I've always been antiprolif, but I've come around to liking premium (even though I was once agin it). OTOH, I really don't like having a lot of show-specific threads, because I prefer some cross-pollination and the more everything is off in its own corner, the more it feels like a (gasp!) threaded board. So that leads me to not like a Heroes thread (or an SPN one), to like the SciFi boxed set idea okay, and to really be intrigued at the thought of a broadcast/basic/premium split -- broken down enough for the volume to be more manageable, easy enough to understand where to go, spoilers more manageable for the cable-less or premium-less, and more likely to sustain itself than any single-show thread.

plus, then those crazy kids can take their freaky heroes and spns and whatever those crazy kids are watching these days off somewheres and stop putting their chocolate in my (natural) peanut butter

I have trouble judging one part of the equation, people who don't want to enter the thread to discuss one show because they want to avoid discussion of another show, because I'm a spoiler whore from way back.

I wonder if the current nature of television scheduling lends itself to a lot of threads. The SciFi shows have such long hiatuses and even network shows rarely show many repeats, filling the time with "Bowling with America's Top Model and the Geek." By the summer, the thread may be all Eureka (yay!), because everything else is off the air until fall.

The short answer is I'm fairly antiproliferation in that I don't like having a lot if empty echoing threads or ones that, in the absence of a show, turn into mini-Natters.

So that leads me to not like a Heroes thread (or an SPN one), to like the SciFi boxed set idea okay, and to really be intrigued at the thought of a broadcast/basic/premium split -- broken down enough for the volume to be more manageable, easy enough to understand where to go, spoilers more manageable for the cable-less or premium-less, and more likely to sustain itself than any single-show thread.

I could live with this solution. (Not that I'm admitting there's a problem!)

Why do I feel like I am covered in guacamole right now?

I'm sorry to have inadvertently started this debate, it certainly wasn't my intention. Also, just to clear up any confusion Tom or others might have had, the reason I asked about where Heroes was being discussed was not that I was unaware such discussion was going on. ON the contrary, after finally watching a few episodes, I assumed that it was exactly the kind of show that buffistas would discuss. I, on the other hand, had only recently seen enough of the show to join in the conversation. I have kept away from the tv talk for the past 3 years or so simply because I have watched almost nothing apart from TDS and a few kids' shows. I knew enough to know that most of it had been moved to other threads, but I wasn't sure what was being discussed where.

In short, my question was prompted not by some failing on the part of the board to provide me with the appropriate the tv-fueled conversation, but by my own fall from my former media junkie grace.

I don't think there's any guacamole in sight (because I ate it all). From the number of posts in Boxed Set recently, I think the discussion was probably due.

I see no guacamole on you anywhere, Burrell -- to me, it seems like a question we've nibbled at the edges of in various ways, and your post just prompted some thinking on it.

There's no guac. This convo is pretty friendly, and not too many people seemed too married to any one right way.

I agree that this conversation was definitely going to come up. There have been nearly four hundred posts in the last three or four days since I checked Boxed Set, which is pretty high volume for any thread on the board, save Bitches and Natter.

I too like the idea of a premium-basic divide. I think it has worked well with the Premium thread, though I will note that Premium is a slower-moving thread. I can barely keep up with just a day or so delay on shows in Boxed Set, and I think it would be a good move to divide the network tv from the cable tv, not because they are different styles of shows, but just so that the discussion is at a manageable level.

I also think closing the Lost thread is fine, but I don't really go there; I just have noted that the post levels are quite low for what used to be a must-watch show.

plus, then those crazy kids can take their freaky heroes and spns and whatever those crazy kids are watching these days off somewheres and stop putting their chocolate in my (natural) peanut butter

We have *got* to get you into SPN...

Hmm.

to really be intrigued at the thought of a broadcast/basic/premium split -- broken down enough for the volume to be more manageable, easy enough to understand where to go, spoilers more manageable for the cable-less or premium-less, and more likely to sustain itself than any single-show thread.

This idea is intriguing.

It's a discussion that needed to take place. I watch most of the Boxed Set shows, but not SPN or DF. It is very odd to catch up on a couple hundred posts skimming over discussions that involve a half dozen shows. In Natter the show name being discussed tends to be mentioned, but in Natter the show name is followed by whitefont.

I've read here that Heroes overwhelms the thread, while to me SPN does. To some it might seem BSG is the dominant discussion.

In summary, better to have too many shows that prompt discussion than too few. Let's make out .