>THE ORVILLE is a one-hour science fiction series set 400 years in the future that follows the adventures of the U.S.S. Orville, a mid-level exploratory vessel. Its crew, both human and alien, faces the wonders and dangers of outer space, while also dealing with the familiar, often humorous problems of regular people in a workplace…even though some of those people are from other planets, and the workplace is a faster-than-light spaceship. In the 25th century, Earth is part of the Planetary Union, a far-reaching, advanced and mostly peaceful civilization with a fleet of 3,000 ships. Down on his luck after a bitter divorce, Planetary Union officer ED MERCER (MacFarlane) finally gets his chance to command one of these ships: the U.S.S. Orville. Determined to prove his worth and write a new chapter in his life, Ed finds that task all the more difficult when the First Officer assigned to his ship is his ex-wife, KELLY GRAYSON (Adrianne Palicki). As the new commander, Ed assembles a qualified, but eccentric crew, including his best friend, GORDON MALLOY (Scott Grimes), who has problems with authority, but is the best helmsman in the fleet; DR. CLAIRE FINN (Penny Johnson Jerald), one of the Union’s most accomplished physicians; BORTUS (Peter Macon), an alien from a single-sex species; ISAAC (Mark Jackson), an artificial life-form from a machine society that thinks biological life-forms are inferior; navigator JOHN LAMARR (J. Lee), whose casual humor cuts through even the most dire situations; ALARA KITAN (Halston Sage), a young, inexperienced security officer whose home planet’s high gravity gives her superior physical strength; and YAPHIT, a gelatinous creature voiced by comedian Norm Macdonald. Somehow, Ed and Kelly must put the past behind them and, with the help of the crew, navigate fascinating and sometimes dangerous adventures in outer space, as well as the tumultuous and captivating day-to-day personal relationships with their colleagues.
Thoughts on this????
The Orville trailer (created by Seth McFarlane)
trailer link: youtube.com
>tfw not enough audience interest to do classic-style sci fi shows anymore but enough to do stupid parody
Why does Seth keep thinking he's a valid actor
>Seth McFarlane
Yeah. I won't be going anywhere near this
Will probably be better than Discovery
It's just McFarlane humor in a wacky setting as always. Aka pure trash.
Just fucking stop it Seth.... jeeesh... you're a VOICE actor , not a FACE actor, stop trying so hard yo be something youre not
A shitty version of Galaxy Quest
And Seth is terrible
>Seth McFarlane
Hahaha no no i will be avoiding this
>Norm McDonald
Oh, wait, do i watch this now?
Help Sup Forums, i can't make my own decisions
The trailer wasn't funny
I wish this was good
Could be fun desu, at least MacFarlane is a scifi fan
THAT WENT SOUTH SO FAST!
so like galaxy quest but not funny ?
I really wish this was better than it looks. I'd love a Star Trek spoof series and McFarlane seems perfect to write such a thing.
But whilst I think McFarlane is perfect to write it, acting in it is a bad choice. He seems so forced and awkward.
It sounds like something someone would write if they were taking the piss out of Seth McFarlane and new tv shows in general.
If you like this and hate on Rick and Morty you should hang yourself
I can't wait to see it. I hope it does well. McFarlane does seems wrong for the role though.
Looks about as good as Palicki's last sci-fi show.
that's some shit
uwotm8? This show is Rick & Morty: Live Action Edtion. The synergy is massive, and the official crossover promotional material will be all over social media at sweeps.
she was great on agent of shield
I am so hungry for scifi that I would swallow everything, even a shit like this
Right, she was in that. But I was referring to John Woo's Lost in Space:
At least Timeless got renewed
i thought you where talking about Wonder Woman.
Well, that too. God that was terrible.
Watch Other Space instead.
Most Wanted is her latest
>its a movie where MacFarlane plays the lead and woos some beautiful woman who is into him
I bet he finds an excuse to sing Sinatra.
Norm was on Family Guy when it was still good.
I think Galaxy Quest had a more clever concept, desu. This is just STAR TREK BUT WAAAAAAAAAAAAACKY
liberal utopian pretensions BTFO
How so ?
Can you point out on thing in common with Rick and Morty besides the sci-fi theme ?
>Norm was on Family Guy when it was still good.
Probably means he'll leave before the end of the first season. I don't get Norm, he's hilarious but always pops up in shit, like this and Grown Ups 2.
yeah thanks, but no thanks. I am desperate but not that desperate
it already looks more like Star Trek than STD and ENT
I could have written all the negative shit in this thread before i opened
All this proves is that your all sad predictable constrain nerds.
KYS'
and yet you are with us. we love you
>constrain
Can't be choosy about roles when you have gambling debts to pay.
>Boldly going there
>Oh no you dit'n't
Seriously that tag line makes me hate it instantly. It sounds like a nu Simpsons style joke show like Don't Go There.
It's a lot better than this shit is going to be senpai
I guess not, but you'd think he'd be able to get some better roles. I guess he's just too old and always came across like he doesn't care that much about those things, but I could see him as a recurring character in something like 30 Rock or Parks and Rec.
>udder space
I'd prefer Nick Frost in HYPERDIVE
Meanwhile Star Wars makes billions worldwide and big budget Farscape, Guardians of the Galaxy, can break 700mill easy and the mainstream can embrace a walking tree that can only say 3 words.
Atheist faggotry that only appeals to Redditors.
>Star Wars
>Guardians of the Galaxy
>scifi
Now I want to hurt you
McFarlene's second trailer for this just dropped:
>Galaxy Quest had a more clever concept.
Now I'm not knocking Galaxy Quest, because it's about eight times a better movie than it has any right to be, but it's just Three Amigos / Magnificent Seven / Seven Samurai / A Bug's Life in space in terms of concept.
Fucking top tier cast tho. Sam Rockwell, Tony Shaloub, Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman.. hell even Justin Long, whose face I hate but is a decent actor.
Don't forget Token Black.
i hate that duck
i didn't know they try remake that show.
Netflix is doing a Lost In Space remake.
cost yahoo milllllions
...
I think his old west movie would have been better without him. he was the weakest point
Guardians of the galaxy is also made like starwars and is often compared to it.
Starwars has touched the whole planet. Star trek is the one having problems
who going be in it?
Little did you know Mcfarlane is a huge trekkie and was on Star Trek: Enterprise as a background guy. Thats how much he loves trek
Doesn't make a difference if he seems like the wrong actor for the role.
This is why he wanted to do this so badly, he's a trekautist
bad acting is a staple of Star Trek too
Seth being in it is all a multilayered joke
No it isn't
Name 5 good Star Trek actors outside of Stewart, Nimoy, O'Brein (I don't know his real name) and Odo.
I meant the second part of the comment
It's not a multilayered joke, he's just a fucktard
>Name 5 examples except these 4
Every time.
>name 5 good star trek actors BUT don't name these 4
really made me think there, good user
(Colm Meaney played O'Brien)
He has the voice, chin and charisma to play a knock off star captain
>Ed finds that task all the more difficult when the First Officer assigned to his ship is his ex-wife, KELLY GRAYSON (Adrianne Palicki)
Dumb as shit and wouldn't actually ever happen. Ever.
He's not wrong, stiff acting is a staple of Trek.
Avery Brooks was good once the show got going
because 4 guys in a franchise that had like 20 main characters would still prove that good actors were a minority
He doesn't have the charisma for it. The chin and voice are fooling you, you think he's a leading man because he has that smooth voice but his character seems weak-willed and lacking the confidence a leading man needs. Seems like he's playing the 'awkward every-man' persona that doesn't get any respect, which seems plausible for a parody of a captain but someone like Patrick Warburton would be way better for a role like that.
>A meat head captain
good luck, us big guys never get the love.
That and his awful humour.
and that user was retarded anyway, because you can find more than 4. From TNG, Spiner Stewart, Frakes, Burton and Dorn were all pretty good, the women were the weak point and even then that's more to do with the absolutely shit scripts they got. I'm not that familiar with the actors who were in DS9, but whoever played Sisko, Quark, Odo, O'Brien, Garak (totally a main character, don't even argue with me) and Dukat (same as with Garak) were all really good, though with Avery Brooks it depends what he had to do.
So from two shows you got 9 legit main actors + 2 who were basically main actors. Not bad at all.
I think Warburton as a meat head captain and McFarlane as his Spock sounds way funnier than Seth and his ex-wife bickering but slowly falling in love again every episode.
To be fair, Stewart and Meaney were successful real actors before Star Trek. Star Trek was probably a career low point for them.
>implying Patrick warburton would draw any interest
>implying the name Seth Mcfarlane isn't alone huge marketing appeal
>implying he doesn't pen these projects entirely aware of what his presence does to the work
He is a facade, and an every man, and he commentates on the subject matter, certainly, but the rest is almost always funny. Have your opinion because of Family Guy, but everything else Mcfarlane has been pretty enjoyable. He's a nerd of all sorts, a fan of old Hollywood, and mines that to bring back old camp in a new way.
I enjoy his stuff.
Warburton seems like he would make a good Capt. Brannigan-esque nemesis to McFarlane, but he should have got someone who could pull off the bumbling incompetent captain better, and make it like a Captain Mainwaring/Sgt. Wilson like dynamic. If any of you know who that is.
He's not funny, he's broad. I wouldn't be surprised if most of his audience had no idea what his name is. I realize it's all opinions in comedy, but I would rather someone interesting with low mass appeal than a self-aware book of references that everybody has read.
>He thinks the third X-men movie wasn't a career low for stewart
He's been on a poster looking like he farts fire and other he got killed off by a hack.
Yeah fair point. But that was a while after his run on Star Trek. And now he's on American Dad. He's had a really weird career.
Well, this is interesting.
>now he is in the emoji movie
I am glad he doesn't seem to take things too seriously anymore
Do you think it was on purpose that they made the ship into a flying vagina?
He has good ideas every now and then but the actual comedy of it all is always lacking. In the trailer when she breaks the wall and he says 'I loosened it for you', I get that it's a classic line to use but haven't we come far enough to have an original line by now? It just feels lazy to have such grand setups wasted on the most basic comedy a sitcom could have.
Well the more dumbed down the comedy, better it sells, just look at his shows. he is master of lowest common denominator.
I think they wanted it to look something like an Alcubierre warp field.
>not a jew
>worked his way up as an actual animator
Might b cool
For that reason, I'm out.
Most old actors stop caring because they've made their money and they can just fuck about. Look at DeNiro in the Meet The francise, fucking Al Pacino in Jack and Jill, Bruce Willis' career in general post 2005.
Just look at the back end.
Reminder that this has had a year less production time than Discovery but has more to show for that time.
you'll end up seeing it out of curiosity, why lie.
It's also a sitcom on Fox.
If people I trust assure me it's worth watching, I will try it out. There's no chance of curiosity though because there's no depth to it so far, everything seems clear enough on the surface that I'm not expecting any surprises from the show.
They're doing old-school model capture for the show, he's putting in all trek stuff behind the scenes too.
They just know what they're doing and CBS/paramount can't get their shit together, they've already lost a showrunner(s?)
How much is Fox going to embarrass CBS with this show?
You can tell it has a way bigger budget and probably less politics as well.