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News Seth MacFarlane’s The Orville

JasonJ said:
I think that the serious moments that occur in this pilot, namely the horrific murdering of the lab tech('s head) and the final scene with Grayson and the Admiral show that the producers are trying to do something more significant than a dick joke/farty mcfarterson comedy hour. There is some actual thought going into this with MacFarlane style humor tossed in throughout.

The trick will be balancing the humor so it is not too crude, or frequent. If it fits the scenario... good. If not, it's painfully obvious and reduces the quality of the show.
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With the lab tech's death, I was impressed with how they put the humor from a few minutes before aside and had that as the focus. They were in a moment of, "Wait, you just murdered someone!" That quick part was nicely handled and didn't make it fodder for a joke.
 
Campe98 said:
Great! Let's add a dog pleasuring himself in every movie and TV show! Because, damn! Somebody got paid to make it happen.

I didn't think it was funny and it took me out of the show. Okay?
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Seriously?
A dog pleasuring himself?
Maybe. But my dog seems to do it to clean him/herself.
Takes a few seconds after they urinate.
 
I really enjoyed it myself, better than Encounter at Farpoint. Even so, I'd say it was "pretty good", but not great yet. Admittedly, I was watching with a big stupid grin on my face mostly because of all the Trek references and allusions. My 13 year old daughter (big Doctor Who fan) watched it with me, and she seemed to enjoy it too, and was laughing at the jokes. We did also call it "Walmart-brand TNG", but in a friendly jab sort of way.

I also liked seeing the model of the Wright Flyer on Mercer's desk, especially since that definitely told us where the name came from. Don't think any Trek ships were named just by a person's first name though. Anyone know if there's any significance to the ECV-197 registry?
 
ChasFink said:
That should be and, not but.
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No, it was correct the way I wrote it. I may have went into The Orville not believing it would be automatically bad, but my expectations really weren't that high to begin with. I never cared for any of MacFarlane's previous work.
 
C.E. Evans said:
No, it was correct the way I wrote it. I may have went into The Orville not believing it would be automatically bad, but my expectations really weren't that high to begin with. I never cared for any of MacFarlane's previous work.
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Mine weren't high, either, and I think that's part of what made this surprisingly good to me.

I'm not a huge fan of his work on the whole, I can watch episodes of Family Guy once in a while (but not binge them) and I do like his musical efforts (you can tell he has a love of the crooning-style standards).

He also has a love of classic Sci-Fi television, and that love showed a bit last night. I'm really looking forward to next week!
 
Sophie74656 said:
Did anyone expect a show by Seth McFarlane NOT to have penis and fart jokes???
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Complaining about fart and dick jokes in a Seth McFarlane production is like complaining about space ships in Star Trek. Honestly, if you have such a problem with that kind of humor, that the relatively small number of those kind of jokes here bother you that much, then I have to wonder if this is a show for you.

I have to be honest, I think the conversations on the bridge after Mercer took off to deal with Grayson, felt more real to me than the vast majority of conversations in the Star Treks.
 
JD said:
I have to be honest, I think the conversations on the bridge after Mercer took off to deal with Grayson, felt more real to me than the vast majority of conversations in the Star Treks.
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That was something that impressed me.

Moreover, even when the characters were saying things that real people might not say, what they were saying were things that real people might be thinking or would like to say in such situations. I kept getting the impression that in this world, people freely speak their minds, which is itself (at least arguably) an element of utopia. It was also good that the characters seemed to have concerns that were much more human than the concerns of TNG characters. "I really gotta pee now" is, frankly, more down to Earth than, say, a casual discussion of which of two obscure cellists perform a certain piece of classical music more artfully that segues into a comparison between cubism and prehistoric pottery.
 
KirkusOveractus said:
The quick exchange about Malloy drawing a penis on a viewscreen constitutes a whole episode of jokes about it? Where were the fart jokes?
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"dick and fart jokes" is a term used for low-brow humor.

And the ejaculation in the beginning of the episode
And calling the XO a bitch several times
"You got wood"

Probably a few others I can't remember.
 
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You know? I like the doctor's hair.
 
Cinema Geekly said:
I find Seth's style to be hit or miss with me and as a result some jokes landed with me and others didn't but none were so bad that is ruined the episode for me.
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This is what I was afraid of going into the pilot, that there would be a joke or jokes that would completely ruin the experience for me. Fortunately, that didn't happen.
starmike said:
And the ejaculation in the beginning of the episode
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I thought that was him pissing himself after being caught with someone's wife.
 
starmike said:
And the ejaculation in the beginning of the episode
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Matthew Raymond said:
I thought that was him pissing himself after being caught with someone's wife.
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I wasn't quite sure which of these two that was supposed to be.
And calling the XO a bitch several times
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Right, because no one would ever call their best friend's cheating ex-wife a bitch.:rolleyes:
"You got wood"
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That was actually one of my favorite lines in the whole episode.
 
CorporalCaptain said:
That was something that impressed me.

Moreover, even when the characters were saying things that real people might not say, what they were saying were things that real people might be thinking or would like to say in such situations. I kept getting the impression that in this world, people freely speak their minds, which is itself (at least arguably) an element of utopia. It was also good that the characters seemed to have concerns that were much more human than the concerns of TNG characters. "I really gotta pee now" is, frankly, more down to Earth than, say, a casual discussion of which of two obscure cellists perform a certain piece of classical music more artfully that segues into a comparison between cubism and prehistoric pottery.
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What if the pottery is in the form of a cube?
 
I know it would be a real inside joke, and probably cause payments no one wants to make, but I thought Scott Grimes character should have been Steve Smith from American Dad. Somehow Stan gets him stuck in cryogenic freeze and he wakes up sometime prior to The Orville.

The video game holodeck just reminded me so much of Steve.
 
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