The 3rd episode with Rudolph Ethics made me laugh so hard that I nearly fell out of my chair.
If last week was TNG, then this week was TOS. A civilization that's on a bioship and doesn't know it seems just right. I do think exposing the stars to them all of a sudden should have backfired, but on the other hand, that cameo...
You know what's going to suck? Once this show gets pre-empted for the baseball playoffs.
Maybe its the guilty pleasure aspect.... of having been deprived of new Star Trek for so long. Yes it's by the numbers, but !@#$ if I don't want to recite arithmetic sometimes! The whole comedy / action / drama mixture is going to be hell to manage and strike a right balance. That may be the show's greatest downfall.
A big fat meh is right...and giving drugs meant for one species and it works the same on every species? Then the doc injects her with the antidote without even testing it?Forth episode was meh. You pretty much knew where they were going with it as soon as they showed the massive ship and if you had any doubt, that was gone as soon as they walked through the door. So the only thing left was how they played the story out and that was about as cliche as it could have been.
It wasn't a bad episode, there just wasn't a lot to recommend it. Not much in the way of humor. Predictable plot, predictable characters. It was strictly a paint-by-numbers episode.
It'll vary between the two. Even Trek had its funny episodes. But yes, the Orville has its dramatic side. Shocking, ain't it?so now the episodes are serious and somewhat thought provoking with some juvenile humor here and there.
I suspect that was more of a favor done for MacFarlane, seeing as he seems to know just about everyone.and holy Taken batman.
what kind of budget does the show have?
I expected this show to be like Galaxy Quest... a comedy/parody with no serious episodes.It'll vary between the two. Even Trek had its funny episodes. But yes, the Orville has its dramatic side. Shocking, ain't it?
Be interesting to see if at some point they introduce a new red uniform guy only to have him get killed within 30 seconds of landing on an alien planet.
Well in EP.4 the red shirt (Alara) got shot within 10 minutes of arriving on the bio ship. Though she survived
about that.. going off into an unknown ship w/o killable red shirts?Well in EP.4 the red shirt (Alara) got shot within 10 minutes of arriving on the bio ship. Though she survived
ahh.. running joke.. kinda like Kenny in south park.They could have that happen once or twice more, her then demanding a different colour uniform and it never happening again. And then indeed introducing someone else with a red uniform that keeps getting shot.
A big fat meh is right...and giving drugs meant for one species and it works the same on every species? Then the doc injects her with the antidote without even testing it?
At least there was no Prime Directive with the "sun roof".
It's scifi . . . well, sorta. It's like pizza. Even bad pizza is still pizza and when you live out in the boonies where they think crackers with ketchup and cheesewiz is pizza, just about anything that resembles real pizza is like manna from heaven.I want what you guys are smoking when you watch this show, to me it's a total dud. Sorry.
I want what you guys are smoking when you watch this show, to me it's a total dud. Sorry.
That was probably the weakest episode since the premiere just on the basis that it was trying too hard at some points and not hard enough at others. But I still enjoyed it, both because I didn't see the time travel hook coming, and because I can appreciate when the solution to a problem is an "antique" power drill.OK, they just showed the greatest practical joke in history on tonight's episode...