It is good music I give it that, the dialog ruins it
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First reviews for Seth McFarlane's scifi drama The Orville
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It is good music I give it that, the dialog ruins it
It's on Fox
and It's like Galaxy Quest that none of the jokes land and takes itself too seriously
Big Baybee
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The only I really hate is the jokes/dialog. I can see potential here with better writing.
firebricks3
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This is not a TV version fo Galaxy Quest, unfortunately..
That is the worst part. The sets, costumes, and cgi are not even that bad.
Fancyarcher
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Well Broughton works a lot on TV these days, despite having not scored a major film since his terrific work on Lost In Space, so that's a bit different. MacFarlane was also responsible for getting Walter Murphy out of retirement as well, and he's worked on almost all of his shows. Interestingly he's not doing the music for The Orville, though I suppose Seth figures he can't do sci-fi epic sounding music, since a lot of his work on Family Guy / Ted was very "cheerful / 90's heartwarming comedy-lite".
firebricks3
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The jokes aren't great, and there's no reason to stop all the action for them. It's like every joke in this show was part of post production punchup.
Pilgrimzero
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I find it funny enough. It is a pilot so....
Lamarr's actor can't act though.
Lamarr's actor can't act though.
Well shit! I just tuned into FOX and the affiliate station is overriding the show with Hurricane Irma information. Oh well.
Which one's Lamarr, again? The soda guy?
I like all the characters so far except for the MacFarlane + ex-wife dichotomy.
Big Baybee
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Yea, the writing being so awful really sucks. There is effort put in everything else.
Pilgrimzero
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Yes. It's like he's reading the lines out load.
First funny joke of the series right there.
Gentleman Jack
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This shit is like the rejected first draft of Galaxy Quest where they take the adventure seriously and try to keep all the awkwardness in it but with zero self awareness.
eh, I'll probably continue watching it. It wasn't completely unwatchable and it at least has a comfy feel with the music and set design
Weird show. I'm not quite sure what to make of it. It's clearly a Star Trek parody but it's also trying to be rather serious. The jokes are falling flat for me so I guess I'm glad it's trying to be serious. I'll check out a few more episodes to see how I feel about it.
To Far Away Times
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I've released farts more funny than Seth MacFarlane's entrie body of work.
Roronoa Zoro
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Who was he in Logan lucky?
Thinking fart humor is funny and not liking Seth McFarlane is completely contradictory
He is? Wouldn't have guessed it. I'd co-sign that. Steve is the best singer on American Dad
I thought it was fun. Seems more comical then Seth MacFarlane claims. Budget is much higher then I expected.
I sort of get the hate this is getting and it will likely get canceled but I'm having fun. The humor is hit and miss but it's goofy fun.
Excited for Star Trek Discovery...
I sort of get the hate this is getting and it will likely get canceled but I'm having fun. The humor is hit and miss but it's goofy fun.
Excited for Star Trek Discovery...
Pilgrimzero
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Wrapping up the episode.
Why does the science station planet have 0 security? Any hostile alien race can just land and take thier stuff...
Why does the science station planet have 0 security? Any hostile alien race can just land and take thier stuff...
Fancyarcher
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See, I just want Jones to do The Orville.
I'm disappointed he didn't get involved with it either, but I'm fine with McNeely being involved anyway. I suppose maybe McFarlane didn't want to be that obvious since he already did the music for the first four seasons of the The Next Generation, or maybe I'm giving him too credit.
Fancyarcher
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Max Chillbain, the promoter with the British-sounding Stewie like voice.
I'm expecting him to be cast in more Soderbergh films in the future.
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
This is amazing
Goro Majima
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Wasn't as bad to me as the reviews had indicated.
I actually kinda liked it? I'll give it more of a chance in the next few weeks.
I actually kinda liked it? I'll give it more of a chance in the next few weeks.
The reviews talked about the first three episodes with I think the best of the three being the pilot. Will be interesting what people think of the next two.
Not even bothering myself because I can't stand Seth MacFarlane's humor anyway. I've never been a Family Guy fan outside of some key episodes that I can likely count on one hand. None of the Orville trailers did anything for me and if I want anything close to 90s Trek I'll go back and watch the real thing. I'm curious as to how the actual Galaxy Quest series Amazon is trying to do will turn out. Also looking forward to see how Discovery turns out (and I hope it's good) and and there still stuff on SyFy I haven't looked at yet. If he himself wasn't the lead actor and there was someone more interesting/better that might have been different.
Random Human
They were trying to grab your prize. They work for the mercenary. The masked man.
I went to see what the AV Club thought but then I remembered all too late about that new site design. Jeez
Luckily it's on the front page so you don't have to deal with how garbage Kinja search stuff is: http://www.avclub.com/the-orville-fails-to-make-a-strong-case-for-its-existen-1802923882
Wow that was garbage.
I am guessing McFarlane at some point realized, wow this is just not going to work. But at that point they had spent all the money on the set, costumes, etc. Maybe it wasn't until final editing. At some point though he must have realized this was not good right?
I am guessing McFarlane at some point realized, wow this is just not going to work. But at that point they had spent all the money on the set, costumes, etc. Maybe it wasn't until final editing. At some point though he must have realized this was not good right?
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