"I want eggs now."
News Seth MacFarlane’s The Orville
- Thread starter Kai "the spy"
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You know, that muscle mass Alara would have to maintain needs something body builders eat, like eggs.....
Eyebrows!!
Yummy!
When Seth is speaking his lines, all I can hear is Brian Griffin. Close your eyes and listen.
Yes.
Also, I think it works because, instead of forcing the pretense that humans had to "evolve" to be better, they can instead be good and have a nice world and still act like human people.
There must be some reason for this....
Cool Wwhh-ip?
So, twenty one days, huh?
So, will they cut ahead some time to get to it, or is this just a deliberate joke aimed at us, wherein Seth now has an excuse to show Bortus naked for a few episodes?
I think it's the excuse part, personally. ;-)
So, will they cut ahead some time to get to it, or is this just a deliberate joke aimed at us, wherein Seth now has an excuse to show Bortus naked for a few episodes?
I think it's the excuse part, personally. ;-)
MacFarlane has revealed his influences for the animated characters he provides the voices for, and Brian is intentionally his own voice.
Okay, this is a bit ridiculous. Every iteration of Trek on TV has had tons of "human conflict" in every season of every show, regardless if you felt it was well written or well acted.
TNG had episodes like The Pegusus and The Drumhead, all of the conflicts between Janeway and Seven, Janeway and Chakotay on VOY were human conflicts. DS9 had lots and so did ENT. In fact ENT's season ending arc was one of the best human conflict stories I'v seen in Trek.
I understand that some people think there is some type of competition between the Trek and Orville, but there really isn't. So lets not get silly with the comparisons.
Bortus lays an egg!? 
Holland Taylor as Ed's mom!?
Holland Taylor as Ed's mom!?
Noooooo?
Too young.
Isn't she?
Too young.
Isn't she?
The jokes are getting better and better. Bring on episode 2!
Much of those conflicts came in later. In Voyager, yes often with caveats. The conflict with Janeway is Seven was (and to some extent in their eyes, still) a Borg and grew up as one from early childhood. She can be arguably seen as less than human which is ironically a deeper level of conflict there but still not entirely two humans who have a conflict over how to coexist. One is a person who grew up as a person. The other grew up in an alien collective of minds with virtually no individual personality.
Chakotay is right but it was also again brushed aside quickly and practically gone by season two after the Maquis had acclimated with the crew. From there on it was more disagreement than conflict much of the time. And a few episodes of TNG where the conflict was short lived aren't what I meant. They come in, have a disagreement and then it is settled before the episode ends or never acknowledged again. That's a cheap way to avoid having to go back and acknowledge that people really do fight and sometimes hold grudges. Conflicts that last an episode aren't great examples.
DS9 had them which is an exception but it was again usually short lived and rarely brought up. Sisko had great animosity toward Picard but it was because Picard was Locutus of Borg, not Picard, Captain of the Enterprise when that arose. We also never see it addressed again.
O'Brien and Bashir turned into the best of friends after their conflict was resolved. Almost every other conflict in that series was with an alien race. Even Sisko and Jake was reserved. They had an overall great relationship despite the obvious turmoil they endured.
So despite my saying Trek avoided human conflict it doesn't mean it never happened, it just came up in the context of what was needed then dropped almost immediately after it was concluded for the storyline. Orville is going to have an ongoing problem between at least two humans for more than an episode.
