"The Orville" new SciFi on FOX
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Comparing it to Galaxy Quest isn't quite fair, since that's more of a parody.
The Orville is pretty much a humorous Star Trek without the title.
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Quote:You're saying Orville is a parody, or isn't?
Originally posted by Moose:
Comparing it to Galaxy Quest isn't quite fair, since that's more of a parody.
The Orville is pretty much a humorous Star Trek without the title.
Galaxy Quest was an excellent SciFi story with great adventure, thrilling heroics, awe of discovery, wonderful humor, and even a little romance. All in context, continuity, and logical story.
Possibly the convention was a parody of Trekkies, tho it seemed on the money.
But TV Show Galaxy Quest was not a parody, that I could tell, and the film was not a parody of any other film.
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I thought Galaxy Quest was the better comparison, but Orville doesn't come close.
LOL... I guess I'm branching out. I never posted in the Sci-Fi forum until a few days ago. Never posted in the Cinema forum until a few months ago.
Pretty much just came here for the RWED all these years.
Shame that Orville doesn't come close to Galaxy Quest. I was kind of hoping it would.
Let us know if you have questions.
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lol. Thanks!
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Yeah. Galaxy Quest was way too good to be a parody.
Parody movies might have been decent back in the days of Airplane and even as far as Hot Shots, but since then they've devolved into the most low brow trash humor in existence. Not even remotely funny or containing any worthwhile content.
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GQ does poke fun at SciFi in general, with it focusing on Trek, so it is a bit of a parody.
I'm not saying that's a bad thing, in fact if you can find my old posts about GQ you'll see it's one of my favorites.
The Orville isn't a parody AT ALL. It's Star Trek in all but the name with a bit of humor thrown in.
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Yeah. I get what you're saying. I wouldn't go out of my way to say that Galaxy Quest was a serious movie, at least on the surface. It was just a lot of fun, but it had all of the elements to make a great movie that no actual parody movie like the Scary Movie franchise or countless Netflix parody movies have.
I'm actually lucky that I saw it. It didn't look like my kind of movie at all from the previews. I just happened to catch it one night back in the dark ages when I had cable TV.
I think you've sold me on Orville though. I'm at least going to give it a shot. STD doesn't look enjoyable at all, so here's hoping that the Orville can be the Trek we're looking for.
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I initially avoided Galaxy Quest because I wasn't much of a Tim Allen fan, but I eventually broke down and watched it.
I have the DVD and Bluray and have seen it dozens of times by now. I think that Amazon is working on a series.
If you go into The Orville expecting Galaxy Quest, you'll be disappointed.
I think McFarlane describes it as "Trek meets MASH".
BTW, I'm not a fan of Seth but I think he's done pretty good with the show.
It's still not "great", but shows a lot of potential.
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I just watched last weeks episode, which was pretty much a re-do of a Black Mirror episode and I was about to write off that one, then he made a point about how those videos of soldiers coming home to pets and kids can be a form of manipulative propaganda... I had that conversation the other day with someone who didn't think we still do public propaganda and didn't get why I called them that.
Thanks for that one, MacFarlane!
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