I’m excited for this! I don’t mind longer waits between seasons, but I do feel for the cast and crew having to wait for McFarland to write the episodes himself. But I think I’d prefer to keep the artist tied to his vision rather than handing it over to a board of writers. The universe is large enough, and the technology advanced enough (in the show) that people can change their looks, or be replaced. I’m ready to believe, and watch another season!
Don’t be. Just accept the fact that MacFarlane doesn’t care to an amount he claimed he was caring. He’ll continue to put everything else ahead of The Orville.
I don’t mind longer waits between seasons
Well, I do and there’s a general trend in laziness to make TV shows like they did in the 1980s and 1990s. Streaming gave us customers the option to watch when we want but it gave the producers the loophole no longer care about schedules and it shows pretty much everywhere. Just look how few episodes of Stranger Things or Attack on Titan have been released since the shows launched.
I do feel for the cast and crew having to wait for McFarland to write the episodes himself. But I think I’d prefer to keep the artist tied to his vision rather than handing it over to a board of writers.
That “artist” thing is an excuse for paid service providers to weasel out of promises to paying customers. When Star Trek was still seriously good, they managed to squeeze out 26 episodes per year. Sure, there may have been the occasional dumb holodeck episode but if it’s only 4 out of 26, nobody really cares.
BS. Had you actually read my comment, you’d already knew that in the 1980s and 1990s TV series had all three but obviously you’ve never watched TNG, DS9, B5, and such which all had plenty of episodes, banging quality, and an annual schedule.
I just started catching up on season 3 and agreed, it would be a shame to end it. The show’s grown so much in tone and complexity through the years, I hope we get to explore more of it.
I think what did it for me was episode 3, "About a Girl". Up to that point I was enjoying the show, but the third episode was the first one that you're really supposed to take seriously as an audience. I think this quote from the episode's director Brannon Braga is informative:
There was an episode that was supposed to be a later episode. I’ll call “About a Girl” which was about a transgender metaphor using our Moclan characters. [...] It’s a very dramatic episode. And we decided to pull it up in the air date order to the third episode because we had to know, “Is the audience going to embrace what this show really is?” And they did.
The episode isn't perfect and MacFarlane has even said he would do it differently if given the opportunity to write the episode again, but the show was leaving nothing on the table, taking a huge swing for this early in a series. I had been really missing sci-fi with a social conscience in the last decade or so before The Orville began, and this episode specifically felt like coming home after a long time.
It was created in 2019, during a controversy about a mod policy on the main sub at that time.
The main subs' mods were not friendly to it, and apparently didn't allow linking from the main sub to it. So, many users of the main sub didn't know about this other sub, and its membership remained small.
Apparently one of its moderators might be inactive, leaving one remaining.
I'm currently on a(nother) rewatch via Disney+, it can't hurt to keep viewership figures up. MacFarlane's Instagram bio (Imgsed mirror link) still just reads ...
“The Orville: New Horizons” now streaming on @hulu and @disneyplus!
... and his account remains active (last post was today), so it seems like that's about the best we can do besides bothering other people to watch it as well.
Hulu obviously spent big getting season 3 made. If they had gotten the response they were looking for, the show would already be renewed by now, so making sure the show has a long tail (lots of new people keep discovering and watching it) is probably our best bet.
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