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| | Posted: | | | | The other seasons in the database seem to retain only the text of the title, so I would put:
"MacGyver: The Complete Final Season"
and change "Final" for "7" in the sort title.
(The only way that makes sense to me to incorporate the number in the title would be: "MacGyver: 7: The Complete Final Season". It doesn't really make sense as a title any other way to me.) |
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| | Posted: | | | | Quoting CalebAndCo: Quote:
The other seasons in the database seem to retain only the text of the title, so I would put:
Yup, that's the problem. But they incorporate the season number into the text:  | | | Karsten
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| Registered: October 6, 2008 | | Posts: 1,932 |
| | Posted: | | | | I understand. I had looked at how the titles were handled for the other sets in the Profiler database; they ignore the figure.
(Oh, I see. Some of the non US sets use the figure, but they invent "Season 6" where it does not read that way on the cover. So I wouldn't want to do it that way.)
If you treat the figure as part of the title, the only way I can see to read it is "MacGyver: 7: The Complete Final Season". Any other way is awkward in my opinion. |
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  | T!M | | Profiling since Dec. 2000 |
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| | Posted: | | | | Quoting CalebAndCo: Quote:
the only way I can see to read it is "MacGyver: 7: The Complete Final Season". Any other way is awkward in my opinion. And that isn't awkward?  Locally, I'd just use "The Complete Final Season" and leave it at that. The reasoning behind that is that on the previous cover, there's both "The Complete Sixth Season" and a "6", and we ignore the six without question. We simply feel it's already covered by the word "Sixth", and nobody starts looking for a way to incorporate the number as well. This time around, "7" isn't covered by the word "Seventh", but it is still covered by the textual description. Only this time, it's covered by the word "Final". That's a bit different, granted, but the principle still stands. If we didn't go looking for a way to incorporate the "6" before, why should we do that here? If the textual description was good enough for me then, it's good enough for me now as well. I would only use the "7" in the sort title, just like I used the "6" in sort title for the previous season. | | | | Last edited: by T!M |
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| Registered: April 14, 2007 |  Posts: 415 |
| | Posted: | | | | Agree with Tim here. Just use the text and put 7 in the sort title. |
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| | Posted: | | | | Quoting T!M: Quote:
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the only way I can see to read it is "MacGyver: 7: The Complete Final Season". Any other way is awkward in my opinion.
And that isn't awkward?
...  Yes, it is. That's why I preferrred it without the number. See my first post. (I suggested the same solution you did.) | | | | Last edited: by CalebAndCo |
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| T!M | | Profiling since Dec. 2000 |
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| | Posted: | | | | Quoting CalebAndCo: Quote:
Yes, it is. That's why I preferrred it without the number. See my first post. (I suggested the same solution you did.)  |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | The rules give the answer. The only question is actual form. Ption 1 is not consistent with the Rules. I hate those kind of Season uses from Hollywood.
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| | Posted: | | | | My personal preference would be: MacGyver: The Complete Final Season
Going by the rules, it has to be MacGyver: The Complete Final Season 7 or MacGyver: The Complete Final Season: 7 | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
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| T!M | | Profiling since Dec. 2000 |
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| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Unicus69: Quote:
Going by the rules, it has to be MacGyver: The Complete Final Season 7 or MacGyver: The Complete Final Season: 7 If you really think that's the case, then how would you handle season six? Surely that same interpretation would result in the need to somehow wriggle in the number "6" in there as well? |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | Hmm that's a fair argument.
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| | Posted: | | | | Quoting T!M: Quote:
Quoting Unicus69:
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Going by the rules, it has to be MacGyver: The Complete Final Season 7 or MacGyver: The Complete Final Season: 7
If you really think that's the case, then how would you handle season six? Surely that same interpretation would result in the need to somehow wriggle in the number "6" in there as well? Unfortunately, the same exact way...'MacGyver: The Complete Sixth Season 6' or 'MacGyver: The Complete Sixth Season: 6'. Does it look silly? Yes. Do I like it? No. Is that what the rules require? In my opinion, yes. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
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| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Unicus69: Quote:
Unfortunately, the same exact way...'MacGyver: The Complete Sixth Season 6' or 'MacGyver: The Complete Sixth Season: 6'.
Does it look silly? Yes. Do I like it? No. Is that what the rules require? In my opinion, yes. I think this is one of the cases (seasons 1 to 6) where everybody agrees to apply common sense and "interprets" the rule and nobody forces a decision just to make it according to the rules. | | | Karsten
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