Seth MacFarlane's "The Orville"

[Klosterheim]

I thought that I detected a hint of TOS style suspense music.

[knight errant00]

Did anyone else think the music used as they approached the bio-ship was very similar to Star Trek TMP V'ger music?

Yes. I noticed it, too.

But I'll still say, though this week was their strongest episode they really need to decide what the show is -- it's not funny enough to be a comedy, and it's too goofy to be real SF adventure. I don't think it can find a substantial enough audience in its current state.

[bleit1701]

Did anyone else think the music used as they approached the bio-ship was very similar to Star Trek TMP V'ger music?

[Hector]

Yeah, it was indeed a big cameo, big star ( I'll post his name below under a spoiler warning).

Next week, Charlize Theron, wow.

Episode 4 was the best one yet...I loved it. The Orville is getting better and better.

I've only seen one Star Trek Discovery, as I've have not yet subscribed to CBS All Access...but just judging that lone premier episode vs The Orville episode 4, no contest...The Orville is better. It really is a true cousin to Star Trek The Next Generation, but with some humor here and there...




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Liam Nesson.

[Mikey]

Wow, what a big cameo on episode 4

[Hector]

No, it was not Alfonso Arau. Funny scene though...

[Mikey]

Hey Hec, do you know if the Mexican Bandit in the Holodeck was El Guapo ?

It really looked and sounded like him but I see no credit for that character on the internet ... It also say's El Guapo is 85 years old so maybe it wasn't him --- but i'd bet my left nut it was.

[Hector]

I agree with you guys, tone down the Family Guy humor...still have humor, but make it more subtle and natural.

[Hector]

I didn't like the first episode, but 2 and 3 has me more on board.

I'm slowly getting used to the drama/comedy combination.

[PNGwynne]

It definitely has potential. If they dial back the over the top "Family Guy" style humor and settle into more of a "Firefly" kind of funny, I think they could really have something. I like the idea of a Star Trek show where the characters are flawed, without needing a "dark and gritty" tone.

My thoughts exactly. For me, the show's weakest aspect is McFarlane himself falling back on Family Guy-style vulgarity as a means of humor.

[palitoy]

Super digging it, the latest episode was unexpectedly well done.

[sprytel]

It definitely has potential. If they dial back the over the top "Family Guy" style humor and settle into more of a "Firefly" kind of funny, I think they could really have something. I like the idea of a Star Trek show where the characters are flawed, without needing a "dark and gritty" tone.

[pmwasson]

I agree. The show is growing on me.

[emeraldknight47]

Third episode was definitely the best so far. The humor felt more organic and spontaneous and less shoehorned in. It was, at least in this episode, sprinkled in sparingly and felt more like extensions of how people might actually be, even in the future that The Orville is set in.

Gene Roddenberry's TREK universe presented us with a vision of humanity that had pretty much shed ALL of it's bad habits and vices; the human species presented in The Orville is thisclose to being that squeaky clean, but still retains remnants of the human species as we know it today; people who still swear, still make lude and lascivious comments and people who still enjoy a beer from time to time.

If it sounds like I'm doing a 180 on my opinion of The Orville, it's because Thursday night's episode gave me a show that was similar to the first two episodes, but also made drastic leaps forward in quality, character development, writing and directing. If The Orville can maintain the standards set by its third episode, it has the potential to become a welcome addition to my weekly recording ritual,

Now we just have to see what Sunday brings with STAR TREK: DISCOVERY...

[Mikey]

Liked the third episode best of the first three so far.

BTW, loved the El Guapo cameo