Star Wars Television forums

Just a quick suggestion - could the actual 'section' for Star Wars TV be broken into several different forums? Right now everything is lumped into one forum which is 99% dominated by TCW threads.

I do understand that when it comes to TV & Star Wars, TCW is pretty much all that's happening right now, but it'd be handy if there were separate forums for the vintage cartoons, the Holiday Special (which is what I was looking for), TV commercials, vintage TV special appearances, & the like.

I know they'd be pretty quiet most of the time, but jamming it all under one banner seems to discourage anything not related to TCW, or encourage multiple threads regarding topics that only really need one. Given the activity around TCW, anything else is going to be bumped several pages pretty quick if it has to share the same forum.

(BTW, nothing against TCW, I'm only just starting on it with a Blu-Ray set, & thoroughly enjoying reliving the Saturday morning adventure cartoon thing for the first time in nearly 25 years)

 

This has crossed my mind before. I think everyone's been holding off on it until the Live Action series debuts, but in that case, we'd have the same problem (a TCW forum, a Live Action Series forum, and... where would the other stuff go?).

In other words, we will have to do it eventually. I wouldn't have a problem with it personally. And I've noticed the Droids/Ewoks crowd is slightly different than the CW one (old school vs new). It would depend how many forums we have though; at the moment, two (TCW and everything else) might be enough.

EDIT: Did some more thinking on this. We've got the new and old CW, oldschool stuff like the Holiday Special/Droids/Ewoks, upcoming projects like the Live Action series/Seth Green's project(s)/Family Guy/Robot Chicken, and miscellaneous stuff (SW-themed advertisements, parodies on non-SW shows, interviews on talk shows, etc).

I would rather not make a ton of forums for topics that could be discussed in a few threads. That leads me to wonder if we could have a forum for old projects, and another for anything ongoing/new. We could change this when the LA series starts.

 

I'm not a LACWACer, but if you're interested in splitting, another suggestion might be to have one forum for TCW, and then one for everything else (and then a third for the live action when the time comes). That way you can still separate out everything so the non-TCW stuff doesn't get lost, but with the old and the new non-TCW in one forum, you might give that more traffic than separating old from new.

 

Would there really be enough demand/traffic to warrent sub forums? At this point I'm not sure how many people really want to discuss Droids or other SSSW projects? The live action thing is on hold.

I really have my doubts that another forum would get enough traffic to justify its existence.

 

I'm not convinced (yet, at least) that splitting is necessary. If we do split, however, I think 2 forums should be sufficient, something along the lines Nat mentioned. The current TCW series could probably be grouped with the earlier CW cartoons, and then the second forum would cover the remaining potential topics. Live Action being a separate forum... maybe down the road when its actually coming out, but not now.

 

I will not let this board, which has stood for ten years, be split on two!

But in all seriousness, right now I don't see a reason to divide LACWAC into subsections. Droids, Ewoks and Holiday Special don't really amount to much, and threads dedicated to such things do pop up and generate as much traffic as they can. There's really no need for an individual forum. If we ever get the Live Action series and Clone Wars series going on concurrently at full steam, then it might be necessary to split LACWAC in two. But right now, nope.

 

Thanks for the replies - I think what I wanted to bring up regarding the SWHS crosses the line into the Saga section anyway (it relates to Rinzler's Making Of ESB), was just interested to see what others thought, & whether it was worthwhile right now.

 

This, and some of what 2ndQuest said.

Since it is a full television forum, TCW is basically going to dominate the forum at the moment. There's other discussions about the holiday special, micro-series, ect, but, yes, they are rare.

 

Echoing what Quest said.

I don't think there's enough discussion to warrant splitting the forum.