Why Ikea? Is there some significance to it other than it's fun to say for some people?

It's a semi-pun on "Fannish TV" which sounds like "Finnish TV" which is close enough to Swedish to remind someone (Kat? Katie?) of IKEA.

Which is just kind of stream-of-consciousness humour that appeals to me.

Yes!

Well, rats. It was such a good proposal up to that point, too...

Previously is an important hang out for UnAmericans, like me (it's where I first found Buffy discussion at a higher level than 'Spike iz cool' 'No, Spik suX'. I want to keep it; I'm perfectly happy to have Angel in there as well. The main Buffy thread... I don't know. Residual hang-up about spoilers, or something; plus not knowing the community there. I don't read it often, and when I do I find skipping the natter annoying. Which is odd. And rambly. Sorry.)

Plei is right-- rename Bitchy Fic (or don't: are there any PPO posters who are unhappy to be included as Bitches?) rather than opening new thread.

Edit: and while of those three, SV's the only one I'm interested in, including IKEA in the title will keep me reading the thread, I suspect.

I ask this, because I was for that item as it was originally proposed, but not as it is now written. At this point, while we are still testing to see if certain coding changes will improve things, I don't think we should be closing up busy threads. And Previously will become busy once we have both new and old eps of Angel running.

But it's going to be Angel discussion (and Buffy) and we have Angel and Buffy show threads. Although they too are busy, there is a forum for this. How can we streamline with duplication? Old stuff has never been off-topic in the show threads.

Besides the point Jon's points about it, one of the reasons we separated the Previously threads from the main Buffy thread was so that UnAmericans could take part in the discussions of the old episodes. They won't be able to do that if it's folded into Angel.

This is true, but Americans don't have to go through Customs to get into the UnAmerican thread.

Kat -- I like Preliminary Ballot 4.0 Did you see Plei's point about rolling the fic threads into Bitchy Fic? It's: P.M. Marcontell "Voting Discussion: We're Screwing In Light Bulbs AIFG!" Aug 21, 2003 11:37:16 am PDT

Also? I know you're anti-hobbit, but any thoughts on adding an item asking Buffistas about rolling LotR into the Movies thread? When things are talked out, we still end up talking there. In other words, it's a hidden Natter haven. People should be warned that LotR talk will swamp the Movies thread when the TTT DVDs come out (by the end of this month) and when RotK is released in November. Still? When we're trying to streamline, it seems rather gluttonous to have a thread for one finite work, 3-parted or not.

Will you be putting an item on addressing Sang Sacre too? Or is it too little, and too fun to touch?

eta...

The only change I'd request is sneaking in the Ikea thread name for due South/Smallville.

We should entitle the thread Smallville/due South/Farscape, and name the first one Ikea.

(Kat? Katie?) of IKEA.

Kat. Kat-Kat, not kat perez-kat. (Okay, someone's clearly going to have to change their name to Gertrude. Not it!)

This is true, but Americans don't have to go through Customs to get into the UnAmerican thread.

unAmerican discussion often veers wildly from Angel and Buffy.

Jumping in late to ask if we are voting on this stuff anytime soon because there are quite a few points to consider here.

The four days of discussion end Saturday evening.

This is true, but Americans don't have to go through Customs to get into the UnAmerican thread.

So you want discussions of old episodes of Angel to take place in Unamericans?

I ask that only half-seriously; I still think you're being a little too gung ho on consolidation. I think we should take this more slowly.

Also? I know you're anti-hobbit, but any thoughts on adding an item asking Buffistas about rolling LotR into the Movies thread?

The size of LotR is almost the same as Movies, and will likely maintain that volume for another year (until some time after the RotK DVDs and suchlike are out). Dumping all that into movies is going to be a pain for the movie fans who don't care about LotR, and it's going to be a pain for those of us who are LotR fans who don't hang out in movies.

Sang Sacre

Well, there are still a few of us around who post there, and it's hardly a drain on resources. My main objection to it's going is that there is no alternative place to post the kind of material that goes into Sang Sacre. It's not fic, it's not show posting, it's not natter, it's not topic oriented. You can't fold it into anything else. As it stands, I don't think it's hurting anybody, so I'd just as soon leave it.

So you want discussions of old episodes of Angel to take place in Unamericans?

I think the thought is that those discussions will move into the main Angel topic, and that unAmericans who can't go into that topic can discuss the Angel that they have seen in unAmericans.