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Kashaar
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Hey! Yeah. So this came out. It's not super great, but hey it's like an off-brand Star Trek that can't decide whether it wants to be a comedy or not.
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we'll see...... I'm gonna give it a chance though.
I'm willing to give it a shot, the worst parts feel like something that they'll get better at
I feel that its going to be better if it focuses on being 'lower key'. The level of comedy/human drama they seem to want would seem to play better with a story where they are say, protecting the evacuated Mall of the Space Federation from an asteroid storm, than preventing someone from getting a doomsday device. They seem like they should be a natural 'cleanup crew', repairing the mess created by a more 'action heavy' offscreen crew who is always stopping world destroying threats etc. Then the orville comes in and is delivering replacement umbrellas, or holodeck projectors.
It was a blue collar ending.
the Tambor jokes were fantastic and i didn't mind the stupid ending, in universe it's kinda true.. lol also the little stinger at the end could be interesting? i don't know, it'll be a fine show that fox cancels after 13 episodes due to nobody watching
edit - the actual conceit of the episode is very normal scifi and seemed fine to me, surprised people didn't like the idea
objectively bad
but im actually really enjoying it? its bizarrely... kind? for a seth macfarlane joint. also i like the 20 year old third officer shes very chipper and i enjoyed her going AIGHT when being told she was ranking officer
its also taking the side characters feelings weirdly seriously too
also using a matter thingy to make a pot brownie is a great idea because clearly weed is legal in the sick star trek future
If somebody were to layout the basic plot of this episode, I'd buy in a second that it could have come from literally any of the Star Trek series.
Unlikely Bridge Officer is ordered to abandon the Captain and First Officer and return to Earth for a new Captain and First Officer, but disobeys the order to rescue the missing crew after insuring the crew is firmly on their side in the decision.
Unlikely Bridge Officer offers an unusual exchange in order to retrieve the captured Captain and First Officer which works out to everyone's benefit.
I don't think I'd doubt a person who told me this was originally pitched as a Star Trek episode.
Honestly, the biggest problem with the series so far (IMO) is that it can't decide if it wants to be comedy or science fiction focused. It feels like it's stumbling trying to be both, and not doing either one well.
If "Oww! my balls!" is the level of humour on the show I don't think I'll be able to stand it.
It was basically the premise of a Star Trek TAS episode.
Not for the head of security.
Now I can't stop thinking about what a low brow Moriarty hologram would be.
Well, there is a line in the pilot about her species getting fast tracked through the ranks because it's rare for them to join up. It's also not exactly the flagship. I think it could have been written better, but I can go along with it.
Oh god now I need a Moriarty episode.
I'm leaving towards the movie version but with the TV voice.
Apparently, this is about the third or fourth episode
(spoilers for this episode obviously)
https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/9/8/16267782/the-orville-seth-macfarlane-review-lol-what
Seems like they're moving on to thursdays.
Is that a good or bad thing?
Thursday has a lot of big long running stuff, and I can't think of any that would be direct competition, so... Maybe? I'm pretty sure Thursday is only a graveyard for blood offerings to Shonda Rhymes.
First season still sucks though; I don't blame anyone for ditching the series before making it out of that.
I stick with it in bursts, it always had its moments here and there; so it's maybe not terrible lead in for that reason. Anyone still tuning in has a high tolerance for off-moments.
Still not exactly a vote of confidence.
(I have not yet watched this, just realized it was on)
I know on Sunday the football game was delayed due to lightning out here, so instead of Orville, my DVR recorded 50 minutes of post game show and 10 minutes of the actual show I wanted to watch. Maybe on Thursdays that'll be less likely to happen.
I think it was just a Sunday starter for two weeks to get people's attention / potentially invested. Like I think it was the lead in to some of the first NFL games this year on the first Sunday (10th)? I guess they figured two episodes was enough to give it an initial boost before putting it on its now-usual day.
...am I being wooshed? You're joking, right?
*Googles "Thursday Night Football"*
Yeah, totally joking. That was totally, 100%, a completely intentional and hilarious internet joke.
Completely.
*The main thing that changed this was that I got hooked on the "Balls In Your Ear" podcast that started with Dan Avidan from Game Grumps and Ninja Sex Party skyping each week with an old friend of his who's from Philly (Dan's from North Jersey, so they're fans of rival teams).
Is that the part that's rustling peoples jimmies?
I thought it was the child of the all male species being hatched as female (and the implication that this is something that MacFarlane felt in a position to discuss, let alone work into his sci-fi/comedy show) that was riling people up.
I thought the "Here are thousands of hours of humans putting themselves on display for the amusement of other humans, just like a zoo only with added drama" was a pretty apt description of reality TV.
uh I have no idea
I think the child sex change thing is still a couple episodes away so I just assumed it was using other fox shows on the TV screens the dumb aliens are watching. I don't know. people get mad for things a lot, it's hard to keep track
all of a sudden a different sexed baby born out of a single sex species seems like a pretty generic sci fi idea so it seems crazy to me that that would be the thing people are mad about?
Seth McFarlane has a really, really bad track record when it comes to trans issues, which the episode is allegedly a metaphor for.
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