The Monkees

I'm watching the second season of 24 and on one of the episodes' menu there was the following



I was quite upset because this hadn't happened yet. Also another menu showed:



It's just kind of irratating.

crapkilla

It's not just you, I about went postal when your first spoiler ruined that episode for me... what the heck!!!

PotVsKtl

I imagine that's why it was in a spoiler box. Self-control is a beautiful thing.

lotsofdvds

I hate this! Such as on the Sopranos disc, when you select an episode there's a whole synopsis on screen while you wait to select "Play Episode". Or on Murder One, each disc has a montage of highlights playing while you pick your episode, which can ruin upcoming plot developments.

We're already sold on the show... that's why we bought or rented it. Those of us who haven't seen the shows don't want them ruined for us and those who have seen them don't need a refresher.

canaryfarmer

Yeah, the 24 sets might as well have a big ole sticker on the front saying "SPOILERS AHOY!!!". The art within the digipacks have spoilers, the book has spoilers, and so do the menus. Somebody needs a slappin'.

Count Dooku

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calhoun07

I have been really annoyed by this on the Sopranos. They will show clips that just ruin parts of it for me. Not all of us watched this on TV when it first aired, HBO! Some of us LIKE to be surprised about what happens. It's bad enough when I hear a spoiler leak through on TV (I cannot watch the View when this show airs, as they love to reveal all the spoilers in their Hot Topics, the bitches) but to deliberately put those on the menu....somebody should be FIRED!

I have learned to hit that "MENU" button awfully quick if I see clips come up as the menu is loading. And I don't even read the synopsis at all. I did a couple times on season one and it left no surprises in the episode at all.

Crocker Jarmen

I really dislike the way they set up The Sopranos DVDs with those synopsis and clips. I've watched 4 seasons worth, taking my glasses off and hitting MUTE everytime I want to select the next episode.

NitroJMS

I think the Buffy Season 6 packaging takes the cake. It has Dark Willow right on the front.

Kocheese99

I think Alias Seas. 2 pissed me off the most. On the first disc they had a promo for Seas. 3 if i remember, and it basically gave away a bunch of what happens in season 2. I almost threw my remote when i saw that.

bis22

On 24, I took care not to look at those pictures for just that reason.

reubs82

After starting to watch the 1st season of 24, I picked up season 2 at Best Buy thinking there may just be a description on the back for what S2 may be about. A HUGE spoiler was in the first line. It was the spoiler for the event at the VERY END of the season, so I knew exactly how the season would end, and there was no suspense. But I didn't know how it happened. I got home, told my wife, and she says,

Pissed me off.

otmetrud

For whatever reason, the marketers/package designers/whomever seem to be stubbornly locked into the idea that everyone who buys the TV season sets have already seen it or already knows what happens. It doesn't occur to them that a lot of their customers haven't seen it and enjoy being spoiler-free.

I really don't think they get it.

TomOpus

I agree... but I think it's an understandable assumption on their part unless they're told otherwise by unhappy consumers. But I agree they should use their brains.

I don't agree that it's "a lot" but more like a small (maybe medium) percentage. Add to that the small percentage that would get upset over the spoilers and only a percentage of them will let the studio know that it wasn't a cool thing to do.

So, hopefully, more upset people will be vocal enough for the studio to get a clue and keep cases/menus spoiler-free.

auto

This shit is driving me crazy as I make my way through the Buffy DVDs. Does anyone have any idea why these shows continue to do this? Do the show creators have no imput in the content of the DVDs. It blows my mind.

Simpson Purist

NOTHING will ever beat the original Planet of the Apes DVD release in terms of the marketers spoiling things.

SI78

I think the cover of 'The Other' takes the cake.

Not only does the picture on the front of the cover give away the ending, the blurb on the back details it explicitly.

manicsounds

Imagine if this was a menu screen on "Episode 5":

calhoun07

With Sopranos and 24 I've learned to be quite fast at hitting those play buttons before any of the spoilers can come up. It's a huge annoyance. I mentioned it to somebody else I know who is into Sopranos (and they don't see it first run either, as they don't have HBO) and they said they always read the episode synopsis before watching the episode and it doesn't bother them to know key things going in. I guess to each their own, but I prefer to be as surprised as I would have been if I watched it the first time around.

The Monkees

Wow, I forgot about this post from almost 2 years ago!

LeeVing

i'm going through the seasons of 24 now...trying to catch up to watch season 6. They just need to make a "Play all" button for those of us that have never watched the show.

and they need to make on the fly subtitles....tony talks to quietly.

scarredgod

buffy has been terrible with spoilers in the menus.

tylergfoster

Actually, as far as I know, EVERY SUBSEQUENT SEASON of 24 has done the EXACT SAME THING.

Worst DVD packaging ever.

conscience

Not menu form, but Six Feet Under's fifth and final season has AN ABSOLUTELY HUGE spoiler on the inside packaging. If I hadn't already seen the season I would have been extremely upset. And to think a lot of people that bought it hadn't seen it yet.