Except for the difference in money spent on effects, it sounds exactly like Discovery.
I wouldn't call STD introspective, either.
Opinions on The Orville
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I wouldn't call STD introspective, either.
I would
Orville has its introspective moments, but they don't always feel like they matter as much. But, I absolutely enjoyed how Mercer has to make decisions regarding Pria, and the Krill children, and facets like that. Not expected but still introspective enough for my enjoyment.
I've only watched about 6 episodes so far, and I agree. I really expected it to be a straight out joke-fest, but I am really surprised by what they've done so far. They have moments that are simply meant to be funny, and to poke fun at the genre and (to be honest) Berman-Trek. However, they are at the same time trying to tell actual stories.
If they spent less time on the jokes and more on the stories, we might get some more original content rather than re-hashes of Star Trek and Black Mirror episodes.
Oh...I'm sorry....homages, not re-hashes!
If they spent less time on the jokes and more on the stories, we might get some more original content rather than re-hashes of Star Trek and Black Mirror episodes.
Oh...I'm sorry....homages, not re-hashes!
The humor is what separates The Orville from any of the garden variety scifi series that we see. And, it was obvious from the get-go that The Orville was going to draw directly from TNG. Coming from Seth McFarlane, I knew that as soon as I heard he was doing a science fiction series.
There is a large part of their humor that revolves around bodily functions and sex. Personally, I think it's great but I am sure that it makes some people uncomfortable.
The general look of the show is clearly drawn from TNG, and Bortus and Isaac are obvious parallels to Worf and Data, respectively, but the presence of characters with some actual humanity to them is pure TOS.
Moreso in the early episodes, but as the season progressed and the show started to gain a footing, we started to see less and less of that. So, I think it's a bit unfair to say it revolves around it. It's not like the show's foundation is built upon it. I feel drawn to it for the creative stories it tells.
It's likely that they got a bad feedback about it and that's why they tried to correct it.
Not unless they didn't produce it entirely before it aired.
But, it seems, only by Orville fans. In the DSC forum, in most of the threads there, you'll see lots of heated discussion of DSC, but you'd be hard pressed to find any mention of The Orville. But it seems like in just about every Orville thread in this forum you can't go more than a page or two without someone mentioning DSC.
To me, it seems like the "rivalry" is being kept up mostly by Orville fans, on this BBS, at least.
Nope.
Only as a baseball bat against Disco.
And, no, it's not just on this BBS. I've seen it around other Orville communities and comment threads.
I really enjoyed it and I'm looking forward to the second season. The first few episodes were a bit hit and miss, but then the show really got going and was great. The season finale was up there with some of the best of TNG. Sure there are a lot of parallels to Star Trek, and TNG especially, but I'm not really bothered as long as they tell decent stories. Much as I enjoy dark sci-fi and fantasy, it's a relief to relax with a more optimistic show every once in a while.
True. I mean, I am not going to say The Orville is going to make anyone forget Trek, or even suggest that the material they are doing on the show is going to supercede the best that Trek has ever done. It's very much a comedy. I'm just surprised that they are also managing to interweave a story/point/plot at the same time. I didn't expect that.
What I have to say I love a lot about the show is how the show is paced - particularly just before a commercial break. It is very much an homage to TNG.
That's funny, because the pacing is another thing that reminds me of TOS and not at all of any of the sequel shows: they cover a lot of big story with big things going on in forty-odd minutes a week. TNG, DS9 and the others worked on a much smaller scale.
I mean, whole wars started and ended in a single episode of TOS. They saved the galaxy from a giant thing that was eating planets in less than an hour.
The only episode of The Orville that's particularly reminiscent of TNG in its approach is, I think, "Something About A Boy."
I mean, whole wars started and ended in a single episode of TOS. They saved the galaxy from a giant thing that was eating planets in less than an hour.
The only episode of The Orville that's particularly reminiscent of TNG in its approach is, I think, "Something About A Boy."
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