Each episode thread would just be whatever episodes up to that point.
HJU is not strict about conversation.
And if you had some topic that involved this or that... you could just make a thread about it and talk about the relationship between whatever and whatever there.
We could even have a general discussion thread if need be.
It's really pointless and spread it out too thin. The more I think about it, the more I think it's pointless.
If each topic is just up to date, than what's the point creating a whole bunch of others?
What is the point of existence of other topics then? The ones about past episodes?
So some slowpoke can post something, nobody would care about, since it's about stuff that was weeks ago and just plain old and dated as far as current plot goes?
If we have general discussion, than most would stick to that, because that would be just what we have now. Smart and simple system, where we have topic that allows us to talk about the show realtime and only changes every 300 pages.
What would be the point of small per episode topics?
It seems you people have trouble running models in your head. Let me do it for you.
Imagine this:
We have a show called Humpa TheDarkKnight of Doughnuts.
It's out for 12 episodes already.
People are discussing it in the most recent topic and have a nice time.
The some other person finds out about the show and startes watching it. Now there are two ways this can go.
First way:
He watches each episodes and posts his impressions in each topic.
Problem? By the time he get's to the 12th episode, his opinion is spread over 12 topics and no one is going to read it all just to get the whole picture. If there are any points in his previous posts that are relevant to his last one, which is up to date, he still would have to repeat them making his previous post containing said point even more F**KING WORTHLESS. (I'm not angry, it's just the grade of worthlessness is so high, you can't express it any other way)
Or he can just watch all 12 episodes and post a collected and up to date viewpoint which combines all his relevant points into one, making him flow into the conversation smoothly and being on the same ground as everyone. Which once again makes all previous topics worthless.
Everyone will be discussing stuff in real time, previous topics would just float there, pointlessly. They have ZERO use period.