US: The Orville

Looks good and with what Seth has said regarding Fox and S1, S2 should be more in line with what they originally wanted to do.
 
Characters I care about? Check.
Decent enough VFX? Check.
Halfway competent writing? Check.

Yep, still better than STD.

:p
 
JRS said:
Characters I care about? Check.
Decent enough VFX? Check.
Halfway competent writing? Check.

Yep, still better than STD.

:p
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I like that is like the original ST series where it's episodic rather than the story being stretched over an entire season.
 
Solid first episode, just continuing on with the characters and a simple catchup. Still has that nice St feel.
 
Two terrible episodes to begin Season 2. I don't think i need to see more. Viewing figures have hit their lowest so far. Don't see this being renewed again.
 
Dirk said:
Two terrible episodes to begin Season 2. I don't think i need to see more. Viewing figures have hit their lowest so far. Don't see this being renewed again.
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What's your source for the viewing figures Dirk?

Watched episode 2, mostly enjoyed it with a few caveats, It was the episode held over from last season, and it kinda shows - Ed and Kelly's friendship seems to be in a different place to the season opener, the Bortas-Klyden marriage issues explode right out of left field, Talla (the new officer introduced in the last episode) is nowhere to be seen. Hopefully this is the last time Fox goes ahead and prats around with the running order of the series, as a) they have form for doing that (*cough*Firefly*cough*) and b) it never ends well.

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I will say though - despite the marriage issues coming now (instead of, say, the last episode when they were back on the homeworld where the events that led to those issues took place) it's always nice to see continuity, and decisions having consequences. DS9 was usually pretty good at that, TNG also to a degree.
 
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JRS said:
What's your source for the viewing figures Dirk?

Watched episode 2, mostly enjoyed it with a few caveats, It was the episode held over from last season, and it kinda shows - Ed and Kelly's friendship seems to be in a different place to the season opener, the Bortas-Klyden marriage issues explode right out of left field, Talla (the new officer introduced in the last episode) is nowhere to be seen. Hopefully this is the last time Fox goes ahead and prats around with the running order of the series, as a) they have form for doing that (*cough*Firefly*cough*) and b) it never ends well.
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Ah that makes sense! Wondered what was going on.

I also now don't care about the Doctor and Bortas' personal lives - i want to see Star Trek like adventures, not weekly Coronation St episodes.
 
First two openers for season 2 have been pretty dire. Even stopped watching the second one halfway through.
What went wrong? Season 1 had pretty much sewn up the "Star Trek" itch.
Hopefully they pull it back...
 
ThePainBarrier said:
Yeah, read that earlier. Makes it even worse! It was obvious nothing carried over from episode 1. Should have left that one in the box...
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Yeah, but to be fair - the VFX in the episode were seriously good. And clearly the quality of the VFX is all that matters with SciFi on TV now, otherwise Discovery would never have gotten a second season.

:p

I kid, of course. Mostly because Disco should have been pulled after the pilot two-parter to fix it rather than go a full season ( :D ), but also because there was still genuinely a lot to like about this episode IMO. The characters are likeable enough that you root for them, plot points and actions from a previous episode had meaningful consequences, the actual SciFi bit of the story had some emotional and philosophical weight to it...things that Trek has latterly (Voyager onwards, pretty much) been missing.
 
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