For me, Eureka is different because the seasons (the one that's aired and the one coming up) are much shorter. A Eureka thread would slow to a trickle for much longer periods than a Heroes thread would.
Occasionally I'm callous and strange.
Willow ,'The Killer In Me'
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Jon B. - Mar 01, 2007 2:49:39 pm PST #6443 of 10289
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
DavidS - Mar 01, 2007 2:52:15 pm PST #6444 of 10289
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Didn't Nutty's numbers imply this wasn't so?
Probably in crosspost...
We've got Nutty's count now. Which suggests NonDominance. Possibly even Parity with a side of Scheduling Gridlock.
You're fucking with my synergy. Don't make me cut you.
Pfft. Dude, I could take you out with a bag of microwave popcorn at this point. Do you have a krav defense against microwave popcorn yet?
::hides existence of nose plugs and air filtration masks from ita::
§ ita § - Mar 01, 2007 3:18:08 pm PST #6445 of 10289
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
For me, Eureka is different because the seasons (the one that's aired and the one coming up) are much shorter.
I have no idea of the general appeal of Supernatural--is it different for you too?
Dana - Mar 01, 2007 3:53:59 pm PST #6446 of 10289
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
For me, Eureka is different because the seasons (the one that's aired and the one coming up) are much shorter. A Eureka thread would slow to a trickle for much longer periods than a Heroes thread would.
With Sci-Fi's crazy scheduling, though, almost all of their shows are like that. The Stargates have been on hiatus since September or October and aren't coming back until April. Dr. Who and Torchwood only have 13-ep seasons anyway, and BSG will also be 13 eps next season, I think.
sumi - Mar 01, 2007 3:55:46 pm PST #6447 of 10289
Art Crawl!!!
And "next" season won't start 'til January.
-t - Mar 01, 2007 4:02:00 pm PST #6448 of 10289
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I kind of feel like 4 or 5 episodes before the end of the first season is the wrong time to start a show thread.
Jon B. - Mar 01, 2007 4:48:40 pm PST #6449 of 10289
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
With Sci-Fi's crazy scheduling, though, almost all of their shows are like that.
We have no thread dedicated to a single Sci-Fi channel show. I'd say the same about any show like that. What's your point?
I have no idea of the general appeal of Supernatural--is it different for you too?
I don't watch Supernatural.
Theodosia - Mar 01, 2007 5:20:09 pm PST #6450 of 10289
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Actually, I do think that Supernatural and Eureka could definitely justify/sustain their own threads... but that's not the battle I've chosen to fight. The first is a harder sell than Heroes (IMHO) especially as it's not as close to the historial genre focus of this community. (If we were the X-Fileistas, it would be.) The latter is on an extended hiatus (until sometime, hopefully, this summer?) so I don't see being able to drum up enough enthusiasm to get a vote won.
What I see differently about Heroes is the broadness of its appeal, to a very wide swathe of Buffistas, so that it gets easier to maintain a conversation about and ties our common experience together in a pretty genre bow.
Having a show in its own thread makes it much easier for a historical retrospective, by members who have held back because they for some reason weren't following the show as it was broadcast -- I know that from going back over watch-n-posts in other shows.
As for when to start having a thread about a show -- well, it would have been damn premature to start a thread about a show of semi-unknown provenance (i.e. no Whedonverse or Whedon-adjacent creators). Wonderfalls, other Minearesque projects, for sure -- but I was barely whelmed by the Heroes pilot. It takes a while for a show like this one to show its virtues off when so much depends upon sustainable worldbuilding and plotting.
FWIW, did the Veronica Mars thread start with the first show?
(Also, did we ever have a Joan of Arcadia thread?)
-t - Mar 01, 2007 5:25:15 pm PST #6451 of 10289
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
My only concern with the timing is that we would open the thread, have a flurry of activity and then have it sit dormant all summer. Which would not be terrible, and may not even happen if the season finale leaves enough to dicuss/speculate on for the inter-season hiatus. It's just a concern, not an objection.
Nutty - Mar 01, 2007 5:38:17 pm PST #6452 of 10289
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
VM came about after it had been renewed for a 2nd season. Lost, I believe, as well. Notably, Supernatural is still on the bubble for a 3rd season, which is one reason not to propose it its own thread at least for a few weeks yet. Heroes got picked up for its 1st full season in October last year, and renewed, like, when's the first day you're allowed to renew a show?
(I think the generally-accepted lesson of Wonderfalls et al. is that a thread doesn't get a show until we can project it to survive into the next season; that's why Tim's show Blonde v. Serial Killer (memfault the real title) was talked about in Minearverse (until it was cancelled).)