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.

darthelmet,

I was initially turned off from it too because of the awkward comedy early on. But I have it another go and ended up enjoying it as an extension of Star Trek.

The vibe I get is he wanted to make a Star Trek show, but since he’s that comedy guy he probably got it greenlit as a comedy and then just slowly morphed into just Star Trek while the producers weren’t looking. I’m basing this on nothing, it’s just a funny head cannon.

It’s not a stretch to say it’s the only thing of this era that picks up the legacy of TNG trek. Lower decks is fun but too short to really do what full episodes could and while Strange New Worlds is ok… it still doesn’t feel in the spirit that I’m looking for.

NuanceDemon,

It seems like a lot of modern star trek doesn’t appeal to OG trekkies, but as someone who didn’t watch anything pre-Discovery, I think most of it is pretty great compared to a vast portion of current TV.

darthelmet,

Fair enough. It’s hard to watch them objectively without thinking about what we’re missing. What confuses me though is they new shows lean HEAVILY on nostalgia, suggesting that they’d be trying to get the audience that has nostalgia for it, but the rest of what makes up the shows isn’t anything like what made people originally enjoy Star Trek.

SpaceNoodle,

A “head cannon” is a big gun on your head.

QHC,

The vibe I get is he wanted to make a Star Trek show, but since he’s that comedy guy he probably got it greenlit as a comedy and then just slowly morphed into just Star Trek while the producers weren’t looking.

This is actual reality, so you nailed it. Seth approached Paramount with a pitch for a nostalgic reboot of the TNG era, they said no, so he went to Fox who he had a great relationship with due to Family Guy and created The Orville.

Whether the producers were unaware of the slow transition to actual speculative fiction or not is unclear for the first few seasons. I think the final season shows that it was overt, however, since after changing networks the whole tone, production quality, and even the actual time length of the episodes all changed.

spiderkle,
@spiderkle@lemmy.ca avatar

we need a new season!

wesley,

I like it! It’s a nice casual space show with a decent mix of humor and seriousness.

I find it to be more “star trek” than some of the new star trek shows.

Xtallll,
@Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

I loved The Orville when it was coming out, it scratched an itch that nothing else at the time did, but while it’s been on hiatus/canceled we have gotten Star Trek Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks. One does the firm sci-fi with a relatable crew better, and the other does the comedy Star Trek better. I wouldn’t be opposed to more episodes of the Orville, but I don’t think that it is as needed as it was when it was coming out.

treadful,
@treadful@lemmy.zip avatar

I wish they chose their show’s personality and stuck with it. I liked it when it leaned into the comedy, and I kind of liked it a bit more serious but willing to take on topics ST wasn’t willing to. But It’s really hard to accept the change mid way through the series.

Generally good though.

Tenthrow,
@Tenthrow@lemmy.world avatar

Love the Orville. Glad to watch more if they make more.

i_had_name,

I thought it was great. At the time there was a void, no true startrek was being aired. Then this show comes along, and yeah it has humor, but it had just as much heart as startek.

_sideffect,

I hated the pilot, never went back

phx,

The pilot was a but rough but overall it honestly gets a lot better pretty quickly, with a few bumpy episodes. If you were at all a fan of earlier Trek you might come to enjoy it.

WhiteTiger,
@WhiteTiger@sh.itjust.works avatar

The pilot is ‘awkward, predictable, dated humor in space, lolz!’ but it does get better in season 2. Then it falls off again.

canarin,
@canarin@lemmy.world avatar

Loved Series 1-3. When is Series 4 due? Seth Rocks!

Melco,

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    ashok36,

    It gets better. The second half of season 1 is very good, season 2 is great, and season 3 is mixed from very good to great. I probably wouldn’t pay money for it but if you already subscribe to a service that has it, it’s worth the time.

    hal_5700X,
    @hal_5700X@lemmy.world avatar

    Best modern Star Trek show.

    By “modern Star Trek” I mean every show from Discovery to Strange New Worlds.

    RoyalEngineering,

    I just started watching SNW and I like it so far. Sounds like you aren’t a fan?

    hal_5700X,
    @hal_5700X@lemmy.world avatar

    I didn’t see it yet. But I heard mix things about it.

    TheOneWithTheHair,
    @TheOneWithTheHair@lemmy.world avatar

    My initial reaction was that it was likely to be Seth Macfarlane’s “Galaxy Quest the TV Parody”…but then I watched it, and then it grew on me. I’ve grown to like it quite a bit.

    monotremata,

    I liked it well enough to keep watching it while I had a service that showed it, but MacFarlane never stopped grating on me.

    Arfman,

    At first I thought it was full on satire but then it also discussed serious issues so I’m not sure. It’s good but it feels like a Star Trek clone.

    Sassel,

    This is a good show that is trying very hard not to be a great show. I would love to see it explode with popularity more than it already has.

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