Promos and plor spoilers...

[Warped9]

Tonight we get a new Law & Order episode and Jesse L. Martin's last appearance.

The first teaser promos were fine, but the latest ones are giving practically the whole story away.

I've gotten to the point of being thoroughly sick of it. It's a fine balance between piquing interest and spilling the beans and far too often they give too much away. It can even discourage you from seeing a tv show or a movie.

I'd really prefer they tell us less than tell us too much.

*Argh! I misspelled "plot" in the thread title and it won't let me correct it.

 

[Cicero]

Jesse L. Martin is leaving the series? Is there any word of his replacement?

 

[Warped9]

Jesse L. Martin is leaving the series? Is there any word of his replacement?

I believe I read of his replacement somewhere, but now I don't recall.

Martin's departure was revealed quite some time ago actually.

 

[Phillip Culley]

I believe I read of his replacement somewhere, but now I don't recall.

Anthony Anderson, recently of K-Ville and The Shield.

 

[Mr Light]

I never watch promos for TV shows, because they spoil the entire thing. They give away the twist in the final five minutes all the time! Hell, even movie trailers routinely show the ending nowadays. If it's a movie I actually care about, I've learned not to look at the trailer or I'll know the entire frame of the story ahead of time.

 

[Cicero]

^ I still wonder what The Sum of All Fears would have been like to see had the most notable element of the plot not been given away in the trailers. (At least, watching in a large theater packed with only sailors, the carrier attack scene was a scene of true horror (someone actually shouted 'No!' in anguish as the burning carrier was shown in the aftermath of the attack), if deeply unlikely for a number of reasons.)

I believe I read of his replacement somewhere, but now I don't recall.

Anthony Anderson, recently of K-Ville and The Shield.

Thanks.

 

[Kegek]

I never watch promos for TV shows, because they spoil the entire thing.

That's an interesting point. One criticism of The Hudsucker Proxy is that its advertisements prominently displayed something that kind of killed the tension and humour in a long running gag for the first part of the picture. ('You know, for kids!') I saw the film for the first time oblivious to this; but probably would not have found it quite as uproarious had I known.

I recall the much overhyped trailer for Vanishing Point gave away a major twist. Generally I think things like these are a bad idea.

 

[Aragorn]

What if the Terminator 2 promos kept Arnold-as-the-good-guy a secret?

If you go to YouTube and watch the trailers for Office Space, Snake Eyes and Arlington Road, everything is there from start to finish!

 

[Spot's Meow]

I've actually noticed that movie trailers are much worse at this than TV show promos. Maybe it's just the shows I watch, but the TV promos I see for next week's episode are usually really misleading. They will take a quote from one of the actors, or a big fight that's going on, and take it totally out of context so that when you watch the actual episode, you think, "oh, that's all they were yelling about? That's nothing."

An example is Law and Order previews where they have someone sitting in an interrogation room screaming, "YEAH! I DID IT!" and then when you watch the whole episode you realize that he was only saying it to egg on the investigators, like "YEAH! I DID IT! Is that what you want me to say?? Well it's not true." Sometimes the plot they create in the promo is more exciting than the real one.