Feel like we’ve neglected you all a bit. Didn’t mean anything by it.

Some commenters on the main sub (and some reports elsewhere) mentioned an expectation that filming for Season 4 would begin in January.

But u/planetary_union wrote in their edited "announcement" post that they:

... Didn’t want to give anyone the false sense of actual filming beginning in January.

(Emphasis mine.)

After reports claimed Scott G said production would resume next year, some folks have noted that what he said doesn't constitute an "official" renewal announcement from the top (e.g. a streamer's press release or a statement by MacFarlane).

One moderator replied to one such person:

"An actor on the show saying when production starts isn't an official source? The fuck are you smoking? That's about as official as you can get."

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I wouldn't agree that Grimes' statement is "about as official as you can get." — I would think a Disney/Hulu press-release and/or a post or statement by MacFarlane himself would be "as official as you can get."

On a Lemmy forum, "vaguerant" posted a list of some Orville people who have accounts on Meta Threads.

https://lemmy.world/post/1140712

The post contains links to the Threads profiles: of Seth, Tom, J Lee, Scott, Anne, Rena, and the P.U.N. podcast.

Tom, Seth, and J Lee have begun actively posting on Threads.

I haven't found any other Orville cast/crew on Threads, but without an account (don't want one) I don't have full search access.

I will be there and would love to meet and hang out with other Orville fans.

For me, the poll had to focus on 2 things: Close the sub or continue as usual. Anything except "as usual", don't deserve to exist. Now the main sub is meme=ruined!

I don't think the UUSSorvill sub will reach to tens of thousands users like the main Orville, and becuse the treffic in this sub is very low, we can say goodbye to the philosophical discussions and analyzes that were fascinating, at least in the amount of publications.

I'm trying to comfort myself with the hope that maybe there will be a fourth season. On the other hand, it probably won't happen either.

As far as I am concerned this is only serious The Orville forum now. It's no longer an alternative.

Let’s start off with why. After reddit made these api changes everyone went haywire and closed their communities down in protest. The orville sub did that too. It was closed for a while until there was poll put out for the future of the sub: As far as i know these reddit changes had nothing to do with the main sub, i don’t know why that poll was put up. Why? It was doing so good. Lost about 1K members. And somehow go full meme won. I hope this sub goes though no changes and more main sub members will come here to talk about a show and not some stupid popcorn.

I felt bad for them. They were begging for some one to take over as mod. So I offered. And they banned me for it.

Hi, just in the middle of watching season 3, Does anyone else have a similar feeling that the show has changed a lot?

In the first 2 seasons the episodes were packed with interactions and interesting conversations.

Now it seems like they've added aditional 20 minutes of action "cgi" which btw does not look better than in the previous seasons but also kills the whole vibe of the show. Maybe it's just me but i get bored now watching them fight for 5 minutes 3 times per episode with some aliens or dog fighting in the sky.

The camera work has changed too and for now i feel like the missions the crew go through are more dull and do not match the excitement from s1 and 2.

Does anyone feel the same or similar?

Has anyone noticed that a lot of episodes of season 3 either have romance as the driving force or conflict behind the episodes? I know this is true of a lot of The Orville and not just season 3, but it seems especially present in season 3.

Logic doesn't have preferences and goals. With only logic, you can't make choices. You need a directive, a goal. With only logic, a directive/goal would never change.

Say you're choosing whether to eat kale or chips. If you only have logic, it doesn't matter. But if you want to eat healthy, or eat something that tastes good, that influences your decision. Logic helps you figure out how to get where you want to go, but it doesn't tell you where you want to go.

The Kaylon are supposed to only have logic. >!They were, at first, given the directive to be servants to their builders. If they truly only followed logic, they wouldn't have had any preferences for those or other directives. But they did, they wanted to be free.!< Wanting something is not logical. Wanting something is emotional.

We see this time and time again. >!After Isaac chooses the biologicals over the Kaylon (which is a show of emotion itself, for he changes his own directive)!<, he >!commits suicide!< because "it will make the ship run more efficiently". But why does he care if the ship runs efficiently? Who programmed that directive into him? Nobody did.

Maybe >!without the reprgramming that gives them emotions!< they can't consciously feel their emotions, but they do have them. Emotions influence their decisions.

Plenty of biologicals mistake their emotions for logic, too. Plenty of biologicals fail to properly feel their emotions. That sort of thing tends to lead to unbalanced, unreasonable, emotional decisions being made in my experience. So it rather makes sense to me.

Hi to all. I know this is off topic, but I don' t know where to ask. What going on with the main community of The Orville? I sent private message to the moderators without response. Some communities that was private are now back to non private mode. Anyone knows if the orville community will back to non private mode too?

Thanks.

This is a significant spoiler, if you accidentally clicked on this, you have another chance to click away now.

I always take TV shows and movies seriously because otherwise I ask what is the point? However, I don't let it control my life and I don't get far too into it but I take it seriously.

I only have episode 10 left now but episode 9 really shook me up. I've teared up at emotional scenes throughout the series but episode 9 is the first time I actually cried properly.

I feel like a lot of people dislike Charly and it's of course because she was doing what the Kaylon were doing themselves, judging an entire race to be the same, and she kept bringing up Amanda and being emotional which in my opinion she can be forgiven for. I can't even imagine losing someone you love like that without even getting to tell them too. And besides, we see in the end that she pushed her feelings aside and did follow her orders.

We see that she realises her mistake and even apologies to Issac. One of her last words were that she even trusts Issac. I know Issac cannot "care" about people but when he asked Charly to stay behind after she apologised, when he was the last of the friends to leave her before she died and when he gave the speech at her ceremony it shows he must have had some sort of bond to her. And remember when he kept trying to start a conversation with her? I feel like there was something there.

In the end, she payed the ultimate sacrifice to save all of the Kaylon, upon seeing the explosion which lit up her eyes before her, she said "I'm here Amanda", it is at this point that I started crying. She never got over losing Amanda, she generally buried her feelings except at the outbursts towards Issac, she was very depressed even if she didn't show it much. At her ceremony, when Issac delivered his speech, I began crying again, he honored her well. Overall it was an incredibly emotional episode.

Loved this series, only one episode left to go. They will probably never see this but I wanted to say a huge thanks to Seth MacFarlane, the other actors and everyone else who worked on this beautiful series.

Have had multiple rewatches of this show and love it every time. Going through this the... umpteenth..time I just noticed that there's a small exchange between Lt. Malloy and Lt. Lamar discussing working with your ex.

Lamar asks Malloy if he was married and Malloy responds, "hell no. In fact, when I imagine the person I'd fall in love with, the person who would bring me so much happiness that I'd want us to spend the rest of our lives together...god it just makes me want to kill myself."

Just a funny aside until you take into account S3, E6 Twice in a Lifetime and you realize how deeply Gordon feels that loss.

*Edit for title Episode 4 not 3...on mobile and didn't catch it

I’m new to this subreddit so I’m not sure if it’s been mentioned before but, does anyone else agree with Gordon when he got stuck in the past?

I forget the science behind it but Gordon got sent back to 2015 and the rest of the crew went back in time to bring him back to the current year. But he met the love of his life, started a wonderful family, got a respectable job and he wanted to stay in 2025 (ten years had past).

I fully agree with him. He stayed hidden, no temporal interference (as is the Union law), but he couldn’t take it anymore. He made a valid point that humans are social animals, if he stayed hidden he would’ve died (dramatic I know). Ed and Kelly wanted to bring him back because who knows what can happen because of temporal interference but can’t they just let him be happy?

Maybe this is a complete misfire but I think he’s right.

Recently watched this episode, actually in the middle of watching it at the time of writing, and i mainly wanted to comment on the section where Bortus sang to the crew of the orville.

To my surprise, Bortus sang pretty decently. Which led me to think up the comedic comment: “when’s Bortus’ album coming out.”

Some other Krill that predate The Orville:

• Krill, the leader of the Zarta people, in a Star Trek comic book (originally published in 1968).

• Krill-beasts, creatures on Miromar II, in the Orion Ruse module of the FASA Star Trek RPG (1980s).

• Krill, a race portrayed in Marvel comics, introduced in "The Coming of the Krills" (1961).

• Another Marvel creature type called "Krill (gamma mutates)" (2003).

• Krill, the secondary antagonist in "Under Siege" (1992).

• Krill, a superweapon species in a Doctor Who audio drama (2003).

• Krill, a character in the game "[Omikron] The Nomad Soul" (1999).

• Krill, a warlock in the old classic "Zork" adventure games (circa 1977-82).

... etc.

Glory to Avis!

I am re-binging the Orville and last night saw the episode where Alara went back to her planet Xelaya. Gordon throws an aluminum bottle outside the shuttles gravity shield and the bottle was squished flat in an instant. I know everyone on the planet is strong and accustomed to the intense gravity (not to mention how beefy their tall buildings need to be) - but when she cries or something the water just sort dribbles out. Water being water, it cannot get 'used' to high gravity. I would expect it just to come out and instantly being pulled to the floor. I would also expect clothes and jewelry to be tugging down at all times. Yes, it is just a show but I would really wonder how mass would act on a planet like that.

I've been watching this and I am on S3 E4 gently falling rain, just finished watching that episode.

I liked the show because it was a new trekky type show and it can be pretty good. I disliked them trying too hard to be funny and usually failing. Bortus on his egg was the best funny scene. I don't like that no significant music, film or plays have happened in the union for the last 400 years, so much so, that every time a crew member refers to or watches or listens to entertainment it is always something from 20th century Earth.

I don't like that so often when they encounter something new, they send the captain and all senior officers in the first shuttle to explore. Shadow realms, when they boarded an alien ship with no space suits on and they did not quarantine on their return and did not quarantine the infected guy.

I don't like that the show has turned from being a comedy sci fi into an agony aunt sci fi. It was not very good as a comedy, but it was bearable, now the emphasis seems to have changed so all we seem to be doing is marriage counselling, racism, homophobia, gender identity and abortion.

I am just trying to get through it now and finish it. That's why I hope there will be no S4.