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Your thoughts on The Orville? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by Izzy@lemmy.world to c/sciencefiction@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] hal_5700X@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Best modern Star Trek show.

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

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[–] curiousaur@reddthat.com 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I love the Orville, but the shift in format with the most recent season, to movie length episodes, made it largely inaccessible to me.

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[–] leftabitcharlie@lemmy.film 3 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] selective_mutist@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

By season 2, I was also hooked to this show. I wish they would make more seasons!

[–] canarin@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] amazingBarry@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I personally really enjoy it. It is more heartfelt than I expected.

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[–] BadLackey@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm sure this has been said in other comments but I would love to see Seth McFarlane given the Star Trek IP and free reign. I would actually pay Paramount Plus or whatever streaming service like $20 a month while this theoretical show was active. As an aside I think Garak is the best character in all of Star Trek.

[–] batmaniam@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So I respectfully disagree with this. I love the show, and it pre-dates the startrek revival, but its very much it's own thing. There's clearly a lot of love there, but it's not the same. Closest you get is lower decks, which ate a lot of Orvilles lunch but still toned down a ton of riff and grosser comedy.

It's weird, it's wonderful, it kept the flame burning when there wasn't much else there yet and probably played a role in showing there was a market for a lot of the newer trek we have now.

MacFarlene loves trek. I hope he's proud of the show, keeps some of the more serious and weird genuine sci-fi elements, but he shouldn't do trek. Trek is fine now. Seth can do his own damn thing. He's got the chops for it. He needs to work on making the gear shift from "real sci-fi" to "family guy in space" a little less abrupt and a bit more blended, but it's great to have out there and I'll never miss an episode.

[–] BadLackey@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I don't think Trek is fine now. I don't think there has been a Star Trek revival. I love the Orville. I 100% believe the show is a success on its own. Unfortunately I don't think we are going to see more Orville and I would rather see McFarlane in charge of Trek than anything SNW will put out. SNW is fine. Lower Decks is fine. Compared to Discovery and Picard they are friggin masterpieces. But judged on their own they are just fine. In my opinion. Some people love them and I don't understand but whatever. I just want more cerebral sci-fi in any form I can get it.

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[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

The pure silliness is just too much for me. I know they are trying to hide something good under there, I can see glimpses of it, but I just can't get past the constant childish humor.

[–] Tenthrow@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] randon31415@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I liked that they weren't the most important ship... and then they became the most important ship. Near the end the fate of every species in the galaxy hinged on the love life of three couples on a minor starship.

It also felt like they had 2 or 3 seasons of stories and hulu said "you get one", so they rushed it.

[–] SeahorseTreble@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] bitsplease@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Like others said, the humor started out really awkward and forced, but I feel like they hit their stride by season 2

I don't think it'll ever go down in the annals of the greatest scifi shows I history. But as you say, it's a really excellent "comfy" show

[–] ANALHACKER_3000@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] SuiXi3D@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Recently binged the whole thing. Loved every minute.

[–] TheOneWithTheHair@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[–] CarlsIII@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

It’s a good show and I like it.

[–] xNIBx@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

I liked it, it is pretty star trek the next generation(which i love) though sometimes it gets really up its own ass. I like more philosophical/ethical subject episodes than constant interpersonal relationship episodes.

[–] Orionza@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I have yet to see this show. Is it on Paramount+? I may have to sub for this and Picard.

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[–] Blastasaurus@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

I tried to get into it but ultimately it was too campy and borderline cringey (Norm's terribly animated and written blob character) for me.

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