Amph The Orville [Seth McFarlane's returning Sci-Fi Show]

*coughSGUcough*

 

.....but the Rudolph part was the key turning point in the episode! Without it, Bortas would never know the true spirit of Christmas....

Seriously, EP. 3 was an unexpected gem. I hope MacFarlane takes more risks like this. He's making STDs job a whole lot harder.

 

I did like how Bortux's entire character perspective changed hinged on the transformative power of Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer which is totally a legitimate thing. My only gripe was when the female came in and revealed that she was the renowned author and everyone just immediately accepted it although that's really more of a pacing thing than anything.

The episode was directed by Brannon Bragga who worked as a writer/producer on Star Trek for years so he knew how to shoot it. And it was a funnier directorial choice to show the dancing bandito in a wide shot as opposed to a close up.

As for the moral conundrum, personally, after years of watching Star Trek, I always end up leaning towards whatever the culture requires. But still a nicely moving ending.

Favourite quip: "You are very small and fragile, do you realize that captain?" "There is an anti-bullying law named after me, yes I do realize it."

 

While we're making requests for future Orville episodes, though it looks like we're not yet doing that, I'd like to request an episode about the Prime Directive and how everyone is always so reverent about the Prime Directive and so emphatic about how Prime it is and how much of a Directive, yet in practice Starfleet is always going to violate the **** out of it.

 

Yeah, the PD works better as a plot point or story obstacle than it would as a real social policy, IMO. The hero characters in Trek are almost always very clever at figuring out ways to work around it.

 

The Orville continues to do Star Trek things, as long as they keep the humor to a minimum, I will continue to enjoy it.

 

I keep reading this as Thorville, and imagining it's filled with snappy dialogue and dumb plots.

 

Congratulations you have imagined a plausible outcome for once in your life.

 

So far it's been adequate plots and bad dialogue.

 

It's derivative. The character design is lazy or terrible or both. It's painfully obvious what pastiches each character is meant to be, although some of them aren't torn from ST itself, but instead from situational comedies.

The humor usually misses because it isn't parody--that is, the plots could easily be confused for ST episodes and they're played earnestly and straight, so the humor undercuts all of the drama. The things happening around the characters are serious and full of moral ambiguity, not lighthearted or absurd, but they approach things like a workplace comedy, constantly shoving in 21st century reactions, jokes, and sensibilities to these alien, futuristic encounters.

It's not terrible, I just don't think it has any idea what it is. "If Star Trek were a comedy" doesn't really fit. It's more like if the characters from Rifftracks were in the episode instead of watching it.

The Orville doesn't really explore any new territory so much as let MacFarlane run around living out his childhood fantasies of being a spaceship captain.

 

Ep 5 was fun. Very Treky and made more so by Riker directing the episode.

 

I'm really enjoy The Orville. My favorite new show of the season.

 

The only problem is The Orville being in the same time slot as Arrow, since it moved to Thursday when it starts back this week.

 

I really liked the 4th ep because it was more TOS in spirit than most, I kind of dig Robert Knepper in anything, and it had a very Kirk type of line at the end "24 hours .... after 2000 years." The 5th ep had an interesting way to handle the Captain falls for nefarious woman plot if only because it threw in the time travel aspect and the closing minute or so was pretty good. (McFarlane is still credited for the script but I bet you that the time traveling vixen notion came from some of the Trek vets on the writing staff).

 

Haven't been able to watch all the episodes but I like the show. I think it has a higher degree of difficulty than ppl give it credit for as they try to build characters you care about while still being a goofball spoof.
Definitely willing to ride out the season.

 

Wow Ep 6 came together in a very chilling way there! Kelly Hu! Finally got to see a big Union ship. That red robed Krill was Gul Ducat!!!

 

How exactly are they planning on returning the children to their families?

 

Yeah that ceremony was nuts, which was way dark but oddly darkly amusing because it's just such an insane thing to do. I thought the Krill guy sounded familiar. Also noticed this episode was written by a Star Trek vet and directed by a 24 vet. The opening scene when the crew tries to see what Bordis could eat (Which is apparently everything) really felt like a Star Trek joke because they talk whole lot on Star Trek about food.

Here's an interview with the writer anyway talkin bout Orville, Star Trek and Futurama

https://trekmovie.com/2017/10/23/in...teway-and-how-futurama-landed-enterprise-job/

 

I thought the upvote / downvote episode was good, it's actually one of the few episode concepts so far that felt genuinely unique and not entirely just a rebake of TNG and TOS concepts (although the guy dancing on the statue was kind of close to Westley stomping on forbidden flowers but I'll let it slide). I knew it would be an Issac hacks the feed solution but they did it in a way where Issac pumped it full of fake news instead of just changing the numbers.

Anyway, either surprising or not depending on your point of view, Orville officially has a Season 2 order!

https://www.cbr.com/orville-fox-renewed-season-2/

 

I was so happy to hear it got S2 earlier today. I was very nervous it was gonna be a one and done so now I’m just pumped.