Ooh

I was just telling frith_in_thorns about Invisible Man (the early-2000s show) and then I went and checked on Hulu and discovered they have the whole series (both seasons!) for free. I haven't rewatched it in AGES (and I'm pretty sure I've never rewatched season two, since it never came out on DVD) and now I am thinking about maybe running a weekly rewatch -- or first-time watch for people who've never seen it -- while Hulu's still got it up.

Would anyone be interested in that?

If you've never seen it, this show could best be summed up as: adorable characters, utterly ridiculous plots, total slashbait main pairing plus a fabulous female character who make a lovely OT3 together, and scads of canon h/c. The only reason why I didn't write a ton of fanfic for it, I suspect, is because I got into it at a time when I really wasn't writing much fanfic and was mostly in anime/comics fandom circles.

(There is always the possibility that I'll go back and rewatch a couple episodes and find out that it's actually awful, of course.)

More on the Invisible Man rewatch

Okay, I definitely want to do an Invisible Man rewatch -- I think I'd wanna do it even if nobody joined in, but it looks like there are a few people interested in doing it too!

The main questions, I guess, are:

- How fast to watch it? One episode per week seems too slow, especially for people who are watching it the first time. But I don't want to rush people either.

- How to handle the issue of spoilers? I want newbies to be able to discuss the show without too much risk of getting severely spoiled (although this isn't really a show that suffers hugely from being spoiled, since it doesn't tend to have long arcs ...).

Consequently, a poll:

Poll #16160

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 5

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How frequent/formal should the rewatch posts be?

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Very informal - I'll just post about the episodes I'm watching every so often, & people can join in as desired
1 (20.0%)

One episode per week
2 (40.0%)

Two episodes a week, with individual discussion posts
2 (40.0%)

A batch of episodes (4-5?) per week, with a collective discussion post
1 (20.0%)

Other (see comments)
0 (0.0%)

How should we handle spoilers for episodes ahead of the one we're discussing?

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All spoilers are fair game
2 (40.0%)

Have a non-spoiler post and a spoiler post for each episode*
0 (0.0%)

Avoid spoilers (if possible) in the episode posts but have a general series discussion post where anything goes
3 (60.0%)

Other?
0 (0.0%)

*FWIW, I don't like the idea of a separate spoiler and non-spoiler post; I've seen discussion communities do that, but it tends to dilute discussion too much. On the other hand, I like the idea of (reasonably) spoiler-free discussion posts plus a general, collective series discussion post where everything goes.

(LJ version of poll)

ETA: alessandriana points out that we can easily have both spoiler and non-spoiler comments in the same discussion as long as people white-text/lj-spoiler-cut their spoilers. Which I hadn't even thought of, but it seems like that would solve the problem!