When I first started this show I found it to be a really awkward mix of comedy and seriousness. It had some jokes thrown it at the most inopportune times as some kind of comic relief from a really serious situation. Perhaps the first half of the first season was actually a bit rough or maybe the show just grew on me, but by season 2 I found myself loving this show.
To me it seems as every bit as comfy, intellectually interesting and even funny as some classic Star Treks while still clearly being its own thing. I wish more comfy space shows like this would get made.
What are your thoughts on The Orville? Also I miss Alara.
I generally dislike the typial Mc Farlane type of comedy and I don´t think it fit´s particularly well in a Star Trek like show. Beside that, The Orville is a really good show, way better than Nu Trek (with the exception of SNW). When watching The Orville I feel like I can tell that the people who made it actually like and even respect classic Star Trek - which is the opposite of how I felt when trying to watch DIS and PIC.
I seriously feel SNW was Star Trek seeing how much people loved what the Orville did and doing it themselves.
I seriously feel SNW was Star Trek seeing how much people loved what
the Orvilleclassic Star Trek did and doing it themselves.FTFY
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We owe the Orville to JarJar Binks?
“Jar Jar is the key to all this.”
@masterairmagic in a word, yes.
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He do be like that.
I don’t even mind Family Guy, I think it’s just his face.
Family Guy is just Seth McFarlane talking to himself.
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The Orville is the best science fiction show featuring complex moral questions of the last decade. And Seth McFarlane isn’t as prominent in the show as early episodes showed.
It’s much more focused on crew than other shows, specially Isaac, Bortus, Kelly and Claire. No surprise since they are better actors than Seth. I like Seth Krill episodes though.
You clearly haven’t watched it at all lol.
That take makes me think you haven’t watched much of the show
The latest season of Orville has so much grey area and conflict in morals it makes TNG look pure black and white with no moral grey areas at all.
It’s really well done.
I had the exact same concern, before I watched The Orville.
After watching the first couple of seasons, I think The Orville actually does a pretty good job honoring Star Trek’s tradition of raising difficult questions and calling for more empathy in the world.
Try watching an episode in the second or third series. I’m not keen on Seth either but seems like the “Sethisms” toned down as the show progressed
And what happens when you’re not keen on Seth or being preached at by someone who doesn’t actually get the social arguments even if his heart seems to be in the right place?
I get the feeling that he was forced to include Family Guy style jokes in the first series and was allowed to ease up after it was clear that they weren’t working.
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With the exception of that early episode explaining humour to the android character and the engineer wakes up with his leg cut off. That was pretty funny.
Man I totally forgot about that, that was fucking amazing! Love that show
That episode is still one of the most funny things ever and I will die on this hill
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It gets better. The second half of season 1 is very good, season 2 is great, and season 3 is mixed from very good to great. I probably wouldn’t pay money for it but if you already subscribe to a service that has it, it’s worth the time.
I had fun with it, and thought it had a pretty solid ending for the last season.
I just couldn’t make it myself like it. Granted, I only watched the first couple episodes but it felt just too stretched for me.
I thought it was the best comedic Star Trek until Lower Decks dropped. It’s still the best modern Trek show as a regular Trek show, albeit a lot more goofy than it needs to be since it’s made as a comedy first. I watch it because it’s actually about as good in the drama and set design as TNG was, but the humor, being driven by McFarlane, is just not my thing anymore. He’s just got too much shit that’s all over the place and I’m tired of it, not that it’s bad in and of itself.
Lower decks is a real hidden gem.
Is it that hidden, it’s got a fourth series coming on soon. If anything Prodigy is ths hidden gem now.
I think it is a very generic animated show, not much difference to other contemporary animated American TV shows, except the ST theme. Like in all of those shows, I can´t stand how fast they talk, always seems like I accidentally put playback speed to 1,5 and the jokes are just lame and not funny. Not for me, i´ll choose a re-watch of TNG or DS9 over it anytime.
I agree with the speed of the jokes… they do slow it down after the first few episodes, but it’s still fast as hell sometimes.
I feel like the humor has taken a massive backseat since like near the end of season 1. It definitely was a parady at first with some hit or miss jokes but the humor feels a lot more natural in recent seasons. Imo
I don’t even consider it a comedy. Imo
I hope they end up making more seasons eventually.
This is Seth’s true passion project. I feel like he would make more seasons if given the chance, but with Disney looking at cuts, I fear for it.
I have yet to see this show. Is it on Paramount+? I may have to sub for this and Picard.
It’s on Disney + as it was part of the Fox slate.
This is on Hulu, totally worth checking out.
Season 3 was not good; it was heavy-handed writing and wasn’t all that good drama.
Absolutely love this show. The bf and I still yell “PREPARE FOR THE SEXUAL EVENT” at each other when the moment calls for it.
Love the Orville. Glad to watch more if they make more.
At first I thought it was full on satire but then it also discussed serious issues so I’m not sure. It’s good but it feels like a Star Trek clone.
It took me a few episodes. But now I think it’s entertaining and wholesome!
It’s my utopia of what humans could become in the future
Wait until you watch Star Trek!
In all seriousness, Star Trek does an amazing job at this. It’s a fully fleshed futuristic utopia. The many episodes and movies that go back in time are hilarious, as they show the dichotomy of future utopia and the “dark age” present in a great way.
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I strongly disagree with you. There was one prominent homosexual couple on the show and that couple served as an important plot device to make commentary on our society. There were plenty of heterosexual (and even robosexual) relationships that we’re just as “in your face”.
To me it always seemed nice to see a homosexual relationship placed on the same level as heterosexual relationships. I also thought it was a clever way to discuss homophobia through a lense of heterophobia and to discuss trans issues through a lense of forced transition.
Nothing against anyone, you just don’t want homosexual people to be portrayed on TV shows?
Here’s some news, that’s something against someone.
That’s not what I said they just used the same gay alien plot in way to many episodes I was bored of it.
“forced homosexuality” that episode where they put Seth McFarlane in a ball gag and made him fuck another dude was bizarre I’ll agree with you there. Really didn’t even have much to do with the vastness of space now that I think about it.
what modern star trek should be
Pretty much what it is now Strange New Worlds has become the flagship show.
ive yet to get on that bandwagon; i’ll def give it a go
You should throw in a little Lower Decks, just saying.
