Poll on "24: Season 2" thread creation (1 Viewer)

[Patrick Sun]

Okay, let's take a vote on "24: Season 2" threads:

Whichever options gets the most votes (please only vote once) will be the way threads get created for the show this season.

 

[Dana Fillhart]

Last year's was in separate threads; all other shows are separate threads; one big season-long thread becomes unweildy AND unfair to those not on the current episode, even if the current episode is in a thread all by itself (with the previous episodes in 1 big thread); people may wish to discuss plot points of earlier episodes, which interferes with the current episode discussions.
I vote in favor of separate threads.
I vote against the idea of creating a separate subforum for television shows (though that's not part of THIS poll ).

 

[Patrick Sun]

Please just vote, most people know why they prefer one format over the other. This poll will run until next Tuesday.

 

[GlennH]

Thanks for the poll.

One concern I have is that choices #2 and #3 are really subsets of one main preference to have separate threads, and thus may "split" the vote. I'd suggest that if #1 ends up with the most votes but is not as high as #2 and #3 combined then you should discard #1.

 

[Qui-Gon John]

Yes, if the total of 2 & 3 is greater than the number of votes for 1, you should do a run-off poll to see which version of 'separate episodes' will be used.

 

[John Thomas]

Does it matter? Isn't this, too, "a bit premature"?

 

[Josh Dial]

Ummm, hasn't the second season started already?

cheers!

Josh

 

[Jeff Pug]

thread for each week is the right thing to do

 

[Jason Seaver]

thread for each week is the right thing to do

I don't know - for a show as hyper-serialized as "24", discussing one episode is going to inherently involve discussing others. Having it all together makes the most sense to me.

 

[Dominik Droscher]

Jason, I liked how it was last season, a thread for every episode. Problem is that not everyone is able to watch 24 at the same time, the first season hasn't even started in Germany and England is a few months behind. I have other sources to get the epsiodes even before they air on Fox so I don't mind so much but last season I caught up pretty late. It was nice to read all your comments in a sole thread whithout the fear of getting spoiled. Having one big one would be bad for all non-USA users as they will not be able to participate and it would be difficult to find episode specific discussions with 1000+ posts (the eternal Buffy thread is an good example).

 

[Scott Weinberg]

Though I usually like having one long thread, a show like 24 seems to scream out for episode-specific discussions. So I voted for the third option.

 

[DaveBB]

Though I usually like having one long thread, a show like 24 seems to scream out for episode-specific discussions. So I voted for the third option.

I agree. 24 lends itself to an episode by episode discussion.

 

[Patrick Sun]

I would have thought the 2nd option would be what people would want if they wanted episode-by-episode only.

The 3rd option is just following the Sopranos Season 4 thread model.

 

[CaptDS9E]

Episode by Episode so people who dont want to be spoiled wont

capt

 

[Mike-M]

Separate threads.

 

[Scooter]

Last year I would give a tease about each episode before it aired...got the sat feed early. That works with a seperate thread for each episode. Dunno how it would work in a merged thread.

I vote for seperate threads.

 

[Colin-H]

I can't watch 'till the FX "encores" on Monday, so I'd prefer not to be spoiled. (Of course I could read the thread only on Monday night/Tuesday daytime.) I think option 3 would work, but only if single threads were kept open for a few weeks afterwards.

 

[John Berggren]

I'd be happy to read and participate in any of the three, but I'd prefer a new thread for each episode that gets merged into an archive. I think for the sake of avoiding spoilers, it gives those who don't watch the episode during broadcast (how could you not?) a chance to catch up - one week.

 

[Patrick Sun]

With the way the voting is going, we'll probably just leave it as one thread per episode, and no merging of the threads.

 

[Qui-Gon John]

How about merge them after the third week they've been a separate thread. So at any given time you could see this weeks thread, last weeks, the prior week, or all weks prior to that.