"Previously On" segments do the same thing for me. What's that, you're showing a character who appeared 8 episodes ago and gave an ominous warning? Wonder if THAT will come to fruition this episode?

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

at least those aren’t spoiling anything.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

They basically are. Not as bad as trailers that show Act 3 of a movie, but any fool is going to know that whatever characters or scenes they show are going to re-appear in that episode, and spoil the surprise.

I skip them every chance I get. The same with future episode previews.

[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

I don't mind that since it's just a reminder of things I've already seen. It is wild when they reference things from many episodes or seasons ago, but it's a nice reminder if you're not bingeing the show.

Plus Game of Thrones pulled off the best version of this.

Game of Thrones season 5 spoiler

The season 5 finale has a previously on that includes Uncle Benjen talking to Jon Snow, saying that they'll talk when he returns. A scene that happened at the beginning of season 1.

It's an action packed episode so when we finally get to the end with Jon and he's pulled away with rumors of his Uncle Benjen we're already primed for it. Without the previously on some random character would have to bring him up during the episode, which would have been weird.

The excitement comes from the viewer reacting the same way as Jon.