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How far did you make it? Season 1 is a bit painful, Season 2 is better but Season 3 is a big shift.
Seth McFarland's humor is not very good...
Season 3 was a surprise. They just played it straight. Went from parody to homage.
Not very far lol, a couple episodes to give it a fair shake though, do you have an episode recommendation?
Just echoing here that it does take awhile to get going.
Honestly, despite what I'm about to say below, I probably wouldn't recommend it now (just on signal to noise ratio) if not for https://thecinemaholic.com/the-orville-season-4/ giving hope for more story, or unless you happened to be a superfan of Seth McFarlane.
My .02 -
Season 1 -
First reaction - wow this DOES feel like TNG.
Second reaction - WAY too much Family-Guy style humor.
I like humor in my scifi, and I like Family-Guy style humor (during its heyday anyhow). Season 1 episode 7 almost made me turn it off. No one trying to pay homage to trek should be writing in something like this as a first contact "mistake". IMO in S1 we learned that Family-Guy style humor doesn't always work in live action.
Season 2 - Better, but still trying to find the right blend. It's been awhile now, but I think S2 got better and better over time and had some pretty good eps.
Season 3 - Really great, hit their stride, perfect blend of humor and drama, super disappointed when it was cancelled.
Season 4 - See link above. If they can recapture S3 vibes I'm excited for it, but I'm not 100% confident they will. Fingers crossed.
With all that said, if you are considering it at all, I'd just watch it all. That way you get the evolution of the show, the running gags, and don't miss any significant bits that are sprinkled through, and you know all the road that has been traveled when they get to S4. It's only three seasons and it's not a long show. Yes, some of it is cringe, but so was some of the early seasons of TNG.
Thank you for the lengthy write up. You see though the problem with watching it all is I'd be watching it all... I do appreciate the time it must have taken for this reply though.
That clip on YouTube you linked was super cringe. Agree with you on TNG there's definitely times and episodes where I think the writers phoned it in and I'm not going to pretend it's all good. Still my favorite star trek but I don't watch much so that's not saying anything considering I haven't even seen any of the new stuff.
Season 1 episode 10
If you don’t like it I don’t think you will care for the rest
Season 2 Episode 8-9 is a two part episode that is good but I wouldn’t recommend jumping into it because it’s not as good if you don’t care about the characters