OK, we're in the Second Millennium, the Twentyfirst Century and we've just escaped from the Decade With No Name (Naughties, Oughties, Zeroes) and 2010 is a good place to kick off the new Dr Who.

But whoever puts together the trailers is spoiling a great deal of the pleasure by giving away the shock moments, what the monsters look like (new ones tend to have severe dental problems) etc etc OK I should "look away from the screen now" but that's not easy when loving pooch is piled up on top of me on the sofa.

Film trailers have to be fairly lengthy to get film audiences to come back and pay again. All TV audiences have to do is remember that today's Saturday and let's see the latest starting time for BBC's notoriously difficult-to-follow Saturday evening schedules.

So - a trailer is nice but this year the BBC has gone mad. They put a Graham Norton ribbon across a Who episode climax and have now given away practically the whole plot for the vampires in Venice.

Couldn't you leave us with a little bit of each episode to discover, please BBC? (No use writing to them about this, as the taxpayer would have to pay for the BBC to put a Europe stamp on its standard reply letter saying that suspense is bad for people.)
Last edited by Dorabella14 : 08-05-2010 at 10:59

The title gives away almost as much as the trailer does, from the trailer you don't know much more of the plot than there are Vampires in Venice.

Did we invent Vampires in Venice or something?

I just thought that the promo trailer went on too long, last week. I'm not too worried about what it gives away though, they're just snapshots really and don't give away too much of what the story will actually be like.

unless you have seen the episode how can you possibly claim to know they have given away the "whole plot"?

indeed, and from what i understand

You may have a point about the trailers, some of them do seem to be giving a way a touch too much, but to be honest, you could learn most of what's happening simply by coming on this forum. Speculation is a wonderful thing but I tend to keep away from the threads that appear to be giving away or correctly guessing or not, what is going to happen later on in the series. I prefer to be surprised and find out for myself.

Yes I know the spoilers are blanked out, was more referring to the thread titles!

OK, I'll modify it a bit. seeing too many visuals is also - for me - giving away too much.

Never mind the plot, just no surprises left. And you knew they weren't vampires - chewing gum teeth were wrong, and Who has done vampires before.

They definitely give away far too much and seem to go on for quite a long time. I don't know why? Doctor Who fans are going to come back next week, it's not like you need to tempt them.

I thought the one for Amy's Choice did give away too much, because the plot of that one seems pretty obvious; I hope they throw a few curveballs at us.

With trailers, I believe less is more. Personally I think they could get away with very short trailer with no more than one or two key scenes.

Given the way that this series many of the episodes lead into each other with a hanging scene at the end of the episode the trailers could be done away with entirely!

There have been a few times this series where I felt the trailers have been a little too long and revealed either a little too much of the plot or too many of the highlights. However there have been worse ones in previous series.

CE's series was particularly bad for over-revealing trailers. The trailer for Bad Wolf revealed almost the entire plot. Revealing the motorway chase sequence from the runaway bride at the concert was tantamount to opening your Christmas presents early (whilst it didn't reveal the plot, that sequence was a major highlight in the episode and arguably a classic sequence in DW, but its impact on Christmas Day was significantly reduced by the fact that everyone had seen it, talked about it, etc. by then...)

Matthew

I definitely think the trailer for next week's episode was too long... however it certainly got me looking forward to the episode and by the time Saturday comes round I'll have forgotten half the things in the trailer anyway. Except for Rory's comedy hair