In Retrospect: Misleading Spoilers et all

[lolaruns]

I was thinking, there were some really mighty misleading spoilers over times. Or just plot things you expected to go somewhere and it never did. So, I was wondering, what were some things that you expected, but that didn't happen or things that really surprised you?

Anyway. here are some of mine:

Weirdest Undercover storyline:
That time when Charlie met Sasha the plumber at an art gallery, flirted with him, invited him over again and not. one. thing. of this was in the spoilers. Ok, they were supposed to have an entire off screen relationship, but those scenes were actually on screen, yet they were in no summary

Most Underwhelming spoiler to scene translation must go to the Chribecca friendship without a doubt. Highlights go to:

"Only after a drastic measure, Christian manages to get through to Rebecca." = Pee gate

"Rebecca is touched how caring Christian is to her of late. When she hears that Christian has to cancel a romantic date with Olli to care for the sick horse Elias, she decides to help Christian. But over the course, Rebecca unintentionally provokes a little accident between herself and Christian." = Rebecca falls over horseshit and Christian seems to accidentally have punched her

"Christian furiously unloads his relationship frustration to Rebecca. " = barely a 5 second/running by quickly scene

= less than a 5 second scene

Most totally untrue spoiler

must go to the spoiler that said that Judith kisses David after he helps her with the architecture project, but realizes that there are no butterflies for her. Which is totally not how the scene played out. In the scene itself it came across like Judith kissed him, was mortified that he didn't kiss her back, but still very much wanted him, but they decide to stay friends when he tells her he's just not interested in her that way. But yeah, to me, it never played out like that kiss made Judith realize she wasn't into David after all. She still seemed to be right afterwards.

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Regarding storylines... I totally expected more to come out of last summer conflicts (Christian's firing, illness, Miriam kiss). I also expected something to come out of the way Olli left for Ibiza.

[sio127]

I can't think of any off the top of my head but I do agree with you whole heartily that ALOT of the spoilers are really misleading, on purpose I think. ALso like you mentioned so many stories start off well but go no where.....the main one for me being CHristians illness. It was a major thing for all of 2 episodes (well okay bit more...just) then they kept harping on in little bits about it....not being able to lift the tree thingy, not being able to have sex.....but it went nowhere.......that's why I'm not freaking out too much about the new ones.

[lugia]

Cut scenes:



"At the karaoke bar, Christian and Olli immediately take the opportunity to sing one song after another at Luise's bachelorette party."

It ended up being the case that Olli tried to force Christian to sing, but he declined.



"Tristan uses a brief flirtation with Tanja to make Helena jealous."

In truth, Helena doesn't have feelings for Tristan yet.



"Tanja rejects Tristan's advances at first."

They got a very brief flirt in the hallway that Ansgar interrupted.



"Rebecca torments her conscience, when Christian even apologizes to her for his bad temper."



"Gregor voices his doubts about the success of the auction to Christian."

Underwhelming scene:



"Even Justus is worried when Christian tortures himself because of the quarrel with Olli."

Justus was never indiscreet and asked about Olli. In fact, he only wished him a good night and left. And I'm not sure if Christian tortured himself in the first place.

Hoped for dynamics never used:



Every time Olli, Andi and Christian went clubbing off-screen.

[lolaruns]

"Tristan uses a brief flirtation with Tanja to make Helena jealous."

Great point. That is pretty much on the same scale as Judith/David. I mean that like only completely changes the feel of the story Except that TriAnHel are actually a big story and JuConDa were only a minor story.

I remember one other scene that was apparently filmed but never shown was back during the summer where Lydia found out about her mom and Seb and moved into the flat share. It was Lydia and Olli at Schneiders talking about her job issues, yet the two never had a scene at Schneiders that day. There was also a very sweet pic of Olli hugging Lydia while wearing his white shit with the rainbow color circle/splatter that made me think that they were going for a major friendship with the two, but while the hug happened it was like 5 seconds after like a (felt) 10 minutes scene of Lydia yelling at Seb and then going over to Olli.

It would be intersting to see all the spoiler bits Jo and Thore dropped in interviews and compare them to what actually happened, even if it was just to see just how long term their knowledge seems to be.

[sylstyle]

Oh and this one was missing too hopefully ;D



Sylvain

[thunderkat]

I don't really trust the spoilers, they seem more like signposts than anything else. I trust my intuition from the events of the show, which is why I hated Rebecca from the minute I started watching (which was around the fountain scene) b/c i could just FEEL that they were throwing these two together. Events in the show up to now haven't warranted the depth of relationship that we'd be asked to buy into for Chribecca, but then again Writers are flouting the rules left and right of what we've come to expect of these characters, so now I don't even know how much i can trust what I see on the screen. DAMN YOU FEILER!!!!

[sylstyle]

I hope her run will be over soon
I can tell you I will remember her name, but not for the same reasons than for Chroust

Sylvain

[stregatta]

You know people, sometimes reading all this bad feeling towards Rebacca, even if I'm not her fan, makes me think that instead we're throwing at her all our disappointment & frustration regarding the lacking of Krolli's plot (during past months)...But IMO it was not simply her ruining the magic, but, most important thing, the whole picture was far from perfect back then...For the future I hope we'll see a restored picture again!! ;-)) Bye*

[lolaruns]

I'm just curious who exactly writes those summaries and what exactly they have access too. Are they writing it based on the scripts? Do they get to watch the episodes and just write their own interpretation of it? How much further do they past the bit they are currently transcribing? We always joke that they probably hand it to some intern to write, but by logic like this the person writing summaries would know very little about what's ahead.

[stregatta]

I don't know for sure, but it could be like you say...Besides, also for my country's soaps, more than 1 fan has noticed that sometimes the magazines write 1 thing & afterwards it happens a scene is cut off at the very last moment (or just it's not shown on-screen at all), or even they made mistakes on the actors' names, making a big confusion! ;-P)

[lugia]

Oh, goodie, they cut the ONLY scene I was looking forward to!

[mona]

I almost believe that was cut because Gregor gave Christian the building/NL. I don't know why, but in the bigger spoiler pic he's holding a paper (or is it a tissue?) and I always thought that's Gregor making his last steps to leave it all behind SPOILER But that would mean the new Rolli thing/angle in the spoiler wasn't planned from the beginning

That scene was supposed to show Christian dressed (the little Ollian moment before and seems overall like very important). Hmmm.

[Deleted]

If Gregor gave Christian the building and No Limits as he is leaving that means Christian and Olli now own No Limits together and maybe we should petition the writers to build on that fact!

[ivaniv]

Much better

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Ivan: Yes that is so much better, half naked Christian is always good

[lugia]

Mar 12, 2010 12:32:32 GMT -5 @mona said:

I don't know why, but in the bigger spoiler pic he's holding a paper (or is it a tissue?)

I just checked, it's definitely some kind of cloth/fabric, not paper. It almost looks like another white shirt. Maybe Gregor gave him one of his and then Christian realized he couldn't just go across the hall like that anymore and ask for advice?

[lugia]

Mar 12, 2010 12:56:24 GMT -5 @ivaniv said:

Much better

Even without the editing, I still like the original better than the Maxdome version

[lolaruns]

Whoza, now that's creepy.

[I ♥ Blaine]

Damn. His Jaw is so schmexy!!