True enough, but need I point out that every episode name, bar
Emancipation, is thoroughly cliched? -- frankly, I would predict at least half of those names, or variants thereof, to crop up in any series remotely similar if it had been going for more than two seasons. Using idioms for episode names isn't exactly a new tactic; it's just an extension of using them for book titles, which as been happening since God knows when.
Incidentally,
- The Devil you Know has been used as the title for an episode of The Invisible Man.
- Message in a Bottle is a 1998 Warner Bros movie staring Kevin Costner and Robin Wright Penn.
- Scorched Earth is a novel written by Stuart Stevens in 1994, not to mention the name of a couple of games, companies, and also a very well-known and popularised battle tactic.
- Last, but of course not least (and that's a book by the way), Point of No Return is a 1993 remake of the movie La Femme Nikita.
Other idiom-based novels/movies/TV episodes:
- Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Best of Both Worlds Part I and II
[*]Best Laid Plans (a movie, I believe)
- Benefit of the Doubt (another movie)
- A Stitch in Time (can't remember if that was a movie or a book...)
- No Holds Barred (another movie)
Right, that was getting boring. Just thought I'd present an objective viewpoint. As I've mentioned before, the first law of nerds, Hanlon's Razor:
never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. ie, in this case these people probably never even saw the shows in question but, being bad writers, they thought that the names were cool.
