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...
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...
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