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.

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.

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.

Would we want to do that in the quotable thread?

I would.

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.

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.

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.

Possibly because I find the layers of funny in Touched By A Crazy Person: Wonder Falls and Other Post-Grad Projects a touch too amusing for my own good.

Oh yeah.

And just from what I've observed in the few months I've been on this board, I think alum projects (including those of the actors) will find the most appropriate home whether that is the occasional discussion in Natter, the aforementioned Post-Grad thread, or an obvious need for a dedicated thread.

The ratio of pilots to open slots this year is ridiculous. There are not that many slots opening, and the number of pilots under consideration is quite large.

Does discussion of pilot status and new (unconfirmed) projects take place in the spoiler threads? I just wondered...

When did the Firefly thread get created in reference to the time frame of the show?

The original Firefly thread was created on WX and I think created almost as soon as we knew that it was being filmed.