Sorry What? This is a joke right?
News Seth MacFarlane’s The Orville
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Sorry What? This is a joke right?
Nope, the ENT commentaries reveal from Braga himself that one exec pitched the idea of rotating boy bands boarding the ship giving the crew and the audience the awesome experience of Teen Warblers Amongst The Stars.
As much as I dislike the show, it's clear that for the first few years neither Berman or Braga really got to do anything they really wanted with the show. The Exec notes flowed like Blood Wine apparently.
Hugo - But, hey, they implemented lots of shitty notes on VOY too
^ hey, if Game of Thrones can get away with it...
(Ed Sheeran is close enough, no?)
(Ed Sheeran is close enough, no?)
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No, Braga mentions it in one of the extras on the blu-rays.
Add Animal Circus; Coldplay; Wilko Johnson from Dr Feel good as Ser Ilyn Payne; Michiel Huissman had a funk band called Fontane and a solo career; members of power metal group Mastadon were in Hardhome; Natalie Tens (Osha) has a gypsy-funk band called Molotov Jukebox; Icelandic folk group Of Monsters And Men played travelling musicians in The Door; Iwan Rheon used to have a teen rock band called The Convictions (and just released his first solo album); Raleigh Ritchie (Greyworm) has a complete other career as an R&B star, playing Glastonbury a few years ago with Maisie Williams kicking loose on stage with him; Jerome Flynn spent a whole year crooning for 50 year olds back in the 90's; Sigur Ros played the music for Joffrey's wedding in "The Lion And The Rose"; Gary Lightbody, lead singer from Snow Patrol, sings "The Bear And The Maiden Fair" onscreen in "Walk of Punishment"; Plus of course, Hodor has a whole other career as a DO, for which he goes under the name "Rave of Thrones"...
Clearly, not all boybands and most (unlike Sheeran) went completely under the radar. But Weisse & Benioff do like slipping in musical fans of the show when they can
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^ oh wow, seeing Raleigh Ritchie music videos on Youtube is surreal
I saw this posted another another board:
What's that quote originally from?
Saw this earlier today:
http://www.tvguide.com/news/the-orville-seth-macfarlane-aspirational-science-fiction/
Thanks. Great article. What MacFarlane says helps ease my concerns about the show, especially regarding the importance of focusing on the story first, then the comedy.
Wow...how did we have polar opposite reactions to that article?
Just read IGN's report on the TCA presentation, and I'm with EMH here. This actually makes me look forward to it a lot more, I don't mind most of McFalrane's humor, but I like that it won't be the focus of the show. The article says that the jokes we see in the trailers are pretty much all of the jokes in the pilot, and that Seth was even a bit concerned that they were focusing so heavily on the humor.
I still have no faith that Macfarlane is capable of making anything but shitty comedies, but if nothing else I find I don't quite hate Orville as much as I already hate Discovery, so even if its just every lazy comedy cliche (the whole guy and his ex-wife have to work together [and she's 1000x more talented then him but is his subordinate because "comedy"] is especially irritaiting to me) but done in space I'll still give the first episode a watch. Even if I hate it (which is about as close to 100% likely as you can get without being exactly 100%) I have no doubt it will still be the single best space opera-ish TV show this year, because its only competition is Discovery and Dark Matter and even Macfarlane can probably beat those two just by putting out something that doesn't make me want to break my TV immediately.
Although A Million Ways to Die in the West was for the most part a bad movie, I was impressed with the degree MacFarlane paid tribute to the westerns of old, with an opening credit sequence very similar to old westerns, and the movie itself being filmed in a manner very similar to them as well. In fact, one of my complaints about the movie is it's a shame he went the route of making it typical MacFarlane comedy, as I think if he had gone the route of making a serious western he could have pulled off something quite different and refreshing. So the idea that Orville might be more into story and less into "you remember that time when..." style jokes Family Guy is noted for is promising. Whether or not he can pull it off is the question, but it'll be interesting to see.
I did and I was surprised that I wasn't engaged by it despite normally enjoying Neil deGrasse Tyson. I hated the crappy animated shortd that added nothing.
Has there been any word on how The Orville will be released elsewhere in the world? Will it be on the likes of Netflix or channels/stations in different countries going to have to bid for it themselves?
^^ Sorry, no idea.
I'm looking forward to this. Visually, it looks great, and the people involved are all saying the right things. I have a feeling it will die a quick death, though, no matter how good it is.
I'm looking forward to this. Visually, it looks great, and the people involved are all saying the right things. I have a feeling it will die a quick death, though, no matter how good it is.