I thought "How I Met Your Mother" generated some discussion. Not as much as "The Office," but still significant.

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There may be discussion of Venture Brothers. I don't think we should create threads on the basis of potential discussion, but I'm not sure we need to cut the rest of the benign comedy discussion out of the (potential) thread when the Office isn't threatening to take over.

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So, after about 90 people voting, 35% said "Discussing TV shows in Natter excludes me from the discussion," 14% said "Discussing TV shows in the experimental threads excluded me from the discussion," and 7% said "Other current TV threads exclude me from the discussion."

43% said their tv watching "varies -- sometimes closer to airing, sometimes well after." 23% said "Mostly as shows air, or same-day."

FYI. [link]

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Just an observation, and I'd be glad to be corrected if my perception is wrong, but apart from Jess (who if I remember correctly has zero issues with spoilers), the biggest resistance to moving the TV talk out of Natter (in it seems any form) is coming from the West Coast folks. I don't know if it's a time shift issue, or a cultural difference issue, or that I'm completely off-base, but as I've watched the discussion that's how it has seemed to unfold, from my knowledge of where various Buffistas are living. As I said, just an observation. I liked the bucket threads, but, then, I don't give a fuck about spoilers (mostly) and I'd prefer to defer on the side of those that don't, within what I (MEMEMEME) see as reason (I'm thinking of the Spike kerfuffle here vis-a-vis Angel that I had no patience with).

BIGTIME ETA

Eep, I meant to make it clear, and upon review completely screwed up, that despite that I mostly don't care about spoilers, I'd generally prefer to defer to those that ARE spoiler-averse. Sorry for any confusion.

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I can see that part of the issue is the timezone issues.

I liked the bucket threads because I could talk about a show that's on 9 or 10 EST and there would be more discussion when I was asleep and it was easy to pick that back up.

It's not so easy to pick back up with the time lag between the day and what people are doing -- if I want to post something in the morning at 8 it will still be a few hours before someone could respond to that and in the meantime there are a bunch of new posts, etc.

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I'm not sure we need to cut the rest of the benign comedy discussion out of the (potential) thread when the Office isn't threatening to take over.

I definitely agree with this. The Office got the most discussion by far, but I also saw posts on How I Met Your Mother, Scrubs, 30 Rock, and possibly others. That cross-pollination was actually one of my favorite things about that thread. And, selfishly, since I plan on catching up on/picking up several of those shows soon, I'd really like to be able to discuss them, and the bucket comedy show thread suited my needs pretty much perfectly for that.

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Frankly, there's no harm in having a comedy thread, even if its mostly one show. I like the threads as they were.

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since I plan on catching up on/picking up several of those shows soon

If we keep the threads, I'll probably pick up a show or two this fall. So even though I only discussed The Office on the comedy thread, I also support keeping it an all-comedy thread. With the possibility of creating one or more dedicated threads if traffic warrants.

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If we keep the threads, I'll probably pick up a show or two this fall. So even though I only discussed The Office on the comedy thread, I also support keeping it an all-comedy thread. With the possibility of creating one or more dedicated threads if traffic warrants.

I like this, Fred Pete. This is what I'd like to see for The Office/comedies. The half hour comedies have less text per week to discuss. If one breaks away (and that may well be The Office) and proves too much for a bucket thread, we can deal with it, then.

In general, I think that may be my preferred option for how we treat TV, while keeping a check on thread proliferation. Have some sort of general buckets (I think the buckets we had in the experiment need some tweaking though; I don't think they were the platonic threads), and when a show takes over, consider whether it merits a thread of its own, or not.

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There may be discussion of Venture Brothers.

VB would be welcome in Boxed Set, methinks that is where we discussed it last time. Maybe.

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