First, I was not necessarily thinking this would have to be instead of the movies, but that would be something we’d work out after we decide how we would do this (EDIT: Pretty much what @Bowiie said). That said, I agree with all of your points, which are hugely part of why we strayed away from series in the first place. Currently, I can think of two solutions:
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We just try it out and see what happens. Sure, those are all problems the could (and some of them, will) happen, but we dont know to what extent they will affect the event as a whole until we just do it. The AoT watching was underadvertised, and more like just a group of outliers who hadnt seen it yet and thought it would be cool to watch it together. This is a fullscale community event.
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We could try something a bit different. Instead of actually watching the series together, like, on mumble, we say: “We are watching ______ series, episodes 1-4 this week.” Everyone watches by themselves, and then discusses in the thread. This would be much easier on people’s schedules, allowing people to come in late if they want. People can also watch at whatever speed they want (I know we were discussing this in the general anime topic).
Thoughts?
