Look I’m a simple man, I just want Alara to crack me open like a jar of pickles.
I really hope they get a final season to wrap up everything. It really grew into a complex story.
I miss Alara, really curious as to why they got rid of her. Great character!
The actress left as she was cast as the lead on a new show. It didn’t pan out.
She and Seth broke up.
I had no idea they were dating at one point! Yeah, I can see a breakup like that leading to her exit.
She was treated very poorly by Seth so she left.
I mean, this is like “Can we stop at Pizza Hut?” and mom breaks out the Lunchables pizzas on the ride home instead. Not better or worse, just smaller and there when you needed it.
Legitimately a better Star Trek show than any of the modern new Star Trek shows
Eh, I’d say on par. Lower Decks and Strange New Worlds are excellent.
I like Lower Decks, and it’s certainly Star Trek-y, but it feels more Star Trek-adjacent to me being so vastly tonally different.
Perhaps I need to give SNW another try, it didn’t vibe with me immediately but I didn’t outright dislike it in the way that I disliked Discovery and Picard
Toss in some Stargate and you got a stew goin.
Add some Babylon 5 and you’ve got a meal.
Finish it off with Farscape for dessert.
This would be the perfect night out for me, I’m sexing whoever does this.
Tbh I couldn’t stand it, felt to misogynistic as well as the episode about the trans child and they handled that horribly, felt to much like a start trek for incels.
Just my opinion. Don’t assault me…
They revisit the trans child episode in a later season, I think it’s really well done.
There are dozens of us. Dozens!
The Orville is boring at best and tone deaf at worst. I’m genuinely surprised at how well received it seems to be among Trekkies. I generally find that my Star Trek tastes are uncontroversial and in alignment with Trekkie groupthink but I am apparently way outside the norm on this one.
It’s the Galaxy Quest comparisons that really get me, though. A huge part of why Galaxy Quest is so great is how self-aware it is. The Orville has none of that. Just the opposite, in fact: it’s totally unaware of how bad a job it’s doing filling the shoes it’s attempting to fill.
I think a big part of the appeal is that it presents a bit less cynical than many new series.
It feels like you can say “I would like to see mankind make it to the Planetary Union” with the same optimism of “I’d like to see us reach the Federation”.
You can’t say that about a lot of universes.
Absolutely agree. By far, the best part of The Orville is the worldbuilding. The Planetary Union is believable. The depiction and usage of future tech scratches the Trek itch. I like that it is unapologetically depicting a humanist utopia and is committing to that bit even harder than TNG did.
It’s just too bad it uses that world for one-dimensional characters to play out muddled remixes of Berman-era Trek episodes.
I don’t think they handled the trans issue badly actually. For one… The season 1 episode is about putting your own ethics onto other civilizations. It’s not about trans kids at all and is more about if it’s okay to control another groups law system because you find it morally incorrect.
The episode in s3 that revisits it does a good job of talking about actually transitioning and the trans experience.
I’d you’re talking about the s1 episode then I think you missed the point. If you’re talking about the s3 episode then I’d love to hear your arguments.
It’s a rough topic. I thought it was well handled but I understand people feel strongly
I really didn’t like how they handled the trans episodes. Pretty much all of it was done badly but you can tell the writers think they did a great job.
For one the way it’s presented, the child in question had their sex changed at birth without their consent/awareness and they simply reversed that later on. It sets up a reading where one can interpret the show as saying the gender you are born as is the one you really should be. And this is how some people have interpreted the show.
I think the writers tried to take the “assigned x at birth” terminology and make it literal but the way its done just doesn’t actually work.
Also the in universe drama doesn’t make a lot of sense. They make a big deal of worrying about how big of a decision it would be for the kid to change their sex. But in the show the procedure to change sex is pretty much magic and would be perfectly reversible with the technology they have. It’s not a big decision actually, if they found they didn’t like it they could go back at any time no problem. It doesn’t make any sense.
And the way the transition is presented as pretty much just magic poof, next scene now you are girl, makes its completely unrelatable to real world trans experiences. The trans experience is completely removed from the depiction. It does nothing to actually show a cis audience what it’s like to transition.
Lastly, the characters not once actually say the word trans or transgender. This is suppose to be humanity in the future. The characters should know about trans issues but they write it as if they don’t, its bizarre.
If they really wanted to do it right they should have just had a real trans story. No dumb sci-fi set up where their sex was changed at birth. The kid should have just organically been shown to discover their gender identity over a few seasons. Shown a realistic transition where things take time, lots of experimentation with presentation and the like. Actually identified themselves as trans. It could have been great but what was shown was very much written by the cis for the cis.
I didn’t respond to people saying about it being good because I didn’t know how to express ot right. But this is exactly what I was thinking about. Thank you for this. This explains what I ment about it. As someone who is trans the whole trans thing just felt really fucked up and wrong and I didn’t know exactly why just hated it. Now I understand it better.
the episode about the trans child and they handled that horribly
Definitely no worse than a TNG season 1 episode.
Which perfectly illustrates the problem: The Orville is vaguely progressive by 1987 standards… in 2017.
I struggled with it as well. I think for the same reason that I out grew family guy.
I checked out when they took the whole ship computer and several engineers to unlock…an iPhone, then just scroll through this woman’s life. It was the Geordi’s girlfriend idea, just dumbed down.
Best Star Trek show since Star Trek: Enterprise
The best Star Trek series.
Started a little too goofy, but found a balance by season 2. Tackles tough topics just as well as any Trek. Just sad it’s probably done for good after switching platforms and the writer’s strike.
Yeah, but the Mr. Potato head gag was possibly one of the finest scifi jokes ever.
My favorite joke is the sandwich in s3. That joke had multiple episodes of set up and when the punchline finally hit it felt SOOO good. I lost my shit.
Followed closely by the godamn leg lmfao. “haha. I got you”
I’m convinced that Seth convinced execs by pitching it as “family guy in space” even though that isn’t what he actually wanted to do. He then had to do just enough of that until the execs stopped paying attention, then just started making the show he actually wanted. By the time they realized the switcheroo it was too late.
Had the same train of thought once it was apparent he was tackling the sort of “touchy” subjects that Fox Entertainment wouldn’t generally approve of. Good on him for trying.
By Grabthar’s Hammer you’re right!
I love the “which actress is Seth currently Weinsteining” show
I liked it, but it was pure go-bots.
Never seen it because Seth’s face is so punchable.
Which Family Guy voice does he do in this show?
Which Family Guy voice does he do in this show?
Brian.
Never seen it because Seth’s face is so punchable.
What’d Seth do?
Nothing in particular. I just don’t like his face.
Kinda same, but the show is indeed mostly excellent, def done by a ST fan trying to further the genre (like fixing or making fun of smol stuff or inaccuracies from ST).
Still, the actual reason I watched from if the beginning despite Seth front & center is Palicki, it evens things out for me.
someone please tell me what this is
The Orville. Brilliant show by Seth MacFarlane.
thank you
The Orville
