'Lineage'
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
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I recall it as coming under "not broadcast = spoiler"
But that can be taken to a ridiculous extreme. If there's no promo run, does that mean we can't announce that there's a rerun the following week? Or does that ruin the fun as well? I'm not trying to be snotty. I'm just pointing out that "not broadcast" is too vague a term.
Katie, apart from Soulless (which, after Fredless would just make me wonder if they're playing with me) I don't see how any of those titles are giving any information.
Hell, I still don't know why they called Orpheus Orpheus.
Hell, I still don't know why they called Orpheus Orpheus.
Slouching Toward Bethlehem *still* confuses me as a title. (I know the derivation; I just don't think the episode/arc/season lived up to the allusion.)
And they sure as hell didn't go to Bethlehem, which really disappointed me....
Orpheus was the name of the drug faith took and Angelus sucked out of her.
t edit not exactly spoilery.
t re-edit and what Dana said.
Hell, I still don't know why they called Orpheus Orpheus.
OT: I'd guess it was the metaphor of leading someone out of hell, like Orpheus did with Euridyce.
Hell, I still don't know why they called Orpheus Orpheus.
Orpheus was the name of the drug. (Presumably named because it causes people who take it to descend into the metaphorical underworld of their own mind.)
[massive x-post, natch]
I've assumed that once the named show has been broadcast there is no way that the title can be spoilery.
We could, of course, do what most tv watchers do and talk about "the show where the MoG think that Angelus killed Lilah and Wes breaks Faith out of prison" rather than say, "Salvage".
Nah, none of them give specific information, I agree. (Not like, say, "Invisible Girl.") They allow the brain to put things together and make more-accurate guesses about what's going to happen, though. You can see where the vibe of the titles changes, and guess from that where the Angelus mini-arc's going to end.
(God, I can see the "she's insane!" head-shaking from here. I understand that the vast majority of people here don't care. I personally don't even care, as it happens. Just trying to explain how a title can give information that might be unwanted.)
I'm one of those people who can't remember episode titles. The only reasons I even know certain Buffy episode names is y'all keep mentioning and even then I'm not always sure if what I'm remembering goes with the title I'm thinking about.
For me they are just "the one with the gambling---for Gunn's soul. Not the rescue Lorne vegas one." or "the one where Kennedy is annoying..."
Angel 5.2 is rumored to be entitled either "Spiked" or "Just Rewards"
IJS, if it's the former? Semi-spoilery to some, not to others.