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

I really like the bucket threads, for the reasons that Jessica and others have stated -- it fosters more of a sense of community and helps spread the fannish love of certain shows to people who haven't given them a chance yet. I'm also in favor of the occasional single-show thread for a show with a demonstrably large following and a large volume of discussion, but I think for the shows that generate less discussion, having a few bucket threads would work really well for me.

What Kate, and others, said. Don't want the too big bucket, don't like the too small bucket, want buckets just the right size. That would be the tricky part.

Don't you think certain shows will generate talk and certain ones won't?

We can talk about any show in Natter. Only some shows generate significant talk there, though. A TV-focused thread will be different (and I think better), than TV-talk-in-Natter, in that we won't have to wade through politics, religion, cats, diets, tax returns, and shoe shopping to find the talk.

Still, I think some shows will catch on, and some won't -- just the way some shows get a lot of talk in Boxed Set and others don't.