Amph Superhero Overload?

yes there is clearly enough interest. just sucks for those of us who aren't interested is all. it's crazy to me that we need a thread for every marvel movie, but we can get by fine with one thread to discuss all other movies. it's especially baffling since so many of the marvel movies are just the exact same formula regurgitated again and again. i know i'm in the minority here and fighting a losing battle and it's a minor inconvenience to click through a few pages of marvel news to find something more of interest to myself to discuss, but those are my two cents.

 

I wouldn't mind if we had one DCU thread and one MCU thread and nothing more.

 

As Healer_Leona there are lots of there places to discuss SW, entire boards that actually mirror the super hero threads. For me it would be difficult to combine threads discussing ten different TV shows, half a dozen films and then the universe as a whole.

 

we have one thread to discuss all books, two threads to discuss all films, basically two threads to discuss all music, one thread to discuss the entirety of u.s. politics, but somehow the marvel cinematic universe with all of its rich and subtle nuance needs twenty threads.

 

Well dear god I hope the Dark Universe doesn't take off then.

 

We also have threads dedicated to particular bands, tv shows, films and books when the need arises, as well as numerous threads in the Senate to tackle particular facets of politics, many americentric due to the userbase, so that's not strictly true.

 

i know, i was exaggerating slightly, but the dceu and mcu just seem so homogeneous to me, it's hard for me to believe such a splintered discussion is necessary or even preferable. maybe the netflix mcu should be its own separate thread as it does seem quite different, but when it's twenty films that are all sort of building to one film where everything comes together it doesn't seem that unreasonable to me that they could be discussed in one place.

 

I think they're too busy for that personally. (I also think the main US politics thread is too busy, but I don't know how'd you'd begin to split that up)

The problem I see in combining, say, the MCU film threads is really a spoiler thing. I only saw the first 30 minutes of Spider-Man because one of the kiddos got sick and insisted she needed medicine. So of course I'm avoiding that particular thread until I can see it. However, since it's release there have been some pictures and subsequent discussion about Black Panther.

Combining the Netflix show threads makes sense to me, as it's a show every few months and most discussion focuses on either the one just out, or the one about to come out, and actually I don't think those threads get upped that much until such times.

The other Marvel shows...they're going to be on concurrently, so it's more problematic, as I doubt most people will watch all of the shows. (dislcaimer - I read all of the threads...well, skim them, but don't know if I'm going to watch any of the upcoming shows)

 

well i already know i'm on the losing side of this as mine is clearly a minority opinion, but i think in the future we might need to consider your idea of a separate superhero forum. i would never sign up for a marvel forum so it's sort of sad and disorienting watching the one forum i love slowly become one.

 

There are like 18 separate forums dedicated to SW on here, so I doubt that will happen.

JoinTheSchwarz make a separate superhero forum and move all the threads there, please.

 

Yeah, I suppose you'd then have to view each one.

JoinTheSchwarz also make it so you can select multiple boards within community, so the only options are not either one or all.

 

lol yeah, if we could make it so you could eliminate a tag from your feed and then create a superhero tag that would be a pretty much perfect solution.

 

Not too long ago I asked in Comms if there was a function that would just let us hide threads, similarly to ignoring users, but apparently the technology isn't there yet.

Diggy's suggestion about a separate forum is an interesting one. I know when we first moved the forums it made sense to consolidate everything into Community because the userbase wasn't that big. But what we didn't know at the time was that Star Wars would be a thing again and that cinematic universes would be all the rage. Maybe bringing back Amph is something worth looking into?

 

I don't think a separate forum is necessary. I agree with tom that they could simply be consolidated into a handful of threads without much problem. The same handful of people are regulars in those threads anyway.

 

Here's an idea: put all the superhero threads in one new separate forum and place it under "Inactive Forums".

 

spoiler: the good guys win the big boss battle at the end. oops, just ruined all these movies for you.

 

hmm, i've seen nearly all of these movies and i'm honestly having a hard time thinking of anything that would have been a big spoiler. the journey tends to be as predictable as the destination.

 

I was kind of ticked off that Pym going "Giant Man" mode was spoiled for me ahead of Captain America: Civil War.

Small moments, like that, are the spoilers I try to avoid.

 

i think you mean lang going giant man mode, but that's fair. as a childhood fan of the comics, if my opinion of these movies was higher i would probably want to save little moments like that too.

 

I don't actually mind all the superhero threads (I often just scan past them), but I do see tom 's point. Every single superhero movie and TV show seems to have its own thread, distinct from the threads that cover their respective "universes". But really, the "superhero overload" this thread was mostly meant to refer to was all the movies themselves, not the threads here.

 

I say to hell with spoilers. If you don't want to be spoiled, don't go on the internet. We could really condense this whole message board into one thread for each "Star Wars" film, show and book, each television show that has nothing to do with comics and so on. That way people can stop complaining. I mean, do we need fifty threads talking about Force ghosts and the Clonetroopers are Stormtroopers and who the hell is Snoke? Do we need social threads about a film that won't be out for three years? As well as one that's spoiler free.