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Lightning Lord posted:I love Star Trek and I've heard a lot of good things about this show. But I'm hesitant. I like humor in my sci-fi TV, so that's not the issue. I mean, Star Trek was often funny. But I think everything else Seth MacFarlane has done is shrill, wretched poo poo, including American Dad. I'm going to watch this anyway when I get a chance, but I just want to know how prevalent or reined in are the MacFarlane-isms exactly? I'm not going to stop watching if he talks in a funny Peter Griffin voice or some poo poo, I just want to know what's up, that's all. If Season 3 of Family Guy is MacFarlane at 10, then this is only like 2.
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Yeah, I'd say this show is more defined by a real attempt at emulating what MacFarlane loves about Star Trek more than his humor.
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Lightning Lord posted:I love Star Trek and I've heard a lot of good things about this show. But I'm hesitant. I like humor in my sci-fi TV, so that's not the issue. I mean, Star Trek was often funny. But I think everything else Seth MacFarlane has done is shrill, wretched poo poo, including American Dad. I'm going to watch this anyway when I get a chance, but I just want to know how prevalent or reined in are the MacFarlane-isms exactly? I'm not going to stop watching if he talks in a funny Peter Griffin voice or some poo poo, I just want to know what's up, that's all. It's a Star Trek workplace comedy. He doesn't talk in a funny voice. Most of the humor comes from taking the characters into exactly the same ridiculous situations Trek would put its characters in, only The Orville plays the scene for laughs. These are the guys who got a C in Astrophysics but still got through the academy okay. They're not incompetent fools but their lives are messy and they're not dignified.
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Sep 25, 2017 05:52
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The two guys at the front consoles tell dick jokes back and forth and probably send memes to each other's workstations. In other words, they are believable realistic people at work.
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Sep 25, 2017 05:58
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I thought this would be dumb family guy humor but Star Trek sucked so I'm trying it I like the guy who asked about drinking soda on the bridge 
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Sep 25, 2017 06:18
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Maybe it's because I've been drinking, but my eyes actually welled up at the end of the latest episode. My god if it doesn't feel like Star Trek. It might also be because of what other show I just watched.
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Sep 25, 2017 07:14
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so in the wake of Discovery I kinda think I should just watch this instead- what streaming things is the pilot and episodes aired to date on?
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Mukaikubo posted:so in the wake of Discovery I kinda think I should just watch this instead- what streaming things is the pilot and episodes aired to date on? FoxNOW OnDemand. The website or the app.
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Sep 25, 2017 11:52
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I've been using Hulu.
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Sep 25, 2017 12:06
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It's also available on Amazon's season pass thing. So that's like 3 possible streaming services in addition to being broadcast on-air.
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I stand corrected; I had no idea it was on either of those services.
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Sep 25, 2017 12:16
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https://twitter.com/TheOrville/status/912043972016537602
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Sep 25, 2017 12:24
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8one6 posted:It's also available on Amazon's season pass thing. How unlike actual Star Trek! 
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Mukaikubo posted:so in the wake of Discovery I kinda think I should just watch this instead- what streaming things is the pilot and episodes aired to date on? This one's on TV! There's gonna be reruns.
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Lightning Lord posted:I love Star Trek and I've heard a lot of good things about this show. But I'm hesitant. I like humor in my sci-fi TV, so that's not the issue. I mean, Star Trek was often funny. But I think everything else Seth MacFarlane has done is shrill, wretched poo poo, including American Dad. I'm going to watch this anyway when I get a chance, but I just want to know how prevalent or reined in are the MacFarlane-isms exactly? I'm not going to stop watching if he talks in a funny Peter Griffin voice or some poo poo, I just want to know what's up, that's all. The wackiest MacFarlane-ism I've seen was probably the crew member that's a talking blob of goo forming a penis-shaped appendage and waving it at the doctor he was flirting with. And that was a 5 second gag in the context of an episode about toxic masculinity. I'm not gonna call the show highbrow but I'm not a fan of the other MacFarlane shows or really anything else he's done but I broadly like the humour in this.
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Sep 25, 2017 13:11
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The humor is surprisingly low key after Million Ways for sure.
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Sep 25, 2017 13:35
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All of the Orville is available on Fox on Demand I believe.
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More thought into the actual science of the show than I expected. The plant panels are a unique touch.
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My opionion of Orville has raised a lot more after last night, Orville has problems but at least it feels like Star Trek.
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I missed it on Thursday but I like the show so far. I wouldn't go so far as to recommend it to anyone but for a Big Ol' Dumb Star Trek its perfect. It's still sad that McFarTrek is the better show.
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Sep 25, 2017 18:20
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After experiencing Discovery I guess I'm fully on board for this.
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Sep 25, 2017 18:42
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this show is actually cool - thanks discovery for sucking so bad i was motivated to check this out
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Sep 25, 2017 19:10
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I imagine that CBS wouldn't allow Fox to advertise The Orville during DIS, which is a shame.
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Sep 25, 2017 19:17
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I genuinely wonder if this is going to be 30Rock vs Studio 60 all over again.
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The_Doctor posted:I genuinely wonder if this is going to be 30Rock vs Studio 60 all over again. I can't wait for the Crazy Klingons episode.
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Sep 25, 2017 19:24
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With the winner again being the one that takes it self less seriously.
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The_Doctor posted:I genuinely wonder if this is going to be 30Rock vs Studio 60 all over again. I feel it's likely to, at least in America. Everywhere else, where it's on Netflix... Discovery will probably do well enough.
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Studio 60 was so profoundly bad and tone deaf
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Sep 25, 2017 19:54
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Let's not get ahead of ourselves, 30 Rock was way funnier than this show.
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Sep 25, 2017 20:05
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So is MacFarlane going to grow a beard for season 2?
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No, Palicki will
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Kazy posted:So is MacFarlane going to grow a beard for season 2? The first officer should grow the beard.
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Al Borland Corp. posted:No, Palicki will be McFarlanes beard
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Kazy posted:So is MacFarlane going to grow a beard for season 2? I have a crackpot theory (based on the apparently frequent nighttime urination and concern about colon health) that Mercer has cancer and will die before the end of this season, leaving MacFarlane free to
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lelandjs posted:I have a crackpot theory (based on the apparently frequent nighttime urination and concern about colon health) that Mercer has cancer and will die before the end of this season, leaving MacFarlane free to I like the crack of your pot, potter.
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lelandjs posted:I have a crackpot theory (based on the apparently frequent nighttime urination and concern about colon health) that Mercer has cancer and will die before the end of this season, leaving MacFarlane free to I think in the latest episode they mentioned that some doctor or another figured out a way to kill cancer cells on the show, so you sadly may need to go back to the drawing board on that one. MacFarlane killing off his own character would be amazing, though — talk about a plot twist.
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Replace MacFarlane with Jeffrey Combs
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Baronjutter posted:Replace MacFarlane with Jeffrey Combs Holy poo poo.
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I went back and read some of the longer posts in here analyzing scene compositions, cinematography, and how progressive this show actually is. I gotta say, I never, ever suspected that a Seth MacFarlane production would get as much intellectual praise and analysis as this. How many episodes did critics get a lead on? I'm curious at which point the series goes from pre-reviewed to new-to-everyone.
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Baronjutter posted:Replace MacFarlane with Jeffrey Combs I didn't know I wanted this so badly until you said it
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