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When I first started this show I found it to be a really awkward mix of comedy and seriousness. It had some jokes thrown it at the most inopportune times as some kind of comic relief from a really serious situation. Perhaps the first half of the first season was actually a bit rough or maybe the show just grew on me, but by season 2 I found myself loving this show.

To me it seems as every bit as comfy, intellectually interesting and even funny as some classic Star Treks while still clearly being its own thing. I wish more comfy space shows like this would get made.

What are your thoughts on The Orville? Also I miss Alara.

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[-] Comfortably_Wet@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago

I expected the Orville to be a funny homage to Star Trek. For a short time it was just that. Actually a randy one with too much toilet humor. But then suddenly they became serious SciFi. Which I consider a bold move and mostly but not utterly a successful one. And in hindsight, it would have been hard to deliver good SciFi-Humor for more than one Season except if they went the Futurama-Path.

The part of the funny homage to Star Trek nowadays has been taken by Lower Decks. Humorwise it beats everything Orville had ever offered.

Orville is good. Not great but worth watching. They had some AMAZING episodes with depth and ideas among the best ST-Episodes. But they also had a lot of mediocre episodes. Still Better than ST-Discovery for sure. Even surpassing ST-Picard. Which is something Seth can be proud of.

Orville started when there was no Startrek and no serious Soap-SiFi at all (The Expanse is something different).

For me it is "Startrek when Startrek wasn't" and basically revived the Franchise it wanted to make fun of.

I like it.

[-] Jagermo@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

The one with the porn virus on their holodeck was fantastic. But yeah, you sum it up very nice.

[-] Comfortably_Wet@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

You mean the scene were every hologram on the holo deck was a nude Bortos? I rolled on the floor laughing!

[-] Jagermo@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

It was sooooo good

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

That actually sounds appealing when you describe it like that. I tried to watch it when it came out but it never delivered on the “funny”. It was just Star Trek but a little off.

Maybe I’ll try again or at least get past the first few episodes

[-] bastion@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago

Excellent review

[-] solstice@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I literally shed tears while watching the first episode because I didn't realize how badly I needed new star trek that doesn't suck. I just hit me right where I needed it to scratch that itch, and I was so overwhelmed. Also it made me hate even more what "real" trek has become. Huge fan, I didn't realize season 3 is already on, gotta check it out.

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