The Orville

[robbo203]

I wonder if peeps here have come acorss this new comedy series? Its about the adventures of the spaceship "The Orville".  The series  has quite a wry sense of humour and Im becoming quite hooked on it.

 

Last nights episode (episode 7 "majority rule" ) is about an exploratory visit by some crew members to a planet very much like Earth where, to the bafflement of these crew members, people continue to use something called money.  Ed, the captain, descibes the primitive system on this planet as capitalism,   Its shaping up to be something like Star Trek with its own references to a moneyless economy  but with humour added

 

Also, on this planet everybody gets to vote on literally everything – there is absolute democracy – and people are judged on their behaviour by others.  If you accunmulate a certain level of negative points you get to be lobotomised.   It did so remind me of our own dear LBird's contributions to this forum

 

Anyways,  have a look and be prepared to chuckle

https://www.fox.com/the-orville/

[Dave B]

i had not heard of it before but will ask. i have plenty of sci fi tv fans who download and watch this kind of non UK terrestial stuff. just found this; https://www.reddit.com/r/TheOrville/comments/73a57k/is_orville_communist/

[Dave B]

one of my commie sci fi friends has been watching it thinks it is fairly good , mildly entertaining funny but a bit simple. has seen about 8 episodes

[Bijou Drains]

Dave B wrote:

one of my commie sci fi friends has been watching it thinks it is fairly good , mildly entertaining funny but a bit simple. has seen about 8 episodes

I have a couple of Trot mates who are the same, mildly entertaining but a bit simple

[robert.cox]

I tried to follow the link to watch the showIt told me I was subject to a 'geographical restriction'I take it Fox TV is not affiliated to the WSM then?

[Dave B]

i I believe terrible people are downloading all sorts of ‘free’ ‘communist’copies of tv viewing from the internet. To avoid pay per view channels. And people are apparently scurrying around with 132 GB memory sticks with 300 hours of tv on it? Just like they took down huge chunks of Karl’s material. As fast as they shut them down they open up elsewhere. It can be quite funny really. Apparently a 9 year old French child had translated a Harry potter book from English to French and put it up on the internet with 48 hours of the book being available in English. It was decent translation apparently. I think you could start getting pay per view ‘The Orville’ in the UK in December. This copyright thing is a pain in the arse for scientists.  Ten year ago or so you could have arrangements with libraries to have copies of scientific literature sent to you at something like 200 papers for a £200 pound subscription. Then they changed it to about £20 each to see the whole thing. Which is crap as only about one in twenty turn out to be useful as often the shits who write them make the abstracts or summaries of the content to look better than they are. The people who write them do it for free mostly, I never got paid for the five I have written but would have to pay £20 to see my own stuff and I am not allowed to circulate it. I suppose it made some capitalist sense when it cost stuff to put it in scientific paper mags but it is crazy these days. People are putting their pHD theses’s online now and some of it is really interesting and useful which would have been totally inaccessible a few years ago. There was an interesting legal case recently in the US about Martin Luther King’s I have a dream speech being placed under copyright.  I mentioned it to another leftie friend who is a judge and she couldn’t believe it. Sent her some stuff on it.  There was an article/ review  in the SS recently on a book on the rentier economy that I thought was OK.

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