>>>See? It IS different.
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>>Oh, of course its different.
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>>My point was its different only in the enhancements and extensions it makes.
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>>It doesn't loose anything from the previous community was my point.
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>But it does: the very fact that this is duplex communication and that the content will wait for any newcomer changes the nature of the community. It is not synchronous, and not dependent on one central source of content. The community can easily move elsewhere, reappear, be at several places at almost the same time, it's much more loose.

But people own content, and in the case of TV shows, they have a schedule for releasing new episodes.

The community will center around the creative source of their favorite show. Not every viewer, but the community.

The bulk of the loyal community is going to be waiting for new episodes together.


>What is lost here is that synchronicity (they all saw the same episode last night at 9) and exclusivity (they didn't watch anything else for a full hour) and homogeneousness (they were all doing the same thing at the same time).

But those things will remain.

Putting Desperate Housewives on the Internet isn't going to prevent everyone from watching it at the same time.

The new episodes have to come out sometime.