Voting Discussion: We're Screwing In Light Bulbs AIFG!
We open it up, we talks the talk, we votes, we shuts it down. This thread is to free up Bureaucracy for daily details as we hammer out the Big Issues towards a vote. Open only when a proposal has been made and seconded according to Buffista policy (Which we voted on!). If this thread is closed, hie thee to Bureaucracy instead!
Does anybody have a unique-word-counter program available? If we fed in the text of the current Boxed Set thread, I bet the Top 100 Words would include Heroes, Supernatural, Dean, Sam, Winchester, Cheerleader, Hiro, Haitian, Stargate.
Don't know if this will be useful to anybody, but it amused me...
Case-insensitive search of the current Boxed Set:
Heroes: 313
Supernatural: 146
Dean: 471
Sam: 780
Winchester: 88
Cheerleader: 37
Hiro: 276
Haitian: 154
Stargate: 51
Total word count is 532,679. Unique proper words/names (beginning with a capital letter) is 7,643. Top proper words/names:
I 11554
I'm 1672
The 1550
And 1408
But 796
You 757
It 674
It's 572
Jack 568
So 518
Evil 487
I've 478
He 454
BTW 453
Oh 450
Don't 401
That 393
Also 387
If 381
Dean 373
PolterCow 353
There 322
They 319
Sam 312
Carter 307
When 304
That's 302
BSG 301
Doctor 300
James 298
Who 296
Yeah 294
Matt 293
Eureka 291
I'd 287
Well 284
Jessica 282
I'll 279
Lee 269
On 264
We 260
She's 252
This 249
Dana 248
Vortex 246
Peter 245
Simon 242
Claire 238
What 234
I love that Evil scored so high on the list.
There is more Jack than Evil. Heh.
And there is more me than There! Woo!
I skim most everything not Heros in BS (heeeheee) because I don't have cable and SPN never got me. On one hand, I can see the desire for some differentiation. (Dresden Files? What's that?) but on the other, ok... it's all Kat's fault in natter that I started watching the OC due to whitefont, so I can't really argue shit. I.READ.EVERYTHING. Even when I claim not to. I'm too efficient.
Bottom line is I read too much, skim too much, often irrelevent and I really have no preference. But I will say the crossover inthread does have the potential for drawing new viewers from the current population. At the same time, the prevalence probably has the potential for driving people off, annoyed with having to skim so much.
Summation: I have no preference, but now you have my useless thoughts!
sarameg, The OC is not my fault!
I kind of like the idea of broadcast TV vs. cable TV.
I like the idea of broadcast-cable-premium cable very much and think Theo's list is good. I wonder if The Office is discussed much here, or perhaps it's covered in other venues off the board.
Just throwing this out there as an idea, I don't have much of a preference in this, but what if there were per-network threads? That would tend to segregate the shows somewhat but limit the proliferation to a handful of networks. For example, the shows people have mentioned here and elsewhere are:
Heroes - NBC
Supernatural - CW
Lost - ABC
BSG - SciFi
Drive - Fox
Wait, are we talking about general TV or genre TV?
Bottom line is I read too much, skim too much, often irrelevent and I really have no preference. But I will say the crossover inthread does have the potential for drawing new viewers from the current population. At the same time, the prevalence probably has the potential for driving people off, annoyed with having to skim so much.
Sara kind of just said what I wanted to say. I don't mind skimming. If it wasn't for reading all y'alls various ranting and ravings and flailings, I'd never have watched Deadwood, The Wire, Eureka, Heroes, or Supernatural. And hey, I keep thinking that I'll give BSG another chance sometime, since the Buffistas like it so much. So I lean towards not wanting to break threads up so much, because I would miss being influenced.
I am an old spoiler whore, who doesn't mind reading about shows before I see them. Right now, I get no shows at the same time as the US. But I have to say for the spoiler phobic among you who have to wait for DVD, if you've never seen the show, reading the posts doesn't really stick. Maybe it's because my brain is pea-sized, but I read the white-font for the Season 1 VM finale, and by the time I got around to seeing it myself, I had forgotten who killed Lily Kane.
That said, but because VM and the Premium shows are DVD shows to me, I just don't go in there anymore because it's so far in the future that I'll have a chance to get to see them.
I think that's too many, and frankly, I would have a hard time naming what networks various things were on. I'd guess most of us Tivo folk are the same.
It also squicks me on a base level that I can't quite articulate, except that we're not a TV board.
A SciFi thread I can see, and would support. I could also probably get behind the cable/non split (merging VM and Lost and adding the non-cables there would be my suggestion).
