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News Seth MacFarlane’s The Orville

Starfury said:
"I declare... Piss Farr!" *battle music*
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I prefer Urination Day. Sounds a lot like Coronation Day for a royal - very formal, ceremonial and reverential. With a golden throne-shaped toilet upon which to sit in front of thousands of family, friends and well-wishers, with whispers of palace intrigue ongoing in the shadows during the festivities. You can build a whole episode around that. :p :D
 
Hmmm...
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Yes. :)
 
Not only does he pee just once a day you got to wonder how he pee's. It might come out their ears for all we know or nipples or some horn looking thing. With aliens you basically have no idea how they would do that kind of thing.

Jason
 
BillJ said:
Malloy having to pee when Grayson stops him to talk after coming out of Mercer's office. I imagine.
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You know I loved that scene because in the very first episode the Orville answered a question Trek fans have always had, how do you go to the bathroom in space. I mean people are disgusted by a natural bodily function?

Again it was scenes like that which made these characters likeable and relatable because it's no one special, just your average joe, like you and I.
 
I gotta say Discovery's space warp mushrooms sound like they'd be more appropriate on The Orville.
 
Here is Seth McFarlane's answer to why The Orville does not appear to have transporter tech:
We decided to go without it for this show -- we like seeing the shuttle fly around, and we decided it'd be more challenging in a good way to have to write ourselves out of predicaments without it.
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I like his answer. Hopefully, this means that we won't see technobabble being used as a cheat to get out of a jams, like we started seeing in latter trek.

And McFarlane's answer about a Prime Directive on the show:
We will. There's no Prime Directive per se, more of a case-by-case analysis among the Admiralty when those situations arise in the show.
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Should be interesting.
 
SethMacFarlane_[S] 11 points 20 minutes ago
It's the biggest challenge of doing a drama-comedy hybrid. You want to mix it up with some comedy here and there, but at the same time if the characters are too glib during a crisis, the stakes become diminished. It's a constant balancing act to determine where it's permissible. We're hoping the viewers will go along with us as far as a little tonal variance week to week. If you treat each episode like it'ss a little movie, then it does work.
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From this answer, I gather that we will get some more serious episodes with lighter humor. Every episode won't be super comedy hour like the comic con trailer made it out to be. Good. I look forward to some serious but still fun episodes.
 
Lots of salty comments cuz he wasn't doing a "pure" AMA but only focused on The Orville. I hope it doesn't discourage future efforts because I really like it when the creators interact on social media. On American Gods, they did something similar to AMA after episodes but on Twitter where there weren't expectations on the format. I find it really adds to the experience, sort of a real-time behind-the-scenes.
 
McFarlane also announced on the AMA that the show will be moving to Thursday nights after Sunday's episode. I hope the change in time slot does not hurt the show.
 
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