If There is a Second Season, We May Wait a While...

[Vger23]

I'm pretty sure Bryan Fuller's original "anthology" concept has been scrapped, especially with him no longer on the series.

This has nothing to do with the series being an "anthology." It has to do with a direct quote from the producer on After Trek saying that the war arc would be complete by the end of S1. I didn't say the characters and setting would change...only the primary arc.

So far the show only has an audience score of 65%, so if it does get a second season it's going to take one hell of a budget hit.

Leaps of unfounded, alarmist illogic are everywhere I see.

 

[Quinton O'Connor]

Yeah but Orville gets less spite votes. If you look at user ratings at sites like Metacritic there's a lot of kneejerk zeroes who are just mad they were not pandered to with the exact Trek they want. If The Orville as the sixth variation of a franchise that started in the sixties and has religious-level fanboys, it would probably have the same spite vote problem.

There'd be so much "not my Trek" launched at the comedy elements I don't even know where to begin.

 

[Fateor]

Yeah but Orville gets less spite votes. If you look at user ratings at sites like Metacritic there's a lot of kneejerk zeroes who are just mad they were not pandered to with the exact Trek they want. If The Orville as the sixth variation of a franchise that started in the sixties and has religious-level fanboys, it would probably have the same spite vote problem.

Sorry, but you don't get to discount someone's vote just because you don't like their opinion.

 

[Vger23]

Sorry, but you don't get to discount someone's vote just because you don't like their opinion.

Sure he can. He can actually discount whatever he wants. Sorry, but you don't get to dismiss his interpretation (which is actually an extremely reasonable supposition) just because you don't like it.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Sorry, but you don't get to discount someone's vote just because you don't like their opinion.

I'm not discounting anyone's vote, I'm calling out sampling bias.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

And if you want to get nitty-gritty with the problems of citing random internet polls to gauge actual public opinion.

Polls that go by a straight average encourage strategic voting among those most wanting to make a point.
Shows that have high expectations get voted on by people who love and hate it, shows that have no expectations get mostly voted on by people who love it.
People who are mad something isn't what they wanted it to be exaggerate their negative votes to increase their impact on the average.

I'm not questioning that there are more people mad about Star Trek Discovery than mad about Orville. Just these angry people are oversampled in open internet polls because people who hated The Orville didn't go to a website and vote for it, they just turned it off and forgot about it, whereas people who hated Discovery made more of a point to make their anger known. This skews the results and makes them not a valid representation of the average person's real opinion.