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News Seth MacFarlane’s The Orville

BillJ said:
It's weird. I'm excited for new Star Trek, but let down (for the most part) by what I've seen so far.
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The advanced reviews for ST: Discovery are very positive and I've liked what the showrunners have said throughout, so I'm quite looking forward to it. But, everyone is different.

I'm glad you like The Orville because you'll still have a show to look forward to. We all win with more options! :techman:
 
BillJ said:
It's weird. I'm excited for new Star Trek, but let down (for the most part) by what I've seen so far.
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I am super excited, probably the most excited I have been since the TNG premiere. I expect it to look spectacular, which makes it a shame that it will be on a streaming service (meaning most people will watch on some small mobile device). $8.5 million per episode is some serious money, much more than previous Trek shows and encroaching on Game of Thrones territory.
 
Noname Given said:
Actually in the U.S.:
Works done post 1978: 70 year past the death of the work's author.
95 years for anonymous works
90 years for any 'works for hire'
(Also, the above copyrights can be renewed/republished to reset the 90 years term)
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Actually, the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (yes, that's a real thing) makes it life+70 years, and for corporate works 120 years after creation or 95 years after publication, whichever comes first. And you can't renew that.
Serveaux said:
I thought for two minutes about starting an Orville BBS, but frankly the Bulletin Board format has become outdated by preference for social media like Facebook and Reddit.
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Yeah, bulletin boards are for losers!
 
By the way, I'm not so thrilled by the way The Orville used Bortus' egg hatching as a link to the next episode. What is this, a serial? Trek-like space adventures should not be serials! Who would be silly enough to do that!:lol:

Seriously, though, TOS did allow (in the writer's guide IIRC) for an episode or two to be set up by the previous one. They never did it, probably because of tight turnarounds and the programmers' whims of airing order.
 
I also feel more excited for "Orville" than "Discovery" but to be fair we have already seen 2 episodes to a show we have seen 0 episodes. Also "Orville" has combined 2 things I love and that is Trek and Macfarlane style comedy. "Discovery" has some very decent actors but the only one that I trust 100% to always entertain me is Rain WIlson because I was a huge fan of "The Office" and his character was a big reason for that.

Also I got to admit the idea of a war with the Klingons doesn't really excite me. If the show would have been about the Earth/Romulan war It would be different. So from the way I see it they will have to make me excited in the idea instead of trying to make a idea I am into be as good as I would hope for it to be.

Jason
 
It just feels like Discovery is a product made by a corporation, with no real vision of its own. Like every idea was ran through focus groups before being committed to.

I sure hope I'm wrong.
 
BillJ said:
It just feels like Discovery is a product made by a corporation, with no real vision of its own. Like every idea was ran through focus groups before being committed to.

I sure hope I'm wrong.
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I think that's an overstatement, but it's essentially correct: CBS wanted a product that they believed they could use to drive their streaming service, and they hired people to produce it. Whenever it veered too far from what they could use they overruled the folks they hired.

This is not the way the really outstanding and memorable TV dramas have ever been produced, of course. Nor, for that matter, was Star Trek when it was at its best.
 
BillJ said:
It just feels like Discovery is a product made by a corporation, with no real vision of its own. Like every idea was ran through focus groups before being committed to.

I sure hope I'm wrong.
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I don't think it started off that way but when Fuller got fired I got to admit that is something I also started to fear. Plus the idea of using this show to basically be the flagship show to launch a new streaming service reminds me of how "Voyager' was basically being used by UPN for the same reason.

Jason
 
I just had an ad for it on Youtube, with new scenes and telling us it's new night is Thursday. I hope that's not their idea of promoting the new night -- waiting for people accidentally see an ad on Youtube.
 
tharpdevenport said:
I just had an ad for it on Youtube, with new scenes and telling us it's new night is Thursday. I hope that's not their idea of promoting the new night -- waiting for people accidentally see an ad on Youtube.
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FOX has had commercials about the move all week.
 
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