Jesus. I hadn't thought about it. That's pretty grim for a sitcom. (And yes, I hate to break it to you folks but The Orville is fucking sitcom.)
I had no idea what New Frontier is, so I had to google it. I expect you're amongst the twelve people who have actually bothered to read that shite, so I doubt Mr. David has much claim for damages.
That wasn't bad. Thought it would be flat out sillyness but no. There's a plot too. However, one must question the wisdom in making fun of a franchise that went out in a whimper more than a decade ago. This must stand on its own if it wants to survive.
The issue isn't how "clean" the sets are, it's that they look like if somebody leans up against them the set will collapse.
The sets seemed fine to me, better than some of the Trek series. The bridge did feel a little...sparse (i.e. a lot more open space than would likely be needed), but it's a TV show so it didn't bug me much.
It's interesting that The Orville won't air next Sunday when CBS shows the first episode of Discovery. FOX is running a special about who killed Biggie and Tupac. Including tonight The Orville schedule for the next two weeks is 17 September, 21 September, 28 September, and 5 October.
I mean every Star Trek fan will be watching the Discovery premiere if they don't have to work like I do. Those same people would probably watch The Orville, so if they air at the same time, The Orville audience is going to be significantly smaller. Why air a show you know is going to get low viewership that week when you can just wait a week and people will then watch Discovery on their own time?
How the fuck can I watch the Orville when God damn football is on? This is Futurama all over again for those on the East Coast. Next thing you know the idiots at Fox will cancel the show because not enough people were watching when in reality the NFL keeps getting in the way!
Indeed, Discovery would have to be a combination TOS/TNG/DS9 on steroids for me to consider paying for it.
I have been told that the best place to look for bootlegs of such videos are sites like PornHub. It seems that while the studios have oodles of copyright bots to unleash on places like YouTube, they don't bother with the porn sites, so that's where they end up these days.
Well, you can't do it for Discovery, as it hasn't aired, but from reliable sources (ie podcasters who specialize in how things work on the internet), this works for lots of things. It might not be PornHub, but it was certainly porn sites. I haven't tried it myself, so I can't speak from experience.
I wonder how long after Discovery episodes air that you'll start seeing excerpts showing up on youtube?
Possible spoilers below: I thought the second episode was okay. Even less humor than the series premier which tends to confirm what I originally thought. McFarlane is more interested in doing a straight up homage to classic science fiction series than a parody of one. The whole "aliens keeping humans and other races in a zoo" is a very old science fiction idea that has been around for as long as I've been reading science fiction. I've seen it done better but I've also seen it done worse. Bortas sitting on the egg was appropriately ridiculous in concept and execution but then again, almost any alien reproduction method is going to come off on screen as either ridiculous or creepy. The way the episode was resolved was ridiculous in the extreme but by that point I really didn't care that much anyway.
Since the series is up and running now, I edited the thread title to let people know that there will likely be spoilers here.
I had a horrible flashback when I tuned in Sunday night. The football game was still going. I was sure Space: Above and Beyond - er, Firefly - I mean, Orville, was going to start after a long annoying wait. So I screamed fuck you at Fox, and we watched something on DVD instead. We'll catch Orville on demand tonight.
The ep was pretty good. But Fox . . . man, these people just don't know what they're doing. First the football game runs long. Okay, fine. But then they cut away from the game before it was over with some BS about "NFL rules." Then what seemed like a dozen commercials before The Orville started. Given Fox's history of "here's a show that's really expensive to produce, high concept, and is going to be slow to build an audience. Let's jerk it around the schedule and then cancel it for low ratings" I really doubt The Orville is going to get past 13 episodes. My DVR is set to record the show and last night I wound up with maybe 15 minutes of it out of the hour run time.