The Orville Season 4 Reportedly Set to Begin Production In Early 2025 : television

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I’m glad for this. This show is keeping the spirit of Star Trek alive.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I've enjoyed ~~Brave~~ Strange New Worlds. Lots of individual excellent episodes. But Orville's arcs keep me coming back.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Strange New Worlds

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Derp, yes. That one

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Lower Decks.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago

The Orville is such a love letter to Star Trek. I can't get enough of it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wow! I had completely given up on this ever happening. Awesome!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Yeah, scrolling through Lemmy this was a real surprise! I thought this show was gone for good from what I had heard.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

I came into this expecting family guy jokes and such and damn I found an actual legit sci fi show

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Neat, I guess McFarlane got a new girlfriend. Love the show but I’d be sincerely surprised if attention didn’t spontaneously shift based on which cast member he’s currently boinking.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Lol, yeah I wonder who the new young hot cast member will be.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Woohoo! S03 was so good! It would have been a shame to end the show there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Yep, finally found its legs just in time to be cancelled. Just like Outcasts 😭

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

No! I will not read that!

I’ve never heard of it, but I don’t need yet another awesome sci-fi series to fall in love with only to see it die prematurely.

Edit: I think I may have watched an episode or two of this back in the day, but didn’t get to watch more for some reason…

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Firefly IS worth watching IMO even knowing how it pans out cancellation-wise. The movie does a credible job of wrapping things up, even if it can't provide the multi-season arc we would have wanted.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It did start out slightly slow before becoming awesome, but yes you should avoid it. Although it was awesome, they cancelled it at a pretty gigantic cliffhanger in both the main plot and (surprisingly compelling) romance plot. I got to the last episode knowing it was cancelled and was so upset I wished I hadn't watched it.

Edit since I see now there may be some ambiguity - my comment here is specifically regarding Outcasts, not Firefly. I don't think (or didn't see) the Firefly reference was there before their edit.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ooooo….. now I wanna watch it…. 😬

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Controversial take: most of the themes and at least half the characters aged like milk. It was sold to me as “imagine we lost the American revolution” and I even believed that when I saw it in college, but really it’s confederados after the civil war.

Jesse in particular is gross at best, wildly harassing and inappropriate at worst. It also gets tiresome watching Mal yell “WHORE” at Inara by the 30th time.

Yeah, keep it in the rose tinted memory bank folks. Don’t ruin it for yourself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

That image hurt me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Shit, that looks right up my alley too.

Also “Banished.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banished_(TV_series)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

With all of the horrible stuff that just never ends in this world, the existential dread blanketing me over the health of my cat, this little thing.. the announcement of a show I love coming back has brightened my day considerably

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Oh my this is good news. I pretty much made peace with it being done but am am stupid excited now. IMHO it's become the best star trek show since TNG.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Star Trek before the Orville: ST:STD, kirk on a motorcycle playing beasytboys, plus dark drama about how we are all doomed!

Star Trek after the Orville: Lower decks, a Voyager sequel series hidden as a nickelodeon show, and ST:BNW doing a musical number were spock sings.

Star Trek future: A school drama and "what-if the sniderverse did an assassin movie in Star Trek"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Star Trek: Prodigy surprised me honestly

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

ST:BNW

SNW

"what-if the sniderverse did an assassin movie

What?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Isn't there a Section 31 movie coming out, or did a dream that?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

no, it seems there is, with release planned for 2025... i knew that it was originally supposed to be series, got scratched, and i thought the film went same way, but it clearly did not.

https://www.space.com/star-trek-section-31-first-teaser-trailer-michelle-yeoh

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

YEA!!!!!!!

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I stopped watching when they were applying human morals to aliens. Literal aliens.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So the beginning?

Or all of Star Trek, its direct inspiration?

[+] [email protected] -6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I feel like Star Trek respected other cultures?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Starfleet didn't interefere with other non-warp capable cultures who were still developing (except for all the times they did). They absolutely judged alien cultures by the set of unifying morals that guide the federation and would actively refuse the membership of and assistance to races who didn’t meet those standards.

Like every major alien race in Star Trek is a representation of some subset of human culture. It’s literally all modern day cultural commentary.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Does two days count as a zombie thread?

They may getting at something that I noticed as well. When presenting a sci-fi-ish moral conundrum involving aliens, The Orville is much more willing than ST to come down firmly on one side or the other and get a little preachy about it, even. The feeling I got is that Seth McFarlane probably watched TNG (and clearly loved it) but got annoyed when they would be like, "It's such a shame these values would cause conflict within the Federation. Sad. Anyway, on the next one..."

I imagine teenage Seth just jumping up and down and shouting "NO! THEY'RE WRONG! TELL THEM THEY'RE BEING ASSHOLES, JEAN-LUC!"

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