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Seth MacFarlane's The Orville

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Seth MacFarlane Teases New Life for ‘The Orville’: “Season 4 Is Written” (www.hollywoodreporter.com)

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cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/television/p/1838784/seth-macfarlane-teases-new-life-for-the-orville-season-4-is-written

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[–] Mandarbmax@lemmy.world 57 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The Orville is some of the best scifi of all time. The guy who made family guy also making this is shocking but I'm so glad for it. The man can't give an inspiring speech to save his life and a lot of the character moments are pretty flat but that is all the critique I can give. The rest of the show is such a perfect balance of making high concept scifi grounded and real, making it weighty without being bleak or too glib, making it real to life without being preachy. Outstanding show.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

it's less shocking once you see how huge of a trek nerd MacFarlane was as a kid!

[–] DetachablePianist@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

He actually had a couple cameo appearences in ST Enterprise. Not my fav ST incarnation, but I was happy to spot him.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 38 points 3 days ago (2 children)

For when you want new episodes of old-school Star Trek, this is the only source. More Rob Lowe episodes, please.

[–] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 days ago

Darulio

[–] Smokeless7048@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

More TNG than TOS

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

In fairness, TNG is probably "old school" by now, just not "oldest school". heh

[–] SarahValentine@lemmy.blahaj.zone 34 points 3 days ago (1 children)

FIVE. HUNDRED. SEASONS.

[–] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago

One of the best episodes!

[–] CH3DD4R_G0BL1N@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago

Ja’loja!

[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Best version of Star Trek since TNG.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

DS9?

[–] Glitch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 days ago

Can't wait!

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

This show proves you can still “shoot” a show properly. Not the scattershot “throw everything at the wall” technique of kids at film school seemingly running trek these days.

[–] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

More high budget sci Fi please

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

STA copied the whole "artificial lifeforms cut off from humans sending envoy to see if humans will be friend" idea. Orville did it better.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I enjoy the Orville but let's not get too uptight about where the sci-fi ideas come from. Especially since the Orville is literally Seth MacFarlane's powdered TNG substitute.

[–] Klanky@sopuli.xyz 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It’s microwave reheated TNG.

[–] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's "I Can't Believe It's Not TNG".

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

“All of the taste, none of the Berman!”

[–] paranoid@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What is STA here?

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Star Trek Academy

[–] paranoid@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Thank you

[–] Eeyore_Syndrome@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago

Archive Link

"The prolific producer confirmed that Hulu would be ready to move forward on the new season, but his own packed schedule has made it challenging to find time for him to shoot. “The 10 scripts are done,” MacFarlane continues. “I’m the problem. It’s [a matter of] when I can make that my year, with all the other stuff we have in the works. But we can hit the ground running when it happens.”.

[–] Loce@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

The Star Trek we wanted instead of Disco crap. Cant wait!

[–] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Minus the two funniest actors

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The only person who is absolutely out is Adrianne Palicki (Commander Grayson). She walked away because of how long season 3 took to produce (COVID). Everyone else is up in the air.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 8 points 3 days ago

Oh no, if Grayson is out then Mercer will have to have a story beyond "My ex-wife is my assistant manager... in space!"

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Bortus and Isaac?

[–] bonenode@piefed.social 4 points 3 days ago

Entering the glory hole.

[–] tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 2 points 3 days ago

lol.

[+] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com -8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I know I'm in the minority but I strongly dislike this show its messages and themes are just half arsed they are less progressive and less interested in truly trying to present moral dilemma's and messages then Trek was in the 90's.

[–] milkisklim@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

I think we are in the minority, mostly because this is an Orville community.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website -4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

If you were in the minority it wouldn't have been cancelled the first time lol

The thing with Orville is that there are are a lot of very online insecure men who all LARPed that it was amazing because they were upset with the Black Lady show.

It's not a bad show it's just hard to gauge the actual real world authentic audience reception.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If you were in the minority it wouldn't have been cancelled the first time lol

Are you referring to The Orville? It has never been canceled.

The huge gaps between seasons 2 and 3 was caused by COVID, and this one seems to be about how expensive the last season was.

And, yes, coming into a community about a specific thing to say that you don’t like specific thing does put you in the minority (and in less tolerate communities would get you dogpiled or banned).

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 5 points 3 days ago

Dont forget the whole "moving from network television to streaming" thing.

[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Look, I watched the hell out of Discovery despite the terrible dialogue writing, because I liked the characters and many of the sci-fi ideas. I liked the first 2 seasons of the Orville more, because it gave me the idealistic progressivism I sometimes crave and rarely get on tv or in films.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 2 days ago

aw that's great bud happy for you