Yes, but this is not the 25th century.
News Seth MacFarlane’s The Orville
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And of course the aliens have a green ship and weapons. McFarland might be the weakest link in the cast.
Neither is Orville.
And BTW, Trek is not the future either.
They're all actors speaking contemporary English, except in the most staid, formal and boring fashion they can manage.
Fuck that.
I wouldn't go that far, of course, but it was a very good episode.
Exactly this. First, even in a comedy, you don't talk like that. How can these people run an organization if all they do it make dick and fart jokes? And the constant blathering about the cheating. It did absolutely nothing for me.
I REALLY liked it! The cast of characters are great, the ship design (exterior and interior) is cool, and the humor gave me a few good chuckles!
A fun watch.Bring on the next 12 episodes!
Yeah, the ship design was great....because they ripped it off from TNG. Even the holodeck
i thought it was decent fun.... i place it in enough of a comedy realm that an instant Sequoia or obliterated engines are nothing to fret about.
The Orville, i just realized, looks a lot like the Andromeda Ascendant to me (and that's kinda cool -- did Seth McFarland watch that show too??)
I thought the effects were pretty good. The humor was restrained for McFarland, but not sure if i will be watching weekly with my oldest daughter...though a 12 year old me would have probably loved it.
The Orville, i just realized, looks a lot like the Andromeda Ascendant to me (and that's kinda cool -- did Seth McFarland watch that show too??)
I thought the effects were pretty good. The humor was restrained for McFarland, but not sure if i will be watching weekly with my oldest daughter...though a 12 year old me would have probably loved it.
It appears some like McFarlane's work and some dislike it. What a shocking turn of events.
It's good to see Star Trek back on television after all these years, even if it technically isn't Star Trek.
Yeah, the ship design was great....because they ripped it off from TNG. Even the holodeck
It's a parody of Star Trek, so obviously there are a lot of similarities. Chill out.
But the show is being made today, for today's audiences, and this isn't trying to be the kind of high brow entertainment Trek was.
It seems many people are taking this show way more seriously than it is meant to be. And also put way more importance on what the creators say than what their own eyes showed. Did you laugh? Then it's a comedy. Doesn't matter what you may have heard or read.
The show was fun, with fun nods to Star Trek. But the moment that got me was when Mockingbird had her scene with Firestorm and we get a good moment of heartstring pulling at the end. That moment right there clicked for me that there promise.
The show was fun, with fun nods to Star Trek. But the moment that got me was when Mockingbird had her scene with Firestorm and we get a good moment of heartstring pulling at the end. That moment right there clicked for me that there promise.
Does that make Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home a comedy?
"Chill out"
Hmmmm. No.
Also, I didn't get excited so I don't know what prompted "chill out".
See, here's the thing - if the show had a sliver of originality it might have gone over better. Instead they choose to brashly rip off Trek altogether. So now it'll be permanently compared to it. If SM had gone the route of originality like Firefly did, it might be received better.
I've always thought it was.
It most certainly is. Original intentions that included Eddie Murphy to co-star/cross over support this line of thinking.
Loved it.
It's blue collar Star Trek with jokes.
It showed more of future Earth in the first five minutes than Star Trek has in 50 years. There is an earthy quality to it, where the characters are "grounded" in the mundane. Hell, the McGuffin ended up as a tree.
I think this MacFarlane's way of juxtaposing the show to Star Trek's lofty, pie-in-the-sky idealism.
It's blue collar Star Trek with jokes.
It showed more of future Earth in the first five minutes than Star Trek has in 50 years. There is an earthy quality to it, where the characters are "grounded" in the mundane. Hell, the McGuffin ended up as a tree.
I think this MacFarlane's way of juxtaposing the show to Star Trek's lofty, pie-in-the-sky idealism.
Agreed.
I won't care about DSC seriousness if it's good. But it's still nice to have an alternative. Really, the old "tune-in and tune-out" hour drama has almost become extinct over the last few decades. It'll be nice to have something to chillax with.
I may even have to procure some "refreshments" for next week.
I won't care about DSC seriousness if it's good. But it's still nice to have an alternative. Really, the old "tune-in and tune-out" hour drama has almost become extinct over the last few decades. It'll be nice to have something to chillax with.
I may even have to procure some "refreshments" for next week.