Wait. People? She eats people? 'To Serve Man.' It's 'To Serve Man' all over again.

Gunn ,'Power Play'


Bureaucracy 3: Oh, so now you want to be part of the SOLUTION?  

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.

Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych


§ ita § - Oct 04, 2004 6:46:39 am PDT #2337 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

. Can't the General TV thread, if it is approved, be NAFDA like BtVs or Angel was? Or white-fonted until the West Coast catch-up?

As a TiVo user, I can say that such a thread won't be one I go into. For me, it's white font or no reading as I timeshift merrily through life. Not to mention the HBO shows I may need to watch on DVD.

But that's not why you're here. You're here for a capacity answer. Yes, we can possibly handle it. I do not have my definitive hat on this morning.


Vonnie K - Oct 04, 2004 6:55:44 am PDT #2338 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.

As a TiVo user, I can say that such a thread won't be one I go into.

Hmm. OK. Haven't thought about that, since I tend to watch the TiVo'd shows pretty quickly--usually in the same night.

Then, even if we white-font only for a short duration of time--say, a week, to allow for tape-fairies and TiVo delayed-watchers and what-have-yous, we're basically gonna end up having a thread that's nothing but white-font. Yeap, that's be kind of annoying to slog through.


Kate P. - Oct 04, 2004 6:58:11 am PDT #2339 of 10001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

I don't much mind the whitefont, but clearly many people do, and I think that would be the main problem with a General TV thread. Because if we do whitefont all show discussion, people will be annoyed, but if we don't whitefont any show discussion, there's the large possibility of accidental spoilage. So if you missed Lost one week and had to wait until the weekend to see it, but you caught The O.C. at the regular time, you wouldn't be able to go into the General TV thread to discuss Teh Seth without being spoiled for Lost. I prefer the idea of seeing if there will be a couple of shows that generate a large amount of discussion, and dedicating a thread to each of those (if we can, of course).

edit: overexplainy, because xposty.


Betsy HP - Oct 04, 2004 7:04:12 am PDT #2340 of 10001
If I only had a brain...

My suspicion is that a couple of episodes in, it's going to be clear that Lost deserves a thread of its own, because it's plotty and arcy the way that Buffy is. I'm happy to wait until the volume's up to the point where a thread is obviously necessary.


§ ita § - Oct 04, 2004 7:04:40 am PDT #2341 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Jossverse works for me, because I can read a week's worth of comics in one sitting, and I just don't go in until I've done so. Peachy. TV wouldn't work near as neatly.

Unrelatedly, it looks like COMM transcends language. I think.


Betsy HP - Oct 04, 2004 7:07:04 am PDT #2342 of 10001
If I only had a brain...

slutet på "grönsaker som dildos"

And who can argue with that?


Sue - Oct 04, 2004 7:07:19 am PDT #2343 of 10001
hip deep in pie

Who reads Swedish?


Betsy HP - Oct 04, 2004 7:11:18 am PDT #2344 of 10001
If I only had a brain...

Did you notice that one of them had taglined Erika? So cool.


Jessica - Oct 04, 2004 7:33:49 am PDT #2345 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

There seems to be one Swedish-English translation tool on the web, and its server is down. Alas!


billytea - Oct 04, 2004 7:37:45 am PDT #2346 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Who reads Swedish?

Well. Swedes, I hear.