Okay, okay. My point is that the fact that the slug mentions HoYay should not keep you out of the thread, as I have found it perfectly enjoyable regardless.
Now you can luxuriate in a nice jail cell, but if your hand touches metal, I swear by my pretty flowered bonnet, I will end you.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Bureaucracy 4: Like Job. No, really, just like Job
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
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Polter-Cow - Sep 13, 2007 2:51:04 pm PDT #1638 of 6786
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Connie Neil - Sep 13, 2007 5:34:58 pm PDT #1639 of 6786
brillig
using Captain Jack is cheating.
But inevitable. Is it still HoYay when the characters are actually grabbing each other and smooching?
Sorry, the mad slasher will leave that now.
§ ita § - Sep 13, 2007 6:37:40 pm PDT #1640 of 6786
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My point is that the fact that the slug mentions HoYay should not keep you out of the thread, as I have found it perfectly enjoyable regardless
Doesn't that just make the slug accurate?
The conversation mentioned catch all SF before the thread was created. I Nillied it way back in the day and found that mention at least.
But BS isn't being used in the manner it was created for, so much any more.
What manner do you mean? Sci Fi and fantasy? It looks like that's what's happening to me, and I'm curious about why people aren't finding it so.
Pix - Sep 13, 2007 7:56:28 pm PDT #1641 of 6786
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Like I said, I really was not trying to start a huge debate again; I was just asking on the off chance that there was some alternative for new shows. I think Drew and I are in the minority in terms of Boxed Set not working for us, so no need to hash it out again.
Cass - Sep 13, 2007 8:07:35 pm PDT #1642 of 6786
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Like I said, I really was not trying to start a huge debate againIt ever ended?
Not to just sound snarky, but I feel like this conversation keeps going around in the exact same circles. Boxed Set works for some and doesn't for others. I don't think that is going to change. And it's absolutely not not going to change in the past without a TARDIS. So perhaps more talk of looking forward if we want to keep discussing this?
NoiseDesign - Sep 13, 2007 8:13:54 pm PDT #1643 of 6786
Our wings are not tired
Basically we've been told obliquely more than once that if we want to talk TV in any way that might work for us, we might as well look elsewhere.
Pix - Sep 13, 2007 8:16:27 pm PDT #1644 of 6786
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
So perhaps more talk of looking forward if we want to keep discussing this?
I brought it up because of the talk of new shows, not about what was already in the thread. To me, this was about looking forward. I asked; I got an answer. I hadn't planned to go around in circles.
ETA: And just in case it seems like ND and I were posting in tandem on purpose, we're currently 2000 or so miles apart. Just coincidence. Or that weird brain sharing that sometimes happens with couples, I guess. Or he borrowed the brain and forgot to leave some for me. Which is also possible given how braindead I've been lately. And I'm going to stop rambling now and get some sleep.
Cass - Sep 13, 2007 8:53:03 pm PDT #1645 of 6786
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Basically we've been told obliquely more than once that if we want to talk TV in any way that might work for us, we might as well look elsewhere.That seems a little harsh.
And I am not trying to be oblique, at all. I know that you hate the structure of Boxed Set and want to change it to single show threads or a bucket where you only watch one show in it (thereby being, for you, a single show thread) because of the way you watch tv.
Just? That's not the thread we have, the thread we voted for. I'm not saying look elsewhere or leave, just that unfortunately every place on b.org isn't going to work for every poster's needs all of the time.
Or that weird brain sharing that sometimes happens with couples, I guess.No worries. I know you both share the same position on this. You enjoy genre tv, don't want to be spoiled, don't watch live and often catch up on dvds so the thread we have doesn't work for you.
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Personally, Boxed Set has worked well for me at times in the past, at times it hasn't, and I am sure at some point it will again. The shows change and, for me, that's part of the beauty of it. And it always has seemed clear to me what shows fit there and belong there.
NoiseDesign - Sep 13, 2007 8:57:32 pm PDT #1646 of 6786
Our wings are not tired
That seems a little harsh.
Sorry, I'm stuck in hotel rooms and exhausted from being out of town too much lately.
I've hit the point where I can accept the fact that I'm just out of luck on b.org for the shows that are already in Boxed Set, it's just a big bummer that it seems every time a new show comes up that looks really interesting to me and that people here seem to want to talk about, it too gets swallowed by Boxed Set.
Liese S. - Sep 13, 2007 9:04:41 pm PDT #1647 of 6786
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
You can propose a new thread for a new show that you're interested in, regardless of its status in an existing thread.
I dunno what support you'd get, but that's the process. You do have options, just not necessarily the ones you want.