My recollection is that when there's actually a show on the air to talk about, the unrelated chatter in Minearverse dies down.

I really don't like going in Minearverse. There's a bunch of people in there I don't know, and I can't follow what they're talking about most of the time

The people you don't know would certainly end up in a Drive thread, Sean. Drive is about the only topic in there now.

The people you don't know would certainly end up in a Drive thread, Sean.

And this. Frankly, the "there are people in there I don't know" issue is exactly why I'm opposed to single-show threads -- the more specific a thread's focus, the more likely it's going to attract people who never post anywhere else. Too far in that direction and we end up being just another WXing. A collection of forums instead of a community.

Totally agree with Jessica.

I'd say nearly everybody who posts in Minearverse posts elsewhere, though, and the same is true for Lost. Don't read Heroes and VM (much) so can't comment on them.

Sean is right in that the Minearverse mix isn't the Natter or Bitches mix. That's totally typical for a thread that becomes an entrypoint.

I think that threads should be for topics, not people. In principle, for the what not the who. .

Yes. I thought the question was re: the early Canadian airing

We're getting it early? Don't worry, they'll find a way to fuck it up so that we're a week behind.

My $.02 (Cdn):

I had a long think about this topic while out walking yesterday, and given a perfect world, I'd love to see interesting TV coversations in Natter. I like that Natter is all-encompassing, and that you can, cocktail paty-like find yourself talking about the randomest things, and have those conversations overlapping and butting up against anything. But hey, I know that realistically most people don't have time to catch up in Natter, and find sustaining conversations in there difficult, so my perfect world isn't going to happen. (Though personally, I find natter positively slow these days compared to what it used to be.)

As it is, I never venture into the Premium thread because my time delay for watching most of those shows is years, not months, but I miss when the Wire and Deadwood were discussed in movies. I also feel like I'm missing out on hearing about other new shows. The Tudors? I never heard of it until it was brought up in this discussion. And I never ventured into Boxed Set until I starting watching Eureka, which was a few months after it aired in the US. It's usally other people's enthusiasm for shows that gets me watching, so I'd hate to have things segregated in show threads, where I'd probably never venture.

I'd say nearly everybody who posts in Minearverse posts elsewhere

This is true now because we're between shows and posting volume is very low. It was not true when Wonderfalls was on the air.

We're getting it early? Don't worry, they'll find a way to fuck it up so that we're a week behind.

Looks like they've already done both: Kevin "The Minearverse 5: Closer to the Earth, Further from the Ax" Apr 8, 2007 2:41:14 pm PDT