Plus, to some extent it's just a respect issue. If someone is posting a script as a favor for a group of people (namely us), I feel that there's something...I don't know...weird? presumptuous? about taking that script and posting it elsewhere.

What's the problem with them being up? The only thing I can see with the copies last online is they were drafts. Well, that and wolfram and hart might decend upon the land.

FOX is particularly strong in asserting their rights over those things they view as their property. Back in the BtVS days, their lawyers sent cease and desist letters to fan sites where people reported spoilers.

"Point of Origin" was fun. I like the way the team likes to fuck with their unsubs. "Framing" Danny for arson? Heh.

The thermal imaging sequence was really cool. It's funny because that was actually the idea that sprung to mind at Danny's line, but I didn't think it would work.

Jackal, I call him the Ice Cream Man. And up until that moment, I was thinking this episode worked better in order because the fire shots are just more glimpses of him, and it's not until "Little Girl Lost" that we really get to "meet" him. But now we see him in the flesh, and if the last two episodes do involve him, maybe it's better to have this episode so much later.

Working for the FBI looks like hard work. They're always so busy! There's no time to check TWoP and b.org and LJ every five minutes.

I feel that there's something...I don't know...weird? presumptuous? about taking that script and posting it elsewhere.

Just speaking for me because I have some experience in this, but: As a webmaster for an official site, I also think it's presumptuous to just take things from other sites to post. It takes a lot of work to be official and get special things, and when people repost things to their sites it provides less of a reason for people to go to your site.

I know it's the Internet, I know tons of people do that, I know of sites that do nothing but repost content from other sites, I know it's how it is. But I don't think it's right. Sorry. Just a peeve of mind.

Plus, to some extent it's just a respect issue. If someone is posting a script as a favor for a group of people (namely us), I feel that there's something...I don't know...weird? presumptuous? about taking that script and posting it elsewhere.'

Just speaking for me because I have some experience in this, but: As a webmaster for an official site, I also think it's presumptuous to just take things from other sites to post. It takes a lot of work to be official and get special things, and when people repost things to their sites it provides less of a reason for people to go to your site.

Speaking not as a web master, but as an individual, I would say wanting to do so, or complaining about not being able to do so, when the owner of the site has clearly and unambigiously made a decision to take them down, is rather strange and offputting, not to mention rude.

To be clear, I'm not on about republishing Kristen's scripts (now) - I'm trying to figure out what issues caused the take down, to see if it's worth the hassle publishing other (final) copies of the scripts. I don't think 20th would be fishing around them as the script book licenses haven't gone.

I don't think 20th would be fishing around them as the script book licenses haven't gone.

That's your call, but I wouldn't bargain too hard on it.

Polter Cow, now that you've mentioned it I agree about Point of Origin working better as episode 11. Had it been episode 6, then Little Girl Lost would have been a step back for Rebecca, what with her imagining the Pony Man, when the whole point of Point of Origin was her putting him behind her.

So now that there's only two episodes left, and the season arc has been all about her being pulled between Web and Paul, any bets on who she's going to side with? I'm guessing Paul, but I have no idea how it's going to play out. Or she may possibly reject both of them...

Basically, someone emailed one of the script sites and told them about the PDFs. They ended up on the front page of the TV section and we got a lot of hits from that site. I was uncomfortable with how public the scripts had become and pulled them until I can determine how likely it is that someone at 20th is going to take issue with them being online. (The owner of the script site did contact me and was very nice about the whole thing. They were under the impression that the person who contacted them was the owner of TMnet and that it would be okay to link.)

If someone wants to go track down and buy all the final shooting scripts, retype them and post them on their site, that's their call. But since I think it's fairly obvious that's not where the ones on our site came from, I'm erring on the side of caution.

I don't understand why it was so necessary for me to explain myself but there you have it. Could we please move on to more interesting topics now?

Can we talk about ponies? Or really big dogs?