Well, if anyone has successfully blended humor with the seriousness of a sex change operation performed on an infant, it's Seth MacFarlane. And also infused the reality that you cannot win every fight, not every time.
Seth MacFarlane has explored social issues in "Family Guy" and "American Dad" but in those cases profound realizations are simplified characters of real life. Seth is getting deeper this time, showing us our ugliness and our beauty simultaneously.
Why don't we listen to ourselves, why don't we see ourselves as clearly as his characters see themselves? That is the mirror he shoves in our face, and it can be awkward and uncomfortable at times.
I suggest you learn to laugh at yourself if you are to enjoy the show.
I found this entertainment opinion piece that offers a different perspective.
September 21, 2017
Seth MacFarlane offers a bumpy flight on ‘The*Orville’
Seth MacFarlane offers a bumpy flight on ‘The Orville’ | New York Post
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“The Orville,” only sporadically funny, plays like a live-action version of MacFarlane’s mega-successful animated Fox series, “Family Guy”: Think schlubby Rhode Island dad Peter Griffin as the captain of a massive, “Star Trek”-type space vessel. Throw in that show’s trademark sophomoric humor and you’ve got “The Orville”(with a more svelte captain). But “Family Guy” episodes are only a half-hour. “The Orville” is an hour-long show … and feels like it.
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Perhaps “The Orville” will find its groove as the season progresses; after all, Fox canceled “Family Guy” in 2002, only to bring it back three years later based on its impressive DVD sales.
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