• JWBananas@startrek.website
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    1 year ago

    Try starting with season 1 episode 9, Crisis Point and watch forward from there for a few episodes. If you enjoy it, go back and watch the rest.

    • Freeman@lemmy.pub
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      1 year ago

      Im gonna start there tonight. I started at S1e4 and was underwhelmed. My rule of thumb is 4 episodes before I quite a show though. So ill stick to that at least and because its ST, it doesnt seem like theres any longer story arcs, mostly neat little 20 minute plot lines.

    • Freeman@lemmy.pub
      2·
      1 year ago

      Thanks. Will do.

      That type of humor (that was displayed in the episode, but is fairly prevelent in other shows), which i kinda call “quirky physical humor” in that the characters have no internal filter and just blurt out stuff, do silly things to cause plot level issues and just shrug it with “woopsie” etc kinda wear on me in large doses. In smaller doses, like this one, its fine, but definately not something I will binge or even watch nightly.

      Which is also why i think some of the aforementioned shows also didnt stick.

      That said, I do like the Orville, so there is that.

      • FormerGameDev@midwest.social
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        1 year ago

        The first several episodes of Orville I’ve described as “what if Star Trek had dick jokes and occasionally tapped the well of ex-wife jokes”… but yeah, I loved that too.

        • Freeman@lemmy.pub
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          1 year ago

          Yeah. I mean I’m not against juvenile humor. The Orville definitely hits that chord well. It’s kinda like family guy in space but without the idiocy of Peter griffin.

          But a good example was I watched s1e4 moist vessel last night. Beyond the ridiculous plot narrative with mariner the backup narrative was about the green person just not able to control themselves, being entirely in appropriate and rude, then wandering across the room to look at the shiny thing and causing chaos etc etc. this turns into the backup plot of trying to fix everything that could have been prevented with 5 minutes of self control. I finished the episode but it was hard. That type of behavior is no endearing at all to me. In fact it’s kinda exhausting.