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

I am very satisfied with the way that The Orville was presented this season. Yes, most of the humor attempts were not successful; but the straight and tense moments more than made up for the lackluster moments. A really good first season and hoping that it continues beyond season two.

 

I could not help but think of an old Star Trek episode, "Behold! A god that bleeds!"

 

It was very "Who Watches the Watchers?"

 

Yah the series found it's footing tonally near the end there, although the opening scenes are basically just comedy opening scenes. which, to be fair, did happen a lot on TNG-DS9-VOY. Favourite opening scene was them doing Kariokie at the bar and Bortus just went "YOU WILL BE SILENT!" The last two episodes were pretty cool for nifty sci-fi concepts that didn't quite seemed ripped off from the TNG era.

I do like the quips and one-liners and I hope they never go away. But some places they can be a bit more delicately applied. Some are really great and come from the plot and character, like Issac's "Practical Joke" where he removed Gordon's leg. "Ha. ha." That's a solid sci-fi gag that is definitely a bit darker than what they could get away with on Trek. More finding that sweet spot where it works. Which is, admittedly, really difficult.

 

Only just watched the finale a few days ago. I was waiting as long as I could to savor it. I’m beyond happy with this show and can’t wait for S2. I hope it gets a full 26 Ep season but that’s really a thing of the past with todays shows it seems. I’d guess 20 if we lucky.

 

The social media episode was a bit shy of Black Mirroresque but I appreciated the attempt. There’s a gap between ambition and talent that makes me want to root for Seth even though the gap is wide.

 

I absolutely loved this shows first season hopefully the show can keep it up! It seems to me there are about 3 LOL moments the rest Is serious like Star Trek and I love that. IMHO it is better then TNG, Deep Space 9, and Voyager and although belter then those Treks it was a direct Homage! With a hint of TOS The music, the Animation and opening credits all an homage to TNG !!!

 

I hope they do a major refit of orville for S2. I am not a fan of the cuŕrent design...

 

I think the majority of Orville fans would disagree with this and love the show as is.

 

^ I believe he was talking more about the ship itself getting rejigged. But I doubt it because a second season of a space ship show should be cheaper cuz they keep the same VFX / sets.

 

I’ve talked about this on other boards but I’m convinced they will indeed get a heavy cruiser at some point which makes sense if they go the way I think they will and have war with the Krill. They can only hug the donkey so many times.

Word is that S2 will only be 14 Ep 13 of them new and 1 carried over from S1. This is good and disappointing to me. Less risk of filler episodes but dammit I was hoping for atleast 20 to really expand the setting.

 

I would like to see more areas on the ship.....different crew quarters, a rec deck, galley/kitchen, etc.

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The cafeteria, yes.....but not the kitchen. I'd like to see Orville's version of ENT's Chef. Maybe even have Chef teach Isaac how to cook....

Also, I'd like to see a real, non-holographic rec area like the one on TMP or Picard's fencing gym.

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Have a premiere date! Dec 30th, 2018! After NFL! So, like, 11 PM

http://comicbook.com/startrek/2018/05/14/the-orville-season-2-premiere-date/

"The Orville will return on Sunday, December 30th following a Sunday Night Football double-header. The series will then resume in its Thursday home following the conclusion of the NFL season."

Bit of a long wait but Fox has Thursday Night Football NFL this year so it's basically taking Orville's slot from Sept to Dec. Still that is a long run of episodes when it comes back so that should be fun.

 

Is it just me, or does the ship's drive section look like 3 toilet seats glued together?

 

The trailer was good. If they had done this for S1 instead of going with the comedy in space route it would have drawn in more people and some of the haters to. S1 push was so misleading to what the show actually was.

 

looks like nice new hero shot from underneath the Orville that opens the trailer, I'm expecting to see that in about 50% of the episodes at least