I just want Tim's new show to have a thread, and worry about closing it later. Does anyone regret the Firefly thread?
I'm with Allyson on this. Tim's not just a now-former ME writer, he's OUR former ME writer. Damn it.
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A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
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victor infante - May 09, 2003 7:00:15 pm PDT #1604 of 10005
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
Monique - May 09, 2003 7:00:20 pm PDT #1605 of 10005
So if former ME writers get new projects and new threads, what about new projects from former ME actors?
Hey. Someone was going to eventually bring it up. Seems right it'd be me, seeing as how we'll find out the fate of "Maddy Breakers" on the 15th. Not that I think a comedy from one of the guys behind "Married ... With Children" will generate intense amounds of in-depth analysis and discussion, but if there's a Speedo scene, ya' never know what might happen with Narrator and Cindy around. IJS.
victor infante - May 09, 2003 7:23:49 pm PDT #1606 of 10005
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
So if former ME writers get new projects and new threads, what about new projects from former ME actors?
I'm not sure. I think that a show like that is so radically different than ME shows that it might not catch on with this crowd. I'm inclined to take it on a case by case basis.
That being said, maybe we can create a general "alumni" thread.
DavidS - May 09, 2003 8:47:14 pm PDT #1607 of 10005
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I would expect an alumni thead to evolve into a general TV thread. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing.
I'd like to keep the Quotable Buffy up and running for a while so we can have the quote deathmatches.
Would we want to do that in the quotable thread? I presume we wouldn't want to do it in Natter, though last time we limited it to certain times of day so it wasn't horribly intrusive.
victor infante - May 09, 2003 9:17:27 pm PDT #1608 of 10005
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
We COULD develop alumni/TV and alumni/movies threads, and then spin-off ones that are particularly popular. For example, if the NB show seems to be a hit with Buffistas, it would get its own thread, whereas if the response is less-excited, than it would stay in A/TV.
I DO stand by Tim Shows getting threads automatically, though. Because the other VIPs? They don't visit as often as he does.
P.M. Marc - May 09, 2003 9:19:29 pm PDT #1609 of 10005
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I DO stand by Tim Shows getting threads automatically, though. Because the other VIPs? They don't visit as often as he does.
And they don't name things after ita.
Elena - May 09, 2003 9:41:42 pm PDT #1610 of 10005
Thanks for all the fish.
Would we want to do that in the quotable thread?
I would.
Michele T. - May 09, 2003 9:54:07 pm PDT #1611 of 10005
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
As long as we're consolidating, I think there being two fanfic-writing threads is one too many. I can see why there was a PPO thread on WX, but I don't think it's needed here. Make Bitchy Fic explicitly all-fandoms-represented-on-the-board, and that's one less thread, no?
Also, I could be in favor of a Tim thread and an everyone-else thread, but I'm not likely to watch Marti's show or the GG spinoff, so there's some self-interest there as well.
P.M. Marc - May 09, 2003 10:27:48 pm PDT #1612 of 10005
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Make Bitchy Fic explicitly all-fandoms-represented-on-the-board, and that's one less thread, no?
Bitchy Fic is a totally different vibe/thing from PPO. PPO is, if anything, now the default bad Clexfic snark thread.
I dunno. They're both being used, but for completely different things.
Not as many of the old Smallvillistas are writing in Smallville right now, for one thing.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 09, 2003 10:30:51 pm PDT #1613 of 10005
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
In terms of a ME alumni thread I like the idea of having "Where Do We Go from Here?" in the title like Allyson mentioned above, as a nod to the Buffy-esque origins. I'm cool with the idea of Tim's new show getting a separate thread out of consideration for one of our own, but the issue can probably wait until the show's close to its debut.
I really don't think there will be need for an actor-specific alumni thread... I mean, we've had Manchild, Scooby Doo, Valentine and a couple of American Pie movies without generating a huge amount of comment on the actors' work outside Mutant Enemy. I think they could comfortably share space with the writers' postgraduate efforts.