Saw the new trailer and it’s pretty awesome, looking forward to June!
The Orville season 3 - first look
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Visually, it looks fantastic.
When it first aired i watched the first few episodes in a half assed way because it didn't grip me, McFarlanes humor style is maybe an aquired taste. However after i've seen A Million Ways To Die In The West and laughed myself to tears at some parts i decided to give this show another shot. Binged the first season over the weekend, nearly done and i am really enjoying it.
It has a couple of rough spots but nothing too major and you can tell he loves Star Trek.
So i'm in, second season will be done just in time for season 3 start.
It has a couple of rough spots but nothing too major and you can tell he loves Star Trek.
So i'm in, second season will be done just in time for season 3 start.
Huh, I actually found A Million Ways to Die in the West to be one of MacFarlane's weakest productions. Just felt like a really average Family Guy episode stretched out to movie length.
Same here. I couldn't make it all the way through that one. Felt like a bunch of rejected jokes from Family Guy. The dialogue was also highly anachronistic. The Orville has what I feel is McFarland at his best. A good balance between humor, story and character development.
And that's the most important part in my eyes. You can only spoof what you love. You've got to get the details right. And in general you can feel with this show how much love everyone is putting into the small details. He's collected the best of the best around him.
I did not watch "A Million Ways to die in the West" for the jokes, but from the start you could tell that he wanted to do it properly - with the music, the set, the costumes. I've always had a huge love for the Wild West so this was right up my alley.
Plus the story with Anna and Albert is really sweet and touching. Did you know that there are even fanfictions in this universe? One or two even written by me, including an Orville/AMWTDITW crossover, where Ed and Albert switch places
Plus the story with Anna and Albert is really sweet and touching. Did you know that there are even fanfictions in this universe? One or two even written by me, including an Orville/AMWTDITW crossover, where Ed and Albert switch places
Wouldn't surprise me in the least if he'd have an Old West planet as a nod to both TOS and TNG. That'd admittedly be a fun crossover. You get someone who looks like Captain Mercer but isn't.
We saw them play a Wild West program in the simulator early in the first season where Ed was dressed very similarily to Albert.
It really fits together too well. We know how often these simulators screw up and boom, Ed is stuck in the simulation with all its negatives (just imagine the kind of toilets they have there! And snakes!) while a clueless Albert wanders around the ship being amazed by a simple shower. I had much fun with two fish-out-of-water stories! And on top of that Kelly asks in the end what Ed is doing there with Pria, since both Pria and Anna were played by Charlize Theron.... it basically wrote itself.
Not sure whether it's allowed to post a link here, but I can send it to you if you are interested.
Seth can definitely do humor that's different from Family Guy, which I also like very much. A Million Ways To Die In The West was really a funny movie and they seemed to take great care to make it look period accurate most of the time.
The Orville is definitely an homage to Trek. For true Trek parody you'd need to read the Leah Rewolinski Star Wreck novels.
I must have missed that or didn't get the connection at the time.
Ditto. It was a funny joke, but not enough to build a movie on. Maybe a sketch...?
Just 2 days to go! I'm very curious how fans are going to compare and contrast The Orville's third season with Strange New Worlds' first. It's the first time they're doing the same episodic format head to head. It's Babylon 5 vs. DS9 all over again.
Babylon 5 vs DS9 all over again would be nice.
I haven't given that much thought. Im just curious how this season will compare to seasons 1 and 2. The last time Orville had a new episode was 3 years ago.
As long as they aren't too similar (which they aren't), the contrast will be refreshing for both shows.
Hmmm...maybe I'm misreading the trailer but I do not get an "episodic" feel from it. From what you all have stated here Season 2 was very much an arc based, at least towards the end. Not sure the comparison will be apt?
not having any luck find broadcast details for Canada.
A reddit thread from two years ago was it was going to be on citytv as were the first two series but it's not showing the schedule. Another from 4 months ago talked about CTV but it's not showing for CTV-Scifi (but then why put anything new on when you can loop TOS/TNG/DS9/Voy endlessly) so if ctv has it then it will be on crave
A reddit thread from two years ago was it was going to be on citytv as were the first two series but it's not showing the schedule. Another from 4 months ago talked about CTV but it's not showing for CTV-Scifi (but then why put anything new on when you can loop TOS/TNG/DS9/Voy endlessly) so if ctv has it then it will be on crave
not having any luck find broadcast details for Canada.
A reddit thread from two years ago was it was going to be on citytv as were the first two series but it's not showing the schedule. Another from 4 months ago talked about CTV but it's not showing for CTV-Scifi (but then why put anything new on when you can loop TOS/TNG/DS9/Voy endlessly) so if ctv has it then it will be on crave
Do you get the Star aspect of Disney+? That's where it will be in Canada.
season 2 had arcs but each episode was self-contained, not unlikely how I think SNW is developing. From interviews I get that season 3 will follow the same trend, but with longer and more daring episodes.
Interesting.
