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Holy poo poo. He really is making the next Star Trek series.
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The_Doctor posted:Seth MacFarlane Explains Why His New Show Isn't Just a Comedy His heart is so completely in the right place about everything that it's gonna be devastating when the show sucks.
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Aug 18, 2017 22:48
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He definitely gets what made the Star Trek I grew up with so good. It remains to be seen whether he can translate that into a good TV show but there's a zero percent chance it'll be worse than Discovery
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Aug 18, 2017 22:51
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quote:The Orville isn’t serialized, so it’s free to hop around from lighter stories to heavier ones from one week to next, MacFarlane says: “Each week, you’re seeing a little movie, and each story is different. And tonally, there will be some variance. But the characters are always the characters.” He cites Star Trek: The Next Generation as a touchstone, which had “a big two-part episode about the Borg that was followed up the next week with a story about Picard going home to France to visit his brother at the winery… And I remember thinking, ‘God, this is how TV should be. You should be able to write any kind of story each week, and really surprise your audience.'” 
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Aug 18, 2017 22:54
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^I thiiink he's referring to how the episode was completely different from the previous two. Crazy poo poo in space followed by an introspective episode set on Earth. The follow up in another show would've been post-battle thing or politics or whatever but TNG went a completely different route (which owned, ofc).Jeb! Repetition posted:His heart is so completely in the right place about everything that it's gonna be devastating when the show sucks. It could easily suck bad for sure but at least that would put it on par with Star Trek 3 DONG HORSE fucked around with this message at 22:58 on Aug 18, 2017 |
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Aug 18, 2017 22:54
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My wild-rear end guess of a prediction: The show is going to be quite good. Not perfect, but much better than anything Discovery could hope to accomplish, and a good Star Trek show all around. But it's only going to make it a couple seasons, before the network does the usual "wait why are we paying for this" that happens to sci-fi shows people care about and cancels it. And this isn't 1967 anymore so a letter-writing campaign will do jack poo poo and five years later The Orville will be remembered fondly, an example of what science fiction *can* be.
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Aug 19, 2017 00:37
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I'm setting the bar a lot lower. If it's not completely grating, I'll watch it.
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Aug 19, 2017 01:30
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Somebody, I think it may have been Brannon Braga, described it as closer in tone to M*A*S*H. If that's the case, it could be fantastic!
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Aug 19, 2017 02:28
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Kazinsal posted:My wild-rear end guess of a prediction: The show is going to be quite good. Not perfect, but much better than anything Discovery could hope to accomplish, and a good Star Trek show all around. But it's only going to make it a couple seasons, before the network does the usual "wait why are we paying for this" that happens to sci-fi shows people care about and cancels it. And this isn't 1967 anymore so a letter-writing campaign will do jack poo poo and five years later The Orville will be remembered fondly, an example of what science fiction *can* be. Of course. This is Fox after all, they don't measure genre success in ratings, they measure it in the tears of broken fandoms from prematurely canceled shows.
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Aug 19, 2017 15:29
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Zurui posted:I'm intrigued but I'd be so much more down for this if MacFarlane hadn't inexplicably cast himself as the lead in another show. Same, but I can figure it as long as he doesn't try to shoehorn in his love for lounge singing.
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Aug 22, 2017 21:16
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He will, it will probably be one of his character quirks.
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Aug 22, 2017 23:03
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As long as he does it on the holodeck 
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Aug 22, 2017 23:23
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Oh god, I just had an image of him singing the theme tune a la Roddenberry's lyrics for TOS. Beyond The rim of the star-light My love Is wand’ring in star-flight... 
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Aug 22, 2017 23:33
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David D. Davidson posted:He will, it will probably be one of his character quirks. Nah, Sisko already did it.
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Aug 23, 2017 02:52
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Obviously he'll have to break out his skills to communicate with the Planet Of The Lounge Singers.
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Aug 23, 2017 03:50
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Man I forgot Avery Brooks is a crooner. That was so surprising.
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Aug 23, 2017 04:31
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I'm preemptively keeping my hopes down for this show, the previews didn't really thrill me, but when I read all these little blurbs about how much of a TNG fan Seth is and how the show isn't going to be Family Guy In Space, I can't help but hope it ends up being good. I'll give it a fair shot, just like I'll give Discovery one too (which also seems underwhelming to me). I'm just worried that when the metal hits the meat and the show needs to be serious, it'll fall flat or be sabotaged by a fart joke or something.
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Aug 25, 2017 16:57
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I honestly don't get all the McFarlane hate, but then I haven't really watched a whole lot of his stuff.  I've also watched a few of his talk show appearances and a Family Guy behind the scenes thing and thought he was very funny. I found the first trailer pretty funny and didn't get the impression that it will be very serious at all, but the second one definitely showed that it's not going to just be solid jokes. I'm pretty hopeful.
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Aug 26, 2017 02:54
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Hipster_Doofus posted:I honestly don't get all the McFarlane hate I'm sorry but you aren't allowed to be an internet cool kid
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Aug 26, 2017 05:50
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I think a lot of the hate is for later seasons of Family Guy, which I figured Seth had checked out of long ago aside from reading his lines.
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Aug 26, 2017 05:51
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Also, A Million Ways To Die In The West might be one of the worst things ever committed to film
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Aug 26, 2017 07:03
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raditts posted:Also, A Million Ways To Die In The West might be one of the worst things ever committed to film It was basically a live action Family Guy.
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Aug 26, 2017 12:57
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Good little talking head from Seth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8AXpIP3yDc
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Aug 26, 2017 13:40
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David D. Davidson posted:He will, it will probably be one of his character quirks. I'm not sure, in American Dad he let's Scott Grimes handle most of the singing; https://youtu.be/wltTIJiIBiw He could continue here and we get 90s R&B recreations in the holodeck.
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Aug 26, 2017 14:14
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The_Doctor posted:Good little talking head from Seth: I have this theory that Seth is actually twins, one good and one evil, and the evil one eventually took over Family Guy while the good one went on to make Cosmos, and from what I can tell from the trailers, this show.
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Aug 26, 2017 14:41
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raditts posted:Also, A Million Ways To Die In The West might be one of the worst things ever committed to film It drags a little and feels more like a TV movie than something anybody would ever, in any universe, pay cinema prices to see, but it's not that bad.
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Aug 26, 2017 17:36
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HORATIO HORNBLOWER posted:It drags a little and feels more like a TV movie than something anybody would ever, in any universe, pay cinema prices to see, but it's not that bad. Having Liam Neeson insisting on playing an Irish cowboy was worth it.
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Aug 26, 2017 17:42
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raditts posted:Also, A Million Ways To Die In The West might be one of the worst things ever committed to film I can only 90% dislike that movie, because the BTTF3 cameo bit warmed my heart.
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Argue posted:I have this theory that Seth is actually twins, one good and one evil, and the evil one eventually took over Family Guy while the good one went on to make Cosmos, and from what I can tell from the trailers, this show. So you're saying Seth visited the Black Lodge?
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Aug 26, 2017 20:15
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Argue posted:I have this theory that Seth is actually twins, one good and one evil, and the evil one eventually took over Family Guy while the good one went on to make Cosmos, and from what I can tell from the trailers, this show. Seth McFarlane is actually just a persona of Roger the Alien.
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Aug 27, 2017 00:37
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Davros1 posted:Seth McFarlane is actually just a persona of Roger the Alien. Surprisingly plausible
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Aug 28, 2017 04:54
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There is always that one persona that no-one can see through. 
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Aug 28, 2017 04:55
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The_Doctor posted:Seth MacFarlane Explains Why His New Show Isn't Just a Comedy It's interesting because David A. Goodman is showrunning this series, and he wrote for Star Trek: Enterprise.
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Aug 28, 2017 05:16
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I hope Seth MacFarlane can channel his inner Picard/Stewart and give us some serious diatribes. I mean, that was just one part of why TNG was so cool; Picard would lay out the verbal smackdown on some oppresive race or injustice. I don't know if Mac has it in him acting ability-wise, but it would be so cool if he did.
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Aug 28, 2017 06:17
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Part of me wants this to be good the other part knows there's going to be a cheap racial joke in the first 5 minutes.
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Aug 28, 2017 22:11
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qirex posted:Part of me wants this to be good the other part knows there's going to be a cheap racial joke in the first 5 minutes. So it'll be like TOS? (C'mon, if Starfleet had a HR Dept, McCoy would be called down there every week.)
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Aug 29, 2017 00:59
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:As long as it lasts long enough for McFarlane and Grimes to finally do a live action duet. This would be incredible.
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Aug 29, 2017 01:06
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Seth Macfarlane and Patrick Stewart work together a lot, from the voice work in Family Guy and American Dad, but also Macfarlane produced Blunt Talk too. I would really, really be surprised if Patrick Stewart doesn't show up in Orville at some point, wearing a huge wig.
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Aug 29, 2017 01:53
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The more Seth MacFarlane reiterates that this isn't Family Guy In Space, and the more short clips we see from the show, the more I feel like it's going to be akin to SG-1 in tone. And that excites the hell out of me.
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The Fuzzy Hulk posted:Seth Macfarlane and Patrick Stewart work together a lot, from the voice work in Family Guy and American Dad, but also Macfarlane produced Blunt Talk too. As long as he's doing an obvious and terrible New York accent, too.
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