Okay, but it's going to be confusing if we randomly make some movie trailers whitefont territory and others not. I imagine that the Hunger Games trailers will be spoilery for the books to some extent, but that's just how the media rolls. I think it's going to be crazy to try and whitefont stuff--is the HP movie discussion going to be whitefonted forever for the same reason? Has it been traditionally?
The movie is its own thing. I think if you don't want to be exposed to movie trailer information, don't read this thread. But if we start calling certain movies spoilers, things will be crazy in no time.
I think if you notice things in the trailer that you probably normally wouldn't notice and are using your knowledge of the book to expand upon it, then it should possibly qualify as a spoiler. For example, I watched the trailer and had to watch very carefully for the
Molly vs. Bellatrix
event that others are discussing. Also, somebody mentioned
the death of Tonks and Lupin
which certainly isn't obvious from the trailer - implied, perhaps, but not shown outright and again, adding information based on conjecture and knowledge of the books.
It's a fine line and probably not one that should we should really try to enforce much, but I think whitefonting for major plot points makes some sense.
I think whitefonting for major plot points makes some sense.
But the movies are based on books that have been out for a substantial amount of time. We don't whitefont stuff about the books any more (not even Deathly Hallows), so why would we whitefont about the movies? I don't see them as 2 mutually exclusive things ([1] the books, [2] the movies).
If you know stuff about the books and are adding it to what you see in the trailer, then, yeah, it should be whitefonted.
But stuff that was just in the trailer? We going to start whitefonting all adaptations? Whitefont even after the movie's been out a while?
That's kind of like whitefonting GoT talk in Premium because people in there for other reasons might not have read the books yet. Counter to the primary function of the thread.
If you know stuff about the books and are adding it to what you see in the trailer, then, yeah, it should be whitefonted.
Even though the books have been out long enough that we no longer whitefont them?
I think that in the movie thread, you shouldn't spoil the movies that haven't come out yet.
I think that in the movie thread, you shouldn't spoil the movies that haven't come out yet.
I get it for movies not based on wildly popular books that have been out for a while (Inception, etc.).
But if talking about book content [edit: prior to the movie release] in this thread is too much of a don't-cross-the-streams thing, that's cool.
I see it as similar to Game of Thrones. The book has been out more than ten years. But it's not cool to talk about plot points in the Premium thread where the series is being watched for the first time.
But it's not cool to talk about plot points in the Premium thread where the series is being watched for the first time.
You mean not prior to airing? Or after an episode (or part, or however it's divided) airs? I'm assuming just not prior to.
