Ah, yes. Well. In that case, I think the latter informs the former, and should be started first, I guess, but that's all I've got at the moment.

We are a community.

We are bonded by a common love of a particular mode of expression by a particular set of expressors. Also by duct tape.

We have common interests, but we also have a commonality that comes purely of community. It could have been centered around garden shears, and we could still be who we are, in some ways.

I know it will be a change, and for some it may appear more difficult. But I have been outside of the show discussion (no WB or UPN) for some time (years) now, and I still enjoy the community. So we will weather on. We will probably change, and dissolve to a certain extent, but odds are we'll be here a while yet.

So the question is, what are we going to talk about? And I think the answer is: same damn thing we've been talking about. Everything.

Of all the shows listed, I love Alias. I also plan to watch the new season of Dead Like Me, which starts in July. However, other than something like omigod-did-you-see-spydaddy-kill-that-man-with-a-flatulent-tuna! I don't see a lot of in-depth discussion going on. Angel and Buffy drove discussions on ways the shows related to life. The monsters of the shows meant something, and we endlessly debate(d) what those things meant. None of the shows I currently watch or plan to watch seem to trigger that kind of discussion. If there are no shows of the depth to talk about more than continuity issues, I don't see the need for any of them to have their own thread.

Both Consuela and Liese said things that resonate with me. We need a conversation about where we are headed or what we want, and I love what Liese said about what we already are. Cause it kinda forestalls my tendency to naval gaze.

I have no problem with the board being primarily social in nature as my experience with it this year has been exactly that.

I didn't mean for my curiosity about Boxed Set to be a referendum. I was just being curious.

I hate the idea of a "genre" TV thread and a "teen soap" thread and it might be because the naming of it in that manner really rubs me wrong. Because the use of genre like that pushes big giant buttons on me. Obviously my issue.

There was something else, but I forget.

I still don't understand the problem with seeing what people want before we decide whether it's even worth proposing, never mind actually proposing.

I don't see why we need a formal proposal to discuss the many possible options. Me thinks lightbulbs should be open for discussing the options.

What those three said.

There are people here who don't discuss TV period. There are people here who get their TV discussion fix in fora dedicated to that, that provide an infrastructure I don't think we'd even attempt.

Pants lengths? Cutlery traditions? Get more traffic than The OC, love it as I do. We'll be just fine without branching into an insanity-making field of dictating complex spoiler rules and genre definitions.

AY! I remembered.

I'm finding general interest threads as generally uninteresting to me. So I wouldn't get much use out of one.

Pants lengths? Cutlery traditions? Get more traffic than The OC, love it as I do.

Bahahaha... it's sad. But oh so true.

Would it be out of line to propose a "Where do we go from here?" thread, so that B'acy is left for things bureaucratic, but we don't have to start proposing new threads willy nilly? Also, so the discussion won't get lost in a sea of natter?

Just a thought.

But where we go from here is bureaucratic.

Plus another thread in which I'll be tempted to navel gaze.

shudder.

No thank you.

But where we go from here is bureaucratic.

There just seemed to be objections from using this thread for this discussion. Ones I don't share, btw. I think this is EXACTLY where this has to take place. But I thought I'd ask, in case someone thought it was a good idea.

IOW, not proposing anything.