TV Thread - beware, [expletive] can get spoilery

[Vidor]

Guys,
Don't talk about the books in the TV thread without using spoilers. Especially don't talk about specific characters and where their stories may be heading. It's really easy to use the spoiler tags and if you're unsure how spoilery something is, play it safe and spoiler it anyway.

So are you the one who altered my post without asking me to put spoiler tags in it? If I'd wanted to use spoiler tags, I would have done so. The fact that I didn't was, I would have thought, a pretty clear indication that I did not want to use spoiler tags.

The fact that I added them, I would have thought, is a pretty clear indication that we don't care if you want to use them or not. The majority of the people who watch the show and participate in this thread have not read the books. Common courtesy would dictate that you let them enjoy and discuss the show without having information about the future of characters on that show alluded to, however vaguely you may feel you did so. Considering it takes literally one click of the mouse to put spoiler tags around some text and then one more click of the mouse for someone interested in reading your opinions on the subject to read what you wrote, I don't think it's too much to ask that you respect other people's wishes and use the spoiler tags.

This action was especially odd since I didn't really "spoil" anything. Odder still since the title to this thread says explicitly that it contains "spoilers".

[wart57]

Guys,
Don't talk about the books in the TV thread without using spoilers. Especially don't talk about specific characters and where their stories may be heading. It's really easy to use the spoiler tags and if you're unsure how spoilery something is, play it safe and spoiler it anyway.

So are you the one who altered my post without asking me to put spoiler tags in it? If I'd wanted to use spoiler tags, I would have done so. The fact that I didn't was, I would have thought, a pretty clear indication that I did not want to use spoiler tags.

The fact that I added them, I would have thought, is a pretty clear indication that we don't care if you want to use them or not. The majority of the people who watch the show and participate in this thread have not read the books. Common courtesy would dictate that you let them enjoy and discuss the show without having information about the future of characters on that show alluded to, however vaguely you may feel you did so. Considering it takes literally one click of the mouse to put spoiler tags around some text and then one more click of the mouse for someone interested in reading your opinions on the subject to read what you wrote, I don't think it's too much to ask that you respect other people's wishes and use the spoiler tags.

This action was especially odd since I didn't really "spoil" anything. Odder still since the title to this thread says explicitly that it contains "spoilers".

Now my day is spoiled due to the spoiled bickering by spoiled posters.

[Vidor]

Anyway, getting to other TV shows and writing posts that I hope aren't altered--I don't know how one was supposed to take "Mad Men" but I found Sunday's show depressing. And mildly irritating; it kind of bugs me when Mad Men hits the "men are pigs" button too hard and they were pounding it on Sunday.

[thrill]

This action was especially odd since I didn't really "spoil" anything. Odder still since the title to this thread says explicitly that it contains "spoilers".

Vidor, it's called just being nice. It doesn't take work, it doesn't detract from your post. No content is removed. Just be cool about not ruining things for people. That's all. Geez.

[Jocephus]

do not talk back to our moderator overlords vidor or you will find yourself working in the underground sugar mines.

[heyzeus]

Mad Men blew my mind in an entirely different way this morning too. I don't know how good the episode was, but it was unquestionably important. Wow.

No one else wants to talk about that episode? Man. I do think the out-of-time-sequence of Don and Joan's talk about "the offer" was brilliant and made the whole thing even more gut-punching when you see the look on Don's eyes when she walks into the partner's meeting.

Also, I'm really hoping that we're not gonna miss Peggie's bus.

[longhornbaseball]

So are you the one who altered my post without asking me to put spoiler tags in it? If I'd wanted to use spoiler tags, I would have done so. The fact that I didn't was, I would have thought, a pretty clear indication that I did not want to use spoiler tags.

Wow. I didn't think this post was serious at first.

[Vidor]

Mad Men blew my mind in an entirely different way this morning too. I don't know how good the episode was, but it was unquestionably important. Wow.

No one else wants to talk about that episode?

I do! Real bummer. Don should have been nicer to Peggy. The reviews I've been reading are favorable but I thought the episode was laying it on a little thick--it would be nice if Don weren't the only person at SCDP who wasn't a complete douchebag.

And Peggy will be back one day. Maybe Don will hire her back in Season 6.

[Arthur Dent]

I do think the out-of-time-sequence of Don and Joan's talk about "the offer" was brilliant and made the whole thing even more gut-punching when you see the look on Don's eyes when she walks into the partner's meeting.

I'm probably dense, but what was the reason for showing it twice in close succession?

[Vidor]

I do think the out-of-time-sequence of Don and Joan's talk about "the offer" was brilliant and made the whole thing even more gut-punching when you see the look on Don's eyes when she walks into the partner's meeting.

I'm probably dense, but what was the reason for showing it twice in close succession?

You view it differently the 2nd time on knowing she went through with it.