Dante Posted January 26, 2010 Share Posted January 26, 2010 Okay so you don't want to refresh your memory of the past series also only seven days away to Lost series six. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cube Posted January 26, 2010 Share Posted January 26, 2010 Okay so you don't want to refresh your memory of the past series also only seven days away to Lost series six. It's like the "previously on" bits in Battlestar Galactica, they annoyed me because it basically tells you the plot points that will be expanded on in the episode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashley Posted January 27, 2010 Share Posted January 27, 2010 It's like the "previously on" bits in Battlestar Galactica, they annoyed me because it basically tells you the plot points that will be expanded on in the episode. Yeah they can ruin things at times. The sign of an intellectual show, and audience, is a lack of 'previously on' segments (according to some academic debate). (ignoring sitcoms as they don't tend to because they're usually self-contained anyway) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paj! Posted January 27, 2010 Share Posted January 27, 2010 I agree with BSG, although worse were the unique titles for every episode, giving away CLIPS OF THE EPISODE YOU'RE ABOUT TO WATCH. Why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashley Posted January 27, 2010 Share Posted January 27, 2010 No I enjoyed that because it was unique, plus they were quick flashes (and sometimes used as misdirection). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paj! Posted January 27, 2010 Share Posted January 27, 2010 But, if we're all honest, it would have been better to just not have them. Spoilers are the bane of my life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReZourceman Posted January 27, 2010 Author Share Posted January 27, 2010 Yeah I hated that on the first episode. I was like.... "Whats....oh right last episode...wait...I don't remember...WHAT THE FUCK!!!! I'M JUST ABOUT TO WATCH THE FUCKING EPISODE! IT'S LITERALLY STARTING NOW." FFS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EEVILMURRAY Posted January 27, 2010 Share Posted January 27, 2010 Does the stuff that is said to have happened get explained/happen in future episodes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayseven Posted January 27, 2010 Share Posted January 27, 2010 With BSG I would seriously sit there with my hands over my eyes and wait for the big DRUM when I knew it was safe to look, now. Danté - yes i know it's on soon, yes i know how many seasons there have been. Yes, I don't want to refresh myself. Is that a problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paj! Posted January 27, 2010 Share Posted January 27, 2010 With BSG I would seriously sit there with my hands over my eyes and wait for the big DRUM when I knew it was safe to look, now. Exactly what I did. I just started to rewatch the whole thing, just back onto Season 1, kinda nice now I can see what the titles were, second time around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayseven Posted January 27, 2010 Share Posted January 27, 2010 Yeah I told myself "I'll see them next time around" but, if anything, it'll make it worse surely? First time around the show was doing it on purpose, so in a sense it wasn't spoiling but controlling our emotions/expectations a little more. A second viewing, I'll be like "oh it's that episode with the that and the those and all". Not sure if that's a bad thing. Surely not with BSG anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Odwin Posted January 27, 2010 Share Posted January 27, 2010 "THE DRUMS!" is what the wife and I would shout as we shielded our eyes from the spoilerish BSG intros. I miss BSG. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan_Dare Posted January 27, 2010 Share Posted January 27, 2010 No I enjoyed that because it was unique, plus they were quick flashes (and sometimes used as misdirection). this. Usually, they just gave a sense of 'WTF NO WAI' then later you understood and you were all 'OMG WUT' See? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashley Posted January 27, 2010 Share Posted January 27, 2010 (edited) this. Usually, they just gave a sense of 'WTF NO WAI' then later you understood and you were all 'OMG WUT' See? Yeah what they hell is wrong with you people? Remember how frakkin' secretive they were about what was happening in Season Four? Ron More (Moore?) knows spoilers can ruin the enjoyment. BSG was just updating the old 1950's "Tonight on 'My Mother, the Car'" kind of opening. Its tantalising. I never once thought "oh no I've been spoiled" (and I don't like spoilers either) I was curious about what it meant, what was going to happen (ie how it would lead up to that moment/what would happen after) and whether they were trying to fuck with us. It was a puzzle, a game. And you all just turned away. You bunch of Baltars! -------------------------------------------------------------- Ugly Betty has been cancelled. JLo will be guest starring on How I Met Your Mother. Edited January 27, 2010 by Ashley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paj! Posted January 27, 2010 Share Posted January 27, 2010 What we can't see can't spoil us. So say we all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashley Posted January 27, 2010 Share Posted January 27, 2010 But its not a spoiler! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paj! Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 Well, I get what you're saying (and believe you, since I've seen it), but I'd much rather just NOT know what's coming. Thinking you know what's coming then being outwitted is a joke occasionally, but...no. There's just no risk whatsoever if you cover your eyes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashley Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 No risk? PANSY! :p Normally when I go into a show I'm a blank, in terms of excitement and expectations (unless its a key episode like a finale), but BSG ramped me up straight away. I think we have different definitions of spoiler ^_^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paj! Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 Well no, I understand that it's not going to SPOIL much, and as you and Dan said, is just to get you all like "OMG" beforehand. But I prefer to have no prior knowledge of anything. It's like someone said with the "PREVIOUSLY" bits, any little thing can tell you what's coming up. I'd just rather be completely blank. Plus it's BSG, I don't need to be ramped up, I know it'll be awesome. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 (edited) Smallville "Absolute Justice" Trailer 2 Edited January 28, 2010 by Dante Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paj! Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 Stargirl! My favourite. Smallville's certainly very different to when I last watched it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happenstance Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 I mention this most times when Smallville on the forum but season 8 and 9 are a vast improvement. Its mostly set in Metropolis now, Lois and Clark work in the daily planet and Clark is a superhero now....just not Superman yet but of course that shouldnt really happen until the show finale so it doesnt bother me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashley Posted January 29, 2010 Share Posted January 29, 2010 The character descriptions of the three new characters for the next season of Glee have been released. Guess what?! Stereotypes ahoy! An "out loud and proud' boyfriend for Kurt which I'm guessing means another homoshamer. But I could be wrong. An "Eve Harrington type" to try and steal Rachel's thunder. Hey guess what, creative types are crazy! And also "an R&B singing male black teen" (because all black people sing R&B of course :p) as a potential love interest for Mercedes (because inter-racial relationships are ick :p) But that could be my preconceptions of how horribly stereotyped Glee is creeping in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paj! Posted January 29, 2010 Share Posted January 29, 2010 Fuck that shit! It's so stupid. Just develop the introduced non-main characters. Wait, while you're at it, develop the MAIN CHARACTERS. Kurt, Finn et al are fine, but Mercedes, Artie and...*thinks* Tina? are stupidly undeveloped. Mercedes is written like a main character, but she's so one-note with no backstory/relationship with any of them (unless you count the idiotic story of her not knowing Kurt was gay). Ugh. I hate things you could write better yourself being on TV. I'd rather just have a joke web-series of Sue's Corner (or whatever it's called), since she's the only decent character. In other news; I spied Emma from Glee as the Coat Wench () in HIMYM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashley Posted January 29, 2010 Share Posted January 29, 2010 Its stupid how one-noted the majority of them are. And even the more fleshed out characters are still pretty one-dimensional. Personally I'm curious about the piano player. I hope they make him like Nip/Tuck's Nurse Linda (the show's consultant and an actual nurse who was originally just in the background (to help I presume) but has become a character in her own right). In other television news, Neil Patrick Harris is to be the host of the American version of The Cube, which is apparently a gameshow over here. Never heard of it. So that's now actor, singer, director, gameshow host, broadway star and gay man of the decade. Busy CV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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