Regarding further pics and spoilers

[Tamek]

Wouldn't it be so nice to have a picture of a set, or costumes, or whatever?

Or some more details?

I think it would.

And I think it wouldn't.

For a lot of us, it would set our minds at ease. Others would go off like a pile of fireworks on July fourth.

I'm kind of torn between two frames of mind about this whole thing. I've got nearly a feverish curiosity for more details about the movie, including spoilers, pics, etc...

but on the other hand, I don't want to be spoiled!

Wondering if anyone else feels that same way...

 

[Arlo]

"Spoiler Culture" is the cause of more misplaced angst, anger and paranoia than anything to hit the fandom scene since Greedo shooting first.

Let go of the spoiler mentality, and you'd be amazed how much more at peace with the world you can be.

 

[Tamek]

Greedo shooting first?

He's the lizard guy from star wars right?

 

[johnconner]

Kids these days and their Internets.

Back when I was a kid, all we had were the ads for ST:TMP on the back of comic books, with the whole cast lined up all in a row in little bitty pictures.

These days, you'll be able to see the trailer anytime you want to, spy shots from the set, access to multimedia releases ... hold on, gotta go take some Geritol. Be back later.

 

[Tamek]

johnconner said:
Kids these days and their Internets.

Back when I was a kid, all we had were the ads for ST:TMP on the back of comic books, with the whole cast lined up all in a row in little bitty pictures.

These days, you'll be able to see the trailer anytime you want to, spy shots from the set, access to multimedia releases ... hold on, gotta go take some Geritol. Be back later.

Man I remember when Star Trek the Next Generation came out back in '87...

they had this big thing with honey nut cheerios where they had pics of all the cast members on the boxes...

and that was all there was!

I made my parents buy tons of that stuff and ate 2 bowls a day to make them buy them faster...

 

[Kegek]

If I tune it off and go back to doing whatever it is I do with my life, these blockbusters manage to get made and into picture houses all on their lonesome.

I'm not slavering at the mouth for this picture, but I am curious. Maybe promotion is more intense today than in yesteryear, but the result is the same - we get a movie. Nobody's going to talk about a viral advertising campaign after the movie's been released. Well, almost nobody...

 

[Outpost4]

Back when I was a kid we didn't have spoilers.

Was Spock going to be TMP or not? That was about it.

No idea of the refit. No idea about V'ger. No idea about nuttin'.

It made premier night all the more special.

 

[Tom]

Tamek said:

johnconner said:
Kids these days and their Internets.

Back when I was a kid, all we had were the ads for ST:TMP on the back of comic books, with the whole cast lined up all in a row in little bitty pictures.

These days, you'll be able to see the trailer anytime you want to, spy shots from the set, access to multimedia releases ... hold on, gotta go take some Geritol. Be back later.

Man I remember when Star Trek the Next Generation came out back in '87...

they had this big thing with honey nut cheerios where they had pics of all the cast members on the boxes...

and that was all there was!

I made my parents buy tons of that stuff and ate 2 bowls a day to make them buy them faster...

Starlog baby! could not wait to read the latest on the development on TNG!

 

[Therin of Andor]

Tamek said:
Man I remember when Star Trek the Next Generation came out

My friends and I were in the Australian ads for TNG coming to TV. "They've seen it! They love it!"

 

[Jack Bauer]

Back in the day we just had Starlog andsome fanzines to rely on. We knew jack shit about the movies until we saw the tv ads for the most part. There was a lot less handwringing in those days. At least in public.

 

[seigezunt]

those were the days. Then, if they threw some shit at you in the movie, you'd have more reason to justify why it was OK.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

I remember when Starlog was the main source of information about these things, and I remember figuring out in 1978 that their editorial lead-time was about six weeks - that anything they reported had happened at least six weeks before the magazine was available.

I could also calculate the earliest day I would find the new issue in my area, based on the announced on-sale date.

Obsessive? Who, me?

In 1981 I discovered that the University of Maryland undergraduate library included Daily Variety in its periodicals collection and that if I scanned it carefully I could find out about production dates and casting within a day or two of their occurrence.

I knew who Montalban was and therefore who the villain in the film must be - but "Merritt Buttrick?" "Kirstie Alley?"

I like to know as much as I can as soon as I can. I'm at least as interested by the production details and behind-the-scenes aspects of "Star Trek" as I am by the films and TV shows themselves.

 

[PKTrekGirl]

Kegek said:
If I tune it off and go back to doing whatever it is I do with my life, these blockbusters manage to get made and into picture houses all on their lonesome.

These are exactly my thoughts on the matter.

I know I'm a mod in here...but I have never gotten why people get all worked up and excited about a film when it's still over a year away. I mean - it's a MOVIE, not the birth of a child, 'fer cryin' out loud!

And I'm not a huge spoiler junkie either. Usually, for things I really care about - like Battlestar Galactica or Heroes, for example - I avoid spoilers like the plague.

But this? I'll see them because I have to...but I wouldn't be coming to look for 'em otherwise - not because I don't want to be spoiled, but because frankly, I just don't care that much.

I guess I have low expectations after Nemesis.....and as a result, figure I'll see it when I see it. And no point in getting excited about it until then.

 

[cultcross]

It gives us something to do in the meantime, i guess.

the old folks (sorry, 'wise', not old), will remember the board explosion when we first got this:

Akiraprise should remember anyway

 

[StarMan]

*Screams*

God I hate that pic with a vengeance. When I modded the Enterprise forum I was the only one logged in when that pic was released online.

Oh the humanity.

 

[Mike Have-Not]

^^ I remember the day that pic was posted well. I was logged in at the time. I still have it up on my wall...

I remember the first small, blurry images scanned in. I was comvinced it was a hoax at first. "That's just the Akira class..."

 

[xortex]

It was a hoax. It had to be. Scott Bacula has been relegated to high school theatre productions.

 

[cultcross]

StarMan said:
*Screams*

God I hate that pic with a vengeance. When I modded the Enterprise forum I was the only one logged in when that pic was released online.

Oh the humanity.

I don't envy whoever's modding this forum when the equivalent pic is released for the new film, either

"Welcome to the TrekBBS, you have 475872050 new Private Messages"

 

[Akiraprise]

cultcross said:

Akiraprise should remember anyway

Indeed I do.
"It's an Akira. But it's the Enterprise? WTF?"

The day the new Enterprise for this film is first seen here is going to be one hell of a day, that's for sure.

 

[Duane]

TMP was sorta spoiled for me since the novelization came out before the premiere date. I couldn't stand it and just had to read it. Halfway through I realized that was a big mistake and stopped reading. Then (either on purpose or an accident) I turned to the page where Kirk figured out that V'ger was Voyager.

Still, after I saw the movie I was not entirely certain what had happened to Ilia, Decker and V'ger! For some reason I was dying for V'ger to transmit all the information it had picked up in it's travels, and during it's transformation with Decker I thought that might be happening.