MAJOR SPOILERS: THEM'S FIGHTIN' WORDS PAHDNER!
POSTED BY: DucesTecum
UPDATED: Sunday, August 14, 2005 09:51
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Originally posted by DucesTecum:
All of you are so sweet and I thank you for your kindness. I don't know why I got so upset about this today, I've known about it for months. Actually, I've been upset about it for months.
I'm going home, drink some beer and watch Firefly.
See, now that's the right way to handle a Friday evening. Can only hope mine turns out the same. :) Tho, truly, I'm very attached to these characters and am not looking forward to losing any of them or dealing with potential sequels without them. It's very sad and it's also hard having a wife who doesn't know this and won't know this going into seeing the BDM.
-Taylor
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River: "So we'll integrate non-progressional evolution theory with God's creation of Eden. Eleven inherent metaphoric parallels already there. Eleven. Important number. Prime number. One goes into the house of eleven eleven times, but always comes out one. Noah's ark is a problem."
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Originally posted by DucesTecum:
All of you are so sweet and I thank you for your kindness. I don't know why I got so upset about this today, I've known about it for months. Actually, I've been upset about it for months.
I'm going home, drink some beer and watch Firefly.
See, now that's the right way to handle a Friday evening. Can only hope mine turns out the same. :) Tho, truly, I'm very attached to these characters and am not looking forward to losing any of them or dealing with potential sequels without them. It's very sad and it's also hard having a wife who doesn't know this and won't know this going into seeing the BDM.
-Taylor
http://norcalriviera.blogspot.com
http://www.cafepress.com/norcalriviera
River: "So we'll integrate non-progressional evolution theory with God's creation of Eden. Eleven inherent metaphoric parallels already there. Eleven. Important number. Prime number. One goes into the house of eleven eleven times, but always comes out one. Noah's ark is a problem."
Taylor it would be a kindness to your wife to give her some kind of warning. A similar incident happened to me years ago when a favorite character of mine was killed on Hill Street Blues and my husband didn't warn me. I was not very happy with him. I don't know really what is the best way to handle it, I only know that at the time I would have preferred a hint, at least, of what was coming.
Also, my fellow coworker and Browncoat has suggested to me that Joss could do prequels and bring back both Wash and Book. I would be so very happy if he did that.
Anyway, thank you for responding and your very kind words.
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Originally posted by DucesTecum:
Taylor it would be a kindness to your wife to give her some kind of warning. A similar incident happened to me years ago when a favorite character of mine was killed on Hill Street Blues and my husband didn't warn me. I was not very happy with him. I don't know really what is the best way to handle it, I only know that at the time I would have preferred a hint, at least, of what was coming.
Well, that gets a might tricky, but for them that think someone might need some "warning" concerning Wash and/or Book's deaths...
Maybe just a subtle "you know, this is a Joss Whedon film, and with his history of killing characters, maybe we should be prepared..."
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Duces, can I add my 2 cents' worth here?
I read ALL the reviews from the first American screenings before going to the second round, so I knew what was coming, and about when. And it STILL shocked the hell out of me. I was caught up in the movie, and then about two seconds before Wash's death, I realized that THIS was IT, and I started squirming back in my seat, unconsciously trying to get further from the screen. And the next few minutes of the movie are pretty hazy in my memory.
But I'm going to go on opening night (hopefully in NC!) and several nights thereafter, at least once a week while it plays.
MAL "You only gotta scare him."
JAYNE "Pain is scary..."
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Boy am I sorry I read this thread. I've been trying to be as spoiler free as I can. So why would I read a thread that said "Major Spoilers"?
The short answer is because I'm an idiot. The long answer will take too long to explain.
But it's my own fault. I just shouldn't have come here.
There was the othe other thread on Zoe and Wash having a baby and I chimed in on that one. But it was theoretical. I was against the idea. Now that I know what I know, I'm all for Zoe having their baby.
I am one depressed Browncoat. Something I really didn't need in my life right now. Anticipating this movie was really keeping me going.
I won't be looking forward to the movie as much, but of course I'll go see it.
It will, however, be with a heavy heart.
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And yet another person has the movie ruined for them.
I know you put SPOILERS in the title, but you also did all the words in capitals (which is shouting) and you didn't differentiate the word spoiler either (like this: Major *SPOILERS*: Them's Fightin' Words Pahdner!)
There a whole board on the official site for discussing the movie with spoilers. On FFF.net there's been a general policy not to have these threads because it's just too easy to wander into them and just a quick glance does serious damage to the integrity of the movie.
It's not just that they know Wash and Book are going to die, it's also they know the other seven aren't. I watched the last ten minutes on the absolute end of my seat, genuinely afraid that Joss was going to have a real Blake's 7 moment and kill everyone off. But anyone who's been spoiled will know that isn't the case.
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As someone who has had the movie severely spoiled for them, let me defend Duces Tecum. Due to the way subject is posted I suppose one could interperet "major spoilers" as the "fightin' words" and not a warning. But I knew what he or she meant. And I read it anyway.
My curiosity got the best of me; I wanted to know what the "fightin' words" were. The first line was about the gross of 80 mil--not a spoiler. The second line was about Zoe and Wash having a baby. I read that thread and it was theoretical. That wasn't a spoiler either.
So I kept reading. It's my fault I did. I was warned.
That's not to say you are wrong about a better way to warn about spoilers or that there is a policy here in FFF.net to not discuss spoilers concerning SERENITY.
But I, for one, knew there would be spoilers in this thread. So I have no one to blame but myself.
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Originally posted by DucesTecum:
Taylor it would be a kindness to your wife to give her some kind of warning. A similar incident happened to me years ago when a favorite character of mine was killed on Hill Street Blues and my husband didn't warn me. I was not very happy with him. I don't know really what is the best way to handle it, I only know that at the time I would have preferred a hint, at least, of what was coming.
Man, I REALLY disagree...I mean first of all, look how upset you are, you've been upset for months?!
Wouldn't you be happier just knowing that those of us who saw the movie LOVED it? Without getting all upset about spoilers?
But secondly, I had been 'warned' before reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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that someone would die, and it ruined the book for me. Every single time someone was missing or sick or injured I would freak out thinking they were about to die. I would have prefered to be completely unspoiled so I only had to cry once.
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(like I did in Half Blood Prince LOL
At any rate, I am very sorry you got spoiled, I beg you to not go around spoiling others.
The movie is incredible, brilliant, and way more than I every expected...you need to experience it for yourself.
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To be clear, I wasn't having a go at DUCESTECUM, I was just suggesting ways that it could have been better put or preferably done elsewhere. There is no set policy on this, it's just been taken as the done thing so we don't put temptation in the path of the weak.
I just think the best thing we who have seen the film can do is to shut up about it until it has gone on wide release. Several people who, even though they have avoided the spoiler threads, have a pretty good idea what is going to happen. There's people going into topics about whether everyone is going to return for the next movie or whether the reavers are just crazy men and going "I've seen the movie but I'm not going to say anything."
You can spoil by inference, you can spoil by not giving answers, you can spoil by all manners of things. I think we who have seen the movie early have a duty to reveal absolutely nothing about it until October.
Then we can dissect like the most eager Igors.
Oh, and you just spoiled Harry Potter for me too. I didn't know what you said in your post (not the hidden bit, the bit above that, I restrained myself from the protected part) was going to happen but now I do. Bah.
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Oh, and you just spoiled Harry Potter for me too. I didn't know what you said in your post (not the hidden bit, the bit above that, I restrained myself from the protected part) was going to happen but now I do. Bah.
But But
HP and the Order of the Phoenix came out two years ago!!!
I was figuring that if people hadn't read it yet then they were never going to.
I'm very sorry I spoiled it for you...I'll go edit the post.
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