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THE ORVILLE Season Three...

BillJ said:
It can be expensive, but you are the final arbiter of what you get. Beats a couple hundred bucks a month for cable, and then only being interested in four or five channels spread across multiple expensive tiers.
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Yeah but it's not spread out by interest. Every genre has an equal cross section. And shows randomly hop from service to service with only a couple weeks warning.

ANYONE who is looking for maybe a dozen specific shows, which either includes any live sports not on the Youtube service, and includes new cable shows like Better Call Saul and Fargo still has to pay for four or five different services ON TOP of cable.

It's ironic. 1990s: Ten bucks a month for HBO? NO WAY!
Now: Ten bucks a month for seven different services all with just a few of the shows I like, and I still have to pay for a cable service to see the best cable non-HBO shows? Sign me up!
 
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JirinPanthosa said:
Yeah but it's not spread out by interest. Every genre has an equal cross section. And shows randomly hop from service to service with only a couple weeks warning.
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Yeah. Arguably it's preferable to the old cable system, insofar as I don't have to pay money for certain things I have absolutely no interest in (like sports) any longer. But very few streaming services are trying to specialize for a given niche audience. Instead they're doing a mixture of absolutely everything, hoping to make themselves indispensable to the median viewer. Which makes it frustrating, because (as an example) there's nothing non-Trek I'm interested in at all on CBS All Access.

I really wish some company would form which would just do SF/Fantasy programming, and nothing else. Because aside from documentaries, that's pretty much all I watch.
 
Just happy it got renewed considering how the ratings dropped and they totally airballed the NFL lead-in they had. I thought early season two was trash.
 
Astra said:
Can you do that more than once? Will they not have your name in the system?
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They don't care that much. Offering free trials is almost like spamming marketing emails - if, at some point down the line, one out of thousands responds with some cash, they've made out.
 
Turtletrekker said:
And I always have to laugh the people who say something along the lines of "I have Netflix and CBS all access so I won't subscribe to anything else ever." as if they didn't have the option to very easily drop one service or another for a month, pick up another service for that month and binge the shows they want to watch, and then go back to the previous setup.
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It's not really about the money for me, I could afford to add Hulu as a subscription if I wanted to, it's more about the value of what I'd be getting for my money. Is it worth it to sign up for Hulu for one show I like? For me, not really. If a free trial situation works out, I may try that. I just have so much great content on Netflix alone that I feel like I'll never get to in my lifetime, that another service isn't really necessary.

Also, I wouldn't want to put Netflix or CBS All Access on hold because I actively watch things on those platforms every week.
 
Hulu doesn't seem like it has much if any SFnal content, but it looks like you can get access to Syfy programming through it. Does that include the entire back catalogue?
 
I guess I'll binge watch the next season of Orville after it finishes and subscribe to Hulu for one month. I don't really have any interest in adding yet another monthly recurring charge.
 
Hulu actually has quite of bit of SFF on there, there's The Handmaid's Tale, Marvel's Runaways, Future Man, The First, Castle Rock, 11.22.63, Hard Sun, Into The Dark. Those are just the originals, you can also watch all sorts of stuff off of ABC, NBC, Fox, Freeform, Adult Swim, AMC, Cartoon Network, ect. They've also got a few acquired foreign shows that are exclusive.
 
RandyS said:
Any Parrallel Universe story is good, as long as it's a Parrallel Universe story.
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Parallel Universes have always been a huge fascination for me, going all the way back to an episode of Superfriends where they were all evil with different color costumes. Batman was devil red. It stuck with me. I was like 5.
 
The Wormhole said:
Oh, wow. I just did a quick Google search on that and confirmed it is legit. Name change happens in September.
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Yep, it sounds very generic doesn't it? Apparently it's an effort from Bell to centralize everything. Comedy Channel's also getting renamed to CTV Comedy, among other things. I wish I were kidding. It's like a playbook from Generic City. They had an identity and a reputation with the Space Channel that had accrued for decades, and it's always been one of the better channels available since its launch. To do this is like throwing all of that away. If they really have to do that, then a much better name would have been CTV-Space. Keeping the original name and heritage and re-aligning it to match the others wouldn't have been so bad.
 
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Phoenix219 said:
Parallel Universes have always been a huge fascination for me, going all the way back to an episode of Superfriends where they were all evil with different color costumes. Batman was devil red. It stuck with me. I was like 5.
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For me it was Star Trek's "Mirror Mirror" that got me interested (I might have also been 5, I don't remeber exactly), then reading and watching other science fiction and reading about actual theories on the subject that got me REALLY interested.
 
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