Turned it off about 1/3 of the way through the second ep, gonna go back to it tommorow maybe and see if it improves. Part of the problem may be that I watched it after watching the last ship, so may not be mentally prepped for warp stupid. Plus the Big Oh, looks like a baby pacifier to me.
I watched it this morning on Spectrum On Demand.
After the second show, it reminds me of ST:TNG, which also was pretty mediocre through most of the first season. The second episode of The Orville was derivative, of course, but the second episode of ST:TNG was “The Naked Now,” which was just a remake of “The Naked Time” from TOS.
***TOS ***had no “fully functional” android. 
I’m on board with any opinion declaring football to be unimportant, but I’m not on #TeamOrville just yet. First episode was better than I thought it would be, haven’t had a chance to see the second yet.
I think the second episode was much, much stronger than the first.
Yeah, they’re still running the cliche train, but on the other hand it’s been years since Star Trek was in its prime. It’s kind of nice.
Did anyone else notice on the opening credits one of the people listed had 18 letters in his or her last name? I think it was Thai. Stretched right across the screen.
It was implied the androids in the I,Mudd episode were pretty close, to the extent 1960s television would allow.
Anyway, I already like Orville more than I liked the first season of ST: TNG so I’m in for a while, at least.
Actually it had several. surly you have not forgotten Andrea?
The lady/gent doth protest too much, methinks.
Cherry Chevapravatdumrong. She’s worked on Family Guy forever.
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Pretty mediocre? Most? It was bloody awful. I learned to love it anyway.
I enjoyed the second episode a lot! Shades of TNG in all the right ways.
I don’t understand people being surprised that sports gets priority over taped shows. It’s been that way for decades. Or, better yet, news shows. I was working at my local CBS station in high school and manning the phones between news shows when Dallas was interrupted for the Tiananmen Square incident. The lines lit up like a Christmas tree. I think they gave it five minutes before complaining that they were saying the same thing, over and over.
Further, not sure that shows got repeats back then? Even if they did, those did have some continuity, so people wouldn’t want to watch the next one and be spoiled as to what come up.
I guess as a geek, I’m used to my shows being late or preempted and having to buy a single episode from Amazon if we missed it. Fortunately, my TiVo lets me record hours later and I have the room to do so!
Thanks for the conversation!
Our Comcast box recorded the sporting event from Orville’s start time, and all of Orville afterwards.
Before it finally died, my series I Tivo allowed me to pad the end of recordings with up to two hours of extra time. If there was something I wanted to record on Sunday nights during football season, I padded the end of it with an hour or two to be certain I got it all. That Tivo also had the option of VCR-like functionality, where I could tell it to record channel X for Y minutes without regard to the program. That would have worked as well.
I no longer have a working DVR, On Demand has largely removed the need for it, but I’d be surprised if modern DVRs don’t have the same functionality as the very first TIVOs.
I was referring specifically to the episode “The Naked Time.” As in, “Spock did not bang Chapel like Data banged Yar.”
I have forgotten neither the multiple twins in “I, Mudd” nor Andrea in “What Are Little Girls Made Of?”
Twins, mmmmmmmmmmmmm! Sherry Jackson, OMG!!! :o
I caught a lot of references to The Cage (original Star Trek Pilot) and the 2 part episode that they used the footage in.
The sub plot of the little young lady becoming the temporary captain was actually very entertaining as well as her conflicts with the crew that was actually well done.
When she goes to sit in the Captain’s chair and it dwarfs her, that was quite the visual gag and representation of her dilemma.
Pretty meta in that, I would watch the eps and despite their awfulness, I would like them anyway cause i was starved for Trek.*
It’s meta in that i can’t be sure if I’m liking Orville for the same reasons.
*They’re so unlike the later seasons they are enjoyable now just for being so odd (Guys in skirts??)
Watched that first Traveller ep today. Really, it would have been fine without Wesley being Mozart of the Warp Drive. They could have kept the same concept and just toned it wayyyyyyy down for Wesley. ex: “For a couple of seconds I understood what he was doing.”
They returned to Earth at the end of the last episode; Kelly had an entire conversation with the Admiral were it was revealed she used her family connections to get Ed his command.
So if Bortus’s species is all male how would he even be able to recognize his offspring as female? :dubious:
Well they have replicators & holodecks; 2 out of 3 ain’t bad. Transporters cause more plot holes than they plug anyway.
I think the clue is that they refer to themselves as ‘males.’ A monogendered species might not do that - males imply the existence of females. I imagine we’ll learn that their absence is a relatively recent development.