O, you spoilerrific world
Holy carping carp, Internet. I open Google in Firefox and search for a character's name, nothing more, and the preview text for a page that comes up as a result has TWO MAJOR SPOILERS in it. I mean ... I know. The series has been out for a while. I "should" know the major didn't-just-happen-yesterday spoilers already because supposedly just by being in a fandom, I agree to understand that other fans will be careless with their self-control. BUT SRSLY. I am not in this fandom in the sense of participating in it. I have read no forums and interacted with like one fan of the show so far. I've been watching it for less than a month. I have Googled one thing ever in relation to the show. Yeah, okay. It's been running for years and years. But STILL.
I do did not expect to find out one of my new favorite characters, who just showed up in the show, is DEAD (oh, and incidentally, related to a legendary other character in the show, which okay, I admit I already suspected, so who cares about it being revealed within the storyline, right? :P) by using his freaking name (and not even clicking on any of the results links) to test if Google previews still work in Firefox even though they have disappeared in Safari.
Or am I the only person who still thinks that "so-and-so is DEAD" is a major spoiler? What constitutes a spoiler if that isn't one? Someone turning out to be alien royalty sent to take over the planet in a move that will spin a comedy series off in the direction of being a paranormal romantic suspense melodrama? Does the concept of spoilers not EXIST any more? C'MON, UNIVERSE.
Sheeeeeesh. I know. This is totally my fault for not being utterly vigilant at all times against spoilers, as I was in the days of True Spoiler Quarantine between Star Wars movies. I'll just have to increase the strictness of general spoiler procedures from here on out. Can't even Google people's names and glance in passing at the first like 15 words of preview text of their freaking wiki pages until I am fully caught up with a given series in all media which have been released in any language anywhere ever. (Heaven help us if anyone ever invents a freaking time machine.)
I can't, like, expect mildly tech-savvy existing fans of a series who use the same technology I use on a daily basis to maybe put in place a general policy of actually caring about new fans of the series, and to, say, not put spoilers in the first freaking half of the first freaking sentence of a general info page about a given character ... can I, now. Of course not. That would be like expecting people to care about other people enough to not carelessly scatter whole packages of razor blades on the beach where people regularly walk without shoes on, or like expecting people to not build library buildings in a largely 60+ community with a patch of quicksand right at the entrance, or something. It's my own fault if I'm not looking for razor blades and quicksand when I'm thinking about the beach and the library. Because everyone should just know those things exist if they for whatever reason become common practice. Noooo use in thinking it's a reasonable idea for people to just not leave dangerous crap lying around right in the path of people who are extremely vulnerable to it.
Sheesh, I say, again.
/rant off
I do did not expect to find out one of my new favorite characters, who just showed up in the show, is DEAD (oh, and incidentally, related to a legendary other character in the show, which okay, I admit I already suspected, so who cares about it being revealed within the storyline, right? :P) by using his freaking name (and not even clicking on any of the results links) to test if Google previews still work in Firefox even though they have disappeared in Safari.
Or am I the only person who still thinks that "so-and-so is DEAD" is a major spoiler? What constitutes a spoiler if that isn't one? Someone turning out to be alien royalty sent to take over the planet in a move that will spin a comedy series off in the direction of being a paranormal romantic suspense melodrama? Does the concept of spoilers not EXIST any more? C'MON, UNIVERSE.
Sheeeeeesh. I know. This is totally my fault for not being utterly vigilant at all times against spoilers, as I was in the days of True Spoiler Quarantine between Star Wars movies. I'll just have to increase the strictness of general spoiler procedures from here on out. Can't even Google people's names and glance in passing at the first like 15 words of preview text of their freaking wiki pages until I am fully caught up with a given series in all media which have been released in any language anywhere ever. (Heaven help us if anyone ever invents a freaking time machine.)
I can't, like, expect mildly tech-savvy existing fans of a series who use the same technology I use on a daily basis to maybe put in place a general policy of actually caring about new fans of the series, and to, say, not put spoilers in the first freaking half of the first freaking sentence of a general info page about a given character ... can I, now. Of course not. That would be like expecting people to care about other people enough to not carelessly scatter whole packages of razor blades on the beach where people regularly walk without shoes on, or like expecting people to not build library buildings in a largely 60+ community with a patch of quicksand right at the entrance, or something. It's my own fault if I'm not looking for razor blades and quicksand when I'm thinking about the beach and the library. Because everyone should just know those things exist if they for whatever reason become common practice. Noooo use in thinking it's a reasonable idea for people to just not leave dangerous crap lying around right in the path of people who are extremely vulnerable to it.
Sheesh, I say, again.
/rant off