I find that I talk TV here much less than I used to. If I want to talk FNL and I usually do, there's no one to talk about it with. And other shows I watch, Greys and House.... well, ditto. But I also find that I don't care that I don't talk about TV anymore, so your interest in TV threads may vary.

Kat is me.

Honestly, I think the most successful threads are the single shows per thread. Hugely unpopular, but the thing that works the best for the many. Except resource-wise.

I agree also. Although I think philosophically I am totally against this.

It makes us sound even more contrarian and self-destructive than normal to say something hugely unpopular also works best for the majority.

Kings is airing on the Sci Fi channel tonight.

Err, not to be glib, especially since I'm agreeing with you on this discussion (well, except I prefer to get my cross-pollination from thread hopping), but that would make wrestling a Boxed Set topic if that's the guiding principle. Which, granted, is to real fighting what House is to real medicine, so they both might qualify as fantasy.

I subbed to Procedurals recently to follow any discussion on Castle, but really have not gotten invested in the conversation there as much as I have elsewhere. I'm not saying it could sustain its own thread or am even saying it should - just that buckets don't work well for someone (ok, fine - me) who follows only one or two shows that fits that genre.

I can't explain why what goes in Boxed Set never clicked in my head. Now that I'm looking at the headers, even Cable Drama explains what Boxed Set has.

I guess I'm more drawn to the show specific threads, which really doesn't help in this discussion. I know the break off of Supernatural was drama filled, but I'm glad it is on its own.

Dang, I feel like I just talked myself into a big circle.

Okay, I had a thought. What about tagging posts within bucket threads for shows? That way there'd be a way for someone to call up the posts for a specific show and read only those. Is it possible? Too much work? Would people use it?

ETS: I'm thinking labelling more than tagging, so it would be controlled to only show titles.

ita, just to be clear, I love cross-pollination (though I found Leverage via Natter rather than a TV bucket); I just don't love the spoiler aspect. Talking about many SFF shows at once is awesome, but I can't keep up the day of airing. That's why I mentioned the one week whitefont thing. Believe me, I would love to be able to lurk/participate in BS. I have no desire to abolish it. I just am trying to find a way to participate in it.

that would make wrestling a Boxed Set topic if that's the guiding principle

Yet another strike against the practicality of having a third party make our decisions.

That's why I mentioned the one week whitefont thing

And it's something that kills a thread for me, so I won't come down in favour of it.

Too much work?

For developers and posters and readers? I think so.

Yeah. Intellectually, I love the thought of tagging. Practicality? Too damn much work. The only place I'd like to see tags would be the ability to tag marked posts as I mark them. Which, I could toddle over to BBaBB and ask?

I always try to trust the the first new post about a new ep will alert me to a new ep since I watch evrythng via Tivo. It kind of sucks when there is a HUGE spoiler (a la House this week) in the first few posts, even though it's my own fault for not being more careful.

The more I read the more I find myself coming down on ita's angle - I don't think it's a problem that it's not always obvious, and that you sometimes find parallel discussions or have to ask where to find something. Particularly not with the new Film & TV discussions link showing on the page any time you're in any TV thread.

I don't have any strong feelings, really, wrt single show v. buckets. I get more out of SPN as a separate thread because I keep unsubbing from Boxed Set all the time when I get behind, but I also like the cross-show talk both there and in Natter. For the low traffic threads, I think I actually floated closing some of them about six months or a year ago, and was convinced otherwise. I don't think I'd be on board with more new threads just to sort out some overlapping definitions.

Re tagging: if I'm trying to find discussion I think I've missed, it's usually easy enough to search either by the name of the show or sometimes major character names to find where things come up. Shrug. I don't see an issue, but obviously some people see it otherwise. But I can't remember to tag my once a month lj posts, I'm sure as hell not going to be able to do it for show talk with any reliability.

Day-of-week or by network threads would be totally unmanagable via Tivo, for me anyway, since I no longer really know when or when anything is on unless they're the few shows I race home to watch in real time.