I don't want to propose a general thread. That's not the nature of my questions. I was inquiring about the efficacy of the current proposal. I just didn't find it to be narrow enough such that shows couldn't be already discussed in Natter.

Deadwood, The Sopranos and Rome are all on their last seasons.

True. And The Wire has only one more at most.

I'm gonna point and nod vigorously at What Nutty Said.

At the rate we are going we need a scorecard on the front page to point out which threads have which shows.

The main reason, it seems, that Deadwood talk moved into Movies was that Movies moves more slowly than Natter and some people can't keep up with Natter. In general, we've tended to award a show its own thread on basis of its disrupting Natter with its talk, rather than its explicitly moving out of Natter in order to find a space where it can have a higher signal-to-noise ratio. This would seem to be rewarding rule-breaking for a very small audience, rather than relieving the eyeballs of a very big audience. Thoughts?

I agree with most of this (I'm just not worried about rewarding rule-breaking). For me the reason not to create a new thread is that it deprives other threads of activity, conversation, mix. When a topic is drowning out the good mix then I think a new thread is warranted. Otherwise I think it's a net negative to other threads.

But we're Buffistas. Who talk about dead shows all the fricking time. If we build it, it'll get used.

I had no idea there was Deadwood conversation going on in Movies. I mentioned it once or twice in Natter but it didn't seem like there was a high level of discussion so I moved to another board to talk about it.

And, while a number of shows are in their last season, the way those last seasons are spaced out, combined with the new shows that will coming along to replace them (not to mention, two Deadwood movies) I think there's enough there to sustain a thread for some time.

I could talk about Oz there! Although I don't have anything smart to say about it.

Anyway, I think the thing with Deadwood (at least) is that the specific people who most want to talk about it can't handle the speed of Natter. Unlike, say, Project Runway -- not that there aren't people who WOULD talk about PR if they could easily find the discussion, but there's a small critical mass of people who hang around Natter and talk about it there.

Does anyone have any information about new HBO shows? For all we know, they could decide to move in an Arli$$ direction in the future.