The Orville (Star Trek Spoof series)

[Fuzz]

I had to pause it when Ed was in Kelly's office asking if she was cool if he dated young Kelly. My wife and I had a good 5 minute laugh of the gal he had doing that, and how that would not fly with anyone, ever. "Oh, ya, sure, go date young me. That's not ####ed up at all."

[Ped]

Last night's episode was a perfect example of when this show is awesome. Just when you think it's going to be a cliche-ridden sci-fi stereotype, they add some truly funny scenes and then put their own little twist on it.


Like Ed and Gordon playing video games and Ed not able to use his controller properly.


And the bar scene, and Yaphit dancing.


It does seem John is being marginalized a bit because he's not on the bridge, but last night he was fairly important.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

I had to pause it when Ed was in Kelly's office asking if she was cool if he dated young Kelly. My wife and I had a good 5 minute laugh of the gal he had doing that, and how that would not fly with anyone, ever. "Oh, ya, sure, go date young me. That's not ####ed up at all."

But she cheated on him! He has transgressions in the bank!!!

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Just watched last two weeks.

Should have saved the Moclan episode for S3. It was ok overall though.

Enjoyed the time travel episode a lot. Interested to see what they do with this.

Liked the guest stars. They’re not just getting core ST cast, they’re bringing in people who also did guest spots.

Did anyone else notice that the actress who plays Kelly has the skinniest legs ever? Not a compliment or an insult, just an observation.

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by Ped

Last night's episode was a perfect example of when this show is awesome. Just when you think it's going to be a cliche-ridden sci-fi stereotype, they add some truly funny scenes and then put their own little twist on it.


Like Ed and Gordon playing video games and Ed not able to use his controller properly.


And the bar scene, and Yaphit dancing.


It does seem John is being marginalized a bit because he's not on the bridge, but last night he was fairly important.

The video game scene was brilliant, now press the left botton the right lever and the X button.


Its why I don't play a lot of modern console games.



We really need a Yaphit episode even though they made him a major part of an episode this year.



Every once in a while John pops his head into an episode in a serious way, but for the most part he's not the Gordon Foil that he used to be.

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger

Just watched last two weeks.

Should have saved the Moclan episode for S3. It was ok overall though.

Enjoyed the time travel episode a lot. Interested to see what they do with this.

Liked the guest stars. They’re not just getting core ST cast, they’re bringing in people who also did guest spots.

Did anyone else notice that the actress who plays Kelly has the skinniest legs ever? Not a compliment or an insult, just an observation.

There was a really low key boob joke in the episode as well. They made sure that young Kelly's were prominant and pushed up and older Kelly not so much.


Sue me I noticed that.



And yeah, Ed wanting to date younger Kelly and asking older kelly for permission was kind of creepy in a way, and the realization that young Kelly wasn't old kelly was a hard realization.

[V]

So the mind wipe didn't work? Is that what they were getting at?

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by V

So the mind wipe didn't work? Is that what they were getting at?

I think that older Kelly sabotaged it somehow because she was forced to look at her life as less then it should have been.

[Ped]

Think you might be right.


The episode title for the finale is "The Road Not Taken"


This is the synopsis, according to imdb:

Spoiler!

The crew must contend with the disastrous fallout from Kelly's decision.

[CaptainCrunch]

I keep thinking that

Spoiler!

We'll zoom to an alternative time line after Kelly changes everything, she's the Captain of the Orville


Ed who's confidence was wrecked by her rejection is a junior crewman.


We go to the battle of Earth against the Kaylon. Kelly doesn't send anyone to get the Krill help and earth loses and we see the extermination of mankind and Ed and Kelly are the only survivors in a shuttle after the Orville is destroyed with all hands, and she confesses to Ed that she screwed with the time line.


The feeling is the show is going to be renewed as the ratings have been good over the last few weeks, so it would be a good cliff hanger. But if the show is cancelled having the darkest ending to a series ever would be something that Seth would do.

[CaptainCrunch]

Great season ending episode, now we wait for a renewal.

Spoiler!

I was partially right, Kelly turning down the second date lead to Ed becoming the Captain of a star base, and a different captain on the Orville who allowed the Kaylon to attack and cruelly destroy the earth.


In order the save the original time line Claire has to go back in time to fix the mind wipe on Kelly and hope that she has a second date with Ed.


I loved the pacing of the episode, the jeopardy scenes with the Kaylon were fast paced and well done. There were two shout outs to Star Wars, one with Yaphet doing the door thing ala ROTJ, and the asteroid scene chase.


The effects looked really good in this episode and the music when the Orville rose from the bottom of the ocean was very Wrath of Khan.


It was good to see Aliria again, though she was the jaded freedom fighter.


They had the false finish with the time warp going wrong and the orville exploding and the scene going black for several seconds. But in the end Kelly accepted the mind wipe and the second date with Ed.


Overall I liked this season, but the Finale was really well done and tense and well acted.

[craigwd]

My heart was glowing.....

Spoiler!

when Alara made an appearance

[CaptainCrunch]

I like that

Spoiler!

She wasn't the unsteady child anymore. I assume that they blew up the facility in the end.


Isaac wasn't redeemed in the end of that time line.


Overall just a solid episode.

[Ped]

"I swam in my shirt until I was 20."


Good episode, but I wish they would stay away from the sci-fi tropes a little more.


Nitpicking, but if Ed never captained a starship, never mind the Orville, how did he know the code to get on the bridge?

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by Ped

"I swam in my shirt until I was 20."


Good episode, but I wish they would stay away from the sci-fi tropes a little more.


Nitpicking, but if Ed never captained a starship, never mind the Orville, how did he know the code to get on the bridge?

Maybe its a universal code.

[zamler]

That episode was riddled with plot holes and technical errors or questionable tech stuffs. I think they should have done it as a two parter (or maybe more) and dropped some of the Bortus nonsense.

[Ped]

Bortus?

Wasn't he only in like 3 scenes?

[zamler]

I'm talking a few of the previous episodes.

[Traditional_Ale]

The episode suffered from numerous critical defects, but I still enjoyed it a lot. Nice to see the Lamar character take a turn to actually shine a bit.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Traditional_Ale

The episode suffered from numerous critical defects, but I still enjoyed it a lot. Nice to see the Lamar character take a turn to actually shine a bit.

Ironically, this is something thats really true to Trek.

Most of the time Star Trek wasnt perfect and suffered from a lot of the same issues, but you charge ahead with the story anyways and its still enjoyable.