From @tomtheorville on Threads:

While I live a new life of threading, it’s time for a Reddit eulogy. My favorite @Reddit sub r/TheOrville went private, and now soon full meme. I fully respect why… since corp Reddit kinda sucks, but losing such a valuable resource also… sucks. The great threads on “Twice in a Lifetime” is mainly why we changed the Gordon rescue timeline. RIP!

For anybody out of the loop, the original broadcast of season 3’s “Twice in a Lifetime” had Gordon send his message asking for rescue after three months stranded on 21st-century Earth, then the Orville crew goes back in time to rescue him one month after he vanished, which would result in a grandfather paradox, since in that timeline Gordon would never have sent his message in the first place. Discussion of this issue on /r/theorville led to the team re-editing the episode to have the Orville arrive on Earth four months after Gordon.

Tom probably has no idea we exist yet, but hopefully we can rebuild that community here so there’s nothing for him to mourn.

  • tqgibtngo@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Another but much smaller sub exists:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/USSOrville/

    It was created in 2019, during a controversy about a mod policy on the main sub at that time.

    The main subs’ mods were not friendly to it, and apparently didn’t allow linking from the main sub to it. So, many users of the main sub didn’t know about this other sub, and its membership remained small.

    Apparently one of its moderators might be inactive, leaving one remaining.