• TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.ca
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    I’ve just started season two and this is kind of how I feel too. It’s not a bad show, but a lot of it is just mediocre. The characters are especially bad since they all feel like bizarre caricatures of Star Trek memes and the attempt at comedy often feels out of place.

    The Orville, for all it’s silliness, had much better writing and characters that actually felt genuine.

    The show is entertaining enough for me to keep watching though.

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      Yeahhh… Every once in a while, there’s a solid episode! But pretty often, it feels to me like their big dramatic moment doesn’t actually follow from the rest of the events.

      I still enjoy SNW, but I can’t see myself going back to rewatch it, like I’m rewatching DS9 right now.

      I’ve never seen The Orville, but I hear a lot of good things about it around here! I just finished Babylon 5 for the first time, and after that, SNW really does feel all the more poorly written.

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        And that’s with some, frankly, terrible acting in the first season of B5!

        Definitely check out The Orville. It took me a few episodes to realize that it is a comedy first, but after that the serious episodes felt strange to me 😅