Are people wanting to create huge buckets that can catch all the shows out there so that this discussion will never be revisited

To me, not at all. Bucket threads serve a purpose in that, if there is a show that people want to discuss, there is a central place to discuss them; and, if a show warrants its own thread, that thread can be created. So it is a far more organic and ongoing process for me, not just bam-we're-done.

I stress the "me," though.

So it is a far more organic and ongoing process for me, not just bam-we're-done.

This is me, too.

I wish TV talk could continue in Natter -- watch & post, squeeing, etc. But for more specific or in-depth conversation, I really like the idea that the other threads are available. I can't see, for instance, W&P'ing an awards show in the non-fiction thread, even if that's what it's part of what's it there for. There's some kind of vague distinction in my head that separates social chatter about TV and other discussion.

I think that's a good distinction, AmyLiz. I agree that the whole thing is organic. I'm sure folks know I want the buckets back, but I still feel that folks should be able to talk about tv where they want to, in Natter or elsewhere.

Exactly. I'm open to the possibility of separate show threads in future if warranted. But for now, that's entirely theoretical, and I don't think we should open any single-show threads based on the experimentals.

(Personally, I'd first nominate Daily Show and Colbert and shows of that ilk, especially since there seems to be some confusion over them in the first place.)

I think they fit better in Natter as well.

Though I think, with regards to TDS/TBC, that it shouldn't be limited to just Natter--it should be Natter and Other Bucket Thread.

I'm definitely in the minority on this one, but I catch up on TDS a couple days behind everyone else because the International Edition is delayed in the UK by a day or two; so I'd at least like the option of going in to Comedy when I do and saying, whoa, Jon sure did a great Cheney impression tonight.

Are you worried that if there is a comedy thread, and you go in and post something about the Daily Show, you might get thread nannied?

That's not addressed just to SA. I guess I'm just trying to figure out if people's concept of the possible bucket threads is that they will be so precisely defined.

I think the bucket thread concept has worked well with Boxed Set, at least for me. I was able to follow/participate in the discussions I wanted to follow, and found it easy enough to ignore the discussions that didn't interest me. At the same time, skimming some of the discussions on shows I didn't watch incited me to try watching a couple of those shows (Supernatural, BSG), and that is a good thing.

Lee, I don't think they'd be out of place on a comedy thread. And I certainly wouldn't nanny anyone who discussed them there. Ditto, really, just about anything NAFDA-compliant on Natter.

The problem in having categories is that some shows aren't going to fit neatly into a single category. I'd be comfortable with discussion in any category that a show fits, and that discussion would organically settle into a particular thread of its own accord.

I agree with Fred.