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Close your eyes and imagine Family Guy's Brian the dog talking, and the two shows are interchangeable. Some of the same sorts of gags and joke set ups.

Seriously, it reminded me of Galaxy Quest, if it were set in its own world.

Also, in 400+ years, we've not only traversed the galaxy, but have met new life forms and intelligent species, peacefully integrated with them, not all of them humanoid, to such a level as to have them serve on our ships.

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Seriously, the tired old Star Trek format is the best he can come up with ? And 2 captain's chairs ? Really? One indistinguishable from the other...

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And the fact out of 3,000 ships, his cheating ex-wife is the ONLY person they could come up with as a suitable 1st officer ? The woman who JUSTIFIES her infidelity, and still doesn't back down from the - " Well, if you didn't ignore me so much, I'd not have to whore around ... " as a valid excuse... complete train wreck of a situation.

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Punt.

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Seriously, the tired old Star Trek format is the best he can come up with ? And 2 captain's chairs ? Really? One indistinguishable from the other...

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And the fact out of 3,000 ships, his cheating ex-wife is the ONLY person they could come up with as a suitable 1st officer ? The woman who JUSTIFIES her infidelity, and still doesn't back down from the - " Well, if you didn't ignore me so much, I'd not have to whore around ... " as a valid excuse... complete train wreck of a situation.

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Punt.

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It drew over 7 million viewers and again will follow football games next Sunday, also the reviewers on YOUTUBE have been giving it high marks...and they hate everything. I think this will find a following, if it hasn't already

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Maybe they coulda made the boat a little more palatial - there may have been one or 2 rooms where the entire crew might not have fit in.

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I'm sorry, but I refuse to " like " any FOX t.v. show set 500 years in the future of a rag-tag crew on a space ship and their struggle to face new adventures in the universe while trying to balance their interpersonal feelings with each other.

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Just too soon.

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I'm sorry, but I refuse to " like " any FOX t.v. show set 500 years in the future of a rag-tag crew on a space ship and their struggle to face new adventures in the universe while trying to balance their interpersonal feelings with each other.

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Just too soon.

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Orville is only 400 years in the future.
Not in the same ballpark, league, or dimension as Firefly.

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I'm sorry, but I refuse to " like " any FOX t.v. show set 500 years in the future of a rag-tag crew on a space ship and their struggle to face new adventures in the universe while trying to balance their interpersonal feelings with each other.

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Just too soon.

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Orville is only 400 years in the future.
Not in the same ballpark, league, or dimension as Firefly.

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I'm sorry, but I refuse to " like " any FOX t.v. show set 500 years in the future of a rag-tag crew on a space ship and their struggle to face new adventures in the universe while trying to balance their interpersonal feelings with each other.

Again.

Just too soon.

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1 It's FOX

2 It's about a space ship , set hundreds of years in the future.

3 It's FOX...

The ex-wife is kinda hot and the 2 pilots are kinda funny. So far, they're the best thing on the show.

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Skipper's bud is the Helmsman, soda dude is Navigator.

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I wonder what the talking blob does on board?

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Skipper's bud is the Helmsman, soda dude is Navigator.

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I wonder what the talking blob does on board?

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I'm not very enthusiastic about the show.

- Not sure what this show is trying to be.

- Characters and dialogue seem wooden and stiff.

- If it's supposed to be funny, it's not.

So right now I'd have to say the show is stupid and boring.

BUT .... its only been one episode. I saw a few things that maybe perhaps give signs it may have potential. Have to see a few more shows before its fate is decided in my household.

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The " humor " is too wooden, set up and obvious. As I said, it's like listening to an episode of Family Guy.

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Also, we're suppose to believe that a captain gets assigned to a ship, that he's never even read up on what it looks like or knows the specs or capabilities of the ship before he lays eyes on it for the first time ?

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Also, we're suppose to believe that a captain gets assigned to a ship, that he's never even read up on what it looks like or knows the specs or capabilities of the ship before he lays eyes on it for the first time ?

I'd have thought there'd be some sort of ' Welcome to the Orville ' reading material they'd have given him... Oh well.

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Also, we're suppose to believe that a captain gets assigned to a ship, that he's never even read up on what it looks like or knows the specs or capabilities of the ship before he lays eyes on it for the first time ?

I'd have thought there'd be some sort of ' Welcome to the Orville ' reading material they'd have given him... Oh well.

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I find that easier to believe than "hey, let's make the guy that we were about to expel from the Academy the Captain of our fleet's Flagship! All these other folks with earned rank and experience after years of service that are lined up for a command? Meh, screw 'em. This dude survived a mission! We can waive all the training requirements."

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I'm not much of a MacFarlane fan, but I do like Favreau's stuff.

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So is this any good? I never even heard about this show until yesterday.

Saw a review about the unfortunately titled STD that kind of slammed it because it's all LASERS AND EXPLOSIONS and WAR, when Trek used to be about hope for the future and unity and the evolution of mankind.

They had mentioned that they're probably just going to watch Orville instead. From what I'm seeing here, Orville is no DS9.

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This thread is 5 months old, not 2 days.
Do you ignore us outside RWED?

I thought Galaxy Quest was the better comparison, but Orville doesn't come close.

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Comparing it to Galaxy Quest isn't quite fair, since that's more of a parody.
The Orville is pretty much a humorous Star Trek without the title.

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This thread is 5 months old, not 2 days.
Do you ignore us outside RWED?

I thought Galaxy Quest was the better comparison, but Orville doesn't come close.

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LOL... I guess I'm branching out. I never posted in the Sci-Fi forum until a few days ago. Never posted in the Cinema forum until a few months ago.

Pretty much just came here for the RWED all these years.


Shame that Orville doesn't come close to Galaxy Quest. I was kind of hoping it would.

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