When I first started this show I found it to be a really awkward mix of comedy and seriousness. It had some jokes thrown it at the most inopportune times as some kind of comic relief from a really serious situation. Perhaps the first half of the first season was actually a bit rough or maybe the show just grew on me, but by season 2 I found myself loving this show.
To me it seems as every bit as comfy, intellectually interesting and even funny as some classic Star Treks while still clearly being its own thing. I wish more comfy space shows like this would get made.
What are your thoughts on The Orville? Also I miss Alara.
Season 3 was not good; it was heavy-handed writing and wasn't all that good drama.
It felt to me like there was someone, maybe the studio, reigning in MacFarlane since they weren't confident about his writing, then for S3 they let him have full control and it got bloated
It's almost incredible; Seth needs to not be on screen and he needs to just seed some control.
Just fyi it’s “cede” control
And you’re totally right about Seth.
I think he's fine as a writer and an actor, he just needed someone to tell him to cut the scripts down to a reasonable size