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Discovery and "The Orville" Comparisons

I think I mentioned it somewhere in another thread, but my "work wife" looks a lot like Adrianne Palicki. That puts The Orville a few steps ahead as well.
 
It's funny, because I feel the opposite. The Orville has a TNG aesthetic, yet has the TOS vibe and feel.

DSC, for me, is a departure for Star Trek. It's now an arc-based season, where the story will be told over 15 episodes. That isn't a bad thing, but it just hasn't started the way I hoped.

I do understand why you feel the way you do because the design aesthetics are very different from other Trek and The Orville does look close to traditional Trek.

For me I'm ready for Trek to be updated for the 21st century. I LOVE watching old Trek but I'm ready for something new and different.
 
I enjoyed the 3rd ep of Orville more than the Dsc pilot. What does that say? I grew up on TOS in the '70s but consider myself mostly a TNG/DS9 fan. Orville feels like it's of that era so maybe it's like comfort food to me. Dsc is made for a modern audience.
 
I have found Orville to be not funny as a comedy and not interesting as a drama/action adventure series. Trying to hard too not be either to work for me.

Plus, I really never have liked Seth MacFarlane.
 
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Both shows have their flaws.

But art is subjective. I don’t particularly LOVE either show. But I don’t hate them either. To break it down to the simplest terms: to me, Orville is too loose and Discovery is a little too tightly wound.

Doesn’t mean I’m not going to watch both for the time being. But neither show is one I would particularly miss if it ended.
 
I already love The Orville. I'm hoping Discovery improves to where I love it, too. For now, though, I'd watch a new Orville episode over a new DSC episode.
 
I like both shows. For us space adventure fans this is the best time since TNG/DS9/B5 days.
I've been feeling something strange lately that I haven't been able to quite place, and I think this is it. I'm actually kinda enjoying multiple space shows on television for the first time in a while, and it's kinda nice. I feel like, to paraphrase James T. Kirk, "[I've] come home."
 
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