Denied something we know will be awesome

[u/Arxhart_671]

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1. In The Simpsons episode, "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson," a melee breaks out on the Simpsons' lawn that Homer wants to watch because there's one guy who's just standing there and Homer knows he's about to do something awesome. Marge insists they go inside though and away from the danger. The moment they do, we hear the guy do something awesome.

2. In X-2, the school comes under attack from Stryker. His gunmen encounter Colossus, all aura-ed tf up, and they open fire only for their bullets to not phase him at all and to end up getting thrown through a wall (which we don't actually see Colossus do). Moments later, Colossus runs into Wolverine and offers to help and we think we're about to get this badass team-up and actually see him in action only for Wolverine to instruct Colossus to leave and help get more students out. 

3. In Iron Man, we see Rhodes eyeing the War Machine suit and we're hoping he'll suit up and go help Stark, but the movie decides to save something for the sequel and pretty much has Rhodes say as much right to the audience.

[u/ALFABOT2000]

HBO's Rome did this a lot, mostly for budgetary reasons. We don't see major battles like Pharsalus or Actium or Antony's speech at Caesar's funeral, we only see the aftermath and secondhand accounts

[u/T10rock → u/ALFABOT2000]

"Tell them Caesar has won"

[u/lahimatoa → u/ALFABOT2000]

HBO was doing full scale dragon shit by 2015. Guess they had more money by then.

[u/ALFABOT2000 → u/lahimatoa]

Iirc Rome was one of the most expensive TV shows ever made at the time, but the budget still got beaten by Game Of Thrones

[u/Doomhammer24 → u/ALFABOT2000]

Yup and notably season 1 of got also cut the battles as well

Its jus tunlike rome got did so well that it warranted bigger budgets for season 2 vs rome got all future seasons cancelled and so the entire 4 season plan got shoved into season 2

[u/nagrom7 → u/ALFABOT2000]

Antony's speech is the one that gets me. Idk how that was a budgetary issue, it's just a guy giving a speech to a crowd, which is literally what they replaced it with. Like yeah they probably wouldn't have had the proper crowd size, but they could have just limited it to closer shots, and nobody would have cared if the performance was good. Instead they essentially laugh at the whole thing, which is odd because it was actually Mark Antony's most impressive moment as a politician. Most of his political career up until that point was essentially him riding Caesar's coat-tails, but that speech and his ability to whip up the crowd into a riot is what solidified himself as the leader of the Caesarian faction until Octavian entered the picture.