The Orville - Seth MacFarlane comedy Star Trek
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Flip Martian said:
True that - watch it on dvd or the old reruns and it looks dated; the HD remasters look far better - like it was made yesterday. You could say the stories are far less gritty than one might get today but then it was made late 80s/early 90s... A bit like comparing Cannon with Chicago PD.
Yep, a lot of them are still very watchable, though. I want to pre order The Orville, but it seems you can only get it in DVD format only right now, what is it, 2008!chris watton said:
Yep, a lot of them are still very watchable, though. I want to pre order The Orville, but it seems you can only get it in DVD format only right now, what is it, 2008!
Oh really? That's rubbish. Watching the S2 trailer made me think "wouldn't mind the BR box set of S1" but if they don't even have one...Flip Martian said:
chris watton said:
JonChalk said:
I'm not convinced SNG has aged well, and looks a bit "meh" against the likes of The Orville and even BG reboot.
I have the new BR box set, which has the CGI and overall picture quality improved, and there are certainly a lot more hits than misses. It is the stories that are interesting, not the FX so much.For me, the benchmark for non-ageing sci-fi would be Firefly, which I think is still eminently watchable, without cringing. I'm hoping that The Expanse falls into this category, long term.
Am enjoying The Orville now - will it still be watchable in 15/20 years?
Silver Smudger said:
For those of us that do remember TNG, Jonathan Frakes is currently on set directing another episode, and Marina Sirtis is there for a guest spot
Source
Could probably have done without the guest spot to be honest Source
If she comes on and says "I feel...great pain..." I will probably howl, all the same 
Just watched "For the Love of Spock" on Netflix https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/80115102
Remastered TOS looks amazing. I only ever saw the originals on analogue TV.
Remastered TOS looks amazing. I only ever saw the originals on analogue TV.
carl_w said:
Just watched "For the Love of Spock" on Netflix https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/80115102
Remastered TOS looks amazing. I only ever saw the originals on analogue TV.
Looks amazing on bluray. They did a great job cleaning them up.Remastered TOS looks amazing. I only ever saw the originals on analogue TV.
JonChalk said:
For me, the benchmark for non-ageing sci-fi would be Firefly, which I think is still eminently watchable, without cringing. I'm hoping that The Expanse falls into this category, long term.
Yeah it is, for me, BSG is there too. Not seen Dollhouse recently, it may be.Actually I've just finished SG1, that's still in the best of what I consider (and I don't wish to be mean) the 'B' shows.
JonChalk said:
Perhaps "looks" was the wrong word to use (I wasn't really meaning the picture quality), I was really meaning that some / most of the storylines / plot development / characters are a bit stilted / old-fashioned, which does present a bit of a problem for sci-fi.
For me, the benchmark for non-ageing sci-fi would be Firefly, which I think is still eminently watchable, without cringing. I'm hoping that The Expanse falls into this category, long term.
Am enjoying The Orville now - will it still be watchable in 15/20 years?
Will people be watching Family Guy in 15/20 years? Like The Simpsons, maybe the humour just gets "old".For me, the benchmark for non-ageing sci-fi would be Firefly, which I think is still eminently watchable, without cringing. I'm hoping that The Expanse falls into this category, long term.
Am enjoying The Orville now - will it still be watchable in 15/20 years?
I agree about ST TNG but it only really got going in S3 onwards more, especially when they ran 2 parters and took time to develop the plots more. Chain of Command in the 6th season is right up there, I think. They had Sir Pat acting his face off of course, which helped.
Actually my wife and I are revisiting Enterprise on bluray and that has far more in the way of character development and deeper, more developed story telling I think - and they tended to have a linear timeline from 1 ep to the next so it makes more sense to watch them in order - eg the Andorrians turn up early in S1 and Archer has a developing relationship with the Andorrian he meets then, all the way through the series. Also the Suliban, the whole temporal cold war story and so on. I think that approach draws you in a bit more, rather than just stringing 20-odd separate stories together which could be in any order.
Arklight said:
Thought it was an odd season opener, had quite a slow mid season pace to the episode I thought.
Still enjoyable for me though and still looking forward to the rest of the season.
Think it was really mostly about setting the tone for the Ed / Kelly relationship in Season 2 - think Seth McFarlane has made some statements on this recently, but I'm not going to repeat from memory as I haven't got them to hand.Still enjoyable for me though and still looking forward to the rest of the season.
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