According to Kristin over at E!, Damon and Carlton want ABC to withhold the usual tidal wave of promotional materials for LOST’s sixth season premiere. How much do they want ABC to withhold? How about all of it. Read on.
I’m hearing from Lost sources that every single shot of the first few episodes are so revealing that the producers have convinced ABC to NOT SHOW A SINGLE FRAME before the new season airs. No promo scenes, no photos, no nada! So you will be completely in the dark, but it is for good reason: The twists they’re planning are so good, you will WANT to be surprised. Trust me. Your mind gonna go kaplewey.
I cant imagine Kristin mis-conceiving the mind set of the spoiler-scene, but… really? Not being a spoiler maniac myself I still cannot recall something that was spoiled that I wish wasn’t. To me it’s like those studies where they say that kids who ate goat cheese have higher IQs. Would you have to know the exact IQ of a particular kid without eating goat cheese, then turn the frozen donkey wheel 1/16th of a turn, catch a flight from Tunisia to the kid’s house, stock his fridge with… you get the point.
All humorless tirades aside… no promo scenes? No photos! No NADA!? Maybe she meant… no Nadia. Seriously, if the queen of all spoilerdom is saying the premiere is best left unspoiled is it finally time for all the spoiler freaks to chill out? Are you convinced? My gut tells me that ABC is not going to go along with a request to NOT publicize the show, but what do they have to lose at this point… really?
Source: E!
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My guess is that we’re going to still see our regular promos, but now instead of giving us some new scenes, they’ll be completely old material from previous seasons. Kinda sad if you ask me. While I’m not a fan of huge spoilers, I love promos and photos.
Well, if they want to ban the promos to the last minute, then they better do something about all those spoiler shots and info leaking all over the web!!!
I think it’s a good idea (I don’t really look at spoilers). I just can’t help but think about a reset scheme if they asked for this though.
I agree with the Doc – LOST is ABC’s biggest thing going right now. To have a relative promotional black-out would be almost unheard of. I try to stay away from spoilers, but I often read casting news, etc. I’m actually kind of glad, it’s just another way to keep my hand out of the cookie jar, so to speak.
They could still do promos, just not ones that feature any new footage. Like the one that aired after the season 5 finale.
They have plenty of footage to use in promos. I would say Season 1 can be utilized here…
Yeah, I’m sure they’ll use previous season footage. I don’t really think it matters what they use, but I would guess a lot of it would be stuff from “The Incident.” It’s really the only thing they can show to both promote the season and not give anything away.
Yes! This is what I was hoping for! For spoiler addicts, I’m sure there will still be spoilers, but for something like the last season of the show I think they should, officially, keep it totally secret til it airs.
It kind of makes sense. Apparently a single frame will confirm whether the timeline was changed or not and thereby bust last season’s cliffhanger. Well, for the regular viewers who don’t go to spoiler sites anyway.
I would think they need to keep everything out of the public eye (at least officially) because the big cliffhanger question (“Did they change the past?”) would be cleared up when you see a promo picture of the cast at LAX, or a small advertisement with Jack/Kate/Sawyer standing around the Swan construction area post-Jughead. (Though i don’t image they’d be standing after being so close to a recently detonated hydrogen bomb, but still) Pretty much any kind of footage would resolve that question, and i can understand why they’d want to keep things under wraps.
Excellent news! I managed to avoid promos leading up to Season 5, this will make doing so easier.
That’s an amazing news
I hate promos because they’re full of spoilers!
what are you complaining about doc? the official abc promos and publicity releases are always stupid and needlessly spoilerish. if you want spoilers, they will be on darkufo. this is the best possible thing the producers could do for fans. if we dont want to be spoiled, we can watch tv with a clean conscience.
Best news I’ve ever read on this site.
there is more than enough footage from the last episodes of season 5 alone to make dozens of promos. For the fans who watch the show it will just remind us of the cliffhangers for the people who don’t watch the show they will have no idea it is footage from last year
Can’t they just promote it using only footage from the first 5 seasons? of just do short promos that say “Lost, The Final Season”. They could do alot of promotion without using new footage. That seems the best route.
Absolutely love this news. I really have no idea what happened at the flash and I want it to stay that way until I’m able to sit back in my room and watch the season 6 premiere with a big bowl of popcorn. It would be really hard for them to make a promo with new footage that doesn’t give away something big.
Spoilerpeople get their info from other sources anyway, there is no need for ABC to ruin the experience of watching season 6 for the rest of us that can’t stand spoilers.
When I read this I am SO glad that I decided to be totally spoilerfree this season. I am convinced it will make the show so much more awesome. Because I can remember my experiences from the first 3 seasons, when I was also totally spoilerfree. But then again, when I got into light spoilers the past few seasons, that was great too because then I had something to contemplate about, how that was going to end up in the show. But my biggest disappointments are also tied to spoilers: I got my hopes up for certain scenes and plot twists, and then the actual scenes didn’t live up at my expectations. That was especially the case in season 5, where I expected much more about the Dharma story line.
(sorry, I’m Dutch and it’s quite difficult in this particular case to explain myself in English)
I agree with you Anita, and in my opinion ABC did just that in season 5: spoil the fun for everyone. Teasers are meant to be just that: teasers, not episode summaries beforehand. I think some of the episodes were so badly reviewed because all the great parts were allready spoiled in the previews and promo’s, so the episodes couldn’t deliver something new.
I agree. The previews from S5 revealed too much. That’s why I’m not going to watch the previews this season regardless of ABC’s decision.
That is also my tactic
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