ALL SCI-FI

[mach7]

It was not great, and not too bad.

It held my attention for the hour, but it has a lot of room for improvement.

What does it want to be?

A TNG parody? Good luck TNG is more dated than TOS and they might get 5 or 10 good episodes.

Galaxy Quest on TV? It will probably have a decent run. There is much more material to exploit.

A stand alone Science fiction comedy? Good bye, this will fail fast.

The jokes need to be funnier, and the drama needs
improvement.

This is only one episode, I'll keep watching for at least a few weeks.

I will say that it was better than many 1st shows of a new series.

[Custer]

Episode one seemed pretty good to me, though most of its high points had already appeared in trailers. Some nice special effects, even if they did linger a little longer than necessary... and the twist in the tale at the end worked well. If you are introducing the whole set-up and all the characters, that does cramp the actual action-story part, but hopefully next week will improve on that.

But the music - that was so much The Motion Picture, or The Next Generation, of, um, an existing franchise! It certainly left me humming the familiar Jerry Goldsmith theme afterwards...

[Bud Brewster]

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I was wrong.

After watching the episode again, I discovered that the scientist carefully explained that the redwood seed was genetically engineered to grow to maturity without food or water, in any environment.

Shame on me for not catching this important fact the first time!

So, my respect for this series has increased!
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Pow]

Watched the pilot & was impressed with all of the production values for this show.

Set designs, visual effects, make-up were all splendid with lots of $$$ behind it all.

Attractive cast, even a few lol moments. However, I doubt this will be a must-see-tv series for me. Might drop in once & awhile to see what's up with it.

Besides it will be airing opposite Ken Burns PBS mini-series The Vietnam War. I refuse to miss it.

The Orville star ship is a beaut though.

[Bud Brewster]

[Custer]

You hear of some under-the-tv boxes that can be set up to record ten shows simultaneously, which seems a bit extreme... I think my box can do three. The "series link" option is handy, as it means all episodes of any series I follow can be grabbed automatically. I watch hardly any tv, other than news, live... which has the advantage of letting one fast-forward through the advertising, if the channel involved does present about 15 minutes per hour of ads!

The Orville is certainly something I intend to keep watching.

[Bud Brewster]

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Well, folks, it's official. The Orville sucks . . .

Last night's episode was lame, dull, sanctimonious, preachy as hell, and so politically correct that I groaned aloud about once every three minutes.

If you saw it, you know what I mean . . . and if you haven't seen it yet, be prepared for a major disappointment.

If this is the kind of story MacFarlan gives us by episode three, I predict the series will be cancelled by episode thirteen.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Custer]

Well, episode two seemed reasonable to me - I've not had a chance to see yesterday's third episode yet. I wasn't sure where they intended to go with Lt. Commander Bortus and his newly hatched female offspring, and the "alien zoo" concept is hardly new to science fiction...but it gave us some backstory for our Captain and his ex, and giving Lt. Alara Kitan a major role was a nice idea.

I await a chance to see "About a Girl" with trepidation. Gender reassignment is a tricky area, for sure! Those wacky aliens... how can egg-layers be 'male' anyway?

[mach7]

Episode 3 . Overall it was not to bad. Very preachy, VERY TNGish, and well done.

The issue is I thought the story was kind of a Kobiashi Maru. It was a no win story.

Maybe the ending could have benefited by being a Schrodinger's cat.

One thing I will say is I find it incredibly arrogant to anthropomorphize alien societies, and human dealings with them.

Should we expect an alien society to share our morals, norms, and ethics?

WE don't really agree as a species on these things, how could we think that an alien culture would share our values. Are our values really relevant to an alien species? Who are we to say. Would we like our values to be judged by the Klingons? The Krell? Kzinti? Puppeteers? Vulcans? Vogons? or even HAL for that matter.

[Gord Green]

Mach7 wrote:

[Bud Brewster]

[mach7]

No apologies needed.

Over all it was an ok episode.

I have seen 3 so far. None have been "City on the Edge of Forever". None have been "The Alternative Factor"

So far we have seen middle of the road episodes quality
episodes, but they have held my attention.

I'll continue watching as of now.

[bulldogtrekker]

The 4th episode of The Orville -If the Stars Should Appear-?? was the best episode yet. (In my opinion)

IMDB summary-The crew encounters a vessel adrift in space that's about to collide with a star.

If you have already abandoned the series because of the terrible third episode, I urge you to watch the 4th episode.

There was a surprise cameo near the end of the episode.

[Gord Green]

I agree with you BDT. This episode touched upon the "Generation Ship" reminiscent of the Robert Heinlien story UNIVERSE, a classic sci-fi story, but with ST:TOS overtones.

More real action and plot, not "preachy" but with a moral aspect and just great effects thrown in!

The surprise cameo was great as well.
Next week's guest star is Chelieze Theron, so it looks like some "A" level stars are interested in getting involved as well.

Best episode yet!!!

[orzel-w]