I don't think those two shows together generate enough conversation for a whole thread, and you still get the spoiler problem of the bucket thread.
I'm more optimistic. Given that Bones and House were two of the largest checked shows in the poll, I think having a designated place to discuss them will actually encourage discussion.
I have nothing to say about Monk, really. I think since we already have a place to discuss it, we've already filtered possible future discussion, unless we choose to close or change the purposes of other threads. Therefore it's kind of a moot point: we voted in Cable Drama, Monk is on cable and is arguably a drama, thus it has a place. However, I'm more of the msbelle/Vortex view: conversation will develop where it develops, given the threads we have in place/are putting in place. I'm not too concerned about Monk showing up in Procedurals--if it does, hey, we want it to be more of a procedural type thing, cool. If not, it still has a place in Cable.
::shrug:: I think the limits of thread building are here, you know? We can build it, they may or may not come. If they don't, we close the thread. If they do, then its purpose is served. We can say, "oh, only these four shows are allowed here," but then we spend three hundred posts in B'cry arguing about whether Ugly Betty is a comedy or a drama. I think there are better uses of our time, frankly. So we make the threads, if we vote 'em in, and then see how they work. That's all I feel compelled to do in this procedure.
Bones and House, plus anything else in the wide world of Procedurals. Sounds like enough to go on.
Numb3rs would fall into this as well, right?
I'd be down with folding some of the Premium Cable talk into Procedurals. The Wire, for instance, may be a lot of other things, but it's also a procedural.
This is because I'm a little concerned about the relative lack of discussion in Premium with the deaths of The Sopranos, Deadwood, and John From Cincinnati. There's still talk about Dexter and Flight of the Conchords and S5 of The Wire coming up, but it seems to me that the conversation might be better served by splitting it into threads linked with thematic content over price of subscription. I say this as someone who cares about that thread.
I think it's kind of the same thing as Monk, really. Unless some one else moves to dissolve the Premium thread so that The Wire could be moved to Procedurals, or someone makes a proposal to move that show only, I don't know what to tell you. I'm not inclined to add it on to this proposal, really. Perhaps you should bring it up in B'cry, if the thread passes?
I'll be following discussion of Bones. And Medium (which I think fits into the MoW descriptor), when it returns to the schedule.
I, personally, am not a fan of the "see which thread discussion crops up in" theory. I am a big fan of predictability. If there's a show I've found and want to talk about, I want to know where there's likely to already be discussion, or where I should post if so other people looking to talk about the same show know where to look. I think we should set up at least a loose heirarchy of categorization, which, it seems like, we already have wrt Boxed Set and Premium.
I sometimes post something and get a gentle, "you might want to try posting that [where others are currently discussing it]". I think if a discussion about a particular show is going on in more than one place, at least one poster will note in the slower thread that the discussion is hopping in a busier one.
A problem with discussing The Wire in a Procedurals thread is that the people who are trying to avoid spoilage could get blindsided.
