Are you looking forward more to "Discovery" or "Orville?"

I think they both look great.

 

Disco??

Is that just like saying "Ditto," but with KC & The Sunshine Band playing in the background?

 

USS Disco, very --- The swingingest ship in Starfleet!

 

The Kelvin timeline version of the Enterprise had a sombrero, but the Disco will have... a mirror ball and shag carpeting.

 

The USS Disco was probably one of the ships in the original Galactica.

 

I'm equally excited for both. They're different enough that I wouldn't really consider them competition.
It's like comparing Arrow and Powerless.

 

It might or might not have been reused on Buck Rogers.

 

Hm, let's see...

I love NuTrek, and DSC looks like NuTrek. I hate Seth MacFarlane's crude, juvenile humour and his tendency to plagiarise his betters. I hate everything he does with the fire of a thousand suns.

That being said, the Orville trailer made me chuckle, and I think it's charming.

Yep, I'm looking forward to both. Also, we totally have to pick sides. That's how it has to be. THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!

First, I have to watch Brooklyn 99, Better Call Saul, The Handmaid's Tale, and American Gods, though.

 

The Orville looks entertaining. The trailer for Discovery did nothing for me but I'll still be giving it a watch.

 

I'm looking forward to both.

Seen the trailer for The Orville, looks really good and funny.

 

DSC of course, but Orville will be a fantastic complement in the reinvigoration of the franchise. Quite a golden age of Trek in the making with both shows on at the same time, each meeting a different sensibility.

 

The Orville looks like it has the potential to be really entertaining provided MacFarlane doesn't fall into his Family Guy-type of habits.

Meanwhile, I'm not paying for a CBS All Access subscription just to watch Discovery.

 

Both trailers are alike in the sense that they are both somewhat underwhelming. They're not terrible but they're just kind of, well, at best...competent.

Obviously Discovery has higher production values, but that in and of itself doesn't compell me to watch. FX these days are sort of taken for granted. The constant gee whiz in Guardians of the Galaxy 2, for instance, or Doctor Strange before it. We've reached a point where I've largely lost the ability to be awed by spectacle alone.

The lack of a real "hook" in Discovery is something everybody seems to be saying, and with The Orville, the tone seems to be sort of half-way between serious and parody to the point where it comes across as Galaxy Quest with fewer/weaker jokes. Also, I just don't find Seth a very compelling screen presence as an actor. He just appears constantly smug and self-aware, like he's always breaking the 4th wall even when he's not. I think Tim Allen was perfect for that kind of role.

Million ways to die in the west was a bomb. So I don't think Seth has really proven himself as a live-action actor. His dialogue works best coming out of other actors' mouths (like Mark Wahlberg) or through a cartoon character that can project more interesting body language. I think Seth in live-action is best as a "personality" like Oscars host.

I'm kind of rooting more for The Orville because it has a lot of potential if they can just get the tone right.

 

I will probably not watch Orville because I just have never been into McFarlane's stuff. I may change my mind next year.

Discovery, right now, seems to me to be just bland and disrespectful of what came before. If they want to do a new Trek series, cut the faux prequel idea and just place something fifty years or so after the previous series. Already there seems to be a lot of disrespect to established continuity considering this is supposed to be in the original timeline.

All that said, I will watch absolutely every episode and enjoy it on whatever level I can.