Discovery and "The Orville" Comparisons

But he stole from a very specific Supernatural episode and made that dumb fucking Ted movie. As a Supernatural fangirl, that pisses me off. Also, I just don't think his humour is funny.

 

I generally don't, either, but I think Orville is right in his personal interest and I think might have a different flavor of humor.

 

I had no idea Supernatural had done Ted before Ted

 

I think the Orville looks fine, too, and I'm willing to like it despite MacFarlane.

Yes, SPN did an episode with basically the exact same premise, only earlier. There is no way, no way MacFarlane came up with something identical on his own (didn't credit it, either, to my knowledge). It's way too specific.

 

Unfortunately, all to common in Hollywood.

 

Well, ain't that the truth.

 

And Star Trek is no more immune to this than any other property.

Also, as a note, unrelated, your signature line would improve greatly, in my opinion, if it said, "It was a nice day in Maine..."

 

True, true, true. The tragic part? I STOLE THE LINE FROM SOMEONE AND CAN'T REMEMBER WHO!

OH YE GODS, I HAVE TURNED INTO SETH MACFARLANE!!!! * thunderclap *





Maybe I'll include Maine in my signature. Raise your glasses to whoever actually came up with this line.

 

I agree with what you're saying and can see where Seth is coming from. I've watched interviews with him in the past where he said one of the things that made TNG work for him was that the Enterprise seemed a bright, pleasant place. Something we might design in the future as a plausible environment for long term space exploration.

Speaking personally for me, the bright lights and pastel tones help make the show and ship feel like you could use them it to tell those more hopeful, nicer and touching stories. It was subconsciously harder to buy into ideas like that on DS9, VOY and ENT, as everything always just looked grey and militaristic the whole time.

Maybe I'm over analysing though? I dunno?
That's just how I felt about TNG as a kid.

 

TNG never felt plausible to me, but it was fun.

 

Sentient teddy bear stories have been around nearly as long as teddy bears themselves.
http://theweek.com/articles/562931/humanitys-long-strange-fixation-talking-teddy-bears

 

Hey, remember this whole Star Trek thing is just a rip-off of Forbidden Planet!

 

You have summarized all of fandom.

 

Which was based on Shakespeare's "The Tempest."

 

Same here. I didn't actually know it was a McFarlane project before watching the tailer or I'd have given it a pass, but it does look funny.

 

True enough.

 

Which was based on "A True Reportory of the Wracke and Redemption of Sir Thomas Gates, Knight".

 

I'll be giving the show a look. I've been missing a more comedic sci-fi show since Eureka and Warehouse 13 ended.

 

Have you checked out THE LIBRARIANS?

 

Verging on a pun.