>lets copy old Trek but only the 5/10 episodes while adding a frickton of boring relationship garbage and random family guy humor
this shit fricking blows, wtf
>lets copy old Trek but only the 5/10 episodes while adding a frickton of boring relationship garbage and random family guy humor
I like the show, but I don't give two shits about the relationship between the doctor and the robot. So of course that's the part of the show that gets the most time devoted to it.
No fricking shit, the finale was all relationship filler so i basically fast forwarded through it. The show had potential in season 2 but it went sideways after Elura left. They couldnt even figure out a logical way to explain the Mochlans and are still not able to properly interface with the Krill because the writers are fundamentally nihilistic hacks.
>Elura
Terrible actress.
>replace her
With another terrible actress.
The first one had youth and a bit more charm on her side at least. The lady who plays Kelly is the most Trek worthy of the cast along with Claire of course. Those actresses are able to honestly juxtapose emotionalism with stilted scifi.
Adriana palicki has gotta stop the stupid lip injections though and get them to tailor her outfit, she looks weird af
She has curves like a 13 year old boy. Trousers dont suit her but >muh women so she has to wear them.
The entire premise of her character is absurd. Essentially co-captain with a man who she used to be married to. It's just a way to put a cheap writing crutch into the show's premise so they'd have this relationship/workplace drama baked into the show. Ironically, they rarely used it.
The idea of her sticking her neck out for her ex who she cheated on isn't ridiculous, especially when they show multiple times that she feels very guilty about it. And her having to stick around to make sure he doesn't frick up the commission made sense too.
What doesn't make sense is why she's still there. I can get her "babysitting" Ed at the start of the series when he's still seen as a chronic frickup, but by the end of season 2 he's a war hero who the Union trusts with incredibly vital tasks.
I guess the logic is that the Union wouldn't want to break up a winning team, but they could have easily had her request a transfer or something after the time travel episodes. I don't think anyone would complain.
No competent military-like space navy organization would let them command a ship together. Especially not with Ed's reputation at the beginning of the show.
She just has chicken legs and broad shoulders, if she wore slacks instead of tights and didn't have such a stiff jacket she would look a lot more normal
I think Palicki is the weakest part of the main cast, but it might just be because they don't write anything for her.
They have no idea what to do with her character. She should have probably been written off after season 2. Her whole thing was feeling guilty about fricking over Ed, and that's been resolved. There's no will-they-won't-they with Ed, it's been made abundantly clear they're not getting back together. Her character at this point is pretty much a Terminator that drinks wine in her free time.
it's goddamn stupid how off center the eyes are in these robots all of the time
>random family guy humor
You think family guy invented sight gags and awkward pauses? Aside from Macfarlane's voice the shows and how they do humor are nothing alike.
season 3 was the strongest one
sad that many people dropped this show in s1
It's no TNG, but I'll take it over star trek anything from the past 20 years
>after this season there won't be any more Yaphet
dayum shame.
Because its trash. A turbo woke star trek knockoff by a balding c**t. Its unwatchable
S3 was a little off the mark for me. It was supposed to be "Strange New Worlds," and they start off with the idea that they'll explore an uncharted area of space, and then they completely drop it after one episode and go back to the same stories they had been telling.
Toning down the humor was also a mistake. It was an integral part of the show.
My guess is that they learned during production that they weren't getting another season and pivoted back to wrap up their open storylines while they still could. The last episode felt like a series finale.
Seth Macfarlane is a fricking hack
Still better than nutrek
Its all garbage. Do something else with your time.
Im already posting on here so your advice isnt needed.
>Do something else with your time
Yeah, like posting on Cinemaphile.org
>Still better than nutrek
SNW is objectively superior.
It's not very good, but modern Trek is such garbage that people praise it in that context. The only joy left in Trek is watching troons and leftists claim that it was always there, but miss the entire point of "there are four lights" and what they're constantly doing to language.
I only watch Enterprise now.
5/10 old trek is still better than 10/10 nutrek.
They went overboard with Claire x Isaac and the Moclans but otherwise the show is great.
Seth MacFarlane has nothing left to say and I think its about time he just slunk into irrelevance
It's a demo reel for the people working on the show that they can make Star Trek like peak 90's Trek. It's why it looks and sounds amazing but the stories and worldbuilding sucks.
so who voices mawfit or whatever the goo guys name is now that norms dead
voice him for what? there won't be a S4
>How about Star Trek with awful writing and I'm Kirk except funny too and super popular?
>Seth Macfarlane makes garbage
No shit? Hes been doing it for 23 years
filtered
They need to recast Claire as someone that's not in her late 70's
The most likelable cast member is the fricking robot without Alara
It's great.
>E01 "Electric Sheep"
7/10
>E02 "Shadow Realms"
9/10
>E03 "Mortality Paradox"
9/10
>E04 "Gently Falling Rain"
8/10
>E05 "A Tale of Two Topas"
8/10
>E06 "Twice in a Lifetime"
9/10
>E07 "From Unknown Graves"
7/10
>E08 "Midnight Blue"
9/10
>E09 "Domino"
9/10
>E10 "Future Unknown"
7/10
Final score 8.2/10
This season was a bit heavy on the Claire and Isaac love drama, and I thought seasons 1 and seasons 2 did some things better (and some things worse) and had better episodes, but everything we got had a reason.
They'd intended for Claire and Isaac's wedding to be the season's and potentially show's finale, which necessitated the romantic through line of their developing relationship in order to make feel natural. The last episode didn't actually have any real plot, it was just an excuse for the series to wind down and like episode 2 it'll probably be appreciated more in hindsight. The Alara cameo was the cherry on top.
If they ever do return I'd like to see a return to the episodic comedy, I think pre-Identity season 2 captured the perfect balance. Also I listened to Sympathy For The Devil and I can see why it was scrapped. It's not really a complete story on its own, and it's way too ambitious that it could not have worked for anything but audio. Basically almost exactly half of its 3 hour runtime is devoid of Orville cast and takes place entirely in pre-Nazi and Nazi Germany. And even then most of the characters like Bortus don't really participate in the story, just Ed and Kelly. Conceptually it is fairly interesting and is basically The Orville's inverted take on The Inner Light. But there's no real denouement either and it just ends pretty much after the concept is presented. The epilogue takes place after season 3 which was interesting too.
You seem like a genuine fan.
I honestly feel sad for you considering how shitty the show turned out to be. You care more about it than the people who make it do.
It seems to weird to be here saying this when there is always a /trek/
I honestly thought s3 was great, an evolution in terms of writing & production. I liked how much better it is at provoking thought and emotion. The show has IMO managed to sidestep taking a side in modern politics while still referencing its existence. They don't fall into the trap of a lot of modern shows of doing anything to maintain the status quo and are willing to take a few chances.
I'd rate it on average 7.5-8/10 for the season. Way better than all post-ENT trek and some earlier stuff. I would rate s3 of the Orville over s1 of TNG in some ways.
Why is it so fricking difficult to get kino sci-fi these days? I remember watching B5 as a kid and thinking, "Wow, the future is going to be AMAZING for sci-fi shows!" 25 years later and fricking B5 was the last time sci-fi was written with soul.
Did I curse us?
its because people know resoruces arent abundant and what we have now is basically it
>Im a homosexual millennial brainwashed by Captain Planet as a kid and I think we're all fricked and doomed so can't into space kino
ftfy
It's so fricking boring.
I didn't mind it once I accepted that there would be zero (0) jokes
Isaac’s eulogy to Charly alone was better than anything I’ve seen in nu-Trek. Overall I enjoyed season 3, though I wish they hadn’t gone SO far into being a serious show. The comedy didn’t just take a back seat they stuffed it in the trunk
It forces you to take the rest of the show seriously and I just... can't. The worldbuilding, stories, characters, etc. just aren't good enough to be real drama. It works as a dramady or whatever but the audience needs to comedy to suspend disbelief I think.
It definitely makes the poorer writing more noticeable. It's also just such a jarring tonal shift that it barely feels like the same show anymore.
It's possible for the show to take itself seriously while still being funny, but they didn't even try. Which is a shame, because I thought they had struck a pretty good balance with the first 2 seasons.
Frick this show and frick NuTrek. I'm rewatching DS9 and just finished the episode where the Klingons gang raped the station for the lulz. Klingons, am I right guys?
> Failed Show General
Oh, these always make me sad.
>AT 10,000 SIGNATURES, THIS PETITION...
>...is more than likely to get a reaction from "the decision maker"
>(maybe)
>(probably not)
lol
lmao
Holy frick, is The Orville Serenity for zoomers?
It has an even smaller following than Stargate community. Let that sink in.
That's what makes it comparable to Firefly? Because the Stargate franchise had multiple series, making it incomparable to the other two?
It had a niche audience to begin with. It had a two year hiatus from TV due to COVID and was dumped on one of the less popular streaming services instead of the network that ordered it. They changed the way they did episodes and the creator of the series has told the fans to take to twitter if they want more.
Read between the lines. It's over.
My issue is the constant anthropomorphizing of EVERYTHING, both by the writers and the in-universe characters. Every single situation and concept is so heavily skewed by human terms that it feels moronic. Why do female Moclans even exist if they're capable of homosexual reproduction? What is their purpose? Are they even actually FEMALE or is that just the framing used based on Earthling sexual dimorphism? Everything is framed through this simplistic lens and it makes the Union seem consistently preachy and narrow-minded.
Didn't watch the finale this season was shit and I dropped it