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One of the things that is always interesting to me when I'm prepping source for vids is the ways fannish perception skews things. Usually a ship or a polarizing character, but if you were going by the intensity and volume of the fannish discussions you'd expect them to take up most of the screen time. Except a great deal of the time they really don't. I'm not saying that is a bad thing, taking what speaks to us (in a way we perceive as good or annoying/bad) and running with it is what fandom does, the spark that spawns a thousand fanworks and meta discussions. But it lends a lot of truth to the whole 'what show are you watching, are we watching different shows?' of our discussions. Because, yes, yes we really are. And none of us are watching the same show of the casual viewer.

This post brought to you by there not being nearly as much Spike or Spuffy or related focus in season 7 of Buffy as I assumed there would be going by fannish memory and not having done a rewatch in awhile. No, really. In terms of actual screen time, there's not nearly as much of it as you'd think.