This made me laugh about NA:

Think of it as "Life meets Highlander: The series" without the swordfights and the good writing (Life, not Highlander).

I think the thread originally started for the hoYay and the porn, and it was kind of a coincidence that the SciFi stuff (i.e. Smallville, Highlander) were slashtastic.

This. Nobody sat down and said 'Hey, let's build a single thread for discussing current genre TV that's not Jossverse!' - this thread is what we got when we squashed several existing threads together, on the basis that the shows that were being discussed were mostly being discussed for the slash by mostly the same people, and because we were trying to cut down on the total number of threads at that time. Sure, Smallville was airing, as was SG:1, but Farscape, Due South, Highlander etc were not - and our engagement was primarily with the texts as sources for fanfic. Slashy fanfic, for the most part. It was all about the HoYay.

t curmudgeon

You folks with your non-slashy appreciation of TV are most definitely welcome, and these days the place involves far less porn than was present in the days of the Pansexual Prettyboy Orgy collective, but make no mistake - Boxed Set started out as a place where all the fic-reading and fic-writing slashers' threads could be condensed into one.

Gradually, since there's no longer fresh Jossverse stuff to discuss, the nature of this section of the board has changed, and other shows have been given their own threads for watch'n'post type stuff. That's fab. But that's not how this thread was conceived.

(And I do agree that, even were it not so, Due South is highly quirky magical realism, with plots hinging on messages from dead people and magical deaf wolves. Sounds like genre to me. But regardless of its genre-ness - it's a SLASH fandom. And that's why it's here.)

t /curmudgeon

Fay - you know that we hope for a new Jossian show in the Fall or perhaps the Spring?

You folks with your non-slashy appreciation of TV are most definitely welcome

I don't want to let that fragment of sentence stand as if welcome has been granted to non-slashers. Boxed Set is now a sff thread and was discussed in those terms as early on as the merger.

What ita said. Also, the Farscape thread was mostly non-slashy even before it joined Boxed Set.

One thing I think Buffistas would really benefit from would be a change history log. When something is voted to be changed, a log is put on a page about the change. Therefore people can easily see history of board changes.

the Pansexual Prettyboy Orgy collective

Sniff. Those were the days.

You folks with your non-slashy appreciation of TV are most definitely welcome

Gee, um, thanks. Speaking as someone who doesn't read or write fic and yet was an active member of the pre-BS Farscape thread and has been reading and posting in Boxed Set since day 1, it's so nice to know I have your approval to post here. Really, I feel so much better now.

And as ita and DX have already pointed out, the Farscape thread was never particularly slashy or ficcy, nor was the SG-1 discussion going on in whichever thread that was. The "Hey, maybe we should just have one SF/F TV thread" conversation happened very early in the "Should we merge DS/FS/Smallville?" negotiations, and most certainly predates the creation of this thread.

Jessica, I apologise unreservedly - I did feel defensive about Due South's right to be part of the thread being questioned, but I was also amused by how defensive I felt about it. From the tone of your post, I clearly failed absolutely to convey the fact that I was taking the piss out of myself with my curmudgeon tags, and I am sincerely sorry that I came across as patronising, when I really didn't mean to. Type in haste, repent at leisure.

Thank you Fay.

It's a touchy topic.