I'm still quite anti-spread. It coulda been baseball or the Olympics or anything else, and I don't think it lends itself to sustained and repeated discussion.

There's usually little to no discussion of Alias episodes in Natter -- maybe five posts per episode, if that. This was a Big Episode, aired simultaneously on both coasts -- it doesn't fit the pattern in lots of ways.

Hmm.. fair enough. I'm easily dissuaded too. Though, Alias does get a fair amount of post time. More than Smallville, actually.

edited to say, 5 posts per episode stil outstrips some of the Smallville discussions.

Hmm.. fair enough. I'm easily dissuaded too. Though, Alias does get a fair amount of post time. More than Smallville, actually

Yep. I mean, Smallville has lost a lot of us this season (though I'm back on the crack), and Alias, now that it's no longer opposite Angel, has a big old bunch of all of you.

I'd go lower case, but then I'd look like I was Iiese, and I'm already voweled enough for a non-fantasy name.

I oppose thread proliferation.

I'm already voweled enough for a non-fantasy name.

Kent Hrbek wants a talk with you.

I oppose thread proliferation.

Quit following me around opposing everything I don't believe in!

I oppose disbelief opposition.

I don't believe you!

I believe in Fairies, especially that Tinkerbell. I'm clapping my hands right now. AIFG!

This is funny. After Allyson mentioned a thread for Greenwalt's Miracles, I had an idea all written up and ready to be posted yesterday. Then I changed my mind. Now, I've changed it back.

How about one TV thread for all shows that don't already have a dedicated thread? Do you think people would use it? Any show that's aired anywhere in the world would be fair game and not require white font. Only future spoilers for the show would require white font, in the thread. For example if you'd known ahead of time that Clooney was coming back to ER for Juliana Margulies last episode, you'd have had to put that in white font.

People would enter and use the thread at their own risk. If you hadn't seen whatever show is your particular show, you'd stay out of the thread until you had, or you'd learn to practice the art of careful peeking. If one show seemed to take over the thread to the point of daily discussion, board habits would serve as proof/justification that a non-Joss show needed its own thread. If we end up with a Whedonless TV landscape next year, this might come in handy.

I won't be miserable if we don't do this. But I do think, not only here but at all the boards I visit, that spoiler font is a little bit of an impediment to conversation. Even with quick-edit, in a thread that moves as fast as Natter, a thread that induces people to skip and skim, I'm as likely not to bother to bring something up, because the odds of someone else who wanted to talk about a show - actually seeing my post - are slim to none.

I can see the purpose of a non-Jossverse television thread. Still, my first instinct is that what we watched tonight is Natter.