Moffat rages at spoiler revealing fans

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"It's heartbreaking in a way because you're trying to tell stories, and stories depend on surprise. So to have some twit who came to a press launch, write up a story in the worst, most ham-fisted English you can imagine, and put it on the internet..The tragedy is you have to work hard at that now. Stories depend on shocking people. Stories are the moments that you didn't see coming, that are what live in you and burn in you forever. If you are denied those, it's vandalism... You can imagine how much I hate them. It's only fans who do this, or they call themselves fans. I wish they could go and be fans of something else."

You can listen to the soundclip here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-13358447

Moffat subsequently had this to say on Twitter:
"Finally heard my own rant. Grumpy sod. And what a boring, inflection free voice! It's like been told off by the shipping forecast."

Thoughts?
 

 

Comments

[resounding-echo.livejournal.com]

I have no problem with spoiler-lovin' fans provided they clearly post spoiler warnings and aren't jerks about it.

HOWEVER I do have a problem with spoiler-lovin' fans who, after learning said spoilers, get months of build-up and then rant that it was "disappointing" or "lack lustre" once the reveal is made in canon. To me its as much as in the telling as to the actual reveal (take the cancelled-and-forever-loose-ends Carnivale as example), so I think spoiler-mongers can't really appreciate the story the way it is intended.