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And isn't Invisible Girl really called Out of Sight, Out of Mind (or vice-versa on Sight/Mind)?
Out of Mind, Out of Sight, yes. Except the WB or FoxTV decided on the more pedantic and spoilery Invisible Girl. The name is restored for the DVD and FX and Syndication.
Or Pruitt the Stunt Coordinator. /Bronze Melee
You can. I honestly can't
Sorry. Sloppy use of "you" on my part.
and am curious if you can see it with hindsight, or you could tell this going in.
No, I saw it going in - like I said, that's why I like reading the titles ahead of time, it lets me play a little bit with predictions and just a slight flavor of being-spoiled without actually knowing anything. Sometimes I'm right, sometimes I'm wrong. I was completely wrong on Orpheus, for instance, which I'd guessed would be about getting Good Cordelia back. (Except hopefully not too good.) On the other hand, I was right about the facts that Angelus wasn't going to go all the way to the end of the season and that the Angelus mini-arc would be done by the time we saw "Players."
Of course, to be fair I knew approximately how long Faith was going to be around for, and you can make guesses from that (the chance that Faith was going to leave LA with Angelus still running around was greater than zero but not very high).
Also, The Body might not have been spoilery say in December or January -- but I bet it was when people got the episode title in February or March.
I wouldn't call that title particularly spoilery because the last shot of the previous ep was Joyce laying dead on the couch. Maybe in the sense that it said, "Yup. Joyce is really dead. But you probably knew that already." That's the way most titles would be spoilery -- by confirming suspicions easily gained from the ep and the promo. For example, "Two to Go." Anyone who saw the flaying of Warren and heard Willow say, "One down," would figure out that Willow would be after Jonathan and Andrew in the next ep. The title confirms the assumption.
I'd prefer whitefonting, but more because we did it that way during S6 than because it feels like the One True Way.
I've been white-fonting the episode titles when I do the breakdowns in Mejiaville. I haven't heard any objections to this, but if anyone wants me to change, I can.
Also, The Body might not have been spoilery say in December or January -- but I bet it was when people got the episode title in February or March. (When did it air again?)
It aired at the end of February -- then we had to wait 6 weeks for a new episode.
Nah, none of them give specific information, I agree. (Not like, say, "Invisible Girl.")
Correct title: "Out of Mind, Out of Sight" (a reversal of the old phrase and reflecting that it was the fact that Marcie being ignored was what cause her invisibility).
There's no prohibition against mentioning the writers in the FAQ, only episode titles. It's not a spoiler, and mentioning the writers is not a broadening of current spoiler policy.
Wait wait wait wait wait... what about the hue and cry about the legitimacy and provenance of the FAQ?
I've been white-fonting the episode titles when I do the breakdowns in Mejiaville. I haven't heard any objections to this, but if anyone wants me to change, I can.
I really don't understand the objection to whitefonting. A person can read it or now-- it would seem to make both sides of such a question happy.
Buffy fighting a VAMPIRE???
OMFG.. Now I'm spoiled for my DVD!!!
What I labled "bitching" was complaining about even having to vote about something which was a) settled some time ago and b) in favor of the complainer
That wasn't bitching. That was me pointing out that it became a Big Huge Deal despite the fact that the thing we were arguing about was common and widely-broadcast knowledge, so what do we think will happen in the future with less commonly-known or widely-broadcast facts? Step back, Trudy.
If we're going to get rid of Spoilage Lite, then we have to be able to whitefont in the main thread. Which, IIRC, we used to do before Spoilage Lite.
For example, "Two to Go." Anyone who saw the flaying of Warren and heard Willow say, "One down," would figure out that Willow would be after Jonathan and Andrew in the next ep. The title confirms the assumption.
But if you didn't know that, the title could also refer to the fact that there were only two more episodes to go in the season.