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Lame little writer girl
Sep. 10th, 2004 10:43 pmOkay, so I've been thinking about my aversion to spoilers tonight, and came up with one of the major reasons why I don't like them. Whenever I'm invested in something--show, movie, book--I usually approach it with whatever my story for it is. In Star Wars, Harry Potter, and Buffy, I had a Sue-story that ran along with whatever the canon is. I do that the same way as I do COTW; I take what's going on with the show, and twist it to include my characters.
Same with Smallville. When I watch the show, the first thing I'm thinking about is how it's going to fit into my universe. Then, after the show is when I start thinking about the actual episode and my interpretation of events and meta-thoughts. But my original approach is my story.
Spoilers fuck it all up. There's no other way to put it. If I find out in July that Gabrielle Union has been hired to play Mercy, Lex's new body guard and potential love-interest, I'm going to spend until the premier trying to figure out how he can have a girlfriend and still have Clark (obviously, the answer to this would be that Mercy is actually involved with Lex's secretary, Serafina Romano, and Mercy and Lex are only dating to help Lex's image). If I find out that episode 4.3 is about Lex going to Metropolis for new shoes, he'll meet Lewis Lane, who did not die in the meteor shower after all, and that Lionel Luthor gets a new pet hamster, I'm going to try and figure out how it fits into my story.
The problem is, what actually happens onscreen is usually different from the way I thought it was going to be. So now I'm working double time. I've come up with one version of the story, and now I have to come up with another, and still remember the best lines from the first and try to fit them into the next. Plus, it's stressful for me to have to work on incomplete information. Even if it was *complete* information, hearing that there's a scene in which Clark and Lex will finally kiss and seeing it is different. Maybe, I thought they were finally giving into Grand Passion, but it was really a soft, sweet kiss, or a Judas kiss or, worse, I think I'm going to be happy about the kiss until I see it on screen and realize that I'd built it up too big in my mind and it failed to even capture the moment. I cannot tell you how many times I've been excitedly looking forward to something I've spoiled myself on, only to have it not live up to my expectations.
So, there it is. I'm a silly, selfish little writer girl who doesn't want to have her toys fucked up. Because, believe me, when I hear something, I reject it right away, but if I see it, I tend to enjoy it. So, even though I may not be able to buy the fact that Lionel bought a hamster (he's really more of an iguana guy) when I read it, the show might be able to totally sell it. And I just want to experience it for the first time when it's in front of my on screen, in living color.
Same with Smallville. When I watch the show, the first thing I'm thinking about is how it's going to fit into my universe. Then, after the show is when I start thinking about the actual episode and my interpretation of events and meta-thoughts. But my original approach is my story.
Spoilers fuck it all up. There's no other way to put it. If I find out in July that Gabrielle Union has been hired to play Mercy, Lex's new body guard and potential love-interest, I'm going to spend until the premier trying to figure out how he can have a girlfriend and still have Clark (obviously, the answer to this would be that Mercy is actually involved with Lex's secretary, Serafina Romano, and Mercy and Lex are only dating to help Lex's image). If I find out that episode 4.3 is about Lex going to Metropolis for new shoes, he'll meet Lewis Lane, who did not die in the meteor shower after all, and that Lionel Luthor gets a new pet hamster, I'm going to try and figure out how it fits into my story.
The problem is, what actually happens onscreen is usually different from the way I thought it was going to be. So now I'm working double time. I've come up with one version of the story, and now I have to come up with another, and still remember the best lines from the first and try to fit them into the next. Plus, it's stressful for me to have to work on incomplete information. Even if it was *complete* information, hearing that there's a scene in which Clark and Lex will finally kiss and seeing it is different. Maybe, I thought they were finally giving into Grand Passion, but it was really a soft, sweet kiss, or a Judas kiss or, worse, I think I'm going to be happy about the kiss until I see it on screen and realize that I'd built it up too big in my mind and it failed to even capture the moment. I cannot tell you how many times I've been excitedly looking forward to something I've spoiled myself on, only to have it not live up to my expectations.
So, there it is. I'm a silly, selfish little writer girl who doesn't want to have her toys fucked up. Because, believe me, when I hear something, I reject it right away, but if I see it, I tend to enjoy it. So, even though I may not be able to buy the fact that Lionel bought a hamster (he's really more of an iguana guy) when I read it, the show might be able to totally sell it. And I just want to experience it for the first time when it's in front of my on screen, in living color.
