Buffy ,'Showtime'
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It was about changing the flavor, the tenor, the use of Boxed Set.
But still, I don't see how moving one show will do that.
My original question was based on my feeling that SPN is the biggest MF show discussed on the board these days, and wondering if moving it would result in the other MF discussion moving with it, and if so, how would that impact Boxed Set.
But the baseball stuff IS just as sustained and prolonged as show discussion.
As someone who doesn't participate in either, no, it's not. I can't remember ever scrolling past 150 baseball posts in a row. And even during the World Series, other conversations happen in and around the baseball talk in a way that doesn't happen during SPN W&P's.
From my perspective, we already HAVE a dedicated SPN thread that just happens to (virtually) geographically overlap with Boxed Set. I don't see a lot of crosstalk between SPN and other shows -- SPN takes over the thread completely during the W&Ps and ensuing analysis/squeeage and everything else sits back and waits for it to pass.
My original question was based on my feeling that SPN is the biggest MF show discussed on the board these days, and wondering if moving it would result in the other MF discussion moving with it, and if so, how would that impact Boxed Set.
Okay, I see. I just never realized that media-fannishness was a defining characteristic of Boxed Set.
Or Parsippany, as my fingers would really prefer to type?
Which is just a hop, skip, and a jump from Whippany.
Whippany. Whippany good.
I don't see a lot of crosstalk between SPN and other shows -- SPN takes over the thread completely during the W&Ps and ensuing analysis/squeeage and everything else sits back and waits for it to pass.
Ouch. Not picking on you, Jessica, it's just that... I know 200 or so posts about this is a lot to take in at once, and I know I have an emotional investment in SPN, but I still really feel like the SPN fans are regarded as an overgrown Lab puppy that needs to be whapped on the nose and sent to its new crate.
It's pretty clear that I'm overemotional and I need to step away for a bit, but I did want to state that that's how I feel about the discussion and I want to apologize to those who felt squeezed out by the flailing.
That is all.
Whippany
Though they did have to rename that popular teen magazine "Whippany Boy". Seems somebody got confused about what was supposed to be inside.
/ natter
I still really feel like the SPN fans are regarded as an overgrown Lab puppy that needs to be whapped on the nose and sent to its new crate.
Can you understand that some of the non-SPN fans feel like the rest of the puppies in that now-crowded old crate?
Can you understand that some of the non-SPN fans feel like the rest of the puppies in that now-crowded old crate?
Um, that's why I apologized. I feel bad that we made people feel squeezed.
Ya know, as a long time user of Boxed Set, I have to admit I don't get media-fannishness, and everytime anyone goes into paragraphs of explication all I can think is "I'm just here for the sci fi and fantasy...am I the only one?"
Even way back in the day, that's all I wanted from the thread, and it's all I want from it now, and I haven't found any reasons for spinning off shows (well, except for Lost, but I do hate it, so it's hardly rigourous or defensible) from it to be preferable to keeping them at home.