Is it time for a dedicated "Orville" sub-forum?

[The Nth Doctor]

I would say yes. It'll end up with 20 or 25 threads during the active part of the year . I'd say its worth it.

How so? Why that many threads? The season is only 13 episodes long and most of those review threads won't be active at the same time (plus, they didn't start until episode 3).

I guess the question I have is, how hard can it be?...to, y'know, add a sub-forum?

And then, if the shows goes away, to remove it?

The question should be why create the subforum, not why not.

Didn't they do this for Lost?

Yes, but LOST was a massive hit and yet it didn't get its own subforum until the second or third season (I forget exactly when it happened). Once again, it's far too early to say The Orville "needs* its own subforum.

 

[Mark_Nguyen]

Agreed. We've let other, arguably better sci-fi shows come and go with only a little less fanfare in this forum. I'm good with Doctor Who and Star Wars being the exceptions, as the population of this forum has lots of crossovers with those two properties. Trek forum first and foremost, and while The Orville is seeing some success (and I'm perfectly happy discussing it in the SF forum), it's hardly a cultural phenomenon like SW and DW.

Mark

 

[Phoenix219]

Some people are already considering it "unofficial" Trek; it barely tries to hide its filed off serial numbers. It seems like new things are being noticed constantly; I can see multiple episodes getting discussion at once, plus the random discussion threads, or ensuing cultural/technology question threads.... i can easily see 20 threads existing, and half being active.

 

[The Wormhole]

Some people are already considering it "unofficial" Trek; it barely tries to hide its filed off serial numbers. It seems like new things are being noticed constantly; I can see multiple episodes getting discussion at once, plus the random discussion threads, or ensuing cultural/technology question threads.... i can easily see 20 threads existing, and half being active.

At the moment, sure. But the finale is scheduled for early December, which means by February Orville discussion will have dried up to nothing at all, and assuming it does get another season, discussion will just be a blip until the premiere presumably next September.

Again, I point out the Doctor Who forum which sees hardly any activity in the off-season, and that's with tie-in material being released year-round like new novels, comics and audio dramas. Orville doesn't have that, so what is there to keep an Orville forum going during the off-season?

 

[Cake]

As it doesn't seem there will be a subforum for The Orville I would prefer it, if we just would have one thread. Easier to keep track of everything and don't miss a discussion.

 

[Phoenix219]

To me, thats the best way of MISSING discussions.

The Axanar thread being a prime example.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Yeah, I agree that there should be separate episode threads considering there are plenty of people talking about each one.

 

[arch101]

Well, there was a pretty active Stargate forum for awhile here. Maybe if the show gets a second series there will be enough to talk about.

 

[SiddFinch1]

Too soon

What is involved from a technology point..if it was easy to create a ton of subfolders they would..must be a reason why they dont

 

[The Wormhole]

Well, there was a pretty active Stargate forum for awhile here. Maybe if the show gets a second series there will be enough to talk about.

At a time when there were two concurrent Stargate shows on the air, then DVD movies, then another series. If anything the Stargate forum was kept around a bit too long after SGU ended.

 

[Phoenix219]

I'm about to start Stargate for the first time, to be honest (only seen the original movie), and its a shame those conversations aren't still there to see what people were discussing at the time.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

The old threads should've been migrated to this forum (like it was done for LOST) and still accessible if you know what to look for. The archive goes back pretty far.

 

[Enterprise1701]

I think given the number of webpages The Orville discussion has generated already, the show could certainly use a subforum here. What do the mods have to say?

 

[PlainSimpleJoel]

No need at the moment - maybe if it gets to a second or third season.

 

[tharpdevenport]

Star Wars has three classic films, prequels, related films, sequels, books, games, a TV series, a set of shorts, and a new sequel coming and a new related film coming out soon-ish, and yet yesterday when I clicked in, only seven threads were posted in. Right now, three. "The Orville" has more activity than Star Wars. Maybe Star Wars should have it's subforum removed and "The Orville" get one.

 

[tomalak301]

If anything I think what needs a subforum is the comic book genre, and that includes Marvel, DC, Movies, TV shows, all that stuff. That's a genre that has really grown and could sustain it's own forum. Besides, it's not really sci fi or fantasy. I guess it borders on fantasy but it feels like it's its own unique genre.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

If anything I think what needs a subforum is the comic book genre, and that includes Marvel, DC, Movies, TV shows, all that stuff. That's a genre that has really grown and could sustain it's own forum. Besides, it's not really sci fi or fantasy. I guess it borders on fantasy but it feels like its it's own unique genre.

Yup, I've been saying the same for awhile now. Doesn't seem like that will ever happen.

 

[The Wormhole]

I'm about to start Stargate for the first time, to be honest (only seen the original movie), and its a shame those conversations aren't still there to see what people were discussing at the time.

The threads can still be accessed:
https://www.trekbbs.com/forums/stargate.30/