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Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Sat Jul 20, 2019 10:40 pm Look into getting a piHole to use as your DNS.

Z-Corn wrote:

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Sat Jul 20, 2019 10:40 pm Look into getting a piHole to use as your DNS.

Will this make the commercials disappear?

I built a piHole a couple months ago but never got past the stage of testing it on just a couple of laptops around the house. I never moved all devices to it because the piHole doesn't play nice with my VPN service.

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Sun Jul 21, 2019 1:45 pm

Z-Corn wrote:

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Sat Jul 20, 2019 10:40 pm Look into getting a piHole to use as your DNS.

Will this make the commercials disappear?

I built a piHole a couple months ago but never got past the stage of testing it on just a couple of laptops around the house. I never moved all devices to it because the piHole doesn't play nice with my VPN service.

It’s supposed to. I do not have one, but have heard good things, and will likely pay a friend of mine to build me one.

Lassr wrote: ↑Sun Jul 21, 2019 11:21 am Damn. Guess I'll do like I do for the CBS All Access Star trek (If I decide I want to keep watching). Wait until it comes out on DVD and then wait for a sale or cheap on ebay. Got Season 1 of Star Trek for $8.99 last week.

This marks the first divorce for Palicki, and the third for Grimes. He previously married Dawn Bailey in 1997, and Megan Moore in 2011. She was previously engaged to Captain America: Civil War and Avengers: Infinity War stuntman Jackson Spidell, but they split before getting married.

Like other productions, filming on The Orville was put on hold when Hollywood went on lockdown in March. Shooting on the third season had started in October 2019 and they were a bit shy of halfway done at the time of the halt. According to a source with the production, cameras will start rolling again in the first week of December.

Prep work for restarting season three has already begun, with some people already at work on the Fox lot in Century City, CA. Most of the cast and crew are expected to be on set after Thanksgiving weekend for rehearsals and to do some pick-up shots. Production will continue through December until the Christmas and New Year break, and then restart in early January.

It is expected that work under strict COVID protocols to complete season three will take five or six months in total. Production will restart on the Fox lot, with location shooting in Southern California also being planned. The Orville creator/executive producer Seth MacFarlane and executive producer Jon Cassar will continue to split directing duties for the rest of the season.

Sudy wrote: ↑Thu May 27, 2021 4:36 am I decided to give this another try after brushing it off a few years ago. I watched the second episode, then re-watched the first one, and then the third. I just kind of hate Seth MacFarlane, in general. Not as a human being or even as an actor, but his cheap, crass humour. 20% of the jokes in these episodes land. Another 20% are amusing. 20% are innocuous but inoffensive. But the other 40% are cringeworthy. I don't know why the helmsman character exists. I don't want him to. The navigator isn't much better, and feels a bit like an offensive caricature to this point. Most of the female characters are genuinely interesting, though hackneyed. Everything about this show is hackneyed... and it never rises to the level of satire. Yet... as hero worship, it somehow succeeds. It's evident there's a lot of love put into it, and there's great attention to detail. After now having watched three seasons of Discovery and one season of Picard, this really does feel more like Star Trek than anything since Enterprise.

The CGI ranges from bad to decent. The music is excellent, though the mimicry is a little too evident. The alien/creature makeup is outstanding. The dramatic writing, while again never feeling fresh, is really solid though. There's some real depth and nuance, which is especially surprising so early in what was originally a network series. I wish it dropped the gag comedy though.

I have a hard time saying I like it, but I certainly like elements of it. I'm looking forward to watching more.

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Sat Jul 20, 2019 10:36 pmI've been using Hulu since the $0.99 Black Friday sale last year and I don't know if I'll renew it - the commercials are the worst.