Current Events > Is The Orville a good show?

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I've been catching clips of it on the YouTube shorts and it seems like a riff on star trek. Is it a decent show to binge?

It's more Star Trek than modern-day Star Trek series. If you like Star Trek TNG, you'll definitely like The Orville. And no, its style is not dumb random silliness like other stuff Seth MacFarlane is known for.

It used to be pretty good then it got to......clean

No.

Absolutely not. It bad seasons of Family Guy bad

This is a trailer for season 3 but it gives off a good feel for what the show is like

https://youtu.be/dKCILxahpv4

it's consistently terrible. Bad trek is better than the orville

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Nah Tala > Alara. Alara was just the token cute insecure girl. Also yeah Orville is great and homage to Star Trek. It even has its own version of the Q character show up in season 3

Yeah once they became gods they toyed with them that episode and told them they find them interesting and will be watching them pretty much exactly like Q did

Might be because Q had more charisma and didn't give a fuck about putting them in real danger

The Star Trek i grew up with was TNG and voyager. And a little deep space. Most clips I've seen have that voyager feel. I really hate family guy and its type of humor and I was wondering if this was similar.

It's McFarlane's interpretation of Star Trek.
As much as I want to like it being a general ST fan, for me it's always fell a bit short in dealing with some of more severe themes it tries to tackle.
Not a bad show but had to abandon it after 1.5 seasons. Many people seem to really like it though.

It's nothing like Family Guy. There are definitely jokes here and there but it's serious scifi. The episode that dealt with time travel was pretty fucked up tbh

Its great

I like it, but that have an issue with rules only mattering some times. Star Trek had the same issue.

I am a massive Trekkie and I have zero interest in it just in the same way I have zero interest in all those latest piss poor streaming in name only "Star Trek" series.

Season 1 has more jokes, and they don't always land, but it gets more serious as it goes on. Still has lighthearted moments, but sometimes it felt like I was straight up watching Star Trek.

Its very much worth checking out.

The humor is a bit more juvenile and awkward at the start of the series, but it never gets to Family Guy level and essentially goes away 100% entirely by the time it gets to S3.

As a fan of TNG and Voyager you can see what you think. If its not for you after several episodes, no harm in dropping it, but many Trek fans really appreciate and enjoy it.

First season Seth had to pretty much make it a blatant star trek parody or else they wouldn't do it. After it got some traction they turned control over to him and he toned down the goofiness for season 2 and 3. Still has comedy but not as frequent as the first season.

yes, it's a good show. the first season relies a bit too much on 20th/21st century pop culture references for humor, which are all way out of place considering the show takes place hundreds of years into the future, but luckily they tone that down in the later seasons. although in that respect i like how they handled it in season 2 better, because they still did have a fair amount of humor, but most of it arose organically instead of feeling like Family Guy cutaway gag-level forced humor. in season 3 what they did is pretty much get rid of most of the humor entirely. i thought that was a bit of an overcorrection.

but besides all that with the humor aspect, the rest of the show is consistently good if not great. especially if you are a fan of the 90s Trek shows.

Yes it is. Gets better each season.

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Alara is bae, but for real, Tala was a better fit as a character for the job of head security officer

Nirvanas_Nox posted...

It used to be pretty good then it got to......clean

this.

Season 3 is just too fancy, almost uncanny.

kirbyy posted...

As much as I want to like it being a general ST fan, for me it's always fell a bit short in dealing with some of more severe themes it tries to tackle.

I dunno. Orville explained Trek's "Prime Directive" way better than Trek ever did.

The show is very good and respects the time of the viewer

every scene is either amusing or meaningful

ZEROWOLF posted...

The Star Trek i grew up with was TNG and voyager. And a little deep space. Most clips I've seen have that voyager feel. I really hate family guy and its type of humor and I was wondering if this was similar.

Same. TNG was my favourite show growing up. You will like the Orville trust me.

Norm Macdonald plays quite possibly the greatest amorphous blob since Orson Welles.

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lol whatever happens, it would probably be worth it

Its great, and has some gem episodes. It's definitely becomes more sci fi than comedy, with a lot of strong stories.

Bortus and Klyden episodes are some of my favorite.

MabusIncarnate posted...

Bortus and Klyden episodes are some of my favorite.

Those two stole season 3

It's a great show. It changes over time. The early episodes lean more into the humor, possibly as a way to get it made. But it gets more serious over time as Seth really steers it where he wanted it.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Norm Macdonald plays quite possibly the greatest amorphous blob since Orson Welles.

Yep. And watching his final episode just hit right in the feels. Didn't even have anything to do with the episode.

I love the show. But I will say I feel like season 3 dropped the ball. It almost completely removed the humor, and there were some really bad episodes. Like the one where people turn into dumb monsters.

Cheers was a good show.

So was M*A*S*H*

it all depends on the audience you want to impress, boy

spanky1 posted...

I love the show. But I will say I feel like season 3 dropped the ball. It almost completely removed the humor, and there were some really bad episodes. Like the one where people turn into dumb monsters.

Wait we talking about Orville or that one episode of TNG?

DarthDemented posted...

Wait we talking about Orville or that one episode of TNG?

He's referring to those creatures that are basically an organic version of the borg they encountered past Krill space

Axiom posted...

He's referring to those creatures that are basically an organic version of the borg they encountered past Krill space

I remember. Just that description made it sound like both