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If you want to back out, now's the time -- before sub-barrows have been excavated and the appetites of the Movie ghouls have been properly whetted. It is a big commitment -- at the very least we're talking watching scenes and starting up a thread once a week for a year or more.
If you do decide to undertake this quest (though you do not know the way... or, you sort of know... okay, you know the way, it's just a frokking long way), here are my two bits:
1. I don't think you need to knock yourself out with a synopsis -- participants have theoretically just watched the scenes, right? We don't need a recap. I think you can pretty much jump right in and get the discussion going. Esty has done a fabulous job of this in CbC; check out some first posts there to study her technique, but of course also feel free to make SbS your own.
2. Since SbS won't be as intuitive as CbC (i.e., "What do we watch this week?"), it will be important to have a breakdown handy for participants (perhaps as a sticky thread?) so that everyone knows well ahead of time what the next week's block of scenes will be. We'll also have to come up with a thread-naming convention to keep the forum semi-organized.
3. I think without question that we need to respect the medium and watch the scenes in order, without attempting some sort of Tolkien's Cut version by reordering scenes for the discussion.
4. If indeed the project forges ahead, we'll want to spend a little time building awareness via a forum-wide Announcement and any other such means as seem advisable (signature links spring to mind).
But, let me repeat, alatar, that if you find yourself wondering how you got yourself into this mess and how you can now gracefully get yourself out, now is the time to speak up.
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