I wonder how long it will take Orville season 2 to come out on DVD. By the time I got season 1, season two was already half way through so I opted, once again, not to watch any of it. I'm hoping season 3 won't start before I get season 2.
Oh, and any spoilers never ruins any tv show I've ever watched. I usually forget what I've read. Hell, I've even read a book 75% through before I've realized that I had already read it.

By John Williams (Johndw) on Monday, April 22, 2019 - 07:07 am: Edit

I've been on the "watch streaming for free" wing of the orville viewers being that I don't have a tv. So I think.. Friday is when I can watch it. I personally don't care about spoilers, but won't encourage discussion if it ruins things for other people.

By Steve Petrick (Petrick) on Friday, April 26, 2019 - 04:20 am: Edit

Pretty much the expected outcome, even if the whole trip to get there was not foreseen.

Still, hold off on spoilers until we can be sure that everyone who is interested has seen it.

By John Williams (Johndw) on Monday, May 06, 2019 - 09:01 am: Edit

Well, I saw the season finale this weekend. I certainly have some thoughts about this, questions, etc.

By Steve Petrick (Petrick) on Tuesday, May 07, 2019 - 12:41 am: Edit

I think enugh time has passed, so fire away!

By John Williams (Johndw) on Tuesday, May 07, 2019 - 07:22 am: Edit

So time travel, trying to correct the error that led to a worse version of the present and all that are common enough ideas in sci-fi. But goodness gracious! Hiding just behind the singularity of a black hole? And if Isaac did betray the orville in this different timeline, he wouldn't have been studying that time crystal thing for long enough to have come up with the calculations to make it work, would he? And if you knew a brain protein can make memory wipes not work, you'd double check that before you bet your future on sending someone back in time wouldn't you? And other stuff from the season, I still don't understand what purpose the mutation of the Moclans have, if we were using correct terms the "males" of Moclas would all be females because they lay eggs, and if what they call "females" are born more often than they let on, are they nessisary for reproduction? Are they not? Surgically altered Moclans seem to be able to make offspring with natural "Males". I wonder if there was some huge genetic engineering thing that happened with their species in the past that may be hidden even to the society living on the planet now.

By Daniel Eastland (Democratus) on Tuesday, May 07, 2019 - 08:31 am: Edit

Light can't escape from the event horizon of a black hole. But these ships are FTL. At that point the question is if their shielding can block tidal forces from the gravity delta.

The engineer needed what work Isaac had done to fill in the blanks for his own work.

The protein could be so rare that nobody thought to check for it.

Humans give birth to hermaphrodites occasionally. I don't think they have an evolutionary purpose - but they exist.

By Steve Petrick (Petrick) on Tuesday, May 07, 2019 - 01:17 pm: Edit

Honestly, I considered the hiding in a black hole thing the weakest part of the episode. Simply because it did not make sense to me that the Kaylon, as presented, would not have also entered the area searching for them.

By John Williams (Johndw) on Tuesday, May 07, 2019 - 02:13 pm: Edit

Of course... if another ship did enter the black hole, would they be able to perceive anything else that was in the black hole? Sure you'd be getting light from objects outside the event horizon, but from within it?

By Steve Petrick (Petrick) on Tuesday, May 14, 2019 - 01:58 pm: Edit

Word is that "The Orville" has survived and been renewed for a third season.

By John Williams (Johndw) on Wednesday, May 15, 2019 - 02:45 pm: Edit

Well that would be nice. I did enjoy season 2 even if I liked it less than season 1. They upped the cameos this season but I feel like they lost a lot of.. I dunno... solid storytelling and direction.

By Gary Carney (Nerroth) on Tuesday, July 16, 2019 - 01:29 pm: Edit

The first issue of the "season 1.5" tie-in comic series is due out this week.

By Gary Carney (Nerroth) on Saturday, July 20, 2019 - 10:38 pm: Edit

Season 3 of The Orville will be shown on Hulu rather than on FOX in the United States. I'm not sure yet what that might mean for its availability, or otherwise, in Canada or elsewhere.

By A. David Merritt (Adm) on Saturday, July 20, 2019 - 10:49 pm: Edit

Far too often that's FOX, 2 years and done for Sci-Fi.

By Mark Steven Hoyle (Markshoyle) on Sunday, July 21, 2019 - 05:59 am: Edit

Dish has lost FOX (believe DirecTV also)for the time being anyways. No telling how long that will take to get back on Satellite.

By Steven Wagner (Waggs) on Sunday, July 21, 2019 - 12:42 pm: Edit

I have DISH and still able to watch FOX. I haven't seen any of usual messages that DISH usually broadcast when one of the partner channels are up for negotiation. ADM, yes that seems to be how FOX operates.

By Will McCammon (Djdood) on Sunday, July 21, 2019 - 01:30 pm: Edit

Whelp, that's it for the Orville for me.

My wife and I made time for it and enjoyed it, but I'm not willing to pay yet another subscription fee just to get it. There's nothing else there I really want.

We haven't seen Discovery yet, for the same reasons.

We don't watch enough tv to justify multiple extra fees.

I figure eventually all this fragmentation and dozens of pay-walled subscription services will either be a bubble that bursts, or it won't. IF it does and some consolidation happens, maybe I'll get to see the stuff.

By Mark Steven Hoyle (Markshoyle) on Sunday, July 21, 2019 - 03:04 pm: Edit

Waggs,
The screen msg reads: Takedown: Meredith Corp...
Suspect it might be a local station issue here in WNC....
Someone came in to my job and said his wife was complaining she was missing shows (DirectTV)....

By Steve Zamboni (Szamboni) on Sunday, July 21, 2019 - 03:07 pm: Edit

I was expecting the fragmentation, and ultimately it means I watch fewer shows since I won't pay for them all. I now wait for the DVD set come out at the library or stall until the series is over and binge through a one-month sub.

By Steven Wagner (Waggs) on Sunday, July 21, 2019 - 05:47 pm: Edit

Mark,
I wondered if that was the case when I replied earlier. We had the same problem here this past spring when our "local" channels were removed for a few days.

By John Williams (Johndw) on Friday, August 09, 2019 - 04:15 pm: Edit

I am sad to hear about the Orville moving to Hulu. Guess I won't be watching season 3.

By Steve Petrick (Petrick) on Friday, August 09, 2019 - 05:40 pm: Edit

I hate to say it, but in one sense I am glad "The Orville" has moved to Hulu. It means that there will be even fewer shows for me to watch, and I will have more time for reading.

So far, much of what I have seen for previews of the coming season's shows has left me cold and utterly uninterested.

I have spent a certain amount of time watching the 66 episodes of "Relic Hunter" on the "El Ray" network (I have six to go, but for some reason the Tivo system will not do a season pass for "Relic Hunter," so I have had to set each to manually record, and initially missed the first 24 episodes, but they finally got around to rerunning the first season and are about to start rerunning the second season, so I will have seen all 66 episodes).

I never saw the "Wonder Women" television series, and if they are still running it, I might try and record and watch those.

I have also finally finished recording the entirety of the second season of "Space Hunter" (the "redux" version), so I can start watching it.

Beyond that, a lot of shows I have been watching have either gotten so dark (e.g., "Krypton," "The 100") that I have cancelled my season passes, have simply been cancelled (e.g., "Elementary," "Suits"), or moved to Hulu or Netflix (e.g., "Designated Survivor," and now "The Orville"). Some shows that I might have watched out of fond memory (e.g., "Charmed," "Roswell") are so heavy with their political messaging I just cannot watch them. And of course there were the shows that deliberately from the start tried to get me to pay more to see them (e.g., "Discovery") that I just never did.

The coming season looks very barren to me as I noted before, but I have quite a backlog of books to read, so it is fine with me.

By Jamey Johnston (Totino) on Friday, August 09, 2019 - 05:44 pm: Edit

Do you have Amazon Prime?

I enjoyed "Good Omens" and "The Boys"

But I'm with you on the rest of that. I don't have any other subs anymore. I just have Amazon Prime because of other things, so the shows are just a bonus.

By John Sickels (Johnsickels) on Friday, August 09, 2019 - 06:23 pm: Edit

I am not watching any present TV shows and have no plans to do so. Instead, my wife and I are watching all four seasons of the old TV police drama "Naked City." It is very very well done, holds up to day, and features a number of impressive guest stars (Claude Rains, Walter Matthau, James Caan, Telly Savales among others plus a bunch of people who later showed up in TOS).

Case in point: the two most recent episodes we watched had Jean Stapleton, Caan, the guy who played Commodore Mendez in The Menagerie, and the guy who played Professor Crater in The Man Trap as guest stars.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, August 09, 2019 - 06:32 pm: Edit

Leanna and I tried to watch "the boys" and it was so gross and nasty we quit halfway through one episode when we both noticed the other had quit earlier than that without saying anything.

Sad enough that GGGGG was killed and the corporate lawyers covered it up, worse than the FFFF cop is the only one trying to investigate, once one hero demanded that the new hero do something, we both turned off our headphones without wanting to upset the other one.