Well that's why I said to do it from now until the end of May. A good number of shows are ramping up for sweeps. There should be enough topic generating stuff to see what makes us talk, and what doesn't.

If there's another sweeps coming (again??) sure, let's roll out the tests. Move from words to actions, see how it flies.

Looking at bon bon's list, I'd recommend a thread for procedurals. The Unit, Without a Trace, CSI, The Shield, Homicide even, maybe 24, could all fit in there.

Heh. Okay, the "there are people in a thread I don't know" excuse is a piss poor reason for not going in a thread, I'll admit.

Also, I didn't mean to put that forward as a reason for or against any of the possible thread proposals we're hashing out here. Or if I did, that was pretty stupid, and I withdraw it.

I don't know, I've used the "people I don't know!" excuse lots of times in real life to get out of stuff.

(Sean, while I was reading that earlier post, it is wrong that I was sorta picturing you covered in green fur, living in a metal trash can?)

(Cindy, um, no. It's not wrong at all. That's exactly the mental image of me you should have had.)

Which I'd put with House, because of the medicalness, though I don't watch any other medical-ish shows.

Which means I pretty much won't be in that thread to discuss Bones because I don't watch House but have plans to, as such I won't in it.

Sigh.

Really? I mean, House is very episodic - I find that my tolerance (and recall) of spoilers is markedly different for shows like that than for shows with a sustained arc.

Yeah.

I get the cross-pollination position. And I think there's some merit to it.

But people who don't want to be spoiled for a particular show that's included in a bucket thread with a show they're watching and want to discuss? What do we do with them?

Bucket threads and cross pollination will not please everybody. Of course I know we're not going to please everybody anyway. This is why I also think there's some merit in deciding not to discuss TV at all any more -- the people who don't want a bucket thread system, or conversely the people who don't want single show threads, whichever one we pick, we're explicitly telling the other camp we don't discuss TV here, because the end result is the same for them. There are no threads for them to discuss what they want to discuss, with the people they want to discuss the show with.

That's the real problem in all of this. One way or another, there's going to be a portion of the board we're telling to go somewhere else for the discussion they want.