The Orville

It was OK will continue to watch. Has potential.

B-/c+ for me

Lanx said:

You guys are way too generous, I'm giving it a C-, and that's only cuz i liked Andrian Paliki in Agents of Shield.

The only person with any character, is the fucking asexual dude.

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did Andrianne have a sex change?

yeah. B or c. Pretty typical MacFarlane stuff. Very basic jokes.
Above average for network budget, but not nearly cable level. Maybe intentional to "look fake" on purpose?
The good was humanizing the characters. A workplace comedy on a starship is a solid idea. probably should have even been the focus. The office, in space. having the bridge crew sitting around talking shit, and commenting on things works well.

It also has a ton of family guy cut aways to dumb visual gags. which really stood out as poor. It was very disjointed.


Death by age bubble would be horrific. Like, from her experience she was sitting there, stuck on that table unable to move, for 80 years, without food, or sleep. She clearly went insane long before death of old age.

Yawn. I thought it was supposed to be a comedy ?

This was a painful contrast with this week's Rick and Morty.

Watched it for like 20 minutes, seemed pretty bad

I enjoyed it enough. Editing seemed really weird at time and the tone isn't quite right yet but still just a pilot. I think I like that's it more of a sci fi show with comedy than an attempt to make Galaxy Quest the series. Not sure that sort of humour is sustainable beyond a movie, though I'd love to be proven wrong.

Maybe it's because I'm a huge Star Trek nerd but I actually quite enjoyed this. I suppose the early negative reviews kind of tempered my expectations of it not being completely a comedy but, honestly, I'm not sure how a pure comedy would work with this setting before getting old. If The Orville can be a spiritual successor to Trek while having some pop culture humor thrown in I'm okay with that.

Things I genuinely laughed at was the "You win!" holodeck scene and the red wood busting through the Krill ship.

I enjoyed it as well. Wasn't really expecting much and was pleasantly surprised. I generally enjoy Seth McFarlane though, so that probably elevated it above where it really is for me.

Watched ep1, not bad, not hhaaallaarious.

Will watch more.

It's more SpaceQuest than Galaxyquest

If it is more spacequest, does that mean we get a Latex Babes of Estros episode?

I thought it was a good mix of comedy/sci-fi. Will watch more.

I felt like it was kind of a weak offering overall but was funny enough that i will definitely watch a few more episodes.

This was really painful to watch, bordering on terrible. I'm not sure I can continue with it if they don't ramp the story more, It just felt like the interpersonal stuff was highlighted a bit much. The jokes felt forced and maybe that's the point but they just landed kind of off for me. It's a pilot so I get it, we'll see if the next couple of episodes are any better.

Premier was pretty solid in ratings. Averaged a 2.3 rating in adults 18-49 and 7.3 million total viewers, airing at 8 p.m. That means it is currently the second-biggest broadcast drama premiere in the key demo since NBC’s “This Is Us” last September

TV Ratings: ‘The Orville’ Premieres Solid for Fox, ‘Sunday Night Football’ Returns Up

I was not blown away by the first episode but I think a show like this probably needs a fair amount of episodes to really find its flow to balance the humor and the scifi. I expect the first few episodes to be pretty uneven until the show finds its pace.

2.7/9 rating share. 8.56 million viewers. I wouldn't call that a flop but the truth is in ratings in the 2nd and 3rd episodes.
‘The Orville’ and ‘SNF’ adjust up, Miss America and ’20/20′ adjust down: Sunday final ratings