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As a moderator, Chakoteya, I'll point out that if you don't want to be 'shot down in flames' that you...moderate...your phrasing considerably.
That said, underneath the unfortunate phrasing and spelling, you have some legitimate concerns. In fact, the community discussed spoiler conventions a couple of months ago http://jmsnews.net/forums/showthread...hlight=spoiler and decided how they want to handle spoilers - using blank lines or a difficult to read text color.
"Sites like this" are places where people get together and talk about something of mutual interest and spoilers may well be part of that. Indeed, at the moment we *think* we know something major about he plot of TMoS because of items found having to do with the casting issue. People have been expressing what they hope for from TMoS since long before we knew what the initials stood for. It's pretty much human nature.
Still, I learned something major about my own expectations when watching the B5 movies on DVD not long ago. Each of them is quite different from the usual episodes and on first viewing, I didn't care for them much because of that. Now, watching them for their own sakes, I like them much better. I think that many people expressed something similar about Season 5 - that once they started watching it without the 'baggage' accompanying the fact that Ivanova wasn't there, they liked it much better.
So your warning is timely, Chakoteya. We should be careful not to hang too many of our own hopes and ideas on TMoS before seeing it so that we aren't disappointed by the reality.
Jan
That said, underneath the unfortunate phrasing and spelling, you have some legitimate concerns. In fact, the community discussed spoiler conventions a couple of months ago http://jmsnews.net/forums/showthread...hlight=spoiler and decided how they want to handle spoilers - using blank lines or a difficult to read text color.
"Sites like this" are places where people get together and talk about something of mutual interest and spoilers may well be part of that. Indeed, at the moment we *think* we know something major about he plot of TMoS because of items found having to do with the casting issue. People have been expressing what they hope for from TMoS since long before we knew what the initials stood for. It's pretty much human nature.
Still, I learned something major about my own expectations when watching the B5 movies on DVD not long ago. Each of them is quite different from the usual episodes and on first viewing, I didn't care for them much because of that. Now, watching them for their own sakes, I like them much better. I think that many people expressed something similar about Season 5 - that once they started watching it without the 'baggage' accompanying the fact that Ivanova wasn't there, they liked it much better.
So your warning is timely, Chakoteya. We should be careful not to hang too many of our own hopes and ideas on TMoS before seeing it so that we aren't disappointed by the reality.
Jan
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