News Seth MacFarlane’s The Orville

[RAMA]

From NPR: "In short, The Orville is trying so hard not to be so many things, it isn't fully any one thing. Which makes it, officially, the strangest misfire of the fall TV season," write critic Eric Deggans.

A highly accurate summary.

http://www.npr.org/sections/monkeysee/2017/09/10/549407669/make-it-so-so-fox-s-the-orville?

RT also has a consensus now, which is really kind:
19%
Critics Consensus: An odd jumble of campiness and sincerity, homage and satire, The Orville never quite achieves liftoff.
2017, FOX.

A much better show: "Black Mirror" will probably have a attempt at this where Orville failed completely. Should be worth a look!

http://comicbook.com/startrek/2017/09/12/black-mirror-season-4-star-trek-spoof-uss-callister/

I'm planning on watching maybe 2 more episodes of Orville, just to see if this "misfire" was a fluke.

RAMA

 

[Ghislaine H. B. BRAEME]

Thank you, guys, for the explanations about the Command symbol, in particular Kirkus Overactus! :-D

According to TVLine's website, Nielsen's ratings for Sunday eventually fell and Fox’s The Orville premiered to 7.3 million total viewers and a 2.3 demo rating (per fast nationals and pending additional adjustment due to Irma news coverage). Not bad for a premiere, which has been so decried by critics. Maybe this show will never win any prize but who cares? The most important for Fox Television & Seth McFarlane is that the audience watch the show every week, right?! :-)

 

[Captain of the USS Averof]

Black Mirror looks like This Ain't Star Trek: A XXX Porn Parody. (Not that I would know that of course.)

 

[RAMA]

Black Mirror looks like This Ain't Star Trek: A XXX Porn Parody. (Not that I would know that of course.)

Which most likely is also better than Orville...

Black Mirror is in my top 10 best SF shows of all time, so I have high hopes.

RAMA

 

[Captain of the USS Averof]

Black Mirror is in my top 10 best SF shows of all time, so I have high hopes.

Better to lower your expectations. A porn parody without the porn...

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Here was I thinking Orville was a duck.

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[jaime]

It's police academy in many ways. In a good way.

 

[Amaris]

I liked it.

 

[RJDiogenes]

They set it up earlier by talking about how it was engineered to thrive in literally any environment.

Ah, right, I forgot about that.

 

[dahj]

Seth got hit in the shoulder and his arm did not fall off, melt, explode or evaporate.

They're military, the uniform is also armor made of space ray absorbing materials.

So the obvious questions are:

• is there a overtime bonus?

But do we know if money even exist in the Federation Union?

 

[Skipper]

They're military, the uniform is also armor made of space ray absorbing materials.

Probably the Krill didn't want to damage the quantum device, so they didn't shoot at full power.

But do we know if money even exist in the Federation Union?

Well, we know that they can trade pills for the possibility of shooting a porn in the back of a shuttle. So they aren't exactly in a post-scarcity society. Then, unless they resort to barter for each transaction, they probably have some medium of exchange.

 

[Captain of the USS Averof]

At last we're discussing the important issues!

A Papa Smurf reference! Are Smurfs still a thing in the 25th century?

 

[Skipper]

At last we're discussing the important issues!

A Papa Smurf reference! Are Smurfs still a thing in the 25th century?

Yes. They are used as money.

 

[Mudd]

I see RAMA found his keyboard.

It's just remarkable how the public is completely ignoring the reviewers on this. Who's seen a wider disparity between critics and the "Liked It" score at RT?

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

I see RAMA found his keyboard.

Did you hide his keyboard?

It's just remarkable how the public is completely ignoring the reviewers on this. Who's seen a wider disparity between critics and the "Liked It" score at RT?

I'd love to see this a lot more. It means people are thinking and deciding things for themselves. Not a common occurrence I know.

 

[mos6507]

I jumped when they came back from commercial and the Orville flew by to TNG-like music. Dated, but wonderful.

It's refreshing to see FX shots that aren't riddled with lens-flare and simulated camera shake and rack-zooms. None of that was ever essential before it became so common as to render everything before it "dated".

 

[BillJ]

A Papa Smurf reference! Are Smurfs still a thing in the 25th century?

I laughed. Because I know what Smurf's are. Esoteric comedy that no one gets would sink the show pretty fast.

 

[BillJ]

It's just remarkable how the public is completely ignoring the reviewers on this. Who's seen a wider disparity between critics and the "Liked It" score at RT?

It'll be interesting to see how much of its audience it holds next Sunday, and when it moves to Thursday.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

But from what I've read and especially heard from people who have had interactions with Seth MacFarlane in the past, he leans pretty solidly right.

Not even remotely.
https://hollowverse.com/seth-macfarlane/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_MacFarlane#Activism
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...ywood-hates-trump_us_5841b9b8e4b09e21702e5c5c

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.

 

[KirkusOveractus]

Thank you, guys, for the explanations about the Command symbol, in particular Kirkus Overactus! :-D

Thank you! I'm going to upload it to my photo hosting site in a little while, but I have an image from someone's promo pack from Comic Con, which had a Planetary Union "Flight Guide". It has the divisions and emblems. We're actually pretty spot on here!

EDIT: Figured I'd do it now before work got to busy!