People are actually abandoning Battlestar Galactica because of some totally out-of-context spoilers that may or may not even be true?

This is sad. And dumb. Sad and dumb. (Kind of like Helo, but not as good-looking.)

I think the Universe just rolled its eyes.

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Ah, fandom.

After last night's spoilerific broadcast of Subject2Discussion, Ron Moore has gone on the SciFi boards and made a fairly reasonable plea for people to stop posting spoilers. Wank ensues. :-)

And, to a certain extent, I think Ron's right. Consider what's already happening as a result of the very sketchy information that KoenigRules revealed last night: There's a lot of people all up in arms and screaming about how shitty the ideas are when the truth of the matter is we have absolutely no context within which to evaluate them. If people were like, "Hmmmm, I wonder how that's going to play out?" rather than, "if this garbage is true, I'm going to have to find something else to watch on Friday nights" (which is an exact quote from Someone), then I don't think it would be such a problem. But I've been giving this a lot of thought, and I'd rather that the spoilers dried up, much as I love being spoiled, than that we spend the next six months engaged in attacks on RDM and the writers because of someone's (mis)interpretation based on very sketchy information.

That said...

The problem ain't the spoilers. It's the wank. And that's caused by people with no brains reading spoilers.

And one final note: I fear very much that the main victim of this whole brouhaha will be Shaun Daily and Subject2Discussion. I suspect that he will find it next to impossible to get any BSG guests in the future, and that's a damn shame.

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