Board Thread:Off-Topic Fun/@comment-25551215-20160225234221/@comment-4453062-20160304060641

Bluji wrote: I think it's mainly fine. There are quite a few other series that also do it - for example, the episode titles for the Arrowverse series are also revealed similarly. However, there's a major difference that is created by Once's three-month hiatus every winter -- there are SO MANY titles revealed by the time the winter break is over, which can at worst spoil the biggest episodes from the end of the second half. Something like Arrow (sorry, I just find it such an easy series to compare the situation to!) runs constantly without major breaks in the middle of the season, so there are like three or four episodes revealed at once instead of ten which I find nicer. In addition, they do things like this where they censor (most of) the title so that they don't totally ruin big surprises by revealing highly spoilerriffic episode titles in advance.

But um, I might have gotten a bit derailed here. I think it's nice, but I also think they might not serve the purpose of keeping the storytelling intense that well. Granted, it's title spoilers, but still. Actually, it's a similar case during the Summer hiatus as well. Traditionally at least 8 episode titles are revealed for the Fall half of each Season prior to the Season premiere, which is also a large amount of episode titles.

I think the episode titles themselves are vague enough to not hugely spoil the episodes. It's the episode title combined with all of the other spoilers (casting news and leaked spoilers from on set) that largely spoils them.