THE ORVILLE S1, E11 "NEW DIMENSIONS"
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Loved the article linked in you signature. Speaks to a lot of issues I have with Discovery.
Reminds me of something I noticed about Discovery's theme tune. The abbreviated version used during the end credits sounds a lot more dynamic and well, better than the extended version used in the opening credits. I would point how odd it is to use a better variation during the end credits when people are less likely to be watching, but then Enterprise had an entirely different and much better piece of music with its end credits than its beginning.
I wouldn't recognize the Disco theme if you'd played it to me. The Orville's on the other hand is very memorable to me.
Orville also has the better opening credit sequence between the two shows.
I agree...being nitpicky, though, the collection of shots is kind of random, without continuity: Here's a cool shot in a nebula, oh look here's a cool shot chasing a comet - oh look, where are we now? and so forth.
The Trek series that had an opening like this one, Voyager, actually had a sort of visual narrative to the design.
Still a cool opening.
Meh, Orville's credits are both a great sequence and do a fine job of representing the show. Discovery's on the other hand are just a massive WTF? Just what the fuck are they trying to convey? Drawings of the ship and props coming to life with weird abstract imagery scattered throughout, like Discovery flying towards a giant representation of Michael Burnham, towards a human eye, through a pitcher plant. What is all this even meant to represent?
Meh. Just another “no more Roddenberry vision” sprinkled with not sufficiently TNG-like complaint, and “the canon”. Plus the oh so tiring “oh teh noes, lens flares”. Yawn.Loved the article linked in you signature. Speaks to a lot of issues I have with Discovery.
I have no ill will towards Discovery. It is always a tricky balancing act about how far you can move away from the core of a popular property and still feel like said property. For me, they've moved too far away from the things I love about Star Trek, other folks think it is right on the button. No harm, no foul.
True enough, Billj. I was just disappointed in the lack of originality in the review/critique. Also, his criticism of antagonists in DSC and Beyond as being anti-diversity implies the filmmakers are endorsing that point of view when, clearly, the opposite is happening. Such flawed analysis doesn’t serve the rest of the piece very well.
But, enough about Trek. I am looking forward to a new episode of The Orville.
But, enough about Trek. I am looking forward to a new episode of The Orville.
No, he's right. You can't like them both. You have to love one and adore the other.
That they want to be as kewl as Game of Thrones and Westworld, but don't know how.
They've failed.
STD tries and tries to be so different than the source material it is derived from, to be current and modern and whatnot. It is making a mess of it all.
The Orville doesn't try to be original at all. It's refreshingly familiar, if that makes sense. But it manages to be its own thing nonetheless.
Just asking, but can we have Orville threads about "The Orville" instead of about how sucky Discovery is with a few scattered defenders?
You can ask. I think comparisons are inevitable with a Star Trek-pretender on the air at the same time with The Orville.