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I tried The Orville, but got a little put off by McFarlane as the captain.
Does this improve as the series goes on?
As I might give it another shot.
I didn't like the humor, but it tones down in each season. By season 3, the humor is about as frequent as a lighthearted TNG episode, and it's done better.
Doesn't really matter, because it's a show pretending to be satire so it could get greenlit. It's just a TNG-era Star Trek with a different coat of paint. There are a lot of places where it's doing the same plot as some other bit of Star Trek, except doing it better with more lead up across many episodes.
Stick with it. The first few episodes were terrible, and I was very pessimistic about it's future. Then it suddenly got better very quickly, and became nearly as good as the Star Trek series'. Its gotten even better as time went on. Im looking forward to its return.
It does get better, and Ed becomes a lot less wishy-washy.
The conceit of The Orville is that it’s not the best ship in the fleet with the best crew. The Orville is an older mid-sized cruiser and the only reason Ed made Captain is because they couldn’t find enough Captains to fill out a rapidly-expanding fleet. So they gave this unimportant ship to him.
I think they spent way too much time on Ed getting over his divorce with his XO Kelly, but after that he’s fine.
As for the show itself, only the Pilot really feels like “Family Guy in space,” because that was a Trojan Horse to get the show on the air in the first place. After that, it really does become a send up to The Next Generation and the 3rd season, New Horizons, is an actual science fiction epic.
He gets over Kelly at some point? I can't remember if I watched 2 or 3 seasons but one of my problems with the show is how cringey and toxic he consistently is towards her. "The only way to stop me from dating this younger clone of you we came across is if you date me instead" was pretty late in the series.
I like the rest of the cast, but the captain is grating.
That's a reassuring bit of info. If the in-universe explanation is that he isn't the best captain, I might give it another shot.
As my initial reaction was "has McFarlane just made himself kirk?"
No, he actually sidelines himself quite a bit.
McFarlane as the captain? No it/he doesn't improve.