As long as that's the general understanding, it seems like that should work well.
I couldn't believe it the first twenty times you told us, but it's starting to sink in now.
Riley ,'Lessons'
Boxed Set, Vol. III: "That Can't Be Good..."
A topic for the discussion of Farscape, Smallville, and Due South. Beware possible invasions of Stargate, Highlander, or pretty much any other "genre" show that captures our fancy. Expect Adult Content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.
Whitefont all unaired in the U.S. ep discussion, identifying it as such, and including the show and ep title in blackfont.
Blackfont is allowed after the show has aired on the east coast.
This is NOT a general TV discussion thread.
Lee - Apr 06, 2007 7:50:44 pm PDT #9738 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Cass - Apr 06, 2007 8:00:11 pm PDT #9739 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
God I don't want to even get into this...
But the whole conversation is kinda making me feel like the w&p - of a show that belongs in Boxed Set - is unwelcome. I get that there are people that don't participate or care, I do.
I don't even know what I want to say here. I am typing and deleting and typing and deleting and ... lather, rinse.
The w&p posts are grouped and nothing tends to happen in the middle. So a quick skim would get most anyone that doesn't care past it within a click or two.
I don't have any particular issue with someone offering to link a "skip to the end" once we're done flailing, but I kinda feel like I shouldn't even be participating in the w&p because it is sticking in craws.
There's the part where I could lobby for the okayness of the dvd w&p while the show is on hiatus (which is the only time we are doing these), and then there is the part where I really don't want to have to fight that battle in the thread where SPN is discussed.
I mean, we talk about lots of shows in here. Some I love, some I watch randomly, and some that aren't my beautiful cake. But this is the thread we've created and I am okay with skipping things that don't grab me.
eta: Written before the last few posts. See also: dithering.
Lee - Apr 06, 2007 8:08:53 pm PDT #9740 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I don't even know what I want to say here. I am typing and deleting and typing and deleting and ... lather, rinse.
Cass is me. I think I've typed and deleted about a page worth of posts, because I'm not sure how to say what I want to.
On one hand, I get why people would want to skip over the whole W&P, and I want to facilitate that, but on the other, it kind of feels like we are being thread nannyed at the same time, especially when it comes to asking if it's okay if we do a W&P before we start, and after all, this is the thread where SPN is discussed.
P.M. Marc - Apr 06, 2007 8:10:41 pm PDT #9741 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
On one hand, I get why people would want to skip over the whole W&P, and I want to facilitate that, but on the other, it kind of feels like we are being thread nannyed at the same time, especially when it comes to asking if it's okay if we do a W&P before we start, and this is the thread where SPN is discussed.
Yeah. This.
esse - Apr 06, 2007 8:22:49 pm PDT #9742 of 10001
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Far be it from me to harsh your squee, dudes. It's irrelevant to me how it's done, because I'm not in a position to participate, so for me it's just skipping over two hundred or so posts on a Friday. Since I'm not going to read the posts anyway, having a skip to here works for me. But that's about as far as it pings my radar.
Cass - Apr 06, 2007 8:26:41 pm PDT #9743 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I think I've typed and deleted about a page worth of posts, because I'm not sure how to say what I want to.Pretty sure I have typed the equivalent of War and Peace tonight. And then, you know, deleted it so I could retype all over again.
I want to be a good neighbor, but I ...
I have no analogy.
JenP - Apr 06, 2007 8:43:04 pm PDT #9744 of 10001
FWIW, it seems like a perfectly cromulent use of Boxed Set to me. It also doesn't bother me at all, but that's really beside the point... well, my point, anyway, which is the cromulence.
Beverly - Apr 06, 2007 8:59:56 pm PDT #9745 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I feel an announcement or warning in advance of a dvd W&P is a little excessive, and that the posts we do setting up ep, day and time is, you know, an announcement.
I do understand the disappointment, though. I feel much the same way when I see bunches of new posts here, and find acres of whitefont over ahemmed shows that I won't likely see until and unless they're aired. By the time they are aired, there won't be much discussion, and honestly, no matter how I promise myself I'll go back and read the discussion, I know I won't.
As for the question at hand, realistically, we've only three S1 eps left, so SPN dvd W&P will be out of the thread shortly anyway. But if W&Ping dvds slows down or disrupts discussion of currently airing stuff, I do think the board could use a dvd thread, for Farscape, or Highlander, or SG:1 dvds, or even The OC, Wonderfalls, Due South, Slings and Arrows--if it's on dvd and a handful of people want to set up W&P dates, I'd like to do it where I don't feel I'm disrupting discussion of current shows.
esse - Apr 06, 2007 9:19:41 pm PDT #9746 of 10001
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
I don't think it slows down or disrupts discussion, and it is a perfectly good use of the thread. I do think that, since it's limited to the people who participate in the w&p's, that a skip to here is both sufficient and useful for people who want to bookmark the discussion (since it does tend to be in sequence without other discussion in between) and who want to skip the discussion. Hence the original suggestion remains the best one, IMO.
Theodosia - Apr 07, 2007 2:28:54 am PDT #9747 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I had hoped I phrased my reactions in a non-condemnatory way -- I quite agree that it's a proper use of the thread. However, making nice for the non-SPN fans (or non-W&P fans) makes for good thread-neighboring.
I did find the overlap between the BSG season finale (which was a hyyyyuuuuuuge discussion topic) and the W&P for a different show immediately afterward a bit of a car crash.
Note that because of the nature of reality, there's always the possibility that two Boxed Set shows might have discussion-intensive events happening at the same time, so it's not like we won't face overlapping thread traffic again.