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    The Orville.

    I’m sorry! I’m a trekkie so I really wanted to love it. I can’t stand Seth McFarlane, though, and apparently it isn’t just his animated shows like Family Guy or American Dad that I hate.

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      Just to make sure, you didn’t only watch season 1 episodes, right? The show gets a lot better and leans less on the Family Guy humor as it goes along.

      EDIT: I saw you said you watched up until s1e7 in another comment. That episode in particular annoyed me for being a worse version of the Black Mirror s3e1 episode Nosedive. It’s worth trying some later season episodes if you ever get the chance to see if you like them any better. And check out Nosedive as well!

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      It started out being a Seth McFarlane show but quickly became a pretty legit sci Fi show. McFarlane has always been a Trekkie, he was even in Enterprise, so he actually tries to do right by it once he gets most of the Family Guy type humour out of his system

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        I’m convinced that the only way he got it greenlit was by selling it as “family guy in space” even though that’s not what he wanted to do. So he hammed that up for the first couple of episodes to make the suits happy before phasing it out and making the show he actually wanted.

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          That…makes a lot of sense lol. That’s exactly how it plays out, yeah. I think it’s a wonderful addition to Trekkie-type show catalogues, personally.

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          Yeah, or that it wasn’t even sneaky, they just all agreed a couple of those episodes up front would broaden the appeal, and felt confident people would stick around once they got attached to the characters and into the sci-fi

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      Would it help if I told you that his particular brand of humour stops being the focal point after a bit? Iirc it doesn’t last into the second season and is then replaced by actually thoughtful storytelling with light humour sprinkled on top.

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        Maybe. I think I stopped watching after the social credit episode in the first season. Maybe I’ll check it out again if I ever have another reason to get Hulu.

        Thanks ^^

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          The first season, like all trek, is desperately trying to find its footing. That episode and 1-2 others could probably just straight up be skipped like how when I was looking for the best way to watch TNG for the first time the top ways I saw were “watch the first and last episode of season 1 and skip the rest”.

          Once the show gets its footing it gets really good really quickly.

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          I’ll be honest: I haven’t made it past (or even to the end of) that episode either. I’ve tried a couple of times, but end up stopping after a few minutes just from the sheer cringe.

          And I really like the rest of the show, to the point where I don’t want to skip any episodes, but that one I really ought to skip.

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          Its biggest influence is Next Generation, but Strange New Worlds is the closest modern Trek in that style if you don’t like old 90s shows.

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              Lower Decks is awesome, although you’ll get more out of it if you’ve seen the 90s Trek shows as they’re referenced often. Not required, though. There actually is going to be a 4th season of Orville, but it’s about a year away currently.

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      if it wasnt in the show it wouldve been fine, but him being part of the cast makes the series questionable, hes not that good as actor, hes better at writing. ALso problems around him being involved with the writing has caused the series to barely make seasons in general, this has caused financial problems for some of the actors, and production too. having 36 episodes in 6 years is pretty bad. this was all from pallacki interview on michaels podcast.