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THE ORVILLE Season Two...

Recording session of a big bold cue:
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( facebook.com/john.debney.75/videos/10217927403759384/ )

Dam, Debney is good, I have always liked his stuff. Thats about as Trek sounding as your going to get (with out it being actual Trek) , and its great. Parts of it reminds me of The Wrath of Kahn, and some other parts has that sorta John William's E.T. vibe to it. I like it.
 
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Well, all the network fiction shows I watch are now on at the exact same time. Guess I'll be watching Orville the next day. Schur trumps MacFarlane.
 
Forget all these backward music formats. You haven't heard "Stairway to Heaven" until you heard it recorded on a cassette tape that was in a cassette recorder placed up next to a FM radio that just happens to be playing that song for it to be recorded. Only a true music lover knows what I am talking about. These other things are for the mainstream normies who don't get the nuance of music! It's like so far out to hear the background sounds of passing by car or your sisters playing with their toys or snippets of a old "Barney MIller" playing on the family tv sort of heard in the background!:)
I can definitely see the nostalgic value of that.

Cassette PFFFFT! You haven't heard in properly until you've heard it in your car on an 8-Track player.
When I was in high school, I used to borrow my Uncle Joe's car, which had an 8-track player in it. Used to cruise around, listening to Meatloaf and Aerosmith..... :rommie:

With some apps, you could do a side at a time, then edit the single file into tracks, or do like I did and stop the recording process, lift the tone-arm, then repeat for each track.
That's probably what I'd do, just for the sake of quality control. :rommie:
 
It has better music than most of that used in the post-TOS Trek TV shows.

Of course, a lot of it has that very familiar Mercer-esque quality ("Thanks, I plagiarized it from like nine different places."). :lol:

Debney has several cool performance videos on his FB page, at least one other of which is from The Orville.
 
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Don't know if this has been posted - it's a four minute video interview from about eight months ago with the production designer of The Orville, Stephen Lineweaver:

Link
 
Seth MacFarlane and his fellow producers have often said they hoped The Orville could address contemporary social issues through the lens of science fiction – indeed, McFarlane believes that it must. Harkening back to the tradition of classic Star Trek, the first season of The Orville looked at gender reassignment, social media phenomena, religion, and racial privilege.

Trekmovie review of "Primal Urges."

This is very much after the model of original Star Trek using humor where TOS relied more heavily on disguising the issues. The sequal series were far more timid.
 
I like the idea of them going back to the idea of doing social commentary present in the TOS. I give them credit for attacking porn addiction in this last episode. I just didn’t find either season 2 episode particularly good. I’m hopeful it gets better.
 
The article did say the delayed viewing numbers are good, so maybe that will be enough to keep it around.
I was thinking earlier today that it will be interesting to see how this compares to Star Trek: Lower Decks. While The Orville is a Star Trek style dramedy, LD will be our first truly comedic Trek series. It will be animated, so that'll probably give it more freedom than The Orville, but it will still be interesting to see how they approach things vs how The Orville has.
 
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