Ah, fandom divided

I am finding the almost 50-50 split between the "separately!" and "together!" camps in The Cultural Catch-Up thread amusing, reassuring, and well, nostalgia-inducing. The issue at hand is whether the blogger taking his Buffyverse journey should watch all of Buffy through season 7 before starting in on Angel ("reassuring" because I thought for sure it'd be overwhelmingly "separately" given the opinions expressed on the issue in the blog up until now).

Personally, I fall so firmly into the "together!" category I am frothing at the mouth I felt compelled to post in his blog for the first time *and* I am forcing the Sculptor to watch the two shows together by making her a color-coded schedule. She is in mid-season 4/season 1 right now (episodes 11). I suppose part of my reason for being so anal with her is those confusing DVDs lead her to watch Earshot before Enemies during season 3, which is just...no.

As a story-teller, I believe the linear flow of a narrative and character journeys (::cough::Faith::cough::) is kinda sacred, and not just something to wave off casually.