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News Seth MacFarlane’s The Orville

GOOD NEWS EVERYONE!
(As a certain professor had the habit of saying...)

RATINGS ARE IN!

And it's good news for Fox & Seth Macfarlane. (And everyone who enjoyed the series premiere of The Orville I suppose!)

The Orville had a strong debut with 7.3 million total viewers, and averaged a 2.3 rating among adults 18-49

That makes it the second-biggest broadcast drama premiere in the key demo since 2016

It was also the most talked about scripted program, based on total Twitter interactions.
 
McFarlane's politics are pretty much on display in Family Guy.

Which has nothing at all to do with this:

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CardassianAssassin said:
GOOD NEWS EVERYONE!
(As a certain professor had the habit of saying...)

RATINGS ARE IN!

And it's good news for Fox & Seth Macfarlane. (And everyone who enjoyed the series premiere of The Orville I suppose!)

The Orville had a strong debut with 7.3 million total viewers, and averaged a 2.3 rating among adults 18-49

That makes it the second-biggest broadcast drama premiere in the key demo since 2016

It was also the most talked about scripted program, based on total Twitter interactions.
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Fuck yeah!
 
Personally I liked The Orville, and thought it showed great promise.
(Sure, it had a few rough edges, but it was far from as awful as the critics made it out to be.)

The combination of humor and sci-fi wasn't nearly as jarring as I had feared, and I'm looking forward to seeing more.

It's nice to see a sci-fi show that isn't neither dark nor preachy for once. In fact, I think it's the first sci-fi show that tries to bring some optimism and humor since Stargate SG1 and Stargate Atlantis. And man, I've missed that! And I'm apparently not the only one.

It'll be interesting to see what happens when STD premieres later this month. Especially if the ratings and reception of STD isn't what CBS are hoping for.
 
It wasn't political commentary.

Ed: "Lieutenant, how old are you?"
Alara: "Twenty-three."
Ed: "You're twenty-three and your chief of security on a starship?"
Alara: "Celains don't usually join the military, so when one of us does, the Union generally fast-tracks us." (my guess at the spelling)
Ed: "Ah, I'm sure they know what they're doing."

If her race was all female, you could argue that some, but that's unlikely given Bortus' species already cornered the all-one-gender idea. It's unlikely there are two for the senior staff.
 
Xelayan.

I notice that in many of the publicity images for the show, Kitan has eyebrows. In the pilot she does not. Wonder if that changes later or the large format stills of the characters were preliminary.

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Huh, I knew there was something odd going on there but I didn't put my finger on it. I prefer her with the eyebrows but I guess they're going for the more "alien look."
 
How is this not being sued to hell? The sets, the costumes, the FX, the music, dear god the music, are all clearly ripped off from Star Trek. Drop the unfunny jokes and you could be watching a lost TNG spin-off series.

They don't even have parody as a defense as they keep giving interviews in which they say they're not a parody.
 
Why would they be used over the music? It's orchestral, that's all. It's stolen about asmuch as any TV series with orchestral scoring has, that is it say, not at all. You might as well ask why "Seaquest" wasn't sued.

If it had used themes* and scoring ideas unique to a series that it is not, there might be some room to talk but not much more than that.

* = a close rip.
 
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StCoop said:
How is this not being sued to hell? The sets, the costumes, the FX, the music, dear god the music, are all clearly ripped off from Star Trek. Drop the unfunny jokes and you could be watching a lost TNG spin-off series.

They don't even have parody as a defense as they keep giving interviews in which they say they're not a parody.
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Why do you care? I'm sure CBS has looked at it already. Sit back and enjoy the ride.
 
137th Gebirg said:
Do you remember zit, boob and floatation device jokes in Insurrection? Yes, high-minded faire indeed.
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Those were juvenile and incongruous and took me out of the story like most in Orville. Cf. to character-driven humor like in both Tribbles eps, or many scenes with Quark in DS9.

Orville was just . . . weird. I'm supposed to care about or get into the drama of a plot and characters that keeps being interrupted by balls-licking dogs or someone calling someone a bitch on the bridge. Jocularity, jocularity.
 
StCoop said:
How is this not being sued to hell?
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There's no point.
The setup is clearly counting on the familiarly comfortable, but the show will have to do its own thing soon, build its own universe and diverge further and further into unsueable territory.
If all they do is just riff on TNG the show will be dead before anyone could file a lawsuit...
 
Well I liked this enough to stick with it.

The Wormhole said:
Actually, I am now picturing Picard reclining in his ready room chair holding a cup of tea and saying quite casually "Admiral, he's drawn a lot of penises on a lot of things" and it strangely enough works.
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Yeah but that's Patrick Stewart so he might actually do that.
 
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