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The Orville - Season 2

#101
Alkali Ike said:
I loved "Lasting Impressions".

The cigarette gag made me lol several times. I must be going senile.

I do agree that there's something "off" about the relationship between Bortus and Klyden, but hey, they're Moclans. ;)
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Yeah. They very dysfunctional. It's true they're funny as hell, but it rings a lot of wrong bells at the same time. Sort of like a modern Punch and Judy Show.
 
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#102
steve_ss said:
I liked seeing Tim Russ, Tuvok from ST Voyager, as the time capsule scientist guy. Nice touch. I thought the boyfriend of the phone girl was going to be Wil Wheaton from ST Next Gen when I first saw him. Figured out it was someone else in the close up shot.
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Even though I wasn't a fan of Voyager, Tuvok was still a decent character, and seeing anyone from Trek of some sort is kind of cool.

Now it would have been funny if it had been Will Wheaton.
 
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#103
steve_ss said:
The last two, maybe three, episodes were written by Seth himself. I'm sure there are other writers who help, but his name is the only one on the credits.

I might have liked if the Orville people had looked up the phone girl in their computer and found out she had become famous after the time capsule had been placed. Or her great great.... grand child was an Orville crew member, or maybe an ex-girlfriend Gordon dated? Or maybe she had become a mass killer and Gordon tried to clear her name 400 hundred years later. Either way, I kind of liked the episode. Nice and light after some pretty heavy ones.

I liked seeing Tim Russ, Tuvok from ST Voyager, as the time capsule scientist guy. Nice touch. I thought the boyfriend of the phone girl was going to be Wil Wheaton from ST Next Gen when I first saw him. Figured out it was someone else in the close up shot.
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I thought it was Wil Wheaton for a moment also. :laugh::thumbsup:
 
#105
Did you see the April 11 episode, "the Moclan's have a secret"? An interesting episode that reveals... well I won't spoil it but it was an interesting idea. The basic idea wasn't anything new in the history of Star Trek stories, but Bortas was shown in a good way and his husband is still a jerk. They need a divorce. Loved seeing the many many different alien species in the council chambers. They must have had every rubber mask maker in Hollywood working on this episode. Wow. The episode was light on potty humor (thank you), was not written by Seth himself, was directed by Johnathan Frakes (Riker from Star Trek Next Gen), and had a brief appearance by Marina Sirtis (Troi from Next Gen) although it took me a few minutes to figure out it was her. Either she has not aged well or they made her look older for the character. Since Orville can sometimes be a little unpredictable with plot twists, I found the ending to be suspenseful. One of the better episodes in my opinion. Only two more episodes left until the season ends, and one week until the trading card set comes out (The Orville Season One Trading Cards - Rittenhouse Archives).
 
#111
Alkali Ike said:
Very good episode. Nice to see Marina Sirtis (for being 25-30 years since Troi, she looks fine). The Dolly Parton gag made me laugh.

Divorce or at least a very bad breakup seems inevitable.
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I liked this episode a lot. Very good exploration of the familiar ST conundrum of the appropriateness of imposing human moral standards on alien races.

Interesting take on the idea because every member of the union was all for protecting the fugitive colony until the Moclans threatened to stop supplying them with powerful weapons for starships. Watching union member delegates invent justified explanations for letting the colony members be destroyed was fun.

I agree that the writers are setting up something big for Bortus regarding his mate and their son. They've made their situation 100% toxic with no realistic way of keeping their family together.
 
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#113
Ships log, April 18, it's about time they did a time travel story. Again, they managed to pull off an interesting spin on another Star Trek common theme. Seven years younger Cmdr. Grayson was kind of funny. They really did a great job with the split screen special effect of having the same person interact with them self at the same time. Used to be you couldn't have the same person walk in front of them self. Now they actually touched and it all looked really good. If you didn't see this episode, you need to find the clip of Bortus and his mate dancing in the disco club. Funniest thing I've seen in a while.

Now the serious question (and I hope not a spoiler for anyone), did the memory wipe actually work and why did younger Grayson not have the second date with Ed? Does she remember the events of her future and is now living in a different timeline? Will we see changes in the current timeline because of things she knows and did differently in her past time line? OK, my head is spinning now. Thoughts?
 
#114
steve_ss said:
Now the serious question (and I hope not a spoiler for anyone), did the memory wipe actually work and why did younger Grayson not have the second date with Ed? Does she remember the events of her future and is now living in a different timeline? Will we see changes in the current timeline because of things she knows and did differently in her past time line? OK, my head is spinning now. Thoughts?
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The ending actually surprised me. I was expecting the "straight" story closer where everything is wrapped up in a neat package.

I'm assuming the memory wipe failed and she remembers being on the Orville. As to how that affects future episodes, it opens up enormous possibilities. Are we going to see alterations in the present due to changes she made in the timeline? Or will nothing come of it and this last episode stands alone?

The rave party was very interesting. Younger Greyson was having a fantastic time while Ed was bored. It makes you wonder if a younger Ed would have been having fun and if 7 years had changed him so much.

Watching Bortus and his mate "dancing" was pretty funny.
 
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If you watched the preview of the next episode, younger Grayson is facing off with current-time Grayson. Not sure what's going on, but I assume they'll have to fix a rift in the timeline caused by her temporal dislocation & the subsequent change of future events.

Did anyone else notice how tiny younger Grayson's legs were?
I wonder if they did that with some camera trick or CGI or if her legs really are that pencil-thin.

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#116
hbarcat said:
The ending actually surprised me. I was expecting the "straight" story closer where everything is wrapped up in a neat package.

I'm assuming the memory wipe failed and she remembers being on the Orville. As to how that affects future episodes, it opens up enormous possibilities. Are we going to see alterations in the present due to changes she made in the timeline? Or will nothing come of it and this last episode stands alone?

The rave party was very interesting. Younger Greyson was having a fantastic time while Ed was bored. It makes you wonder if a younger Ed would have been having fun and if 7 years had changed him so much.

Watching Bortus and his mate "dancing" was pretty funny.
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All in all, an entertaining and enjoyable episode.
 
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#118
Just watched the season 2 finale and I was impressed.

SPOILER ALERT...

They jumped right into continuing the story from where it left off at the end of the last episode, where Kelly changes the future for everyone by deciding to avoid pursuing a relationship with Ed after she returns to her own past when they first met.

In the new future, Ed never gets to be captain of the Orville and Isaac's robot people succeed in exterminating most sentient life forms in the galaxy.

The majority of the plot consists of the Orville crew reuniting as refugees under the leadership of Kelly, who is the only one who knows that in the true timeline, Ed and his crew in the Orville defeat the robots.

They come up with a plan to restore the timeline, which takes them in their scavenged spaceship to various worlds and exotic places (like hiding inside a black hole and flying thorough a crowded asteroid field that closely resembles the Millenium Falcon scene in Star Wars: Empire).

In the end, all goes according to plan and the timeline is restored, with no one having any recollection of the horrific alternative reality they escaped from.

Lots of cool special effects and fast paced action with numerous battle scenes.

This was hardly a mind bender story, but really just a well done Orville take on the classic "Don't do anything to alter the future" plot.



So what do you think? Like this episode or not? And what about the season in its entirety?
 
#120
the ending of the next to last episode where she turned him down for second date, I said to wife..."she just changed the timeline" and lo and behold the final episode was just that. I hope they get picked up for another season, it is starting to become more enjoyable.
 

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