My MOTHER was an FX thread!

Your mother is TOO NARROW!!!

There, I said it.

I'd take all shows in whitefont in Natter over that. (Meaning the no TV talk at all. And can you see us enforcing that?)

If we're thinking about doing an F/X thread, I'd rather just scoot them into premium. For a trial balloon thread, I don't think the channel is a useful distinguisher - if for no other reason than those really aren't very broadly watched shows.

I'd say general drama, no whitefont. And perhaps a polite request that during the time a show is airing and slightly thereafter, to be conscious of spoilage for other shows. i.e., while Bones is on, perhaps try to restrain yourself from running aroung shouting OMG CUDDY KILLED HOUSE. Or maybe informal whitefont on really crazy HSQs. So, sort of caveat lector, but try to be nice.

Your mother is TOO NARROW!!!

You've obviously never met my mother....

t /Groucho

So, sort of caveat lector, but try to be nice.

Let the cannibal beware?

Sean, while I see us saying this over and over the reality is that I kinda gave up hope of actually being able to discuss TV here in any way quite a while ago. I was able to do it with the single show Buffy and Angel threads back in the day, but I just can't do the bucket threads.

Folks are asking what shows would be single threads? For me that would be BSG (I know, currently on hiatus, but I would have loved to have talked about the past season when it was airing), Bones, Numb3rs Dresden Files. The reason? Well, those are the shows that I'm currently watching.

If we're talking about a trial thread why don't we focus on the original issue of putting the F/X short-season, original programming shows in Premium? Or maybe I don't understand what exactly it is we're supposed to be testing.

I really can't see one huge general drama thread working. That just becomes tv natter and I'd rather just keep it in natter at that point.

For me, Lost and Heroes are examples of show threads working.

I can see the argument against them, of course, and it's a strong one. Were Buffy, Angel and Firefly all the same topic originally?

At first there was no Angel. Then we started a separate thread for Angel (at Table Talk).

So, no. They were always individual threads.

I find this whole thing a little distressing because, as people have pointed out, there's no way to make everyone happy. And I don't want people like Liese to be unhappy.

Suggestion for single-show-threadistas feeling disenfranchised: PROPOSE THE THREADS YOU WANT.

Seriously. Chances are, you'll get them - look at how similar proposals have have gone in the past. Their existence will annoy a bunch of people, but probably not more than you're all annoyed by Boxed Set right now, so what's the risk?

Maybe I'm misreading the tone of the conversation here, but I see a pattern developing of bucket-thread advocates on the one hand suggesting possible workable thread structures, and single-show advocates popping up twice a day to remind the rest of us how lonely and disenfranchised you are. Faux democracy? How is counting votes and going with what the majority wants "faux" democratic in any way? It doesn't take much to get a proposal on the table. Anyone can do it.