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    • Nex 0
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      *If you want to know the current show, I'm going to keep the title updated (through the help of whatever awesome mod wants to do so) once it's determined.

      Well, here we are again, Arlong Park. Good ol' me, and one of my crazy hairbrained schemes. I wrote a lot here, most of it when I was tired, so I hid most of the (poorly written and convoluted) ramblings while trying to focus on the main points. This idea has been a long time in the works, so I hope it can get off the ground. Note: none of this is perfect, and I'm looking to refine how we do this, so, please, input and ideas are wanted!

      Unnecessary background info ahoy, if you want to skip it, I won’t blame you!

      [hide]After having a lot of fun with The Lost and Arrested Development Rewatches, I started to think about classic, completed (in a sense– for AD) television shows that maybe a lot of people haven’t seen, or that are just so good that people wouldn’t mind watching through them again. Instantly a wealth of shows popped into my mind: Twin Peaks, Firefly, Freaks and Geeks, Buffy, The West Wing, The Wire, Samurai Jack, and so many more. The number of possibilities is really quite, so much so that there’s no real reason to try and justify creating a thread for each one. Thus the idea for an Arlong Park TV Club was born.
      I got the idea last summer, and ever since I’ve been trying to refine how it would work. I looked back on The Lost thread to figure out what went wrong there. The most obvious thing was the scheduling. I made it more packed than I should so that it would be finished by the time school started. This naturally resulted in some people not being able to participate due to time limitations. The only big problem was the length of the series. 120 episodes is quite a lot to fit into a 50 day period. So, with Arrested Development I lightened the schedule to 2 episodes per day, or only 40 minutes. Well, as we can all attest, that didn’t exactly work either. Yeah, a lot of people participated, but there wasn’t much discussion, at least not what I would have liked. And the schedule still didn’t quite work, everyone just kind of went at their own pace. So, now I think I’ve finally gotten a system worked out. Here’s how it’ll go: [/hide]

      Here’s the new and (hopefully) improved system:
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      Instead of having a set schedule for episodes, we’ll just have a parameter for the series run-through, based on the number of episodes. So, for instance, say we’re doing Firefly, or Freaks and Geeks, or some other short series, instead of saying: “watch one episode a day” it’ll be along the lines of “watch the whole thing by 10 days from now (or whatever time frame is generally agreed upon.)”

      The other big issue was the nature of discussions. I tried both times to force daily reviews of every episode, and both times it started well, but tapered off, so here is my (rather fantastic–if I do say so myself) idea: instead of trying for episode based discussion, we’ll go for an idea based discussion. Whomever is leading the series (I’ll get to this in a moment) and others familiar with it will come up with some topics for discussion. These can be very basic reaction ideas, or they can be intricate discussion about plotlines as they’re ongoing. Ideally the ringleader for the show will come up with something controversial that will get fans old and new into having a heavy discussion.

      Obviously the biggest issue here is how do you do this without spoilers? This might seem strange, but ideally you would sit out the discussion until you’ve completed a benchmark, which the discussion topics are based around. For a short show like Freaks and Geeks, it would be as soon as you finish the series. For a longer show like Buffy it would be at the end of every season, or every half season. Based on the preference of whoever’s running the show, and what they want discussed.

      Now this does not mean that no discussion should be going on. There should probably a couple of basic things geared completely to newcomers, as really this is more for the newbies and the vets.

      Obviously, this system might not work, so it can, and will, be refined over time, hopefully with input from all of you. [/hide]

      Basics:

      • No set schedule, just a general parameter
      • Not an episode based discussion, but a topic based one.
      • New "showrunner" for every series.

      Now, about this showrunner. I obviously haven’t seen every great TV show ever, and there are some I know I’d like that I’ve never seen, thusly I can’t be throwing out ideas for discussion. So, based on whatever show is next on the schedule, someone can volunteer to run the thing. This entails setting up the parameters of the rewatch and creating some topics for discussion. Simple enough, right?

      So how do we decide what to watch?

      Right off the bat, I want everyone submitting ideas for what they want to watch, or what they want to get other people into. (Ideally whatever it is would be available in legal means, even if that’s not how people choose to watch it.) I’ll gather up all the ideas, write them down, then pull one at random out of a hat. Then I’ll ask for volunteers, and we’ll be off and running.
      Three final things to mention.

      1. For the first show up I'd like to start with something short. Something along the lines of Freaks and Geeks or Firefly or any other short show.
      2. Stick to shows already completed. I know you all want to get more people into things like Sherlock or Parks and Rec, but nope. By all means recommend them if you think we're watching something similar, and others will like it as well. (Also, I cleverly staggered this thread until 30 Rock was finished, nominate away.)
      3. No anime. Sorry again, but I've created this with "classic" TV moreso in mind. Not to take anything away from anime. However, if a lot of you overwhelmingly want this rule overturned I will.

      I'm creating this whole thing for the same reason I did the Lost and Arrested Development ones, not just for people to rewatch shows they love, but for new people to get into great shows. Thus my plea is, give every show a chance. Try and broaden your horizons.

      So, any questions? I have a feeling there'll be many. And get to nominating!

      P.S. There is a movie club in the works.

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      • KaizokuJinbei
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        I'll have to pass I don't think I could keep up with something like this.

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          I'm kinda interested. I'm going to nonimate a show that I'm currently watching that a friend of mine got me into, Alias.

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            @KaizokuJinbei:

            I'll have to pass I don't think I could keep up with something like this.

            An off and on viewing of great tv shows that is totally go at your own pace? 👅

            And nice Nom, Sanos. That's one right off the bat that I've never seen, but have heard good things about.

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              A Star Trek thread was just started up two days ago doing this same thing, and that'll keep people participating for a while. (And a lot of people have eaten away at Doctor Who.)

              I'd be up for West Wing or Babylon 5, I tend to rewatch them about once a year, though that takes a couple months of background noise to get through. I'm working through The Wire right now, almost done with that.

              And I think anime SHOULD be allowed. Some of them are short, and some of them are definitely classics worth seeing. particularly movies or short run 26 episode shows (like say, Nadia.)

              The biggest trick to the rewatch thing is the shows being readily available to everyone. It can be expensive to pick up on anything. Torrenting is an option sometimes but… It helps when series are entirely on Netflix, obviously, since a lot of people can do that.

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                Yeah, Nobodyman kind of got a jump on me. I meant to throw this up as soon as Arrested Development ended. Figured there was no harm in throwing it up anyways. Babylon 5 is another one I want to see.

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                  I also recommended allowing anime.

                  I don't really have a suggestion for a tv show at this moment though, but I'll watch anything picked.

                  One Pace - The One Piece anime without the filler and padding.

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                    Funny enough that you mentioned it in the title, I was considering watching Twin Peaks earlier today.

                    P.S.: It's on Netflix, woot.

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                      Twin Peaks I wouldn't reccomend since… it has no ending. Good enough series but it just sort of... stops. Maybe the Prisoner. I've always meant to watch that.

                      Oh, what about stuff airing on Turner Classic Movies? Its basic cable so available to a lot of people, and by default they're generally classic films, many older than the people in this forum. And since it televises that would by default create a schedule where people had to watch it at the same time to discuss it, and it'd just be 2 hours at a time whenever a goodie came up with no super long commitment. (I'm planning on marathoning a whole mess of stuff they're showing on Saturday the 16th, actually.)

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                        @Badass:

                        Funny enough that you mentioned it in the title, I was considering watching Twin Peaks earlier today.

                        P.S.: It's on Netflix, woot.

                        Twin Peaks is one of my favorite shows ever, and the main plotline is wrapped up. Though the show did get cancelled. It's not a big investment, and it's one I would definitely like to do for this.

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                        Oh, what about stuff airing on Turner Classic Movies? Its basic cable so available to a lot of people, and by default they're generally classic films, many older than the people in this forum. And since it televises that would by default create a schedule where people had to watch it at the same time to discuss it, and it'd just be 2 hours at a time whenever a goodie came up with no super long commitment. (I'm planning on marathoning a whole mess of stuff they're showing on Saturday the 16th, actually.)

                        That be a good one, but I'm not sure how it would work for people outside of the US.
                        Netflix is what I go off of for nominations. Simply because even if you don't have it you can get a month free. I'm sure most people will torrent, but I'm not going to point to links.

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                          From what I seen so far of Alias, the show starts to get really great around Season 2 and Season 3. I got another nomination, I nonminate Home Movies. Which I thinks its one most underrated of the older Adult Swim stuff.

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                            Frisky Dingo. Let us induct the uninitiated.

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                              Didn't think cartoons were eligible for some reason.

                              In that case, I nominate the clerks animated series, which is listed as Clerks Uncensored on Hulu and Netflix. (Only streamable through Hulu though). It's a very short series.

                              One Pace - The One Piece anime without the filler and padding.

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                                I'll nominate what Alan Sepinwall considers the twelve revolutionary shows that changed TV forever:

                                Oz
                                The Sopranos
                                The Wire
                                Deadwood
                                The Shield
                                Lost (done!)
                                Buffy the Vampire Slayer (and Angel)
                                24
                                Battlestar Galactica
                                Friday Night Lights
                                Mad Men
                                Breaking Bad

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                                  @Nex:

                                  An off and on viewing of great tv shows that is totally go at your own pace? 👅

                                  And nice Nom, Sanos. That's one right off the bat that I've never seen, but have heard good things about.

                                  When you say it like that it's a different story. I can participate.

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                                    I haven't watched a whole lot of backlogged series, but I'd love to check out things like 30 Rock, Chuck, Heroes, Alias, 24, The Wire, Breaking Bad, Leverage, Friends, Buffy, Charmed, Firefly, and whatever else I haven't listed.

                                    I'll let someone do the honors on picking what to start with though.

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