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THE ORVILLE Season Two...
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There are days that I think I'm getting old and just not "getting" what is popular. But, there are other days where I watch other modern shows and get them and their appeal just fine.
At the end of the day, I think CBS is just being dishonest about what they are doing with the franchise and it irks me.
Don't worry, I'm 27 and I don't "get" a lot of what is considered popular these days either.
Better not dare take your eyes off of them, lest they vanish in a puff of illogic.
More like spin around and vanish in a mist of glowing blue spores.
I almost bought another copy of the three seasons on Blu-ray, then I thought that would be overdoing it. Besides, my daughter also has my clamshell DVD season sets.
The Orville is the best Star Trek
No, but I think highly of it. It doesn't reinvent the wheel the way the original Star Trek did.
I think it's that rare case of lightning in a bottle. Seth McFarlane seems to have just hit the right notes when he made this.
It is the best Star Trek - inspired series so far in the 21st century, but it hasn't surpassed the classic Trek series of the late 20th century, namely TOS, TNG, and the best episodes of DS9 and Voyager.
I think Seth & Co needs to up their game in order to keep Trekkie fans interested and win over some new fans as well. They need to show that 'Orville' is not just TNG 2.0, but instead is a sci-fi series for the 21st century, by bringing the best elements from successful series like 'Firefly,' 'Farscape,' rebooted BSG, even JJ-Trek. All while retaining the positive, exploration-driven plots typical of classic Trek series - mixed with some humor.
If they're able to pull it out - then it would move beyond just another Trek-clone series to become a legendary sci-fi series in its own right
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I don't agree in all cases.
In any event, it's hardly "TNG 2.0;" it looks like modern Trek but the stories are much more like TOS. That's a good thing.
Anyone see the DVD's in stores yet?
Which of course means it's not the same universe as TOS... which is what I've been saying all along
Let them do a new TOS series! I'd love to see what they come up with. I doubt it'll happen though, at least until Paramount decide what to do with the Trek movies post-Bad Robot. William Shatner once said CBS would need Paramount's permission to include Kirk. Maybe he didn't have a clue what he was talking about, or maybe they have some exclusivity on the character for some years, akin to the "no compete" thing that stopped CBS launching a new TV Trek during the Kelvin movie run.
Over here JB Hifi had them so does Amazon now, that's how I got my set. But only season 1.
I'm holding out for a Blu-ray release. Hopefully it happens.
I swear, in the past four or five years in particular, it feels like I've become many adults I associated with growing up complaining about modern music being crap and inferior to what I grew up with. And the sad thing is, with my teenage years being in the late 90s and early 00s, the music I grew up with was crap to begin with. But I'll gladly listen to it over what passes as popular music these days.I'm still listening to Aerosmith and the Doobie Brothers.
Maybe it doesn't reinvent the wheel, but it does present the wheel in a fresh new and exciting way. One of the more frustrating aspects of modern Trek is that as the shows went on they gradually wore down to just retelling the same stories over and over again. Also, they insisted on loading the main cast with bridge officers and department heads, but then only bothered with a select few characters while everyone else just did their jobs and spewed jargon. While there are Orville characters who may not have gotten as much story material as others, I do feel after one season of twelve episodes I know these characters as people a lot more than I do the TNG characters after seven twenty-six episode seasons and four movies.
Far too much American sci-fi of the past decade tries too hard to incorporate elements from Firefly or Ron Moore's BSG. IMO, the fact that Orville doesn't makes it stand out among the herd.
I got mine from Amazon last week.
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