Damn, it gets better and better. Looks fucking fantastic, the opposite of strange new pseudotrek. The Krill are shaping up well as a good opponent with facettes, like the proper play on the klingons they are. And there's little things, like the non-existence of transporters in the Orville-verse. This really is the new trek for me, and I grew up watching TNG. Kirk - Picard - Sisko - Mercer. Love the music, the landing sequence on the Krill homeworld was grandiose. Damn, the theme and intro are spot on. They even had a holo-joke in the beginning, what a lovely reference. Not a shitty persiflage bastardisation like "new spock" but a proper respectful hommage. I love that fanfare, this really feels like exciting times in optimistically exploring the universe, even with the Borg-expy as big bad. Somehow SNW looks dark all the time, depressingly so. In contrast the Orville is bright and so is its universe. This one really feels like we have the future at out hands here, an optimists vision for a better world, just like the Enterprise-D was back then. And they do it without replicators and transporters to boot.
tl;dr: it is in fact not shit, unlike strange new worlds.
For all Mankind was not bad either.
Despite all the blatant pandering to the usual crowd, the diverse histrionics of all those characters I don't give a shit about and the superfluous personal dramatics, a Soviet Mars Launch in 1994? Da, towarish, you make comrad Stalin proud. Spacecraft looks like proper soviet machine too! If you manage to ignore all the interpersonal bullshit they keep shoving into your face, this is proper hard-scifi. You can easily skip most of it without missing anything important, after a while you hardly remember their names. It's the usual deal... and much worse than the last two seasons. The only white male character I remember so far was the evil KGB man, everybody else is busy being all diverse, fabulous and so on. Hell, even Milton left the NASA for the private sector in this one.
Forget that crap, THIS is what this is about:
That's right, the soviets go to mars in a mini-deathstar.
Forget that crap, THIS is what this is about:
That's right, the soviets go to mars in a mini-deathstar.
