The Orville might have survived indefinitely at Fox, but history dictates it could’ve just as easily been the next Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles, Almost Human, or Futurama.
Seth MacFarlane’s The Orville is a great show, but we’ve seen terrible things happen to good genre shows on Fox, such as Firefly, Terra Nova, and even Sleepy Hollow, which went through a quasi-reboot before getting axed.
Basically, The Orville Season 3 arriving at Hulu was a gift, and it eliminates the possibility of MacFarlane’s live-action dramedy becoming yet another great sci-fi that Fox sacrificed.
(Isaac does have a shiny metal ass for others to kiss.)