https://youtu.be/IHsBPoXJOP4
Best special effects in a space battle I've seen in a long time!
The last two episodes got a 9.4 rating on IMDB deservedly, highly recommend them, even if you're not an Orville fan!
I'm not caught up right now, few episodes behind, but this show is great. I thought it would be a shitfest, since I don't like most shit Seth made, but no, this shit is great.
i'm so glad star trek vets are getting behind this show. jonathan frakes is going to direct another episode even, I hear
When Seth cares, it shows, the earlier stuff from Family Guy is still pretty good only because Seth clearly cares. And he really cares about making Orville succeed.
I'm kind of tired of the We were Slaves trope mainly because they ignore the emancipations in the history of humanity.
Highest quality space battle I've seen in a long while, loving what Seth is doing with the Orville.
How much if this show is comedy? I'm intrigued by the concept of it, but also a bit hesitant of it being a cpmedy.
There's a fair amount of comedic splotches on it especially in the first season on how it parodies Star Trek and other sci-fi shows, but it's a good balance overall, with the comedy part being very affectionate from its sources. In comparison to a lot of modern sci-fi shows, it almost feels like if you put TNG and the original Star Trek into a modern perspective of how exciting and fun it is to have a space adventure. It also evolves far more serious as the series goes on too.
Yeah, it's like Seth pitched it to FOX as a Star Trek parody ala Family Guy, but then as soon as he was greenlit he just went about making a serious Star Trek-alike but with the occasional fart joke/pop culture reference.
I watched the last two episodes with my mates and I have to say I really enjoyed them, having not watched any of season 1. I've avoided the show because it sounded like another Seth McFarlane vanity project it is but it is just the TNG formula with the occasional goofy bit to remind you you're not watching TNG.
It's not even direct comedy so much as it is situational comedy. The problems have serious impacts, but sometimes it's just about deal with different races or cultural differences. I think the show is a 10/10 for any star trek fan.
Maybe it's just me but every races ships looking exactly the same made this battle look really cheap to me.
I dunno, for me it's juuuuust the right amount of cheese to get me intrigued.
This space battle is better than anything that has come from Star Trek Discovery. I know some Orville fans hate that Star Trek gets compared all the time, but this show is arguably better than the show that inspired it.
I'm loving this show a lot more than I thought I would. I started it after binging literally all TNG-era Star Trek (TNG, DS9, Voyager and the movies) and while the humor isn't always my taste the overall show makes me so happy as a trekfan. I've tried REALLY hard to like Star Trek Discovery but I just can't.
All that I've heard about the show is that it Seth MacFarlane comedy still exists and that treats its LGBT characters poorly.
Honestly, I'm not sure where you got that impression. This show is effectively the real Star Trek on air right now, which baffles me because of just how much I dislike everything I've seen Seth in before. The LGBT thing... yeah, the show had a few episodes where they alluded to LGBTness, and much like real Star Trek, this show's treatment is equal parts empathy and confusion. Like, it feels well meaning and accepting, but it doesn't necessarily get it. Which as a non LGBT person, I feel a little underqualified to comment on. But that was my take away. I feel Star Trek in general is like that, it's unintentionally very heteronormative, that type of thing.
Also not sure why everyone is acting like the occasional funny moment is a new thing, TNG was a very funny show.
The Seth MacFarlane comedy is pretty prevalent in season 1, dropping off in season 2 for more situational comedy and focused storylines. If you want to watch a modernized TNG, it's up to you whether or not working through the awkward humor is worth it.
I heard this from someone this:
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That statement is enitrly false
Bortus does not cheat on his partner its a porn addiction and he does not go to it for boredom its because of resentment for there child's forced sex change.
how does one character cheating even make the statement that all gay people cheat? like, ignoring that that part of the post is a lie anyways. do gays not cheat at all then? or rather, do PEOPLE cheat, and do some PEOPLE not cheat?
What's worth bearing in mind about the Gay Porn Simulator Addiction episode is that it's a product of the show's advanced technology, the terrible decision from the Alien Baby Sex Change episode leading into it yes, Seth MacFarlane's sense of humour. He's found something funny about Klingons, their prosthetic ridges and excessive severity ever since Family Guy which is why it forms the basis of Moclan design. What really sells the cheap-romance-novel-tier simulations at first is Bortus's total lack of outward emotion and the exaggerated overtures of the simulated partners.
Maybe some people found it funnier or even arousing because it was 100% manservice, but that's unavoidable and it helps sell the other important message about the episode without it being a dull PSA or a lecture: porn addiction sounds like the funniest thing in the world and something that could only happen to a complete loser, not a high ranking naval officer with a family, but it's a genuine problem. Anyone can be driven to it, and it can create huge rifts in their personal and work lives like with alcohol and other recreational drugs, but a lack of awareness and education about the topic as well as easy access to porn in any medium makes treatment harder than it should be.
Here's an idea, you should watch few episodes for yourself and make up your own mind instead of listening to people who don't know what they're talking about.
this is dumb
Bortus is great. if you wanna talk about boring characters with no emotion, talk about LaMarr
Don't necessarily have access to the series...
Even if Bortus did cheat on Klyden... why not? Do gay people not cheat on each other?
I also like how the Moclan's personal policies are finally being noticed by the Union as not entirely being up to code with the rest. They even bring it up at the end of one episode about how keeping the alliance with them would be possible.
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