'Objects In Space'
We open it up, we talks the talk, we votes, we shuts it down. This thread is to free up Bureaucracy for daily details as we hammer out the Big Issues towards a vote. Open only when a proposal has been made and seconded according to Buffista policy (Which we voted on!). If this thread is closed, hie thee to Bureaucracy instead!
List of procedural-ish shows on broadcast TV this season:
Bones
Cold Case
Criminal Minds
CSI
CSI: Miami
CSI: NY
House
K-ville (I'm not 100% sure if this one is a procedural)
Law & Order
Law & Order: SVU
Medium
NCIS
Numb3rs
Without a Trace
Women’s Murder Club
Medium?
Hmmm.
What about Canterbury's Law? New Fox show with Julianne Margulies and Aidan Quinn. (Could be procedural -- not sure.)
I'm not sure about that one. Or the show about the cop wrongfully convicted who gets cleared and tries to resume his old life, which I think is Life.
Canterbury's Law sounds like it could be. I don't think K-Ville will fit, but I could be wrong. Dunno about Women's Murder Club - it sounds a little more soapy, but who knows.
Criminal Minds I could see being a discussiony show. Is Medium procedural? I haven't seen it.
So, to me, it looks like maybe a core of 5-7 shows that might have sustained discussion, and a handful of one-off post type shows besides.
What's the general reaction to that? Is that too big a bucket?
I met on Women's Murder Club and it was pretty procedural.
I think part of my reason for thinking this isn't a particularly large bucket is because I was basing off the poll results, which identified House and Bones as the strongest draws, with Criminal Minds, WAT, and Numb3rs as less so. The results may have changed since then; I don't know. But having a a core few with a handful of "OMG James Marsters is a serial killer on CSI *again*" posts doesn't, to me, mean a big bucket. I'm sure people disagree with that, but hey, that's voting for you.
With regards to the spoiler/whitefont thing--that's up for voting too. If it's an issue for enough people, it will shake out in the vote. I'm not trying to disregard what people think, but I do believe that the process works with regards to these issues.
The episodes of Medium I've seen do seem to fit the upthread definition of procedural.
K-ville (I'm not 100% sure if this one is a procedural)
that one strikes me as less procedural and more cultural.
But I don't know that it will generate a lot of discussion here, is the thing. There's a difference between what could be discussed and what will be discussed. Part of the problem, though, is that people who are avoiding spoilage won't know what's actually going on in there, only what the potential is.
You mean that you don't want which comedies in this thread? There really are only a couple that get any sort of conversation at all: HIMYM and the Office. Possibly some of the Fox cartoons. And TDS and the Colbert Report. That's maybe 6 or 7 things.
I still think that a thread just for The Office might be better than a general comedy thread because some people have already expressed an interest in keeping TDS and TCR in Natter and I don't remember particularly sustained conversation about HIMYM in the Experimental Comedy thread. Am I misremembering? How do other HIMYM watchers feel?