Your thoughts on The Orville?

When I first started this show I found it to be a really awkward mix of comedy and seriousness. It had some jokes thrown it at the most inopportune times as some kind of comic relief from a really serious situation. Perhaps the first half of the first season was actually a bit rough or maybe the show just grew on me, but by season 2 I found myself loving this show.

To me it seems as every bit as comfy, intellectually interesting and even funny as some classic Star Treks while still clearly being its own thing. I wish more comfy space shows like this would get made.

What are your thoughts on The Orville? Also I miss Alara.

degrix,

Up until Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, it was hands down the best modern Star Trek (like) show. It’s definitely a little clumsy early on, but after a few episodes it’s very clear that Seth is finally fulfilling his childhood dream of doing Star Trek even if it’s his own version of it. I thoroughly enjoyed it and hope season 4 happens.

dmrzl,

Always thought the whole parody aspect was just a means to get funding to just make a regular star trek series in disguise. If someone would just give the man money for exactly that we would have an awesome star trek series.

ScrivenerX,

I was surprised by how good season one was. Season two was great fun. I hated season three.

I feel they tried too hard to make serious points and failed at telling good stories. They wanted to have big thoughts, but just weren’t entertaining.

hazeebabee,

I feel similarly. The lack of comedy in season 3 really hurt the overall quality of the show imo

keeb420,

To me it was too much of a focus on the new.character, I forget her name.

Also not every series needs to be serialized.

hazeebabee,

Yeah the forced insert of the new character was annoying. Its sad that seth mcfarlanes love life affects the characters and plot lines in the show. Alara was one of my favorite characters

rufus,

True. It changes quite a bit at that point. I’m optimistic they’ll adjust that in season 4 and return to their former glory. maybe even more. i can’t wait.

Apollo_Katelo,

It was the best trek on TV since Star Trek Enterprise.

But I now also love Star Trek Strange New Worlds.

angrystego,

This might be an unpopular opinion, but I really loved the first season. To me it felt like the good old optimistic utopia Trek but with real people. I tought the episodes had nice and creative topics, including the zoo critique, multigenerational space travel, upvote/downvote society, time-irregularity planet - it was mostly decent sci-fi with some well thought out and fun relationships (Cupid’s danger) some outstanding social commentary (About a girl) and a rather weak time-travel episode, which is always a bummer, but never mind.

Then, by season 2, the characters started to transform into plastic figurines with soap opera dialogue and arches (which is a symptom many Trek shows suffer from, to be fair). For example the whole “Oh, captain and first commander cannot date, because the captain couldn’t be objective then” (never mind him having feelings anyway). It felt to me like some of them’d been shoven a ruler up their asses. We get some average and some cringe ill-thought out episodes (like the porn-addiction one - the topic could have been a treasure trove if treated properly). It’s old-school Trek with all the bad things along the good ones.

Season 3 involves much more action and shooting and it doesn’t add any value to the stories. The good arch involves Topa and the Moclan society. The Kaylons (including Isaac) are overall a disappointment. They are supposed to be extremely intelligent but they are not written to really seem that way. They appeared to me to be very stupid and slow-learning. The main characters lost all appeal to me, because they often act in a cold and hostile fashion (like being jerks to time-traveling Gordon instead just leaving him with his familly and picking him up earlier without making the whole ugly drama).

I miss Alara too.

SeahorseTreble,

This show is very profound to me. It explores important issues, timeless and topical moral questions, and social/political dilemmas with such depth and thoughtful consideration. I really hope it gets a fourth season

august_senpai,

Hated the pilot because of the cheating + having to work with the person who cheated. Dropped it there.

chronicledmonocle,

Excellent show. It took a little bit to get it’s tone, but half way through the first season it really hit its stride.

The third season of the show is some of the best sci-fi ever made with political and social commentary that rivals things like ST:TNG’s “Measure of a Man” and ST:DS9’s “Siege of AR-558”, but with a good mix of humor similar to ST:LD.

If you haven’t watched Orville, you’re missing out on some absolutely fantastic Sci-Fi. I’m only sad it’s unlikely to get a fourth season, because it deserves it.

cloudy1999, (edited )

As a long time Star Trek fan, I love this show. It really is better than a lot of modern Trek. Reading all these comments makes me want to engage in the watching event.

Edit: spelling

flumph,
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If you haven’t checked it out yet, Strange New Worlds is definitely the best of modern Trek. This season especially has really reminded me of TNG.

cloudy1999,

Yeah, SNW is very good. I’ve not started the current season, but plan to soon :-)

ANALHACKER_3000,

It’s better Trek than most Trek, IMO. Had some cool adventures and raised some interesting on sometimes difficult questions about morality and how it’s shaped by our societies.

ComputerSagtNein,
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I hate the design of the ship, the shuttles in season 3 at least look cool. Other than that, it was great show until season 3 when I felt they took too much time for EEEEEEEVERYTHING. This is literally the first show ever where I started skipping through episodes.

What is it these days that series and movies maker seem to think quantity equals quality?

chronicledmonocle,

Can’t agree with you there. Season 3 was when Orville was at its best IMHO.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod,
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I imagine they had to use that design as Star Trek probably wouldn't let them use nacelles in any configuration.

I rather like the design because it looks a lot like magnetic field lines, and if it's generating some kind of field it would probably have a similar geometry

ComputerSagtNein,
@ComputerSagtNein@lemm.ee avatar

Knowing Seth McFarlanes history, I always suspect a dirty joke behind everything he does, so I always feel like the ship design is also a dirty joke that I just haven’t figured out jetzt.

Jimmycakes,

It’s good

leftabitcharlie,

I like it, enjoy it for the most part and am glad it exists. But the politics comes off a bit weak and tips sometimes too far towards the self-congratulatory ethno-centrism of bad early 20th century anthropology.

RealPuyo,

Who’s Orvile?

nnjethro,

One of the Write brothers

M4775,

The Orville is my favorite Star Trek franchise. It’s canon - you can’t deny it. The Orville revived the Star Trek Franchise and gave it a pulse. It’s like blockchain. You can say it doesn’t belong, but it will always be there and nothing can change that. It has great attention to detail and decent story writing with that original “there’s a moral in this episode” that endeared ST in our hearts, something the newer ST franchises lack.

grahamja,

And Galaxy Quest is the best Star Trek movie since the Undiscovered Country.

M4775,

I’m not sure how to answer without getting roasted, but including GQ in canon does complete the Star Trek good-then-bad movie pattern.

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