For me, I think it depends. For example, if it’s part of a series in which I saw/read the first one, but have no intention of continuing with the series, I don’t mind if later plot points are spoiled.
Have I mentioned that I hate the whole dTV thing? Yes, I realize that in theory this was supposed to make our TV service better. In practice, however, that isn’t what happened, at least in my case. I don’t have cable, nor do I have a fancy TV. In fact, my TV is several years old and not a flat screen type thing. So when the dTV change happened, I had to get one of those converter boxes and I now get even fewer channels then I did before.
I suppose this is no biggie, since I seem to have a hard time remembering when a show I want to watch airs (for example, it’s not unheard of for me to realize at 9:00 one night “oh shit, such and such a show was on at 8!”) and I end up waiting for it to come out on DVD anyway.
That’s kinda what happened in the case of Pushing Daises: I watched some episodes while the show was still being aired on TV, but some weeks totally forgot to watch it until after that week’s episode was over. I thus found myself renting the DVD so I could watch what I missed.
Some thoughts:
As I’ve mentioned multiple times now, I’ve been watching old TV shows on DVD. I guess the term “old” is relative; I’m mostly watching shows from the 1990s and early 2000s, which I guess isn’t old in the grand scheme of things, but in any case, I’ve been making a point of watching shows that are no longer on the air.
I recently finished watching Wonderfalls. If you’ve never seen the show, the basic premise is that this under-achieving, college educated 20-something who works retail starts having inanimate speak to her and instruct her to help people. What’s kind of funny is that Jewel Staite guest starred on several episodes, and I spent every episode she was on staring at her wondering why she looked so familier. It wasn’t until I looked her up on imdb that I realized she looked familier because I’d seen her on Firefly.
After finishing Wonderfalls, I started on Tru Calling, which I’ve already talked some about and am still working on watching. Up next? Pushing Daises. Yes, I’ve managed to go from watching a show in which the main character talks to inanimate objects to a show in which the main character talks to dead people to a show in which the main character can bring dead people back to life long enough to solve the mystery surround their death. No, I didn’t plan it this way. Yes, I can see how my propensity for TV shows of this nature is perhaps morbid. Besides the unlikely communication between living people and things that normally wouldn’t be able to talk (inanimate objects + corpses), the one thing all three shows have in common is that that main character begins to help people due to this unlikely communication.
One of the things I’ve discovered about DW is the "Choose random icon" option, which pretty much does exactly what it sounds like. It amuses me.
But anyway! As I’ve said, I’ve been watching tons of TV series on DVD lately, and right now I’m working on Tru Calling. While I’m only a few episodes in, it seems like all the episodes follow the same basic formula:
Oh, and she does all this while simultaneously trying to save various friends and family members from themselves.
I’ll continue to watch, but this is getting kinda repetitive.
Some background: last year, I “discovered” the Philly Live Arts/Fringe festival. I volunteered as an usher at some Live Arts performances (and thus got to see them for free) and bought tickets for some of the Fringe shows (which were really cheap: I think the most I paid for any one Fringe show was like, $8).
After a super positive experience last year, I’m really looking forward to this years festival. What I like about the live arts/fringe festival is that I get to support local artists (plus artists from elsewhere) put on theatre in both traditional and non-traditional settings. Last year, for example, there was a show that was done in an old swimming pool that had been abandoned. The shows are mostly fairly low budget, but that’s fine by me. I’ll probably volunteer again this year, hopefully with an old friend from high school. I still have to look through the show listings to decide what I want to see…I know I definitely want to see Stew and the Negro Problem with Heidi Rodewald, mostly because of how much I enjoyed Passing Strange.
This is one of the things I’m going to miss when I leave the Philadelphia area. I’m sure during the actual event, there will be a lot of tweeting going on.
Sue. 20-something. Unemployed bum. Philadelphian.Plans on attending graduate school and hopes to be a librarian. Likes reading, blogging, sleep, dreaming, knitting, crocheting, performing arts, zines, journalling, feminism, collecting quotes etc. Welcome inside my head. Got a question? Ask it.
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