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News Seth MacFarlane’s The Orville

Disney Planet.

Shit, my friends and I played played the B5 card game once a month for almost 5 years, and they never made a Disney Planet card???!!! ####!
 
RJDiogenes said:
There's an awful lot of contemporary references in this for a show set four hundred years in the future. They should have left it at Kermit. I'm sure Kermit will continue to be an icon.
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If the Muppets make it I'm pretty sure Star Wars (Obi-Wan) will survive in the future as well. Disney will probably keep making those movies in the next four hundred years anyway. :D
 
Copyrights in America are only supposed to last 75 years.

Disney is doing some shady lawyer shit to keep that mouse to themselves.

Besides... Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo... NO! NO!

(I'm probably wrong, but up next below makes sense.)

I was going to say that The Real Housewives was also probably owned by someone in the future, which means that what they did was a massive act of video piracy, unless the Real House Wives entered the common domain at some point in the last 5 centuries.

"Sigh"

Which is when a light bulb above my head lit up: You know how it seems like the Real Housewives came out of no where (unless I blinked?) like it was totally left field bullshit.... What if the real Housewives play a minor part in the REAL 2nd episode (production order) that's due out in two weeks?

That looked like a call back.

Right?

But it was calling back to nothing.

Weird.
 
tharpdevenport said:
I see a cinematographer from "Star Trek: Voyager" filmed it.
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You are talking about Marvin V. Rush and there is probably no one who defined the look of TNG, DS9, VOY and Enterprise more then he did. He was the director of photography on The Next Generation from Season 3 to Season 6, then went over and did the first two seasons of Deep Space Nine and after that almost all of Voyager and Enterprise. According to this Interview-Snippet MacFarlane hired Rush as the director of photography for the show, because he wanted The Orville ..."to feel like Next Generation…he wanted that vibe.”
 
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Finally saw it last night. I really enjoyed it. I do think it was a bit better than the first as others have said. The space zoo thing has been done before but it was still enjoyable. When she (sorry it always takes me a while to remember character names) was like hey that's a little kid, was anyone else expecting the kid to answer in a deep voice that he was actually like 120 years old?

I did like the idea of the uncertainty and scariness of being in the big chair. The debate over doing the "right" thing and following orders.

Of course I loved the scene where she bursts into Bortus's quarters and he's just neked on his egg like "uh don't you knock?" :guffaw:

Also awesome to see this episode directed by Robert Duncan McNeil. I'm seeing him at a Con in 2 weeks maybe I can get up the courage to get up to the mike and ask him about it
 
Well, everything's been done before.

Everything.

Actually, everything had been done, in print if not on the screen, by the time TOS premiered. Trek invented nothing, though it put different things together in ways that hadn't been done on TV up to that time.
 
Sophie74656 said:
Finally saw it last night. I really enjoyed it. I do think it was a bit better than the first as others have said. The space zoo thing has been done before but it was still enjoyable. When she (sorry it always takes me a while to remember character names) was like hey that's a little kid, was anyone else expecting the kid to answer in a deep voice that he was actually like 120 years old?
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Yes, same here! It's gotten in scifi to where I've come to expect the unexpected, and it kinda throws me when they don't throw in the "unexpected twist".
 
Anyone notice that when Mercer and Grayson woke up in their old apartment that they first wondered if maybe they had time traveled? Confirmation that time travel exists in the Orville-verse. I am pretty sure we will get a time travel episode at some point. That should be really fun!
 
While I congratulate Seth on hiring Rush as the cinematographer, it's not working. Part of what made TNG look the way it did was the lighting and direction as well. Just the shooting alone isn't doing it, plus so far it isn't capturing it. Just alone I'm thinking of that scene where Alara went into the mess bay (I don't recall a name for it said on screen) and there must have been at least three angle shots of her at the bar getting a drink. One too many angles, badly framed. In TNG it would have looked something like this:

The doors open, she walks in and slightly toward the camera. Cut to the bar and it slowly pans to her approaching it, stays there as she asks for and gets the drink, then she turns around and as she does the view is now in front of her.
 
tharpdevenport said:
While I congratulate Seth on hiring Rush as the cinematographer, it's not working. Part of what made TNG look the way it did was the lighting and direction as well. Just the shooting alone isn't doing it, plus so far it isn't capturing it. Just alone I'm thinking of that scene where Alara went into the mess bay (I don't recall a name for it said on screen) and there must have been at least three angle shots of her at the bar getting a drink. One too many angles, badly framed. In TNG it would have looked something like this:

The doors open, she walks in and slightly toward the camera. Cut to the bar and it slowly pans to her approaching it, stays there as she asks for and gets the drink, then she turns around and as she does the view is now in front of her.
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It's fine if it looks different than TNG. It's not TNG.
 
Romulan_spy said:
Anyone notice that when Mercer and Grayson woke up in their old apartment that they first wondered if maybe they had time traveled? Confirmation that time travel exists in the Orville-verse. I am pretty sure we will get a time travel episode at some point. That should be really fun!
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I had the same thought. Looking forward to that.
 
SAndrews10 said:
Ugh nothing worse than not running a TV show in the correct order. Hopefully it doesn't cause too many continuity errors.
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Romulan_spy said:
Anyone notice that when Mercer and Grayson woke up in their old apartment that they first wondered if maybe they had time traveled? Confirmation that time travel exists in the Orville-verse. I am pretty sure we will get a time travel episode at some point. That should be really fun!
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I'm positive that we'll get at least one time travel episode. Time travel in a comedy should be particularly hilarious. It's only difficult to do well when you're doing a serious take on it because you'll never get it right. But, in a comedy, it should be hysterical. Think Bill and Ted. I'm already looking forward to the time travel episode and it hasn't been confirmed!
 
Mr Awe said:
I'm positive that we'll get at least one time travel episode. Time travel in a comedy should be particularly hilarious. It's only difficult to do well when you're doing a serious take on it because you'll never get it right. But, in a comedy, it should be hysterical. Think Bill and Ted. I'm already looking forward to the time travel episode and it hasn't been confirmed!
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I'm thinking more Hot Tub Time Machine ;)
 
Sophie74656 said:
It's fine if it looks different than TNG. It's not TNG.
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Except for that wasn't the intent; it was supposed to look like TNG:
Seth MacFarlane even hired Marvin Rush (veteran of TNG, VOY, DS9 and ENT) as the director of photography. Rush said that MacFarlane explicitly wanted The Orville “to feel like Next Generation…he wanted that vibe.” Rush also noted he is using ARRI Alexa Mini camera which he feels is the best digital camera to get a cinema feel to replicate the look of shooting on film as he did while on Star Trek.
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Source: https://trekmovie.com/2017/08/31/6-takeaways-from-a-set-visit-to-the-orville/

I didn't get that vibe.
 
tharpdevenport said:
While I congratulate Seth on hiring Rush as the cinematographer, it's not working. Part of what made TNG look the way it did was the lighting and direction as well. Just the shooting alone isn't doing it, plus so far it isn't capturing it. Just alone I'm thinking of that scene where Alara went into the mess bay (I don't recall a name for it said on screen) and there must have been at least three angle shots of her at the bar getting a drink. One too many angles, badly framed. In TNG it would have looked something like this:

The doors open, she walks in and slightly toward the camera. Cut to the bar and it slowly pans to her approaching it, stays there as she asks for and gets the drink, then she turns around and as she does the view is now in front of her.
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I agree... but I remind myself it was only episode two.. so I'm giving it time to adjust and find itself.
 
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