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| September 2017
| Various
Posted on 09/05/2017 2:41:25 PM PDT by EveningStar
MacFarlane is lost in space with Orville
David Wiegand
San Francisco Chronicle
September 3, 2017
Seth MacFarlanes new vehicle, The Orville, gets a special premiere on Fox on Sunday, Sept. 10, but it is far from being ready for takeoff.
Theres something there or, more to the point, bits and pieces of something there, but it needs work. Boy, does it need work.
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The Orville Review: Seth MacFarlane's Somber Sci-Fi Dud Crashes and Burns
Dave Nemetz
TVLine
September 5 2017
Consider this a red alert to TV fans everywhere: Are you expecting Seth MacFarlanes new Fox series The Orville to be a fun Star Trek parody packed with wall-to-wall jokes? Two words of advice: Abandon ship.
Despite what Foxs official site claims, The Orville premiering this Sunday at 8/7c is not a hilarious comedy. Its not even a comedy. Yes, there are a few Family Guy-esque punchlines scattered throughout, but as bafflingly as this sounds, The Orville is mostly a straightforward drama
and not a very good one, at that. Riddled with sci-fi clichés and paralyzed by a grim self-importance, MacFarlanes shiny new vessel ends up being a colossal dud that not only fails to take flight, it short-circuits before it even gets out of the docking bay.
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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: bomb; dud; fox; sciencefiction; sethmacfarlane; theorville
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To: Borges; DollyCali; Perdogg; Bender2
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posted on
09/05/2017 2:43:07 PM PDT
by
EveningStar
(I am a Non-Cultist Trump Supporter.)
To: EveningStar
It has to be better than the uber PC Star Trek Discovery. Even with a foul lib like MacFarlane in charge.
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posted on
09/05/2017 2:45:36 PM PDT
by
Rastus
To: Bender2
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posted on
09/05/2017 2:47:30 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: EveningStar
Quark 2.0 ..................
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posted on
09/05/2017 2:49:45 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: EveningStar
Seth gave $500,000 to Harry Reid’s Senate Majority PAC in 2016. Feel free to boycott.
To: EveningStar
Hey look! Something else I won’t be watching on TV.
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posted on
09/05/2017 2:54:11 PM PDT
by
MeganC
(Democrat by birth, Republican by default, conservative by principle.)
To: EveningStar
We are definitely looking forward to seeing if the series is any good. The previews are highly promising.
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posted on
09/05/2017 2:56:17 PM PDT
by
Reno89519
(Drain the Swamp is not party specific. Lyn' Ted is still a liar, Good riddance to him.)
To: Army Air Corps; EveningStar; big'ol_freeper; Impy; SevenofNine; Cletus.D.Yokel; Rummyfan; ...
Cannot speak to the quality of the writing as yet but the production values look fantastic and are closer to the original "Star Trek" than CBS' "Discovery" which is supposed to be only 10 years before the Original Series timeframe.
Their uniforms of "Discovery"...
look to be more akin to the Star Trek: The Motion Picture...
than the Original Series... 
And the Klingons...
---
Don't get me...
started!
But as they premier...
we'll see--
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posted on
09/05/2017 3:07:18 PM PDT
by
Bender2
("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
To: MeganC
Beast Master re-runs would seem to be more appealing.
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posted on
09/05/2017 3:07:57 PM PDT
by
Noumenon
(Can you imagine if Islam were NOT the religion of peace?)
To: EveningStar
Seth MCFarlane is dull, blah, not funny nor clever.
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posted on
09/05/2017 3:10:29 PM PDT
by
RooRoobird20
("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.")
To: Bender2
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posted on
09/05/2017 3:17:41 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
To: EveningStar
McFarlane has never made me laugh or even smile. He has chops as a voice actor but he’s a cringeworthy comedian.
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posted on
09/05/2017 3:17:59 PM PDT
by
davius
(You can roll manure in powdered sugar but that don't make it a jelly doughnut.)
To: davius
His x-o on the show is also his ex-wife on the show. Not that a woman doesn’t normally look pissed off at a higher ranking white guy, but that’s why every photo you see has her character shooting nukes over at him.
So you know that’s just going to be fantastic right there.
Its Gold, baby! Gold!
/sarc
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posted on
09/05/2017 3:22:21 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: davius
His humor has gone completely stale. Early Family Guy was a laugh riot. Lately it’s just shock value stuff. I think he either got off of or started overdoing it on the sauce or weed.
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posted on
09/05/2017 3:23:06 PM PDT
by
rarestia
(Repeal the 17th Amendment and ratify Article the First to give the power back to the people!)
To: a fool in paradise
Re:
NEEDS
MORE
DRUKEN
ROBOTS Hey, they know...
where I am--
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posted on
09/05/2017 3:24:33 PM PDT
by
Bender2
("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
To: All
This thing has POS written all over it/
To: Noumenon
I’ll stick to Star Blazers.
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posted on
09/05/2017 3:51:05 PM PDT
by
wally_bert
(I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
To: DaxtonBrown
Seth gave $500,000 to Harry Reids Senate Majority PAC in 2016. Feel free to boycott.Thanks for the info. I already knew MacFarlane was an uber liberal and a good reason to not watch but didn't know he supported the very corrupt Harry Reid as well.
CGato
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posted on
09/05/2017 3:51:19 PM PDT
by
Conservative Gato
(There are NOW 4 kind of LIES; Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and the Media.)
To: Bender2
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09/05/2017 4:02:15 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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