I wasn't too pissy about it, but at the time, I put out there the fact that I wasn't spoiled for the bible story it was based on. I mean, hello, not everyone is Christian/went to sunday school, and while yes, I know the 'David and Goliath' story, because how could you not, and "King David" is a term tossed around enough that I can guess that yeah, he's probably going to be king, I didn't know any specifics about how the David and Jonathan story turned out.
Which of course led to a bit of "LOL HOW CAN YOU SPOIL FOR THE BIBLE", but my policy was hey, I can't stop you from doing what you do in your own LJ, obviously, but if you happen to know that in the story that X gets killed by Y, and this is based on that, it would be nice if people at large didn't put OH I WONDER IF JOE BLOE IS GOING TO GET KILLED LIKE HE DID IN THE ORIGINAL STORY outside the cut.
Which... I realize is a losing battle, but it was just a request I had for the length of time that the series was first run. People were also like, "YOU CAN TOTALLY LOOK IT UP WIKI SO IT'S NOT A SPOILER" but I was just like, hey, you can define your shit how ever you want, but in the context of a first run show with limited chances for me to watch unspoiled, it would just be *nice* if y'all gave me a fighting chance not to know where this story is headed.
Which... I got that I was going to be laughed at for even trying, but David and Jonathan isn't "Romeo and Juliet". Not everyone knows how it's gonna turn out, and I wanted to try to watch the show based on that story without knowing who died how and when in the original. And I didn't think that asking my Flist to consider putting the most major spoilers for (yes, commonly know, I know) the source under a cut was too much to ask.
But, yeah. Yay Kings! (which FWIW, is a significant inspiration for the worldbuilding in the originalfic I'm working on right now).
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Which of course led to a bit of "LOL HOW CAN YOU SPOIL FOR THE BIBLE", but my policy was hey, I can't stop you from doing what you do in your own LJ, obviously, but if you happen to know that in the story that X gets killed by Y, and this is based on that, it would be nice if people at large didn't put OH I WONDER IF JOE BLOE IS GOING TO GET KILLED LIKE HE DID IN THE ORIGINAL STORY outside the cut.
Which... I realize is a losing battle, but it was just a request I had for the length of time that the series was first run. People were also like, "YOU CAN TOTALLY LOOK IT UP WIKI SO IT'S NOT A SPOILER" but I was just like, hey, you can define your shit how ever you want, but in the context of a first run show with limited chances for me to watch unspoiled, it would just be *nice* if y'all gave me a fighting chance not to know where this story is headed.
Which... I got that I was going to be laughed at for even trying, but David and Jonathan isn't "Romeo and Juliet". Not everyone knows how it's gonna turn out, and I wanted to try to watch the show based on that story without knowing who died how and when in the original. And I didn't think that asking my Flist to consider putting the most major spoilers for (yes, commonly know, I know) the source under a cut was too much to ask.
But, yeah. Yay Kings! (which FWIW, is a significant inspiration for the worldbuilding in the originalfic I'm working on right now).
Oh, and if you've watched through the pentultimate ep, I've got a postep fic, if you're interested. http://svilleficrecs.livejournal.com/919512.html