Yes. They tone down the humor over time
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AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I love Trek but I don’t really care for McFarlane’s sense of humor, is the Orville worth checking out anyway?
sirjash@feddit.de 11 months ago
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 months ago
The drama bits 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 11 months ago
But the humour is like at its highest like 15% of the show
Taleya@aussie.zone 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… and 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.
the_third@feddit.de 11 months ago
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 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