News Seth MacFarlane’s The Orville

[Mudd]

Also, for future episodes, could we create a separate thread please? This one is getting a bit overwhelming to sift through. We've done the same for other non-Trek shows.

Well, if ratings and interest hold up, perhaps by the end of the season we could have our own subforum like a few other series have had? Hmmm?

Interesting how they have a holo-camoflauge device now. Hopefully it won't end up forgotten like all of the gadgets they discovered or created over the years on Trek.​

It would be easy enough to assume that the Admiralty takes their improvisation away as embargoed technology.

If it's not that, then it's probably already pretty common subterfuge - but we got no indication of that being the case.

Looked like they might have been going for a reconciliation between Ed and Grayson, but then they kicked that right out the window the next morning.

I was charmed by the fact that there was no pat resolution to their relationship - no real epiphany. They had moments when they adored each other and moments when they couldn't stand each other. That's marriage, pretty much.

 

[Romulan_spy]

I was charmed by the fact that there was no pat resolution to their relationship - no real epiphany. They had moments when they adored each other and moments when they couldn't stand each other. That's marriage, pretty much.

I am hoping that at some point the two characters will accept this truth and be able to get back together.

 

[Tuskin38]

Who played the chief? He looked familiar.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Holding numbers just below the premiere, up against two big things on Sunday night, I think is really good! That was a good test that people waited out the delay on FOX and watched or tuned over to it from something else.

I really hope the #'s hold up as well with the move to Thursday. I watch on Hulu, so it's no difference to me what day-after I watch the show on.

 

[Kelthaz]

That's pretty good considering the delay and it was up against the Emmys.

Hell, Orville actually managed to beat the Emmys in the 18-49 demographic (2.6 vs 2.1). Declining interest in the Emmys or not, that's still impressive.

 

[tomalak301]

I like how, when Kitan is pleading for Finn to relieve her, she offers the excuse that she's a drug addict as a suggested reason. One of the themes that's been explored in the first two episodes is the difference between drug use and drug abuse. For me, it's interesting to see this being treated in an ST-like setting in a way that's immeasurably deeper than Yar's "Just Say No" speech in "Symbiosis" (a very low bar).

Speaking of that the Cannibis edible bit was hilarious. I wish more was done with it though.

 

[tomalak301]

So, The Orville's share and demo ratings held up pretty good in overnights. Comparing with the initial overnights from the premiere week

Adults 18-49 rating
week 1: 2.3
week 2: 2.6

Overall viewers (millions)
week 1: 7.3
week 2: 7.64


The premiere numbers were revised upward throughout last week. We'll see what happens.

Also, they're doing another "encore showing" Tuesday at 9 PM EDT.

I was worried fox was screwing the show over because of the Dallas/Denver delay. I'm glad I was wrong. I hope the move to Thursday doesn't hurt it too much.

 

[jbny67]

Well they could have a ship called Interprise instead captained by John Lou Picardo. played by Patrick Stewart in a wig.

Jason

Only if it's a Shatner wig.

Better yet, Shatner himself in a bald head "wig" as Captain Kim Jerk.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Speaking of that the Cannibis edible bit was hilarious. I wish more was done with it though.

I wonder, was there any rule that prevented them from doing illegal drugs on TV?

I mean, bad guys murdering good guys is wholesome family viewing. But good guys getting a buzz? That could be dangerously subversive, right?

 

[Mudd]

I was worried fox was screwing the show over because of the Dallas/Denver delay. I'm glad I was wrong. I hope the move to Thursday doesn't hurt it too much.

If anything the delay may have pushed the show just past the end of NBC's competing football broadcast and that may have helped. I'm not sure.

 

[Matthew Raymond]

Hell, Space Battleship Yamato's poor old third bridge got blown/scraped/melted off the keel every other episode!

Didn't they destroy it in the live action movie as well?

 

[BillJ]

If anything the delay may have pushed the show just past the end of NBC's competing football broadcast and that may have helped. I'm not sure.

Games usually run to about 11:15 EST.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Who played the chief? He looked familiar.

Larry Joe Campbell.

 

[Cake]

If anything the delay may have pushed the show just past the end of NBC's competing football broadcast and that may have helped. I'm not sure.

I don't think so.

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/daily-ratings/tv-ratings-sunday-sept-17-2017/

7.24 million viewers - Football Night in America (NBC) (7-8:30 p.m.) - pre-game show
18.46 million viewers - Sunday Night Football (NBC) (8:30-11 p.m.) - people playing football

Much more people are interested in the game itself than in the pre-game show. So if The Orville has started like planned, they would have had relative easy competition in the first 30 minutes.

 

[tomalak301]

By the way, I like the idea of having different threads for each episode. I'm actually a little surprised on how active this thread is, and how much enthusiasm there is for the show. It's a fun thread to post in, and it's full of positivity, which is a good thing.

 

[Cake]

By the way, I like the idea of having different threads for each episode. I'm actually a little surprised on how active this thread is, and how much enthusiasm there is for the show. It's a fun thread to post in, and it's full of positivity, which is a good thing.

I am only for multiple threads, if The Orville will get its own subforum like Star Wars and Doctor Who. Otherwise all those threads will be hard to find among all the other scifi and fantasy threads.

 

[137th Gebirg]

By the way, I like the idea of having different threads for each episode. I'm actually a little surprised on how active this thread is, and how much enthusiasm there is for the show. It's a fun thread to post in, and it's full of positivity, which is a good thing.

I suspect that it's mostly because damn near all the characters on the show are the kind of people one might want to have a beer with. They're real people with real problems and conflicts - without getting overly "dark and edgy" - they're decent people who just want to continue going on being decent, despite getting kicked in the junk every so once in a while.

In TNG, everyone was so stilted, formal and tight-assed. Only Geordi seemed to be the "everyman" kind of character in the show, with Riker kind-of getting into that mode mid-late into the series run (the trombone helped ). DS9 had more believable, realistic and relatable characters (which is why it was my favorite) and Voyager went back to the Starfleet-formal drudgery, even though they were tens of thousands of light-years away from home and could have let their hair down a ** little bit ** but never did. Tom Paris was kind of the exception, but he was the "bad-boy" felon to begin with, so...

Orville is what a lot of us wished Trek was for a very long time. C/P should take note.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

I suspect that it's mostly because damn near all the characters on the show are the kind of people one might want to have a beer with. They're real people with real problems and conflicts - without getting overly "dark and edgy" - they're decent people who just want to continue going on being decent, despite getting kicked in the junk every so once in a while.

In TNG, everyone was so stilted, formal and tight-assed. Only Geordi seemed to be the "everyman" kind of character in the show, with Riker kind-of getting into that mode mid-late into the series run (the trombone helped ). DS9 had more believable, realistic and relatable characters (which is why it was my favorite) and Voyager went back to the Starfleet-formal drudgery, even though they were tens of thousands of light-years away from home and could have let their hair down a ** little bit ** but never did. Tom Paris was kind of the exception, but he was the "bad-boy" felon to begin with, so...

Orville is what a lot of us wished Trek was for a very long time. C/P should take note.

For me, it goes further than that. I know I keep bringing it up, but I love how The Orville reminds me of certain aspects of life on a Navy ship. It's far from the same, but the general attitudes and mindsets of some of the characters are like sailors.

 

[Mudd]

I don't think so.

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/daily-ratings/tv-ratings-sunday-sept-17-2017/

7.24 million viewers - Football Night in America (NBC) (7-8:30 p.m.) - pre-game show
18.46 million viewers - Sunday Night Football (NBC) (8:30-11 p.m.) - people playing football

Much more people are interested in the game itself than in the pre-game show. So if The Orville has started like planned, they would have had relative easy competition in the first 30 minutes.

That's why I wasn't sure, thanks - I haven't tried to read a TV grid in years and I don't know what's on.

I confused the pre-game show with the game.

 

[Mudd]

For me, it goes further than that. I know I keep bringing it up, but I love how The Orville reminds me of certain aspects of life on a Navy ship. It's far from the same, but the general attitudes and mindsets of some of the characters are like sailors.

Well, there is a sense of life and liveliness to this group.

It's refreshing.