Seth MacFarlane confirmed in a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter that season four of The Orville is written and ready to produce, but his packed schedule remains the primary obstacle to making it happen.
On the topic of The Orville: it was OK, nothing terrific. Seth McFarlane isn't as funny as he thinks he is. He's not even as funny as his fans think he is either. I can't tolerate most of his work.
The difference with the Orville is, if you squint hard enough, you can see the love this man and this production has for Star Trek. In any other era, it would just be middling fan fiction on its best day.
But we are in an era of franchise vandalism that defies logic and sanity.
This half-baked, lukewarm, so-so funny space show is the absolute best Star Trek product since Enterprise was cancelled 20 some years ago. That's not just sad, it's pathetic.
Mediocrity aside, a huge problem for this show is all the elapsed time. They've done three seasons in nine years. Absolute best case scenario puts it what, two or three years out? Twelve years to make four half seasons of content is laughable. (Remember when shows did 22 episode seasons???)
I skipped season three since it took four years to come out and I wasn't rewatching or recapping it. It wasn't worth the effort then, and won't be going forward if there's more. They had a brief time to capitalize on what they had and missed it. Have more respect for the audience's engagement next time.
Loved season 1, season 2 was ok, watched only a few episodes of season 3 and will not watch season 4. It went from a love letter to the original Star Trek with a good bit of Galaxy Quest thrown in then degenerated to something as bad as the modern Trek shows. I could care less if season 4 even happens.
At this point I fear what McFarlane may do with another season for this show since so much of Hollywood is woke and still refusing to admit how badly they screwed up.
As a co-author of a romance novel (actual love story, not smut) with heavy Christian theming (Angels and Demons), it's almost impossible to break through the current literary market.
The only thing that gets oxygen is smut and DEI on one end and outrage over smut and DEI on the other. We NEED to start pushing for and supporting creatives on our side.
Early reports on our book is one side thinks it's smut, won't look at it. The other side thinks it is smut, then is upset when it isn't. (And upset that God's Angels actually win in the end).
On the topic of The Orville: it was OK, nothing terrific. Seth McFarlane isn't as funny as he thinks he is. He's not even as funny as his fans think he is either. I can't tolerate most of his work.
The difference with the Orville is, if you squint hard enough, you can see the love this man and this production has for Star Trek. In any other era, it would just be middling fan fiction on its best day.
But we are in an era of franchise vandalism that defies logic and sanity.
This half-baked, lukewarm, so-so funny space show is the absolute best Star Trek product since Enterprise was cancelled 20 some years ago. That's not just sad, it's pathetic.
Mediocrity aside, a huge problem for this show is all the elapsed time. They've done three seasons in nine years. Absolute best case scenario puts it what, two or three years out? Twelve years to make four half seasons of content is laughable. (Remember when shows did 22 episode seasons???)
I skipped season three since it took four years to come out and I wasn't rewatching or recapping it. It wasn't worth the effort then, and won't be going forward if there's more. They had a brief time to capitalize on what they had and missed it. Have more respect for the audience's engagement next time.
Loved season 1, season 2 was ok, watched only a few episodes of season 3 and will not watch season 4. It went from a love letter to the original Star Trek with a good bit of Galaxy Quest thrown in then degenerated to something as bad as the modern Trek shows. I could care less if season 4 even happens.
I found Orville to be a love story to Star Trek. McFarlane didn't copy Star Trek Races, he created his own and made them come alive.
I enjoyed Orville.
At this point I fear what McFarlane may do with another season for this show since so much of Hollywood is woke and still refusing to admit how badly they screwed up.
As a co-author of a romance novel (actual love story, not smut) with heavy Christian theming (Angels and Demons), it's almost impossible to break through the current literary market.
The only thing that gets oxygen is smut and DEI on one end and outrage over smut and DEI on the other. We NEED to start pushing for and supporting creatives on our side.
Early reports on our book is one side thinks it's smut, won't look at it. The other side thinks it is smut, then is upset when it isn't. (And upset that God's Angels actually win in the end).
“Who draws the crowd and plays so loud
Baby, it's the guitar man
Who's gonna steal the show?
You know, baby, it's the guitar man”
- Bread. 1972