I think it's difference of pacing, because there was all this discussion, if not more, but the thing about the show was that every week you had 42 minutes of material to discuss - and then a week later you had 42 more. It wasn't a case of having a month to discuss a few lines of coy dialogue. People still discussed the TV guide blurbs ferociously when they appeared, but new material changed the discussion on a fairly rapid basis. And it wasn't just the blurbs and the trailers, because potentially spoilery material was coming from a load of different directions than just the creators.
The only vague equivalent I can think of to the comics situation were the hiatuses, but then, with the nature of hiatuses and sweeps and finales, there was always something pretty meaty and concrete to get at for months at a time. And of course the nitty gritty discussion was interspersed by what seemed like massive outpourings of fic and art and metas taking a longer view about character arcs, which still seemed to exist to most people. There was a lot more out there, basically, but it turned over a lot quicker - and there was nearly always more than one 'big issue' to discuss, which made being a fan pretty fun. Most of the time.
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Date: 2011-11-19 10:41 am (UTC)The only vague equivalent I can think of to the comics situation were the hiatuses, but then, with the nature of hiatuses and sweeps and finales, there was always something pretty meaty and concrete to get at for months at a time. And of course the nitty gritty discussion was interspersed by what seemed like massive outpourings of fic and art and metas taking a longer view about character arcs,
which still seemed to exist to most people. There was a lot more out there, basically, but it turned over a lot quicker - and there was nearly always more than one 'big issue' to discuss, which made being a fan pretty fun. Most of the time.