I think an agreement of what would fit in Boxed set is necessary. I would have never put Kings, Pushing Daisies or Chuck in there.

I think PD totally belongs in Boxed Set, but as for the others a Network Drama thread would speak to that need nicely.

I'm not sure how to address the spoilage issue with bucket threads as I tend to be spoiler avoidant but not spoiler averse, which means I tend not to care about getting spoiled. And I admit I'm probably less sympathetic than I could be about others' wishes to remain pure.

I'm with ita on not understanding the confusion about what falls under Boxed Set. SFF seems a fairly bright line to me.

(I do understand that the thread doesn't work for everyone because it's a bucket thread, period.)

agreed completely about Boxed Set.

See, Pushing Daisies to be seems to be a Genre buster...a little comedy, a little crime, a little of the fantastical, a little romance, a tiny bit of drama. It would be like saying Amelie is a genre movie. I don't get it being in the same thread with BSG.

Every episode involves people being magically brought back from the dead - I'd say that makes it fantasy. (Magical Realism if we must, but still pretty definitively paranormal.)

I think that Magical Realism is appropriate in Boxed Set. Although I suppose we could create a Magical Realism thread runs away from people throwing guacamole.

the guy touches people and brings them back from the dead. how is that not fantasy?

my personal rule of thumb for Boxed Set is that if it has any SFF concepts, it belongs there. Cupid and Kings? i wouldn't call either of them sci-fi or fantasy. Cupid probably will turn out to be that way, but as it stands he's a lunatic with a God complex. Kings is just AU and and AU doesn't equal SFF for me. if it were an AU with killer robots and time travel, that's a different story.

I think an agreement of what would fit in Boxed set is necessary. I would have never put Kings, Pushing Daisies or Chuck in there.

I think PD totally belongs in Boxed Set, but as for the others a Network Drama thread would speak to that need nicely.

I think this speaks pretty clearly to one major fact: people are looking for reasons to get discussion out of Natter. They're stumbling around trying to figure out what TV thread to put something in because they don't want to talk about them in Natter. So, is this Boxed Set worthy or is the Procedural or, hey, I forgot, this is on USA, it can go in Cable Drama.

I, for one, talked about Leverage in both Natter and Cable Drama, but prefer Cable Drama for the fact that I'm not usually a subscriber of Natter. I have tons of time on my hands right now, so I'm subscribed. Unemployment is at least good for one thing.

I deleted my last post because I don't really feel like devolving into an argument about one show fitting somewhere. But my point is that for me, the lines for things like Box Set aren't so bright. Maybe it's because I'm not a big consumer of SFF.