It sucked.

I kinda liked it.  I'd say on a scale of 1 to 10, I'd give it maybe a 7 or so.  I don't really agree with all the critics out there.

I'm slightly surprised Island Dog didn't like it, I thought sci fi blended with a little comedy would be his bee's knees, but there are many flavors of sci fi, and many flavors of comedy, and even someone whom likes to drink a lot has drinks they don't like.

How many more cliches can I cram in one post?

No, I didn't find it funny at all. I'll watch another episode and see if it gets better, but not investing too much more time in this.

Although it might turn out better than Star Trek: Discovery.

It's not so much sci-fi as a crude sitcom parody of trek, which is pretty much exactly what most would expect as soon as they hear Seth Mcfarlane is running it. Anyone expecting actual sci-fi didn't need to watch it to realize that isn't what it is about.

Not that it's terrible, but if you go in expecting 'Family Guy in Space' you won't be nearly as disappointed. I don't expect it to last long though either way.

The few 'jokes' I saw in the teasers were too lame to garner my interest.

It was OK, nothing special though.

I do appreciate the touch of humor, and the sci-fi is okay, though so far hardly innovative.  IMO, the biggest drawback is Mr. McFarlane.  He's not terrible, but just doesn't have the chemistry to carry the premise.  He's reciting all his lines with his eXO just fine, but I feel no heat.  The rest of the cast I rather like.  The little Security Chief was fun last night, behaving as callow as one would expect.  It's a welcome change from Star Trek taking itself so seriously all the time.

All that said, every recent sci-fi show makes me clutch my Firefly collection that much tighter, and mourn.

Well i liked the first and second series. Deep space 9s biggest problem was it wasnt star trek it would have been better just being called deep space nine. I thought voyager was done all wrong. It looked 14 years later in 2012 all right though. Enterprise was bad. Didnt like fire fly. How come no one does a star trek from the eivil universe. Theres two versions.

1. Federation is evil.

2. The cardacians, klingons, and bejorians combine, and conquer the federation.

I think I convinced myself I liked it since if the Orville fails then STD will be even worse then we are all expecting lmfao.

I don't like the formula (sci fi + snarky humor), and I hope they explore darker or more serious themes. Those things take long to develop, and I know I can't expect them to jump right into it but I hope they develop over time. I.e setting up the Krill as the bad guys, ensuing conflict, interplay, diplomacy etc that made Star Trek TNG so interesting. 

It may be poor but still be the best sci fi show running. An addict will take what he can get.

I watched the 2nd episode last night. Slightly better.

Like the other shows on CBS and Fox on Sunday nights during the NFL season, they end up getting pushed back by 10 - 45 minutes almost every week. I used to pad my Tivo Season Passes to account for it. But then you have to also record any shows you don't want to cover the overlap. Made it all to messy, now I just don't watch Fox or CBS shows scheduled on Sunday nights.

I say fuck em if they can't be bothered to either:

a: properly schedule the time it takes for an NFL game these days. It is no longer an aberration to go almost 4 hours, it is almost a regular thing, and they ALL run over their scheduled time.

b: Schedule an hour long show in between the end of NFL games and the beginning of their Sunday night programming that they wouldn't mind cutting all the time out of due to over runs of the NFL games. It could be a post game show that wraps up all the Sunday games played, it could be re-runs from whenever or the previous week, anything they don't mind putting on the time chopping block rather than delaying a whole nights worth of programming. EVERY. WEEK.

*on topic*: Watched the first episode (it aired on time!) and thought it was OK, certainly not great. Was going to watch the second but as soon as I saw I had already fast-forwarded to almost the first 15 minutes in and still hadn't seen any show, I knew I wasn't going to watch it only to need to go looking for the last portion of it via app or whatever.

(Nope, Tivos still don't have On-Demand! Sadly, the cable companies still leave that locked to their own devices for now. Even though they could easily enable any properly designed device/software to access the same systems as their pile of crap DVRs and Set-top boxes.)

I CANNOT STAND Family Guy and its spin-offs.  So far it hasn't, but if The Orville heads in that direction, with all the lame non sequitur zingers, then the TV goes off.