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
Damn, I was so trying to pussyfoot around that I didn't actually say anything in my post.
And Allyson saying that she wants to punch people in the nose sounds like she will go apeshit on anyone who says anything bad about the show.
My personal read was that, yes, Allyson would be very unhappy when things were said that weren't complimentary about the show or even around the show. And express that. But, and personal read again here,
not
to the point we'd need to be in this thread. Make it uncomfy for those people, maybe. But nothing expressly demon-like, just so that maybe being in that thread wasn't the place you'd want to be.
(Otherwise, what were we doing during almost all of Buffy S6 and 7?)
If you were me or Plei (probably a few others)? Defending season 6.
probably a few others
::raises hand::
Season 5 is the one that sucks.
Season 5 is the one that sucks.
High fives Hec
Always at the bottom of my list.
::turns her back on Hec and Frank::
I'll defend Season 6. But I'll acknowledge that Jessica felt very differently, and I'll agree (both as to my opinion and the majority opinion of posters at the time) as to Season 7.
Really, my ONLY point was that negative feelings about a show/movie/book do not necessarily imply an inability to contribute to a discussion of said work in an intelligent and worthwhile fashion.
BtVS S6/7 was merely a handy example of an existing scenario where we, as a group, managed to intelligently discuss things that several people involved in said discussion did not like.
There are plenty of examples I could pull from Literary and Movies too (and probably Music, except I'm not in that thread) -- television is a weird exception because if you don't like a show, you'll probably stop watching it (and, subsequently, won't have an opinion on new eps). Unlike a book or movie, where once you've read/watched, you've got an opinion on the finished work whether you liked it or not.
...just don't say you didn't like
Moby Dick
in Literary.
Unlike a book or movie, where once you've read/watched, you've got an opinion on the finished work whether you liked it or not.
Or music, where you occasionally get earwormed with the offense.
Yes, I'm looking at you Scott Stapp.
