The drama bits and plotlines are every bit as good as TNG/Voyager/DS9, but if you don’t like McFarlane’s humor, I doubt you would like the other 75% of the show’s content.
Thing is it’s not the humour, it’s the humanity. Showing all the crew are just as dorky as your average human today, not all stick-wedged paragons like TNG. Think of the top time funniest moments - getting Bortus to eat a cactus, 500 cigarettes, karaoke, the moustache, the dancing bandito, isaac’s joke fail… the humour is there, but it’s the humanity that makes them. that’s where s3 kinda fell down a bit, i don’t know if it was covid rush or what, but we missed a lot of the warmer moments. Season finale delivered though.
I love Trek but I don’t really care for McFarlane’s sense of humor, is the Orville worth checking out anyway?
Yep. He duped Fox into paying him for a Sci-Fi comedy show and then he went and made a loving homage to Trek.
My theory for the behind the scenes:
McFarland: I would like to make a star trek parody!
Fox: oh sounds awesome, lots of funny jokes and stuff. Should be funny.
M: yes haha, funny.
F: yes… Anyway here’s the money
Making episode one
M: I gotta make sure there’s loads of jokes so I can show this to execs and they see the haha bits
Making episode 3
M: okay I think they’re gone… Time to just literally make normal star trek episodes
making the last episode of s1
F: hey I see you’re almost done with the first season so I’m just checking in that the show is still funny
M: quickly adding in as many jokes as the last second as possible haha yes humor! Jokes! Plenty of them! Haha yes
Yes. They tone down the humor over time
The drama bits and plotlines are every bit as good as TNG/Voyager/DS9, but if you don’t like McFarlane’s humor, I doubt you would like the other 75% of the show’s content.
But the humour is like at its highest like 15% of the show
Thing is it’s not the humour, it’s the humanity. Showing all the crew are just as dorky as your average human today, not all stick-wedged paragons like TNG. Think of the top time funniest moments - getting Bortus to eat a cactus, 500 cigarettes, karaoke, the moustache, the dancing bandito, isaac’s joke fail… the humour is there, but it’s the humanity that makes them. that’s where s3 kinda fell down a bit, i don’t know if it was covid rush or what, but we missed a lot of the warmer moments. Season finale delivered though.