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[shadowkat]

Concerning the Torchwood Miniseries? Please continue to keep ANYTHING resembling a spoiler beneath a cut. I will not be able to catch this miniseries until July 20th - when it airs on BBCAmerica, and most likely will not watch live. From what I've read in reviews this is a suspenseful miniseries that you do not want to be spoiled for.

Sigh. Might just have to avoid flist for the next two weeks or filter out all the people who are watching Torchwood on flist. Could just do that.

It's highly annoying when this happens. I had to do the same thing with the dang Buffy comic, Retreat, because my comic store didn't get it until this week. Also had to do it with Doctor Who - which is FINALLY being televised here. The Doc Who Xmas Special was horrid by the way, I was bored out of my mind and wrote a post while it played in the background.

Hmmm, wonder if this is how you guys who live outside of the US felt when we discussed tv shows you hadn't gotten yet? Aggravating isn't it? When you finally see the thing everyone is rattling on about, you have to hunt for their reviews of it...which are usually about five to six days ago or weeks or even months. And by the time you want to discuss? They've moved on to the next thing.

While the net has to a degree made this less of a problem - it has only done it for those who actually can download tv shows, comic books,books, or movies from the internet and watch them. Those of us who can't? Are just aggravated. ;-)

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[moscow-watcher.livejournal.com]

Hey,
Why don't you just download?
1 - http://www.mininova.org/tor/2742220
2 - http://www.mininova.org/tor/2744957
3 - http://www.mininova.org/tor/2747725
4 - http://www.mininova.org/tor/2750467
5 - http://www.mininova.org/tor/2752463

[curlymynci.livejournal.com]

It is indeed how it is when stuff is broadcast first in the US. That's why I end up pirating and salving my conscience by buying the DVD later.

You try to avoid the spoilers but they inevitably crop up as a giant picture on the front page of somewhere, or in the comments next to a cut article.

BSG was a sodding nightmare but I managed to make it through intact. Unfortunately every major death in The Wire was wrecked. Thank god Twin Peaks was pre-internet.

Re: Torchwood. Do try hard, because it was a damn great miniseries and would suffer horribly from being ruined like that.

[embers-log.livejournal.com]

Don't worry, I won't spoil you... I'm not sure I'll be able to see it either!

It is frustrating avoiding spoilers, but it is worth it in the end (I was away on a trip to Greece during the final three Buffy S7 shows, and I had warned everyone to not say a word in any email if they wanted to remain my friend!). When I got home, I'd been traveling for 24 straight hours, and first thing I did was rewind the video tape and watch those final three episodes (it was awesome).