Science Fiction

My initial reaction was that it was likely to be Seth Macfarlane's "Galaxy Quest the TV Parody"...but then I watched it, and then it grew on me. I've grown to like it quite a bit.

I liked it well enough to keep watching it while I had a service that showed it, but MacFarlane never stopped grating on me.

I like it, want more seasons to come out. Now that I finished the Orville, I need to go back and finish Farscape

I love the Orville, but the shift in format with the most recent season, to movie length episodes, made it largely inaccessible to me.

This might be an unpopular opinion, but I really loved the first season. To me it felt like the good old optimistic utopia Trek but with real people. I tought the episodes had nice and creative topics, including the zoo critique, multigenerational space travel, upvote/downvote society, time-irregularity planet - it was mostly decent sci-fi with some well thought out and fun relationships (Cupid's danger) some outstanding social commentary (About a girl) and a rather weak time-travel episode, which is always a bummer, but never mind.

Then, by season 2, the characters started to transform into plastic figurines with soap opera dialogue and arches (which is a symptom many Trek shows suffer from, to be fair). For example the whole "Oh, captain and first commander cannot date, because the captain couldn't be objective then" (never mind him having feelings anyway). It felt to me like some of them'd been shoven a ruler up their asses. We get some average and some cringe ill-thought out episodes (like the porn-addiction one - the topic could have been a treasure trove if treated properly). It's old-school Trek with all the bad things along the good ones.

Season 3 involves much more action and shooting and it doesn't add any value to the stories. The good arch involves Topa and the Moclan society. The Kaylons (including Isaac) are overall a disappointment. They are supposed to be extremely intelligent but they are not written to really seem that way. They appeared to me to be very stupid and slow-learning. The main characters lost all appeal to me, because they often act in a cold and hostile fashion (like being jerks to time-traveling Gordon instead just leaving him with his familly and picking him up earlier without making the whole ugly drama).

I miss Alara too.

I've never seen it, but in that poster, Seth is one of the few actors who looks like he's got his head on correctly. Greenie on the left looks like her head might actually fall off. (I'd probably watch it if that was one of the plots)

I liked it, it is pretty star trek the next generation(which i love) though sometimes it gets really up its own ass. I like more philosophical/ethical subject episodes than constant interpersonal relationship episodes.

I just couldn't make it myself like it. Granted, I only watched the first couple episodes but it felt just too stretched for me.

It’s a good show and I like it.

It was fine. Had a lot of good parts and interesting plots. Also was completely cringy and stupid in plot decisions at times. I'd watch another season if it came out, but Seth Macfarlane can't act his way into a middle school play. His heart-to-heart scenes are painfully awful.

It was/is the best modern "star trek" thats coming out. Loved that you could see all the writers and seth were just huge trekies. The moral dilemma's are almost always good. And the mostly episodic episodes are a huge bonus.

Who's Orvile?

I like it, enjoy it for the most part and am glad it exists. But the politics comes off a bit weak and tips sometimes too far towards the self-congratulatory ethno-centrism of bad early 20th century anthropology.

Recently binged the whole thing. Loved every minute.

I hate the design of the ship, the shuttles in season 3 at least look cool. Other than that, it was great show until season 3 when I felt they took too much time for EEEEEEEVERYTHING. This is literally the first show ever where I started skipping through episodes.

What is it these days that series and movies maker seem to think quantity equals quality?

It took me a few episodes. But now I think it’s entertaining and wholesome!

It’s my utopia of what humans could become in the future

Season 3 was not good; it was heavy-handed writing and wasn't all that good drama.

Star trek with jokes!

I really liked Orville's first season. Each successive season wasn't as good as the previous ones. Still, it's much better than most other things out there.

I might give it a shot if it weren't for Seth McFarlane. The dude is the antithesis of comedy.