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(09) being unspoiled
Nov. 9th, 2009 02:13 pmWay back when it was still possible to be blindsided by spoilers for the Harry Potter books, I was pretty adamant about avoiding places and people who were likely to post them, not necessarily because they were all indiscreet or likely to post spoilers without proper warning, but because I am really bad at resisting the temptation to peek when I know the information is out there, waiting patiently for me to click that cut tag.
Now, I'm not so vigilant as I used to be, and so I end up being spoiled on a regular basis for things that I'd honestly rather be unspoiled for. Bits and pieces of unpublished books, when all I want is a publication date. Information on upcoming TV episodes, when all I was really looking for was commentary on the currently-aired ones. (God, television without pity is particularly bad for this; I don't know why there's a certain brand of dumbass in the world who willfully refuses to understand that information about future episodes should be kept off forum threads for already-aired episodes, but this is undeniably true.) And so I'm frequently accidentally spoiled when I had no intention of being so, and equally frequently unable to resist the lure of shiny new spoilers even though I know that I'm happiest when I know nothing of what's going to happen, and with TV, it's often worse because what I watch is mostly unavailable on my cable-free sets, and so I have to wait till the next day to watch a show I love. And in the meantime, of course, there's suddenly a flood of spoilers to avoid, spoilers that are technically no longer spoilers at all for anyone but pitiful lo-fi specimens like me.
Mad Men is one of those shows, for sure, that I wind up being spoiled for almost every week. I love the show, and its internet audience is older and intelligent, and there's so much interesting stuff written about it, and I am completely unable to resist spending Sunday nights and Monday mornings reading up on what people are saying. Most weeks, by the time I finally get to watch on Monday nights, I'm so thoroughly spoiled that it feels as though I'm watching for the second time.
Today, though, I am avoiding all mention of Mad Men, on TwoP and elsewhere, haven't read my friends pages here, haven't logged in to facebook, haven't so much as focused on the home page of TwoP, and I have no idea what's going to happen in this episode (though obviously I have a few guesses), and I know it's going to be amazing, watching it all spool out and no doubt being all electrified by it, just the way I was for the first and second season finales; and I can hardly wait, but I am waiting, and I'm pretty sure it will be worth it.
[Spoiler-free ETA: Oh. My. God. *__________*]
Now, I'm not so vigilant as I used to be, and so I end up being spoiled on a regular basis for things that I'd honestly rather be unspoiled for. Bits and pieces of unpublished books, when all I want is a publication date. Information on upcoming TV episodes, when all I was really looking for was commentary on the currently-aired ones. (God, television without pity is particularly bad for this; I don't know why there's a certain brand of dumbass in the world who willfully refuses to understand that information about future episodes should be kept off forum threads for already-aired episodes, but this is undeniably true.) And so I'm frequently accidentally spoiled when I had no intention of being so, and equally frequently unable to resist the lure of shiny new spoilers even though I know that I'm happiest when I know nothing of what's going to happen, and with TV, it's often worse because what I watch is mostly unavailable on my cable-free sets, and so I have to wait till the next day to watch a show I love. And in the meantime, of course, there's suddenly a flood of spoilers to avoid, spoilers that are technically no longer spoilers at all for anyone but pitiful lo-fi specimens like me.
Mad Men is one of those shows, for sure, that I wind up being spoiled for almost every week. I love the show, and its internet audience is older and intelligent, and there's so much interesting stuff written about it, and I am completely unable to resist spending Sunday nights and Monday mornings reading up on what people are saying. Most weeks, by the time I finally get to watch on Monday nights, I'm so thoroughly spoiled that it feels as though I'm watching for the second time.
Today, though, I am avoiding all mention of Mad Men, on TwoP and elsewhere, haven't read my friends pages here, haven't logged in to facebook, haven't so much as focused on the home page of TwoP, and I have no idea what's going to happen in this episode (though obviously I have a few guesses), and I know it's going to be amazing, watching it all spool out and no doubt being all electrified by it, just the way I was for the first and second season finales; and I can hardly wait, but I am waiting, and I'm pretty sure it will be worth it.
[Spoiler-free ETA: Oh. My. God. *__________*]
