Heh, yeah, I think it does save some (though not as many as you might think; this particular fic got something like 5k cut when my beta told me I had to axe at least one of the characters. She actually wanted me to axe a second character too, but I couldn't bring myself to do that.)
Hee! Excellent, go watch! So I know you said you don't care about spoilers, but I'd still kind of recommend you watch "Skin Deep" before "The Return," because "The Return" is such a brilliant retcon of what happened in "Skin Deep" that it loses some of its impact if you watch it in the other direction. (It's not a plot retcon, it's a character retcon, which is why I'm so insistent on this point.)
The other ones I pointed out you can pretty much watch in any order; you'll be spoiled of course if you watch out of order, but there's nothing that causes a complete shift in how you think about the character like that (except, as I said before, I recommend watching ANY episode before "Desperate Souls").
(OMG this SHOW. Apparently I can talk for hours about it, even though I have ISSUES with it. Well, okay. Partially BECAUSE I have issues with it!)
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Date: 2012-09-21 09:20 pm (UTC)Hee! Excellent, go watch! So I know you said you don't care about spoilers, but I'd still kind of recommend you watch "Skin Deep" before "The Return," because "The Return" is such a brilliant retcon of what happened in "Skin Deep" that it loses some of its impact if you watch it in the other direction. (It's not a plot retcon, it's a character retcon, which is why I'm so insistent on this point.)
The other ones I pointed out you can pretty much watch in any order; you'll be spoiled of course if you watch out of order, but there's nothing that causes a complete shift in how you think about the character like that (except, as I said before, I recommend watching ANY episode before "Desperate Souls").
(OMG this SHOW. Apparently I can talk for hours about it, even though I have ISSUES with it. Well, okay. Partially BECAUSE I have issues with it!)