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I don't want to tell you your business, Cokes, but none of those shows are going to work as an episode-by-episode discussion. There are just too many episodes and most are throwaway.

No I agree with you for the most part. "Serious" shows definitely lend themselves to more/better discussion for sure.

IMO the main problem is time...most people don't want to invest that much time to something, especially when it's not at their own pace. The Fringe thread was up and regularly active for about nine months. That's a long time. The tripod (plus jamsmiley) stuck it out to the end, but I assume even if more people would've participated, they wouldn't have done it week to week like we did; it's just too much of a chore to dedicate that much time to watching a TV show for some people (and understandably so).

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Posted by Ace Midnight

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Posted on 11/12/15 at 1:11 pm to CocomoLSU

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No I agree with you for the most part. "Serious" shows definitely lend themselves to more/better discussion for sure.

Let me say this - if you wanted to take a show like Seinfeld - and had a "Top 20" or "Top 30" episode discussion, laid out the schedule and watch order in advance - I think that might be doable. Seinfeld is on Hulu now, so it is fairly widely available.

And I disagree with you on the "inexplicably cancelled shows" - the most notable of which, for me, are Firefly and Freaks and Geeks - it would not be a thread that carried on for months and months - which would be its charm. Firely - 2 episodes per week - 2 months you would be done. Ditto for F&G.

Those shows are worth watching over and over.

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