Buffy 4: Grr. Arrgh.
This is where we talk about Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No spoilers though?if you post one by accident, an admin will delete it. This thread is NO LONGER NAFDA. Please don't discuss current Angel events here.
I think it really doesn't matter a whole lot whether your prefer spoiled or unspoiled. I tend to avoid spoilers because I enjoy the first experience of seeing what happens. But then I also always enjoy an episode more the second time I see it--which at that point I'm totally spoiled, having already seen it once. Yet it works better and has more resonance for me that second time.
So I guess I avoid spoilers mostly because I know that I'll get to see it spoiled later. But I'll only get to be surprised by it once.
Seekret message for Hec
suck my soft-pac, bucko.
Heeee! I'm all chuffed, I am!
(Sudden image of a pullstring Talking Husband of Reason Doll that says just that.)
I understand the frustration of a creator and the spoiler conflict. But I don't think that making the unpure ones out to be the second coming of the hellmouth is the way to go. It's all a matter of preference...the unspoiled are very clear about their wishes and the spoiled respects them. It just makes me sad that Joss finds the people who go with the option to spoil not a real audience or something. Cause that is what I got out of it.
I seem to have missed these discussions. I feel cleaner for it.
Victor, you are Plei's psychic twin right? I'm not mis-remembering? You may be greatful the link wasn't working that....
perplexed as to what length of time should go here. Week, month, eon?
Victor, you are Plei's psychic twin right? I'm not mis-remembering? You may be greatful the link wasn't working that....
I did not speak of it in depth so much as mention that there were a couple of times where I was picking up a disturbing, almost sexual, vibe between them. (This was in S3)
It's not my fault that ME decided Connorcest was the new black this past season. (Scrubs brain)
Victor, you are Plei's psychic twin right? I'm not mis-remembering? You may be greatful the link wasn't working that....
She got the fanfic side of the brain, evidently. I write "Spec scripts," which are different only in that there's less gay sex and I can make believe that I can someday make money off of them.
On the whole, it's a dodgy trade off.
She got the fanfic side of the brain, evidently. I write "Spec scripts," which are different only in that there's less gay sex and I can make believe that I can someday make money off of them.
Feh. I can change the names and details and sell 'em as porn.
(Though, sadly, there's been more Het!YAY! than Ho!YAY! in my writing.)
Feh. I can change the names and details and sell 'em as porn.
True, true.
(Though, sadly, there's been more Het!YAY! than Ho!YAY! in my writing.)
Speaking of which, do you think post-Hellmouth!Buffy would work the same with Wes?
Miss Vanna, are you referring to something other than that Joss post? Because I have to say, I don't really see any put-down of people who are into spoilers in it. If anything, I think he's poking fun at people who are real spoiler-phobes.
We've got all kinds around here, for sure. Hell, some of my favorite people are spoiled!
Speaking of which, do you think post-Hellmouth!Buffy would work the same with Wes?
Oh, hell yeah. I can think of about a zillion new plot bunnies.
They've both managed to integrate the darker parts of themselves into who they are as a whole, and have come out of their brushes with acute alienation and betrayal (and hot sex with the evil people) stronger than before, but without completely losing the parts that made them decent people. (insert random compare/contrast with the way that they came to terms with their feelings for Spike/Lilah here)
