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The Orville |OT| Open this pickle jar for me.
- Thread starter jiji
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I watch The 100, has a new season currently airing too. It better than other CW shows.
I still wonder what the demographic is between Saturn voters and Hugo voters. I guess Saturns are easier to vote for. lol
Just watched luke cage s2 and discovered penny dreadful. Later in the summer my queue will be empty but barely. Netflix and hulu crank out content so much that I almost can't keep up.
Nvm, just realized expanse is on prime so my queue won't be empty.
its funny how now it's universally loved when everyone hated it after the pilot
people are so finicky
I didn't hate it after the pilot, but they went a little too heavy on the Family Guy-esque humor for the first couple of episodes.
That being said, a lot of sci-fi shows have stinkers during their first season, including the show this one is emulating.
I liked this show from episode 1, but I do remember the context for the initial aversion.
The first issue was that the first three episodes were admittedly pretty weak. I still liked the show, but it was more that I liked the concept of it, and was holding out hope that the season would ramp up, which it did. The second issue was that nobody really knew what to expect from the show. A lot of people, myself included, naturally assumed that this was going to be a straight comedy show. It took me like half way through the first season to accept that it's more drama than comedy. And then finally, the show launched at the same time as Star Trek Discovery, so there was that little fan boy competition crap going on.
Right? Competent and (for the most part) not a dick.
The Orville was the biggest surprise of last year for me, and I'm looking forward to the second season.
The trailers and Fox absolutely sold the show as a comedy that had a veneer of Trek. That's why it scored so lowly at first. People expected it to be the opposite of what it ended up being.
Actually those trailers turned me off on the show. And I didn't watch it till after the season as over. When I finally watched it, it was great. Really sad I slept on the show for so long
FOX fucking up the marketing of a show? The devil you say!
I really didn't think the pilot was bad. I liked it. Seth's humor differentiates it from Trek and makes it more modern.
Fair points all around!
I really came to LOVE this show, such s great flavour of science fiction show to complement what else is out there.
It blew my mind that he didn't stink up the joint. And they have some semi decent stories.
Seth loves TNG to an almost obsessive degree. I have to imagine that it would destroy him if he fucked it up.
The show has its problems, but I was really surprised by how it came together in the end. Some really good episodes, and some surprisingly solid character moments. If it manages to grow the beard for season 2, it could be really great when it comes back.
No doubt. I'm looking forward to it. The only characters I don't like are the knucklehead brothers that are written for prat falls every damned time. Everyone else has had some good exploration.
Is this official or fan made? If it's official than we can squash the Alara rumors. I really hope it's official.
Honestly, and I don't say this often...the show gets better the further in you go. Especially once they get their literal "retelling of an old TNG episode" episodes out of the way and start to focus on the characters themselves.
The show is dumb as a bag of rocks but it's really fun. Hopefully they get the tone right this time. The first chunk of season one was really bad.
I second that. Halston Sage is amazing as Alara. She's adorable.
I second that. Halston Sage is amazing as Alara. She's adorable.
Trailer looked great. Seems like they've really found their footing and voice.
And thank God they aren't marketing it as a comedy this time around.
And thank God they aren't marketing it as a comedy this time around.
Man, it's weird how I'm so excited for this. It looks like they put it so much more money too.
And I guess the new helmsman is the new cast member?
Season 2 looks great. This show caught me off guard last season when I watched an episode out of curiosity. I don't really like Seth MacFarlane's stuff generally and I've casually enjoyed Star Trek stuff in the past but I got hooked on The Orville really quickly. It's well-made, surprisingly thoughtful, and all-around entertaining. I hope season 2 does even better than the last one.
I think it's turning out to be smarter than it had any right to be.
The episode with the worship society had a really smart and hopeful message. It may be accused of being naive, but the idea that a society can work out it's issues without outside interference was refreshing and clever.
Idunno if I would go that far. I really liked the first season a lot but the bar of quality swung so far in both directions it was jarring sometimes going from one ep to the next. Some of them were really well written even by Trek standards and then some of them they were being chased around the spaceship by a spooky clown.
There have been rumors she's leaving the show, I know she was filming something for netflix so she had a reduced role this season, but she's genuinely one of the better characters so I hope she comes back
Kinda weird that the time from 0:56-0:59 where they showed all the chars, Alara was nowhere to be seen. They didn't seem to highlight her in this segment. Glad to see she's in other parts but her omission here seems odd. Have they said she'd have a lesser role this season? Either way, can't wait for the new season!
Yes but it's because she was filming something else for netflix, no word on if she's leaving the show or getting a reduced role, they did cast another security officer though.