The Orville

Pelvis

This show, after a questionable start, has turned out to be an absolute gem!

seamus

Yeah, it's kind of relatively easy-going fun, with a pinch of MacFarlane's social commentary thrown in. As usual, he's pretty overt about the message/moral, which actually makes it easier to watch than if the writers are trying to be subtle but failing.

The last episode I thought was going to be a complete rip-off of that Black Mirror episode, but aside from the basic plot elements (which, to be fair, have their basis in the real world), it took off in its own direction.

Agent Coulson

Renewed for a second season.


I may go back now and give it a second go.

Mr E

I hated hated HATED the first episode, but I've been catching up this weekend and it's surprisingly great. One of my favourite new shows this year.
Some of the comedy falls flat but it can be very funny in places too. Like Family Guy.

The actual storylines themselves have been very strong - I particularly liked the bioship one with James Morrison, Robert Knepper and Liam Neeson (!)
The visual effects are also excellent and very polished.

It's much more Star Trekky (and much better) than Discovery.

youngblood

Much more enjoyable than I thought it would be, out of all shows that are back this year its the one I look forward to!

Slydice

This latest one felt a bit more like family guy

AMKC

I have watched all the episodes so far and love it as a fun easy to watch show with humour and the odd serious story like the one with the majority rule in it. The latest episode was very good. A nice fun episode with some good humour. This is much easier to watch than Discovery as it is a more serious show.

Pelvis

Slydice wrote: »

This latest one felt a bit more like family guy

YOU WILL BE SILENT!

FreudianSlippers

Mr E wrote: »

I hated hated HATED the first episode, but I've been catching up this weekend and it's surprisingly great. One of my favourite new shows this year.
Some of the comedy falls flat but it can be very funny in places too. Like Family Guy.

The actual storylines themselves have been very strong - I particularly liked the bioship one with James Morrison, Robert Knepper and Liam Neeson (!)
The visual effects are also excellent and very polished.

It's much more Star Trekky (and much better) than Discovery.

I hated the first episode of Orville and loved the first episode of Discovery.

They're totally different in reality, but I have really started to enjoy both for totally different reasons. I do think that Discovery had a major drop off in week 2-3, but I've really stated to enjoy it.

Orville is very enjoyable and I think the "comedy" aspect of it feels much more natural now than it did in the beginning.

In short - totally different shows, both good for their own reasons.

I love them both but, given the absolute anal and petty attacks on Discovery could you imagine the level of hatred auto generated if "Star Trek:" prefixed "The Orville"

It's getting huge good will, from Discovery detractors, precisely because it's not Trek. Those same people lauding it would hate it were it "canon"

Slydice

Pelvis wrote: »

YOU WILL BE SILENT!

:D:D

I was kinda looking forward to

him singing

AMKC

Slydice wrote: »

:D:D

I was kinda looking forward to

him singing

Me too. I thought we might have got to see him

sing

at the end of the episode. That would have been a nice way to end it.

david75

I was all sorts of reluctant to watch this so I gave the first episode a spin and ended up watching the first four episodes. It’s great fun! Definitely more in the spirit of true Star Trek than the p!ss poor Discovery. We shouldn’t compare but comparisons are inevitable.

Really enjoyable. Gonna stick with it.

david75

david75 wrote: »

I was all sorts of reluctant to watch this so I gave the first episode a spin and ended up watching the first four episodes. It’s great fun! Definitely more in the spirit of true Star Trek than the p!ss poor Discovery. We shouldn’t compare but comparisons are inevitable.

Really enjoyable. Gonna stick with it.

Define "true Star Trek"?

bnt

The Fox Channel is showing this, starting 14 Dec @ 9PM with a repeat 2 days later - cueing up the old DVR now.

Max Headroom

bnt wrote: »

The Fox Channel is showing this, starting 14 Dec @ 9PM with a repeat 2 days later - cueing up the old DVR now.

Two episodes in and i've renamed it The Awful.....soz..its brutal watching, wheres the humour..or is it supposed to be serious ....:rolleyes:
BTW love AD FG and Ted....but this is just orville, makes me miss that guy with his hand up the ducks arse..:)

Mr E

It gets better.

Max Headroom

Mr E wrote: »

It gets better.

Do you swear, on Santas life...:)

Mr E

There is some very patchy comedy (that often misses more than it hits), but there are some great trek-style stories in there.

Nody

Max Headroom wrote: »

Do you swear, on Santas life...:)

Mr E is correct; I started watching it thinking it was suppose to be a parody version of Star Trek but it's honestly a reboot on the Star Trek formula and should be taken as such. Yes it tends to be episodic but there are some interpersonal relationships throughout the episodes.

FreudianSlippers

Max Headroom wrote: »

BTW love AD FG and Ted....

Yep. This show is 100% not for you.

FreudianSlippers

FreudianSlippers wrote: »

Yep. This show is 100% not for you.

It defnitely does not benefit from the obvious comparison with his previous body of work. Its style and tone (while lighthearted) are far from the juvenille humour of Family Guy.

I can see an even heavier weighting on the drama side next season, if crew coments are anything to go by.

bnt

Just watched the season finale. Between the title and the first scene on the planet, you could tell what was going to happen, since the

accidental god

scenario is an established SF trope. It took a left turn, though, with the crew explicitly doing something that would never happen in Star Trek, with more of a nod to golden age SF, especially Asimov.

Isaac spent 700 years embedded in that planet's culture, watching them develop from roughly where Earth is today in to an advanced galaxy-spanning civilisation: he surely became the galaxy's leading expert on the development of advanced societies.

sunbeam

bnt wrote: »

Just watched the season finale. Between the title and the first scene on the planet, you could tell what was going to happen, since the

accidental god

scenario is an established SF trope. It took a left turn, though, with the crew explicitly doing something that would never happen in Star Trek, with more of a nod to golden age SF, especially Asimov.

Isaac spent 700 years embedded in that planet's culture, watching them develop from roughly where Earth is today in to an advanced galaxy-spanning civilisation: he surely became the galaxy's leading expert on the development of advanced societies.

The Doctor did something similar in the ST Voyager episode

Blink of an Eye

though only for

three years

Half the fun of The Orville for me was working out what Trek episodes they were paying homage to each week.

Nody

Coming back on 30th December; woho!!!

EoinMcLovin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sJsOvXOYAQ

Pelvis

That looks fantastic!!!

OU812

Looks like they’re doubling down on effects. Wonder how much per episode it is.

AMKC

That looks great. Can't wait. I think The Orville is way more like Star Trek than Discovery. That being said I will watch both but think I will enjoy this way more.

Skerries

they aim for the social and political stories the TOS and TNG did which I like especially the one about Bordis's child