PovertyRow Posted September 30, 2017 Share Posted September 30, 2017 On 9/11/2017 at 11:03 AM, nearmint said: The critics absolutely hammered this show. It's currently at 11% on RT and 34% on Metacritic. Just went to RT - 20% on the Tomatometer but 89% Average Audience Score liked it. Metacritic has an unfavorable 36% on their reviews but a very favorable 8.0 User Score. Which goes to show that Just Plain Folk are much more intelligent, perceptive and discerning than So Called Critics. Just watched Episode 4. It really brought back TOS. SO enjoyable. Bosco685 and nearmint 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nearmint Posted September 30, 2017 Author Share Posted September 30, 2017 Does anyone else think that the actor who voices Isaac, the robot on the bridge, sounds an awful lot like Brent Spiner? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bosco685 Posted October 1, 2017 Share Posted October 1, 2017 23 hours ago, ThatPovGuy said: Just went to RT - 20% on the Tomatometer but 89% Average Audience Score liked it. Metacritic has an unfavorable 36% on their reviews but a very favorable 8.0 User Score. Which goes to show that Just Plain Folk are much more intelligent, perceptive and discerning than So Called Critics. Just watched Episode 4. It really brought back TOS. SO enjoyable. Have to agree. A fun show that brings comedy and adventure. Heck, even Liam Neeson too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nearmint Posted October 2, 2017 Author Share Posted October 2, 2017 22 hours ago, Bosco685 said: Have to agree. A fun show that brings comedy and adventure. Heck, even Liam Neeson too. And Charleze Theron next week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CKinTO Posted October 3, 2017 Share Posted October 3, 2017 On 9/29/2017 at 5:54 PM, ThatPovGuy said: You may also know her as Bobbi Morse in 31 eps of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Put me down as a fan. Really am enjoying it. Loose enough to be fun but accurate enough to be in the ST world. Adrianne Palicki (and her brother Eric) also wrote a 4-issue comic called "No Angel" published by Black Mask. It wasn't bad, I actually had my LCS back-order it for me a few months ago (2nd print on #1, but 1st printings all still available for #2-#4) to read it. Don't think it sold that well, but was decent enough. http://ew.com/article/2016/09/08/adrianne-palickis-new-comic-no-angel/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gino2paulus2 Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 On 9/30/2017 at 6:37 PM, nearmint said: Does anyone else think that the actor who voices Isaac, the robot on the bridge, sounds an awful lot like Brent Spiner? I totally thought it was him?!!! Just checked and it's not but Wow the similarities are striking!! BTW i really dig this show. nearmint 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fmaz Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 My wife and I have continued to watch. I don't know what will happen next week when there's another wave of returning shows back on the docket... The thing is, if this show fails it will be largely a failure of horrible pre-show marketing and expectation setting. So many reviews, I beileve, were negative beause the reviewers, as did many fans, approached this initially expecting a Seth McFarland Star Trek-comedy, and that isn't even close to what this is. It's taken us now four episodes to realize we're watching a version of The Next Generation, if that was written with pop culture references that will proably make it not age nearly as well as a Star Trek series does... but brings a different bit of humor to it. But many people can't get past what they thought it was supposed to be, what they were explicited told it WAS GOING to be... and that's no one's fault but the marketing folks. Maybe if the show somehow lasts into a second season it would get through all that, but unless ratings are strong I imagine it's expensive so I'd bet that's a long shot. If it does die, I predict it is the kind of show that people will rediscover in a few years and say "hey, this was pretty good." ComicConnoisseur 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CKinTO Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 I also wonder if the new Star Trek Discovery show on Space is hurting / cannibalizing some viewers. I'm watching both (and actually am liking Discovery quite a bit so far - which has an 86% on RT btw), but I like them both for different reasons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
combiner1 Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 16 hours ago, fmaz said: If it does die, I predict it is the kind of show that people will rediscover in a few years and say "hey, this was pretty good." *cough* Firefly *cough* BTW : Love the show (specially the "where's your friends?"-answer, from the last episode) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nearmint Posted October 5, 2017 Author Share Posted October 5, 2017 New episode tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
29dukedog Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 After five episodes I've decided it's good... no, great... no, good. "If the Stars Should Appear" reminded me very much of the Star Trek episode, "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky" (occupants of a generation ship, unaware of their predicament, on a collision course with doom). The most recent episode (with Charlize Theron) was really good... but I'm a sucker for anything with a time travel element. (Still, I can find no reason why Pria would vanish, with the destruction of the wormhole. It makes no sense, it raises many other questions, and I think it was done out of convenience more than anything else.) I think the show will catch on, especially if it continues to do such a good job balancing wit and intelligent sci-fi themes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aardvark88 Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 Theory of the infinite time loop: the stable wormhole is blasted so Capt Pria can't travel back in time (thus 'vanishing' from current episode's timeline) to save the Orville and the 300 staff from meeting Pria, so entire Orville ship should have been destroyed by black matter: end of season 1(?). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nearmint Posted October 6, 2017 Author Share Posted October 6, 2017 The leg subplot between Isaac and Gordon was pretty funny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
29dukedog Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 6 minutes ago, aardvark88 said: Theory of the infinite time loop: the stable wormhole is blasted so Capt Pria can't travel back in time (thus 'vanishing' from current episode's timeline) to save the Orville and the 300 staff from meeting Pria, so entire Orville ship should have been destroyed by black matter: end of season 1(?). My point exactly. If Pria vanished, then everything she did should also be "undone". (R.I.P., Orville, crew, and show.) At the very least, nobody should have any memory of her, or of those events. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aardvark88 Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 1 minute ago, 29dukedog said: If Pria vanished, then everything she did should also be "undone". (R.I.P., Orville, crew, and show.) At the very least, nobody should have any memory of her, or of those events. I think I need to rewatch ending of 'Looper' on dvd for more time loop analysis .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
29dukedog Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 1 minute ago, aardvark88 said: I think I need to rewatch ending of 'Looper' on dvd for more time loop analysis .... Looper should never be mentioned in any serious discussion of time travel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bosco685 Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 4 hours ago, nearmint said: The leg subplot between Isaac and Gordon was pretty funny. "I got you back!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nearmint Posted October 13, 2017 Author Share Posted October 13, 2017 Great episode tonight. Really enjoyed it. ComicConnoisseur 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher_Short Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 On 10/6/2017 at 12:57 PM, nearmint said: The leg subplot between Isaac and Gordon was pretty funny. Except, he cut his leg from the knee down. The leg that fell from the ceiling had a huge chunk of thigh, almost a whole leg... Sigh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reddwarf666222 Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 The show is ok, but man I agree with the ratings the RT critics are giving this. The show was completely advertised wrong. I expected something different. Instead we got a lame Worf character who lays an egg, then a wasted episode about a sex change in which nothing happens, and a stupid Miri like episode. This feels like I am watching bad Original Trek episodes with a flare of bad Next Generation. Most people who like this like it for the nostalgia factor, but all agree the comedy is bad in the sense of bad humor and barely there. There are brief moments of greatness destroyed by sheer moments of bad writing. Give is Spaceballs, give us Red Dwarf, give us Galaxy Quest type sci-fi and humor. This show is a 4/10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
