Let's talk about Harold Bloom.

Let's not. I always get into trouble when I talk about Harold Bloom.

Okay, so, I'm hoping to get the Drive site up next week as I have some time free.

If anybody has any spare time; what features on fan sites are actually useful or interesting? I mean, aside from the compulsory forum for the Alex fans to hate the Wendy fans, and all that.

At the moment, I'm (along with somebody else) are thinking: Production news, scheduling news, episode guide with writer/director/cast/music info, screen cap gallery per episode, a Google Earth style map of the race to plot the path with episodes, a character study type thing which gives an updated history of each character as each episode airs, a character link graph to show how characters intercet, a mythology page to deal with The Race and possibly some kind of news and discussion podcast (once a month, or something).

I think that all sounds great, Kevin, and more than I would have expected. I consider Mars Investigations a pretty comprehensive fansite, information-wise, if you're looking for ideas.

For instance, it may be good to have a graveyard handy.

Kevin, I was going to point you at Mars Investigations, too. I have no connection to the site, other than that I am a devotee.

(transcripts are awesome, for what it's worth)

Aha, Kevin, a timeline would be a good idea. Although the Race mythology page and the Character Link page would likely cover the same ground, it might be useful to have it in one chronological place.

At the moment, I'm (along with somebody else)

*cough*Me*cough*

Production news, scheduling news, episode guide with writer/director/cast/music info, screen cap gallery per episode, a Google Earth style map of the race to plot the path with episodes, a character study type thing which gives an updated history of each character as each episode airs, a character link graph to show how characters intercet, a mythology page to deal with The Race and possibly some kind of news and discussion podcast (once a month, or something).

A Drivewiki'll cover at least half of that.

A Drivewiki sounds like an awesome idea as it means people can add content and I don't have to do it all (and mess it all up). Instead, other people can mess it up for me!

I certainly think it needs to be a user driven (pun not intended) site as keeping on top of that sort of thing is Not Easy, although I'm a massive control freak so I'd worry about the validity of it. Although, let's face it, I get things wrong... like... A lot.

On a more interesting note, I just noticed somebody has made a nice package online with all The Inside episodes in it. I may buy - well, download - that for Xmas and watch again.

I've been trying to ahem that one for like a week now, and it's like trying to swim through glue. If I'm lucky, I might be able to start watching by New Years. Woe for lack of officially purchasable DVDs!

I was thinking, if I put the eps on DVDs and we got them distributed to peeps here we could have a watch and post on the remaining episodes. But I don't know how many people never actually saw them, I presume it's not many people.