Monday, March 26. 2007

a Public Service Announcement for Bloggers Who Mention TV Shows

I have a really big favor to ask: Could you all refrain from putting TV spoilers in your blog posts and titles of blog posts so that those of us who cannot stay up late enough to watch shows in real-time will still enjoy them the next day when we watch them on our PVRs?

This is specifically directed towards Battlestar Galactica, but I can imagine that there are other shows people might be upset about having spoiled as well.

All day going through my Google Reader subscriptions I kept coming across titles and posts saying things like “Frak!,” “Frack!,” “Frakk!,” etc, and I had to work pretty hard to avoid reading anything else in them. This also means that anything insightful that you said about BSG will most likely be lost forever as I’ll never be able to go back and find all those posts again.

Seriously, it’s bad enough that Ron Moore has spoiled some of it for me in his podcast ( and even worse still that SciFi spoiled some of it for those who don’t listen to the podcast ) without having to carefully read through my mountain of blogs to just enjoy the one show I care about.

Thank you.

That is all.

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2007-03-27 01:15
ZorbaTHut said:

My personal media consumption style is that I wait until a series is entirely finished and then watch it. It works great. I’ve no doubt read BSG spoilers, but since I know nothing about any of the characters involved, I don’t remember a thing about it. By the time I get around to watching BSG, nobody will be posting spoilers anymore.

Of course, I end up a bit behind everyone, but my 600-disc-long Netflix queue pretty much guarantees that anyway.

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2007-03-27 04:29
Edward Wolf said:

Just paying a visit. Nice blog.

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2007-03-29 01:49
Chris said:

You too? I’ve been avoiding all references to it as well-I’ve the last 5 shows on DVD all lined up to watch in one hit, and so far I’ve been lucky in avoiding spoilers….

Thanks for visiting Blog-Op BTW. This is a cool blog, I’ll stick it in Google Reader now before I forget :-)

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2007-03-29 20:50
MacBros said:

HA! Suck it up! LOL!

I Posted on the BSG Finale and forgot to put the Spoiler Warning at the beginning. I didn’t realize it till I got flamed. Ooops!

That post is still getting hist from Digg. So it did what I wanted to.

I can’t promise I won’t post about TV shows, but I will try and remember to put the big red Spoiler message in the top of the post though.

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