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Skriven 2007-07-13 00:41:35 av Wendy of NJ (2441.babylon5)
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Ärende: Re: BSG preview during Eureka premiere
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On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:40:11 -0000, robin.moss@gmail.com wrote:

>On Jul 12, 1:35 pm, Amy Guskin <aisl...@fjordstone.com> wrote:
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>> > Then in January we get the final 20 episodes of BSG, wherein the fleet
>> > *will* find Earth (according once more to Ron Moore) and the series
>> > will definitively end. <<
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>> Way to spoil the rest of the series for me!
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>> _This_ is why I didn't know for certain what that advert during "Eureka" was
>> all about -- I avoid spoilers like the plague, so I do not read pre-season
>> promo, I don't look up the show on Wikipedia or IMDb.com, I don't read
>> interviews with Moore.  I didn't even know it was the last season of the
show
>> until someone recently posted that here.  I simply saw a commercial during
>> "Eureka," averted my eyes and tried not to pay too close attention to it,
and
>> noticed it was something to do with Cain and the Pegasus.  I'm pleased to
>> know that it _won't_ be the whole season after all, but I'm extremely
>> _displeased_ to know how it's all going to end.  :-(
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>> People, please watch spoilers for things in ANY medium that haven't happened
>> yet!
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>> Amy
>> --
>> "In my line of work you gotta keep repeating things over and over and over
>> again for the truth to sink in, to kinda catapult the propaganda." - George
>> W. Bush, May 24, 2005
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>As Charlie said, I did't really consider that a spoiler. How else
>would the story end, really? It'd be like spoiling Return of the King
>to someone who's read/watched the previous two LOTR books/films by
>saying that Frodo goes to Mount Doom with the Ring. I never thought,
>from the very conception of the series onwards, there was any doubt
>that the fleet would make it to Earth, that being the central crux of
>the story. The important part of the story is how, and when, and what
>happens there, and on the way. Do the Cylons follow them? Or make it
>here before them? What era do they arrive in, past/present/future from
>our perspective? Is it even our Earth?
>And if knowing that this is the last season and the one that's going
>to reach that story conclusion counts as a spoiler, then JMS should
>never have told us how many years the B5 story was going to take. I've
>actually avoided repeating even officially released information on
>Razor and Season 4, to avoid spoilers. Ron Moore obviously didn't
>consider it a spoiler, and the man's surely not going to spoil his own
>story.
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>All that said, I'm sorry if I haved spoiled the BSG experience for
>you, such was not my intent. :(
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Well, they never did get to earth in the original series (despite some
very frustrating close calls), so there weren't any guarantees.
-Wendy
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