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News Seth MacFarlane’s The Orville

I thoroughly enjoyed that.

I'll admit I'm an unabashed Family Guy fan, so the occasional "low brow" humor here works for me. I don't think it was overdone, and there were some nice moments too.

I'm looking forward to this being my Monday afternoon, after work viewing and then I will be buying the blu-ray. I only hope more people ignore the iodiotic reviews and make up their own mind.
 
KirkusOveractus said:
If you think that the crew of a ship is only going to quote Shakespeare and have a very lofty sense of humor, with conversations only about the latest issue of Neutron Beam Monthly, then you may be sorely disappointed.
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Poor retort. Just because I don't want dick and fart jokes doesn't mean I automatically want Shakespeare. Try again.
 
WarpFactorZ said:
Cosmos wasn't marketed as a comedy.

The Orville, Family Guy, American Dad, The Cleveland Show, Ted, Ted 2, A Million Ways to Die in the West, Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy, etc... were.
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That wasn't the point. The point was "what do you expect from Seth McFarland?", not "what was Cosmos marketed as?"
 
starmike said:
Poor retort. Just because I don't want dick and fart jokes doesn't mean I automatically want Shakespeare. Try again.
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It's all a matter of taste. I honestly didn't think the humor was that low brow. I've seen much worse on TV, and trust me, the humor here was not that bad.
 
You know reading this thread, I kinda want to see the first episode again. While I wasn't a fan of the dick jokes, I have to admit the stuff they were talking about made them feel like down to earth guys, people you would want to shoot the shit with or something. As the episode went on, these characters felt relate-able.
 
J.T.B. said:
Well, not directly, he commanded Saratoga as a captain. But he was Commander Carrier Division Two (Enterprise, Yorktown) and commanded the task force for the Doolittle raid (Enterprise, Hornet) so I'm saying, yes!

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Well maybe they use five stars more regularly? The British used five star admirals a lot more than the US, they even still have a couple, retired of course. As far as the rank system, I guess we'll have to see if there is a JG or a sub-lieutenant to know if its USN or RN.
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Maybe on Earth there is no need for multiple 5 Star Admirals. But when you have 3000 ships and have the whole galaxy to sail, you may need a couple dozen....
 
CorporalCaptain said:
That was something that impressed me.

Moreover, even when the characters were saying things that real people might not say, what they were saying were things that real people might be thinking or would like to say in such situations. I kept getting the impression that in this world, people freely speak their minds, which is itself (at least arguably) an element of utopia. It was also good that the characters seemed to have concerns that were much more human than the concerns of TNG characters. "I really gotta pee now" is, frankly, more down to Earth than, say, a casual discussion of which of two obscure cellists perform a certain piece of classical music more artfully that segues into a comparison between cubism and prehistoric pottery.
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Obviously you run with a bad crowd.:nyah:
 
Sophie74656 said:
If you don't want fart and dick jokes don't watch anything by Seth Mcfarlane
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Exactly. It isn't like MacFarlane is an unknown commodity on TV. I actually found The Orville quite restrained compared to some of his other work. I'm a huge fan of American Dad, and have a love-hate relationship with Family Guy.
 
Noname Given said:
Also, nice that they don't seem to have Transporter tech (wonder if someone on the legal team said that might be getting too close or something, although I still doubt CBS would have bothered.)
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One of the reviews I read said they will actually use the word "Transporter" in the show. Interesting that the spaceship is also called "USS" Orville. Are we going to see USS Wilbur later on?

There seems to be a lot of complaints about fart and dick jokes. I don't remember any fart jokes, but fart jokes are always funny. It would have been hilarious if Picard farted in any scene.
 
Cyrus said:
One of the reviews I read said they will actually use the word "Transporter" in the show. Interesting that the spaceship is also called "USS" Orville. Are we going to see USS Wilbur later on?

There seems to be a lot of complaints about fart and dick jokes. I don't remember any fart jokes, but fart jokes are always funny. It would have been hilarious if Picard farted in any scene.
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Is the word transporter trademark? If something transports something, then isn't that thing called a transporter?
 
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