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Season 5 News & Rule Changes; Dealing with split Global/ABC schedules
Topic Started: May 1 2014, 02:19 AM (1,235 Views)
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Dear members of TWC,

It's May...Rookie Blue is back this month! As most of you already know, Rookie Blue is not going to be airing at the same time this year in Canada and the U.S. Global is starting Season 5 on Monday, May 19th at 10 p.m., while ABC is starting it on Thursday, June 19th at 9 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time.

Therefore, some rules and ways of organizing things on this board have to be revised. Since we don’t know how easy it will be to access Global’s broadcasts online, spoilers will be defined relative to the ABC air dates. A general rule of thumb - if you're unsure whether you should mention something in a particular thread, you can always use the spoiler toggle. The TWC staff will (and has in the past) go in and take out the spoiler toggle if it is not a spoiler. We'd prefer if you "play it safe" (it makes our life easier).

At the same time, we ask that you all try to be more patient and resigned to the fact that keeping perfectly away from all unwanted spoiler information may not be possible. So, let’s all try to keep some perspective about how difficult the networks have made keeping a global fandom functional and friendly. Just do your best to try not to ruin things for others carelessly and not to fly off the handle if someone slips up and makes a mistake.


In terms of the Sections/threads, here's the fun part…the details:

Live Threads - This year there will be NO "early airing thread". Instead, there will be a "Canadian" thread and a "US" thread for each episode in the live thread area. As we did with the early airing thread and the live thread, at some point we will combine the threads. We will probably wait a little longer this year (and not combine them the morning after the airing in the US). Once it airs in the US, although we will not lock the Canadian thread, we would prefer if you continue all discussions in the US thread once the episode has fully aired on the east coast (this will just make it an easier read when the threads are merged). We would also like for the Canadian Live thread to take the place of a lot of separate specialized threads for discussing things about episodes not yet aired in the U.S.


Spoiler Spot – In this one section, we will peg a few things more toward the Global schedule. This mostly applies to the promotion threads, the general season one and the separate ones for each episode. We figure anything professionally chosen to tease in advance of an episode airing is a somewhat acceptable spoiler, and Global’s will obviously always be ahead of ABC’s.

Individual Episode Promotion Threads - as with previous years, we are going to have a thread for each episode before it airs (5.01 - Blink is already up). This is a place to have detailed discussion about all promotional and advertsing activity put out about specific episodes. As of now, it is going to close when Global airs that episode to encourage discussion to shift to the Canadian Live Thread. We will also add the ABC press release and ABC promo videos to the thread as we find them so you will still be able to see the promos/press releases ABC makes. We probably will re-open each for a while so that people can comment on the ABC promos/releases, but that is still to be decided, so check back here in a few weeks and we will post the final decision on that. Obviously, if you don’t want to be spoiled several episodes into the season before ABC even starts, DO NOT ENTER PROMOTIONAL THREADS FOR EPISODES TOO FAR AHEAD OF WHERE YOU ARE IN THE SEASON UNLESS YOU REALLY WANT TO KNOW.

General Season 5 Promotion Thread – this tends to be the first place members place new things that come out, so consider this a major spoiler danger zone. If you don't want spoilers from Canadian fans and others who watched the latest promotional item to come out, STAY OUT of that thread. Things happen really fast in that thread (literally, it can go from page 10 to 16 in a few hours). If none of the moderators are on, it can spin out really fast and we don't want upset fans saying we ruined it for them.


On Set and Around Town Threads - These threads were created specifically for what is happening on the set. We know it is a little different this year since they are filming while the show is airing. However, these threads should not be used to discuss press releases and spoilers. This might be hard to remember, and they are in the Spoiler Room section, so it's not as important as other places, but try at least for big events. Bottom line, members should consider these threads a moderate spoiler risk zone.


In all other sections, stick with the rule of thumb at the top and treat anything that hasn’t happened in an episode aired by ABC as a spoiler. Here are a few highly used areas as examples:

Speculation Space - There is already a Season 5 Speculation and Wishes thread. General speculation can continue to be posted there. But if there is speculation based on something that happened in an episode that aired in Canada but not yet in the U.S., that will count as a spoiler. Either discuss those kinds of speculations/wishes within the latest Canadian Live Thread, or start/ask us to start a separate Speculation/Wishes Thread that includes Canadian spoilers.

Rookie Blue Discussion, Sam & Andy Discussion , Other Couples – All the threads in these folders should be treated similar to how things are in the Speculation Space. Keep most of the topics with specialized discussion limited to things that have happened in episodes aired by ABC unless you use spoiler tags. If there’s a particular thread that is really popular, and for some reason can’t be discussed well in the Live Threads, you can ask for a separate Canadian spoiler friendly thread.

The Ranting Room - hopefully there ain't gonna be a lot to rant about this season...but should there be the need, we will do something similar to the Speculation Space threads.

And finally, should anyone want to discuss any of the episodes BEFORE even the Global air dates, that should only be done in the non-English section since so far as we know, it only involves a single Spanish language channel. If you see it earlier, please discuss it in only in threads there. (If you need to start a new Season 5 discussion thread because you’re the fist person wanting to comment, please do so and include a warning that there will be spoilers for anyone not in the relevant media market.)



That’s all we have for now. This will be an adventure to deal with, we’re sure!

Thank you in advance for your patience and cooperation. We hoped to keep it a little simpler, but it’s not really possible to come up with a blanket way to treat all parts of the board, so please let us know if anything is confusing or unclear.

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Bumping this for any who didn't get the Private Message we sent everyone a while back and/or may have forgotten how we decided to deal with the scheduling issues with regards to what is and isn't a spoiler in various threads.
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With ABC starting to air season 5 on Thursday night, and with a double episode, this is a quick FYI about how we are going to be working the Live Threads:

Due to ABC airing 5.01 and 5.02 together, the live thread is going to work a little differently on Thursday night than a normal Thursday night. On a normal Thursday night, there will be one US thread that will be merged with the Canadian thread at some point on Friday (and then the thread will be renamed). This Thursday night (June 19th), two ABC threads will be open, one for 5.01 and one for 5.02. A little after 10 pm, the 5.01 thread will close so that people discuss the current airing episode (5.02). The thread will reopen after 11 pm (so that people discuss 5.02 in the 5.02 thread, not the 5.01 thread - this happened last time two episodes aired back-to-back. Both the 5.01 threads and the 5.02 threads will be merged at some point on Friday.


Any questions, feel free to PM one of the mods.
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Just an FYI, based on the fact that most people were on twitter last week (which is AWESOME because RB was trending) - we are not going to create a separate Live Thread for the US airing. I will be bumping the S5E03 live thread later and that's where you should post if you have comments during/after the episode
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