In a cable/premium split, what about those shows like Dr. Who that a lot of people ahem to watch?
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Sue - Feb 28, 2007 5:57:43 pm PST #6324 of 10289
hip deep in pie
brenda m - Feb 28, 2007 5:59:00 pm PST #6325 of 10289
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Expanding on my last post, I'd really prefer making Box Set a SciFi network thread and using one of the other show threads for the non cables. Identifying simply as cable/broadcast leads too closely to the whole general tv thread idea, which I'm not a fan of.
eta: x-posted with ita
Eddie - Feb 28, 2007 6:06:36 pm PST #6326 of 10289
Your tag here.
Dude, you just suggested five threads. At least.
Yeah, but versus every popular show for the next five years? seems like it'd balance out. There's a relatively finite number of networks but new shows are always coming out.
§ ita § - Feb 28, 2007 6:08:47 pm PST #6327 of 10289
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
versus every popular show for the next five years? seems like it'd balance out
Lots of popular shows don't have their own threads or even agitation for their own threads. I'm reasonably confident that the next five years will be kinda like that.
Maria - Feb 28, 2007 6:21:45 pm PST #6328 of 10289
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
Expanding on my last post, I'd really prefer making Box Set a SciFi network thread and using one of the other show threads for the non cables. Identifying simply as cable/broadcast leads too closely to the whole general tv thread idea, which I'm not a fan of.
brenda and ita have articulated quite nicely how I feel. I'm 1700 posts behind in Box Set because I'm trying to avoid the Heroes and SPN talk. I'm woefully behind on the first and I'm waiting for hiatus on the second. Otherwise, I'm up to date with BSG and DF and I'd love to discuss them on Sundays, but I am utterly incapable of skipping over what I don't want to read at the time. So I haven't ventured into BS since the beginning of January, and that makes me sad. By the time I catch up, there will be no point in responding.
I abandoned Lost in the first season, and I'm 4 episodes behind for VM. While I like the idea of the separate VM thread, I'm willing to compromise and throw my support behind a SciFi channel thread and a non-cable genre thread (Lost, VM, Heroes, SPN, and the ilk). General TV talk should stay in Natter.
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Eddie - Feb 28, 2007 6:41:35 pm PST #6329 of 10289
Your tag here.
Lots of popular shows don't have their own threads or even agitation for their own threads. I'm reasonably confident that the next five years will be kinda like that.
Agreed, and I don't know why I'm beating this horse, but looking at the thread list, we have the following creation dates:
2002 Firefly
2003 LOTR
2004 Lost
2005 Veronica Mars
2006 Premium Cable
Just pointing out and giving everyone some perspective that at least one new thread gets created a year.
Eddie - Feb 28, 2007 7:37:28 pm PST #6330 of 10289
Your tag here.
To follow-up, rather than spawning a new thread for each show that comes along that garners interest, it seems to me that the best course of action would be to retire the current television-related threads and replace them with a framework that allows for some separation of show discussion while at the same time limiting the possibility of thread proliferation. I suggested networks, but I'm sure there are other ways of creating the groups -- you could have the Red Thread with shows beginning A-M and Blue Thread with shows N-Z.
aurelia - Feb 28, 2007 8:14:29 pm PST #6331 of 10289
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Eddie, that would be more organized than useful. I think we're going for a useful sort of organization.
I'm willing to compromise and throw my support behind a SciFi channel thread and a non-cable genre thread (Lost, VM, Heroes, SPN, and the ilk). General TV talk should stay in Natter.
I would support this. Although, isn't there some non-network stuff that isn't on SciFi that probably should stay in Boxed Set?
§ ita § - Feb 28, 2007 9:09:43 pm PST #6332 of 10289
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
isn't there some non-network stuff that isn't on SciFi that probably should stay in Boxed Set?
Doctor Who, for one. Airs on both Sci Fi (so far) and BBCAmerica. And BBCAmerica will air other stuff like Hex which falls into the genre description. And no reason for other stations to not do so either.
aurelia - Feb 28, 2007 11:07:39 pm PST #6333 of 10289
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
So Boxed Set would stay pretty much as-is with "cable" thrown into the description while the network shows get a spin-off thread.
It makes sense for a network genre thread to absorb Lost, but is VM genre? I don't watch that one so I couldn't say.