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New series, The Orville coming this fall from FOX starring/created by Seth McFarlane
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water_wendi
Water is not wet!
Looks awful.
jufonuk
not tag worthy
That would never fly.So.....not this Orville then?
OrangeGrayBlue
Member
The way the trailer was cut didn't do them any favors. There's a lot of awkward dead space that messed up the comedic timing and gave it a kind of amateur quality.
Baleoce
Member
A Star Trek imitation being genuinely better than the thing it's imitating wouldn't be unprecedented...
...since Galaxy Quest is legit better than a bunch of the Star Trek movies.
Random but, why do a lot of promo posters and dvd covers put the wrong names under the relative position of each actor?
Because they hate me, you and anyone else that notices such things.
Jag
Member
Think she was supposed to get a spin-off show with her ex-husband agent from Shield, but it never got picked up. I actually wasn't a huge fan of her character.
Kadin
Member
Scream Queens bombed hard? I thought it had a decent following. I liked the show a lot.
edit: nvm, just saw it won't return.
I'm not feeling this. McFarlane is very hit and miss for me in general, but I'm not sure how effective and successful a TV series will be unless it forges an identity beyond parodying a single franchise.
It doesn't help that the production design seems like a cheap, overlit direct ripoff from Star Trek, with the only deviation being they ripped of Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda for the shape of the ship, rather than Trek.
It doesn't help that the production design seems like a cheap, overlit direct ripoff from Star Trek, with the only deviation being they ripped of Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda for the shape of the ship, rather than Trek.
George Oscar Bluth II
Banned
This looks unfunny.
But yeah, I'd like her back too.
I remember foolishly hoping her character being in the show meant there might be a Hawkeye appearance.
But yeah, I'd like her back too.
RPGCrazied
Member
Seems funny. I'll give it a shot. Seems like Galaxy Quest the series, or maybe even Roger Wilco(space quest video game series).
ScientificPizza
Banned
this looks BAD
it sucks that this is a big fox show when other space was doomed from the start
it sucks that this is a big fox show when other space was doomed from the start
Beerman462
Member
Should have given Seth the reigns to Star Trek. I will watch this.
radios shipping overview
Member
I'm LTTP on this. Where this this come from? It looks a lot like Galaxy Quest, and from the trailer, it's... not terrible, either. It's got episode director credits for Frakes, Braga, and Robert Duncan McNeill, so there's something interesting going on here. I like how cheap and cheesy everything looks.
I'm also kind of desperate for new Trek, and a Macfarlane show seems like a safer bet than whatever CBS is doing right now. I'll watch this.
I'm also kind of desperate for new Trek, and a Macfarlane show seems like a safer bet than whatever CBS is doing right now. I'll watch this.
ThatStupidLion
Member
I'd be fine with it if seth wasn't acting in it.
Looks like the Star Trek parody is beating Trek's return to TV by a couple of weeks. The series premiere is scheduled for September 10th.
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
Im kind of looking forward to this. I dont even care if its basically a live action take on what an animated Star Trek McFarlane show would have been. I want them to go all Red Dwarf and just make episodes with absurd plots that have no basis in science.
Norwegian Rudo
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Difficult to tell what the show will be from a trailer, but in this one there's a weird tonal disconnect where they're trying to both be a Trek type show, and at the same time be a parody of that type of show.
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