Has this actually happened?
I think it happened once... BSG, maybe? Not since then for the exact reasons you point out.
Zen, I think it's kind of a crap shoot a lot of the time which conversations will take off and when. I know I've popped in to gush about something before, and... crickets. Sometimes it just depends on who's around and able to post. A lot of times, you just have to wait until you get a critical mass of interested parties - even on show nights, what with all the TiVoing and such. I don't really see that as a collision, though, so this may not be what you're asking at all. In which case, hi! How ya' doing?
Particularly when shows are back to back like they are/were on Sci-fi Friday, you sort of have to delay the conversation about the first show to do/make it through the W-n-P for the second.
Wow. Go off to work all day and everyone is talky!
I'm very, very undecided on the SPN issue, but given that we have voting it should get a vote. It can't be healthy for the board to have stuff that we don't discuss because even bringing it up would be uncomfortable -- not that I think we should lightbulb-ize every niggling detail, but once it's out there, let's finish it.
This. I think at this point it needs to go to a vote. Could someone remind me when that will be so I can word a ballot?
I think I'm with Cindy and Matt on the W&P thread. It sounds fun, but I can't see Oscar night not being in Natter, and I hate the idea of potential discussion being split over threads.
when shows are back to back like they are/were on Sci-fi Friday, you sort of have to delay the conversation about the first show to do/make it through the W-n-P for the second.
Yeah, but when the first show comes on at 10pm, waiting until midnight Eastern (my time) means I'm asleep, or should be, by the time second-show-talk has petered out. I dunno. Maybe there's just no really good answer.
Hi, JenP! How YOU doin'?
Has this actually happened?
The one I most remember was the one I referenced early in this discussion. There were new eps of both Dresden and BSG, but the comments got swamped. I thought it happened to Dresden again later, but it looks like I was mistaken.
For example, Battlestar Galactica discussion was similarly dominant in the thread at one point—though perhaps more briefly and only while new eps were airing—yet I think we were correct not to bud it off.
I do worry, a bit, that we voted Heroes off the island, and we look likely to vote Supernatural off the island, and then whatever strikes a chord next, and the island might just get down to a couple of people and a machete. Which would be sad.
OTOH, it sounds like a lot of SF TV is in the pipeline for fall; and Supernatural does have a 3rd season (which lack thereof, last spring, was the #1 reason not to have its own thread); and solving traffic problems is always a good idea.
Just -- next time this comes up, we all have to remember that 300 posts in a week in Boxed Set is not appreciably more than is normal. (cf. those statistics I did on March 1.) A lively Boxed Set is a good thing; and I'm willing to agree that a lively Boxed Set is best when it's a lively,
diverse
Boxed Set.
I missed something I need to go look at.
How did we do it when Buffy and Angel were on back to back?
I was disgruntled about the w+ps disrupting conversation about a live show but at the same time, I wouldn't want live discussion of SPN to be separate from later discussion. I agree that would stifle things.
I love SPN. I've been watching it since the first episode. I don't understand why it can't have it's own thread. We all know that the VM thread is going away, right? Not that one thing has to leave to make room for another (so far as I understand things) but I don't think that giving it it's own thread could possibly make it busier.
On the other hand, we could try to make it easier to signpost live discussion of shows in Boxed Set. That way the giant time differences between airings of shows vs. ahemming of shows would matter less to those of us who ahem.
How did we do it when Buffy and Angel were on back to back?
Well, we had separate threads, right? Once we were here and having Serious Discussions we did, anyway; I honestly don't remember about the TT days.
