I'll take a rerun.
I missed some of the episodes and parts of some.
I know, I'm so evil.
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I missed some of the episodes and parts of some.
I know, I'm so evil.
It is a new episode in the UK.
Does FOX.com still have then up for free (with ads) or is that locked down now? I don't want to go check.
That would be nice. Even with ads I'd watch it. I didn't know there was anything like that.
In a way, that's not so bad.As @BillJ says, I'm in the UK. We're only just getting it now
I saw someplace yesterday that the next season won't be out until 2019!
What ever happened to shows running an entire season And if they got renewed, being on the following fall?
Mmmm the good old days.
The second season is filming and now and the last word is it might not air until 2019.
It was the entire season, it was just a short season.
A lot of shows are starting to cut down how many episodes they do a season.
A lot of cable shows only do 10-13 episodes, and some of the premium shows on channels like HBO only do 8.
I actually like shorter seasons, with less episodes they are able to focus on quality over quantity. When we get the long 20+ episode seasons, we tend to get a lot of filler, and meh episodes in order to fill out the seasons. With shorter season they don't need to fill out the episode count, so they can focus more on giving us fewer, but better episodes.
It's not quite as bad with shows that are mostly standalone episodes, like The Orville, but I'll still take fewer, better episodes over a season filled with a bunch of mediocre episodes, and a few great ones.
It's not quite as bad with shows that are mostly standalone episodes, like The Orville, but I'll still take fewer, better episodes over a season filled with a bunch of mediocre episodes, and a few great ones.
That surprises you? We knew prior to that episode that Bortus's civilian husband lives on board the ship, along with their infant child.
Not gonna lie, I wasn't entirely sure if Klydon was a civilian or a crewmember who we only saw while off-duty.
Nothing's really been stated concretely, but dialogue definitely heavily implies he's a civilian.
This is a strange argument. Shorter seasons don't mean better quality. If that were the case, Inhumans would be great and Cheers would be awful.
Bad ideas and executions can easily be made at any part of the creative process. Not just after a certain number of episodes have been produced.
If they can make 22 (or whatever is standard these days) epsodes of Orville, I'd much prefer that instead of taking the lazier way out.
I'll take a rerun.
I missed some of the episodes and parts of some.
I know, I'm so evil.
Obviously it's not a 100% rule, and like I said it mostly applies to arc heavy shows. There are a lot of older arc heavy shows that would constantly do stupid shit just to drag out the arcs so they could fill out a season. By having less episodes they are able to move things a long a lot faster, and keep the story focused, without constantly having to bring things to a screeching halt with filler episodes that did nothing to things forward.
I don't think shows like The Magicians or Stranger Things would be anywhere near as good if they had to constantly drag their seasons out to 20+ episodes.
Even with more standalone shows like The Orville it probably gives them a lot more time with each episode, so they can take their time and really get the episodes as good as possible.
I do like the trend of longer season shows like AoS and Once Upon A Time doing shorter arcs in a longer season, so that we're basically getting two or three mini seasons instead of one long one.
While I don't mind shorter seasons for the most part I think their is argument that longer seasons actually can lead to more character development. You have more time to focus on just character stuff that some might write off as just filler. The shorter the season the less time you also have towards creating a new world which is a big thing for genre shows were you don't always have a modern setting. "Orville" could have easily worked with 22 episodes and if we had those extra shows we might know even more about the characters and even more about that universe.
Jason
Jason
Ultimately, it depends on the nature of the show, but it can be frustrating having a limited supply of a show that you like. In the old days, a show could have as many as 36 episodes in a season-- these days it would take three seasons, and probably five years, to get that many stories. 
MacFarlane has said he'll continue doing seasons in the neighbourhood of a dozen episodes or so to avoid wasteful fillers, so there we are.