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Can someone open this pickle jar? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by FauxPseudo@lemmy.world to c/risa@startrek.website

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[–] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I love Trek but I don't really care for McFarlane's sense of humor, is the Orville worth checking out anyway?

[–] the_third@feddit.de 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yep. He duped Fox into paying him for a Sci-Fi comedy show and then he went and made a loving homage to Trek.

[–] Maven@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

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

[–] sirjash@feddit.de 11 points 11 months ago

Yes. They tone down the humor over time

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But the humour is like at its highest like 15% of the show

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.