Mixing Movies and TV: Stargate started with a feature film. Then a bunch of TV shows. Then some of the TV shows had TV movies.
At the moment I’ve just named the TV movies seasons 11, 12, 13. This fixes that specific instance, but doesn’t allow me to put the feature film first (naming something season 0 creates a specials season). What about the X-Files? Seasons 1-5, movie, 6-8, movie. How would you fit that in to one section?
Documentaries: I’ve got a bunch of stuff. Some are traditional cinema movies, some are series, some are mini-series, some are TV shows. How can I have one library called “Documentaries”?
Collections: Collections are great. Can I keep them separate to the movies/TV? I don’t think I want them in with the movies themselves. Can I mix and match movies and TV in a collection?
Concurrent Series: Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis overlapped seasons 8-10/1-3. Can I make a watch order collection? Have them in the broadcast order in one list? Including the movies?
Thank you. Plex is great.
For Stargate, I think usually the TV shows list the films as Specials (Season 0). So, TVDb, for example, lists the 1994 film as s00e01. Similarly for X-Files. Doing this does mean that you’ll need to have the movies be part of the TV library, which might not be something you want to do.
For many of these, playing through the series from the beginning will try to do it in chronological order, swapping over to specials if they’re next in the aired order.
Of course, with Stargate you have the different spinoffs; personally, I’d keep them as their own series.
As for Documentaries, that’s very much up to you. Some people like to separate things out into different libraries, some like to just use Collections to subdivide their main library. I used to use a separate library for live theater presentations, but I found that it just made categorization a little bit harder, and meant that I tended not to see some things when I was browsing. So, I moved them all into my main Movies folder, and just used collections to mark them appropriately.
Hope this helps.