I defenantly have to agree, usually, a new thread means that somebody has a question regarding aliens/predators, but most of us know all the stuff we need to know & don't really have anymore questions to ask, or the fact that it may be very hard to think up a new topic (I haven't been able to think of any interesting new threads to post for ages). But even a simple chat about AVP, even if it may be just quoting a line from one of the films, or talking about a scene, could be enough to help get the board back on track.
Part of reason for the lack of quality threads & discussions in my opinion is the inability to just start a convo with any member, u have to post in an already existent topic, without deviating from that topic too much (unless the topic already has a sufficient amount of posts to confirm the question of the thread starter), one good feature would be a chat topic, there is one in balatu, & it has been extremely successful, an official chat thread on the main board would help liven things up, without detracting from the main board, as even though the chat thread is there, we still usually get plenty of new topics in balatu. I know this has been suggested before, but I ask that the mods at least consider this idea, it could prove very fruitful for the board