I think casting spoilers for Doctor Who is the fun part. They really pull in some good guest stars and it's fun trying to guess what kind of a role they're going to play.
I started watching Buffy with season 6 and at first I jumped on spoilers like a kid in a candy shop. But once I realized it really was reducing the HSQ moments for me, I tried to stop. I didn't completely succeed. But for season 7 the only real spoilers I remember knowing were for "Chosen." It was a dramatic enough episode that I didn't care that I knew Anya was going to die and that Spike was going up in a blaze of glory. That was stuff that you really didn't need to have spoilers to know, they were more or less givens.
I thought the Torez spoiler was about Spike turning up on Angel, right?
Pretty sure this was it, b/c I'm now vaguely remembering that it was "the Torez spoiler" that led to the creation of the summer casting spoiler rules.
That was one casting spoiler that was hard to miss. Especially if you watched the WB. They were advertising JM's addition to Angel before Buffy was even over.
I'm pretty sure the Torez spoiler was earlier than that
Was it about Spike getting a soul? Because I googled "torez spoiler" and got this WX Buffy thread, which seems to be from S6, around "Wrecked": [link]
From the archive - Nora wondering (in Feb of 02) if the Torez spoiler has happened - and Victor saying that it had not yet.
So - Spike gets a soul? or Buffy dies?
Ha! retro-Buffista expost!
Well, reading further down - it does seem to be about Riley coming back. (Unless people were joking.)
There was a whole Torez spoiler thread, and I am thinking now I remember it being "spoiled for Spike's status". And somehow I associate it with Betsy!
But I do not have the patience to look in the Buffista Attic at WX. Although the 5 minutes I just spent there made me nostalgic.
Was Torez someone here? Or some other site? I totally don't remember, and I was a total spoiler whore, so being spoiled meant nothing to me.
