spoilers, emails, and books

[deird_lj]

Three mini-posts on completely unrelated topics:


I've looked at a bunch of entries on TV Tropes recently, and have noticed that really, quite often, their spoiler text is almost useless.

Firstly, you've got all the people who talk about:
"When Buffy staked a really mean vampire with Mr Pointy, and then ran off to Spike's crypt to have sex with him."
...and put entirely the wrong bits in spoilers.

And then there's the bits where it's done correctly, but someone else then comes and comments on that bit, and leaves the spoilers out in broad daylight, like this:
-"I cried so much when Buffy had to kill Angel at the end of season 2."
---"THIS! I got so teary! And the bit where Buffy sticks a sword right into his chest, and all the music swells up, and then Angel gets sucked into hell! I BAWLED!"

But the worst ones are when the spoilers are given away just by how long the white bit is. For instance:
"That episode where there weren't sure whether the werewolf was Larry or Oz, and then it turned out to be Oz."

So very frustrating...




I currently have front-row seats for some business executives being breathtakingly rude, through a series of increasingly nasty emails.

It's fantastic, really, because every time a new email gets sent it's getting ruder and ruder, but it's all happening in very formal business language (like in Yes Minister: "With the greatest possible respect, Minister, but your proposed course of action is a little unwise." instead of "You stupid bastard! That's such a dumb idea!"), and it just makes me crack up laughing...




snowpuppies has now (unintentionally) got me reading all the Discworld novels, in order.

This is a new experience for me.

Oh, not reading them. I've read them all before. But I've never read them in order.
And I haven't read the first few for years.

It's quite interesting seeing how very different the first couple of books are (Death being nasty! The Patrician saying "thee"! The Broken Drum!).

I also found it quite bizarre opening up The Light Fantastic, purely because, on page 12, it introduces the current Chancellor of Unseen University... and his name is Galder Weatherwax.
I'd never actually noticed that before.

Comments

[stormwreath.livejournal.com]

Oh! Also, just remembered. There's a scene in 'Lords and Ladies' where Granny Weatherwax tels Ridcully that Galder Weatherwax was a distant cousin. Yay for continuity. :-)