I’m sitting here watching Blink, my favorite episode of the third season of Doctor Who. Now, bear in mind I’ve already seen it, but I’m up for watching it again and again because it’s just that good. And I got to thinking: I loved Love & Monsters last season. Both of these episodes had very minimal involvement from David Tennant, and Blink just won the poll for the season’s scariest monsters (quite rightly, I gotta say). L&M was a little bit less acclaimed. But…why didn’t anyone think of doing a full 2009 season along the lines of these episodes? Or maybe even have full involvement with whoever’s playing the companion – Freema or Catherine or whoever’s there – and do a bit of a “looking for the Doctor” season. If David can only be fully involved for three episodes or whatever, have that cap off the season.
The precedent’s already been set, why not?
Oh, and Sci-Fi’s “next week” promos = teh suck. Just give the whole freakin’ plot away, why don’t you? Jeez guys. I can still do promos, ya know. Call me.
That’s nothing…you should see some of the MOVIE trailers I’ve seen over the last six months…
The Last Mimzy
Ocean’s 13
Firehouse Dog
…the last especially gave away too much of the movie’s plot. But don’t take my word for it. My mother often says as much when she goes to the movies with me (which is admittedly not too often, and only if it’s an animated film e.g. Pixar, Dreamworks, etc.).
What other movies and/or TV series give too much of the plot in their promos?
I’m leaving the door open to anyone…or at least anyone registered on this blog.
I saw Blink for the first time last night. I liked it. A lot. So I rewound the tape and watched it again.
I disagree with you PDF, however. The great thing about Blink and D & M is that there are only two of these types of episodes. If they did a whole series of them then it would diminish the originals. It would be like watching the whole series of, say, Battlestar Galactica in the Blair Witch Project format. It would make the show sucky. I like it when they mix up the visual styles on the show. Keeps it interesting.
Another trailer that gives away too much of the movie’s plot…
Air Bud
….can anyone else think of one?
Here’s a more recent trailer that gives away a lot of the plot:
https://www.ifilm.com/video/2893003/subchannel/movies
…The really galling thing is, I read the story and heard an audio adaptation of it as well. So I caught most of the plot twists.
I know not everyone has read the story…but that’s beside the point.
I tell ya what I used to love. If you have any Babylon 5 box sets, check it out for yourself because they actually included the original PTEN promos on the DVDs. If Warner Bros. seemed to think that a B5 promo was lacking a bit of “oomph”, they’d throw in a shot of G’Kar screaming. Now, never mind that this scream took place in the first season episode Parliament Of Dreams…that scream kept on showing up for AGES. I used to get a big laugh out of it.
Coming up next on a Very Special Episode of Babylon 5….”WAAAAARRRRRGGGHHHHH!” Poor Andreas.