Sounds to me like the problems we are having in the thread really don't have to do with the title or the slug. I'd like to see it reflect what we're actually talking about rather than the secret handshake deal that's going on now of "Well, it's not called this, and we don't list it, but this is where it belongs."

I too damn near got spoiled on some of the BSG whitefont, but that seems to me like it's more of a spoiler font issue than a thread slug issue. I'm not sure of the best way to deal with it.

Andromeda, Mutant X, NCIS, Trek, 3 Musketeers, MI-5,

Yeah, but are any of those generating a high volume of discussion? Or are they just momentary conversational detours?

Serial:

Although, if the issue is spoiler problems, volume doesn't really matter. And yes, it becomes a somewhat thornier problem.

Mmm. Enterprise has been cancelled, and any incidental talks about old Trek should be fair game without white-font. And there really hasn't been much in the way of discussion about Andromeda (which I understand is pretty sucky now), Mutant X, and 3 Musketeers, IIRC.

NCIS and MI-5 talks don't belong there (and I'm speaking as someone who's talked a lot about MI-5 on the thread) and should be moved to Natter, I think.

MI-5 generated quite a bit of discussion while it was airing in the UK. The others are very detourish.

However, if we do come out of denial, we need to do so properly. As in, as suggested upthread, spoiler font policy.

I feel the need to remind all and sundry that Stargate was a known and major topic of discussion when we consolidated the threads into Boxed Set -- we just pretended it wasn't, because it hadn't had its own thread. But IIRC, it had come to dominate discussions that were formally described as about Due South.

So that's not new (okay, there are now two versions of Stargate). Galactica, that's new, and is the only other new thing regularly discussed in Boxed Set. I occasionally see notes about, e.g., MI-5, but I think everybody admits those are basically off-topic and properly belong in Natter.

I don't have a problem with Boxed Set becoming the official Sci-Fi TV thread, but then, I don't have a problem with being spoiled. I'll go with whatever whitefont consensus we come to.

Well, it's bugged me all the way back to the old thread that Stargate wasn't listed even though it was a major source of discussion.

Also, it was known to the folks in the thread, but I had to be chased out of Natter and into that thread when I brought up Stargate, so it's not commonly known.

Good point, ND. The original idea of not listing all the known topics for Boxed Set was to avoid extreme proliferation, but people not already in the know would not, you know, know.

Well, we've had some prolifering, but not a devolution all the way to "general TV thread" -- although "general SF TV thread" is a more debatable notion.

Whither the boxed set??

So, why don't we propose that;

1) The thread title be changed to "Box Set, Vol 2: Smallville, Due South, Farscape, Stargate."

(BSG may be still too young to merit a mention in the thread title.)

2) Discussion of non-SF shows, especially those with new episodes with spoiler-font issues, be relegated to Natter.

3) Some kind of spoiler policy for the shows currently being discussed, to be hammered out more in detail later.