 am PDT #5665 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
DebetEsse - Sep 28, 2005 4:31:01 am PDT #5666 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Is there a particular reason not to make the thread blackfont and just expect people who don't want to be spoiled unsub until they've seen it, as with aired tv?
§ ita § - Sep 28, 2005 4:37:25 am PDT #5667 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Well, I mean, because ...
Okay, I got nothing.
Makes sense. There may be a sense of dislocation for people who want to talk about going to see the movie (as opposed to having seen it), but it does make sense.
Jon B. - Sep 28, 2005 4:46:12 am PDT #5668 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
How about, as a compromise for the main FF thread, two weeks of no spoilery movie talk, and then all-black-font-anything-goes?
For those two weeks, movie talk goes in the spoiler thread.
Jars - Sep 28, 2005 4:49:21 am PDT #5669 of 10001
two weeks of no spoilery movie talk, and then all-black-font-anything-goes?
Two weeks after US release or two weeks after international release? I've seen the movie, so don't really mind one way or the other, but if I hadn't, I might. I unsubbed from Spoilers until I'd seen it, but I still wanted to talk about the show, so it was nice to have the main thread to do that.
Jon B. - Sep 28, 2005 4:57:54 am PDT #5670 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
For clarity, let's say Blackfont beginning on Oct. 17. Nothing in the main thread prior to that date. That gives (most) folks two or three weekends to see it.
§ ita § - Sep 28, 2005 5:07:22 am PDT #5671 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
There isn't one date for the international release -- an arbitrary date like Jon suggests looks like a good idea.
Frankenbuddha - Sep 28, 2005 5:13:29 am PDT #5672 of 10001
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For clarity, let's say Blackfont beginning on Oct. 17. Nothing in the main thread prior to that date. That gives (most) folks two or three weekends to see it.
This sounds good to me. Nothing's going to be perfect, and we have had NAFDA rules in place for a while. We whitefonted in the LOTR threads until at least two weeks after the movies came out, right? And if we'd bothered to create a LOTR spoilers thread, the above probably would have been the course.