by the end of the first season I was so in love with the show that I was totally resistant to changes promised in the TV Times at the start of season two. ...Which taught me a Valuable Lesson about not assuming you're going to hate changes to a show until you've given them a fair chance, and that's stuck with me through all my later fandoms.

I had the same reaction :D I remember swearing that I would never ever again watch the show if the spoilers were true. Luckily the whole thing happened so sneakily in between episodes that I ended up watching the next episode hoping that the spoilers were wrong, and then the next episode just to see what happened to the other characters, and then the next episode... :D