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Hogge Wild posted:orville is for the same people who like bing bang theory let's be real, 75 year olds with dementia don't watch fox
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Lowen SoDium posted:This is my go to example episode when describing why I think The Orville is the modern Star Trek and my I think Seth MacFarlane understands Star Trek better than any other creatives that have had control of it since DS9 went off the air. The fact that a lot of the third episode takes place in a courtroom and is just the characters debating is the most Star Trek thing and I love it. And since it's a modern show they don't have to hide behind euphemism or metaphor which actually strengthens both the commentary and the actual plotting, with Bortus' kid them being able to reference things like circumcision and transgenderism so they can explicitly clarify that it isn't a simple stand-in for that but you can still draw parallels to the same issues of consent and parental rights makes it stand up a lot better. Also Bortus being genuinely moved and inspired by Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was great and I got a little choked up at the end when he put the plush toy of him in his kid's crib. It was just a really great episode of television all around.
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Dec 31, 2018 05:29
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Hogge Wild posted:orville bad 
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Dec 31, 2018 05:37
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So this looks like a total Star Trek knock off. Did fox buy the rights or what?
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Dec 31, 2018 05:39
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Burt Sexual posted:So this looks like a total Star Trek knock off. Did fox buy the rights or what? Seth McFarlane loves Star Trek and since CBS decided to make a lovely edgy new show, he made his own Star Trek and it is good.
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Dec 31, 2018 06:24
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Peachfart posted:Seth McFarlane loves Star Trek and since CBS decided to make a lovely edgy new show, he made his own Star Trek and it is good. The later doesn’t appear to be true. But ok. Have you seen the masked singer? It’s great.
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Dec 31, 2018 06:30
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if you don't like the orville, try watching discovery and then the orville looks a lot better by comparison. j/k don't watch discovery it's terrible.
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Dec 31, 2018 06:32
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Discovery sucks but I did a 180 when I found out they mentioned elon musk because they were hoping for free poo poo
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Dec 31, 2018 06:35
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The new episode was a little too much space drama but I still enjoyed it.
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Dec 31, 2018 10:21
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save the space drama for your space mama!
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Dec 31, 2018 10:44
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Hogge Wild posted:orville is for the same people who like bing bang theory I like the Orville and I hated the big bang theory. The Orville actually makes jokes. It really is somehow a Star trek parody that is now more trek than what is actually airing. I was reeeallly burned out on Seth MacFarlane going in, too, so it was a hard sell for me. But it was good.
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Dec 31, 2018 11:20
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How are you gonna mention Elon Musk between the wright brothers and zephram cochrane just lmfao
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Dec 31, 2018 11:22
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It's a cheap low budget sci-fi show with no bells or whistles but a lot of Family Guy fart jokes. It would have been OK in the 90s, but in the golden age of television it's kinda meh. On the other hand, there is not much else in the sci-fi/exploration genre going on so what are you gonna do, watch something else lol? The new star treks is trying to do more of a high concept drama stuff with decades long plot arcs& moody lighting. it tries to scratch a different itch e: Lol, my phone autocapitalized Family Guy (this post was brought to you by Carl's Jr, eat Carl's Jr.)
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Dec 31, 2018 15:26
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Orville is good, thanks for the reminder op
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Dec 31, 2018 15:33
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Raspberry Jam It In Me posted:the golden age of television 
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Dec 31, 2018 16:06
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I knew I was going to like the show when the first episode ended with them rapidly growing a redwood tree through an enemy ship. It’s just got a sense of fun that Star Trek doesn’t.
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Dec 31, 2018 16:56
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They backed off on the fart jokes when people complained
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Dec 31, 2018 16:56
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i mind the fart jokes a lot less than i do all the contemporary pop culture references.
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Dec 31, 2018 17:23
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:i mind the fart jokes a lot less than i do all the contemporary pop culture references. Those bugged me a lot at first, but the alternatives to humanizing the crew and helping make them more relate-able are either TNG where it's the 25th century but everyone still reveres the same classical/opera/Shakespeare stuff they do now, or Discovery where they just go "what would parties be like IN THE FUTURE" and you get stuff like this:  Personally I prefer jokes about Bortus singing My Heart Will Go On at karaoke
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Dec 31, 2018 18:02
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The show works better when it kind of a office comedy in space with aliens. Like when they are dicking around before work talking about their various culture/races and it turns into a game of "Can Bortus eat it" https://youtu.be/l_hx0xml-kU
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Dec 31, 2018 18:24
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Julius CSAR posted:The captain actually has a little model of the Wright Flyer on his desk Slight derail but the final model in that lineup is the Vengeance, which is easy to miss on the first watch Julius CSAR posted:Like, the XO downing a huge glass of water in one chug when she's hungover is a nice touch. The humans in Star Trek shows are like aliens because they don't ever seem like real people. They've also used the replicator to make edibles on The Orville which is viewed as completely socially acceptable when off-duty ElectricSheep fucked around with this message at 18:32 on Dec 31, 2018 |
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Dec 31, 2018 18:29
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Favorite gags of season 1: - robot guy cutting off the dude's leg in his sleep - can bortus eat it? - captain guy playing hot potato with bortus and getting his hand stabbed - jello guy hitting on the doctor - strong woman failing to get a boyfriend - everyone loves the blue guy - "oh and btw im a space man! your world SUCKS"
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Dec 31, 2018 18:32
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Yeah, unless I missed it while phone posting how are we talking funny out-of-context Orville scenes and you leave out the latchcomb, bunch of rank amateurs up in here https://youtu.be/5c7FL9QV1bs
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Dec 31, 2018 18:34
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Watching Seinfeld on the viewscreen while travelling at warp speed is a great gag
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Dec 31, 2018 18:39
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I like The Orville because it's an entertaining sci-fi show with funny characters and interesting plot-lines. It's nice to have something that's light and cheerful rather than being grim and serious all the time. Feels kind of rare to have a show that has an overall very positive outlook on the world and plot lines that rely on the overall goal of doing good things.
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Dec 31, 2018 18:40
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ElectricSheep posted:Yeah, unless I missed it while phone posting how are we talking funny out-of-context Orville scenes and you leave out the latchcomb, bunch of rank amateurs up in here Posted on the first page.
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Dec 31, 2018 20:19
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oops slightly more useful contribution: I like when MacFarlane's character isn't played as a completely over-competent self-insert, but I feel like sometimes Mercer's been a blank slate compared to the personalities of the rest of the crew. Hopefully they lean a little harder on the whole concept of "good captain, but we've got better" as the season goes on. Also Penny Johnson Jerald status: still would
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Dec 31, 2018 20:50
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"We just got the Damage Report: Decks 6 through 9 took light damage, and the Damage Report guy spilled soy sauce on his shirt." "Really? He put that in a Damage Report? ... Man we need to get better people..."
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Tumble posted:. A big reason why I liked Star Trek in the first place
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Dec 31, 2018 22:05
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If you took the jokes out and changed the character names/appropriate tech terms, the Orville scripts would read essentially exactly like unused TNG scripts. Also in an interview McFarlane talks about how Fox marketed the show as a hard comedy rather than unlicensed Star Trek with modernized humor, and how S2 is going to lean more into the sci-fi and less into the jokes.
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Like that would be cool if he did that I just don't want him to cut out the fun little stuff in between when everyone is hanging out with each other and messing around.
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Jan 1, 2019 00:45
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The Bortus eating contest and leg prank are legit funny as gently caress.
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it is a love story to star trek. the jokes don't land 100% of the time and even when they do they're not that great but it's star trek light and that is good imo. i think it would be better though if mcfarland was just a random fuckup red shirt on the crew, and the captain was actually a super serious star fleet captain. i dont like him as the captain. also gently caress discovery it's garbage.
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Love Stole the Day posted:Favorite gags of season 1: https://i.imgur.com/CNVIrw6.mp4 Ｔｈｅ ｇａｍｅ ｉｓ ｎｅｖｅｒ ｔｏ ｂｅ ｓｐｏｋｅｎ ｏｆ ａｇａｉｎ．
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Raspberry Jam It In Me posted:It's a cheap low budget sci-fi show with no bells or whistles but a lot of Family Guy fart jokes. It would have been OK in the 90s, but in the golden age of television it's kinda meh. same ~~*~golden age of television~*~~ where fuckin' Westworld derailed in the second season harder than a steam engine slamming into a mountain
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also, fuckin' The Last Ship got made for five seasons, in the midst of the most glorious years television hath ever wrought like, don't get me wrong, it's a guilty pleasure of mine, but it's cheesier than the goddamn space cheese that almost brought down starship Voyager
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Jan 1, 2019 04:14
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in conclusion, get bent
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Jan 1, 2019 04:15
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The Orville is pleasant, light hearted and full of likeable characters, it's just a good low stakes sci fi show that sometimes goes after big concepts and I'm happy there's more of it
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Jan 1, 2019 04:20
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okay that episode was not very good and downright offensivewomen just need to love a dope however the burn about the tea was great.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:same ~~*~golden age of television~*~~ where fuckin' Westworld derailed in the second season harder than a steam engine slamming into a mountain Golden age doesn't mean that nobody put anything bad on TV. There will always be bad stuff on TV. In the last 2-3 years alone you had True Detective S1, Leftovers, Stranger Things, Westworld S1, Expanse, Better Call Saul, etc. And even the bad stuff is miles ahead of 90s TV in terms of production values/writing/acting so a mediocre actor like Seth McFarland sticks out and bad writing sticks out and cheap costumes stick out. The one thing that keeps Orville from being cancelled is that it is literally the only game in town and nerds being extremely salty and defiant about executives trying to turn the new treks into a burlesque piece
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