Forum Overview :: RedLetterMedia :: I disagree with Mike Re: Orville

[quote name="Mischief Maker"]It recycles lots of premises from Star Trek, but usually resolves them in a novel way. And it's not like Trek didn't reuse its own premises over and over again. The two times they didn't mix things up were also the episodes using my least favorite type of recurring Trek premise: (Nightmare episode and Space Roofies episode). The first two episodes are the weakest, but episode 3 they start to settle into a place where it's less serious than TNG, but not full-on Galaxy Quest goofball. I binged the show with my family over Christmas after we made a pact not to talk about the horrible shit that just went down in the political world last month and it was exactly what we needed. That and the first season of the Great British Baking show. But then we started the second season and half the contestants are cutting their fingers off while making their own recipes and accidentally baking angel food cake with salt instead of sugar and I thought, "oh no, the producers decided to go 'Hell's Kitchen' to spice things up a bit." I can watch literally any other reality show if I want to see morons fucking up, the appeal of the baking show was how pleasant the whole experience was.[/quote]