When I first started this show I found it to be a really awkward mix of comedy and seriousness. It had some jokes thrown it at the most inopportune times as some kind of comic relief from a really serious situation. Perhaps the first half of the first season was actually a bit rough or maybe the show just grew on me, but by season 2 I found myself loving this show.

To me it seems as every bit as comfy, intellectually interesting and even funny as some classic Star Treks while still clearly being its own thing. I wish more comfy space shows like this would get made.

What are your thoughts on The Orville? Also I miss Alara.

      • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        I’d still say Orville hits the mark closer, in many ways. SNW follows some of TOS’ style, but it still doesn’t always quite have that Gene Roddenberry feel to the characters. Orville does this better while its style is more like TNG - which perhaps isn’t surprising given how much Seth MacFarlane has worked with Patrick Stewart in recent years.

        Frankly I want more seasaons of both.

      • havocpants@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 year ago

        Picard season 3 was pretty great too. I skipped season 2 as I hated season 1. Apparently season 3 just ignores the events of 2 completely because it was that bad.

        • feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 year ago

          It was shit wasn’t it, I heard season 2 was worse. I wanted to like it so much. What changed to make season 3 good? I’d love that to be true.

          • havocpants@lemmy.world
            2·
            1 year ago

            I don’t want to set your expectations too high, because it’s far from perfect, but I thought Picard S3 was basically the good TNG movie that we never received. It was great to see so many of the TNG crew back on screen, and probably for the last time together since they’re all in their 70s. The story was mostly good and there were some real high points.

            • solstice@lemmy.world
              1·
              1 year ago

              A 10 hour movie 🙄

              So annoying the way all these shows are just stretched out into series when they can and should be a movie. And vice versa too, movies are all 3+ hours now I feel like, even friggin Indiana Jones was 2.5 hours, if you got that much to say just make it a miniseries or something jeez.

              Now if you’ll excuse me I got some clouds to yell at.

      • RufusFirefly@lemmy.world
        16·
        1 year ago

        SNW went completely off the rails and became a CW science fiction show. It is not Star Trek and is so cringe worthy, it’s painful to watch.