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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9563345" data-attributes="member: 18">The other thing that's kind of wack about The Orville is the really Boomer musical references. It's like, with TNG/DS9, yeah absolutely they had some really Boomer musical stuff, but that was because it was the 1980s and 1990s, and they were talking about music that the showrunners grew up with (they were Boomers, age-wise) and that was, at the time, only from like 30 years ago.Whereas The Orville has similar musical tastes, but MacFarlane is a young Gen Xer, he's 51, he's barely older than me (a very old Millennial/Xennial/Generation Oregon Trail), and the first season was 2017, so that kind of music was more like 55-60 years old - certainly from before MacFarlane was even born! I've never been sure if this was intentional if odd nod to TNG/DS9, or if MacFarlane just really likes the Oldies. Like Oldies so old even some Boomers (like my parents) see them as from "before their time".It doesn't ruin the show or anything but it is peculiar and worth being prepared for!</blockquote>