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In short, frankly, I don\u2019t want to have anything spoiled for me anymore.\u00a0 In short, it appears that nobody knows how to put together a preview for anything anymore, without giving something crucial away.<\/p>\n
Case in point, prior to watching the season 2.5 premiere of\u00a0The Walking Dead<\/em>, there was a brief preview montage of what to expect in the next 6-7 episodes.\u00a0 In this montage of visuals, there was a clip of a gold sedan getting flipped over \u2013 this is obviously big, considering the pool of characters in which are capable of driving a motor vehicle is pretty limited to the core cast, meaning someone\u2019s going to be getting seriously hurt.\u00a0 Obviously, it\u2019s absurd to think that nobody\u2019s going to get hurt in a show about annihilation and survival, but knowing in advance that someone is going to get into a car wreck is something I\u2019d rather not be told ahead of time.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Naturally, when I saw a character hopping into a gold sedan, I groaned in my head, knowing that this person was fucked.\u00a0 The circumstances in which it all transpired weren\u2019t spoiled, but I knew it was eventually coming.\u00a0 The entire situation was spoiled in less than one second due to a shitty preview being compiled.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not just The Walking Dead either. \u00a0I\u2019ve pretty much flat-out refused to watch any preview for anything I deem substantially important or promising to my interests.\u00a0 There are some exceptions, like the game\u00a0Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City<\/em>, because it\u2019s not canonical, and no matter that I think it might be a fun game, is still widely a throwaway placeholder until RE6 is released in the fall.\u00a0 But speaking of RE6, I made the mistake of watching the trailer, because my fandom got in the way of my objectivity; and sure as shit, I saw some things I wish I hadn\u2019t.\u00a0 At this point, I can only hope that the time until the fall makes me forget about it, so that I can enjoy it fully when it comes out.<\/p>\n With\u00a0Mass Effect 3<\/em>\u00a0on the horizon, there have been a slew of teasers, trailers, articles and blog posts all over the internet in preparation for the sequel to what I thought has been the greatest game ever.\u00a0 I\u2019m not watching any of it.\u00a0 I saw a teaser way back last year, and was fortunate enough that it was done in a manner that gives nothing away, but sets the scenario up, nothing more.\u00a0 That is all I will watch, as I don\u2019t want any teasers or trailers to spoil anything for me up until its release date.\u00a0 As a fairly regular\u00a0Kotaku<\/em>\u00a0reader, there have been plenty of ME3 posts, to build hype and sell copies, and I\u2019m ignoring them all.\u00a0 I\u2019m even whizzing past the posts as soon as I realize it\u2019s a ME3 post, so that I don\u2019t get sucked into the visuals either.\u00a0 I don\u2019t want to know anything about it until it\u2019s playable for me, I just don\u2019t.<\/p>\n After months of Amazon recommendations, I started reading\u00a0The Hunger Games<\/em>.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t even realize that it\u2019s already practically in post-production for its movie rendition.\u00a0 I am already liking the book, because it makes me think of\u00a0Battle Royale<\/em>, which in turn naturally draws its comps to\u00a0Lord of the Flies,\u00a0<\/em>even if it is a little teen-angsty, but a refreshing story after so much sport and nihilistic reading.\u00a0 So, because I am enjoying the story, I refuse to watch any trailers for the movie, because I simply expect that they\u2019ll give away crucial information to a story in which I haven\u2019t finished yet.\u00a0 When I finish the book, it will be a different story, but until then, all bets are off.<\/p>\n The art of making a good preview is more or less dead.\u00a0 There\u2019s a laundry list of movies that I\u2019ve pretty much not enjoyed or not watched outright, because the preview essentially ruined it.\u00a0 And there are lots of people who mirror my sentiment, or at least attest to movies being completely given away or \u201cthe best parts were in the preview.\u201d<\/p>\n Nothing will be as bad as the preview for Tom Hanks\u2019\u00a0Cast Away,\u00a0<\/em>where they pretty much reveal that he gets off the fucking island, but the point remains, trailers and previews simply give up way too much important information to be worth watching without expecting to have something spoiled in some capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In short, frankly, I don\u2019t want to have anything spoiled for me anymore.\u00a0 In short, it appears that nobody knows how to put together a preview for anything anymore, without giving something crucial away. 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