By the way, I missed who wrote the music for the Identity episodes (the show uses a couple of different composers) but there were some absolutely standout musical moments along the way.
Joel McNeely did the score for this episode.
When Isaac broke up with Claire, he didn’t realize he “felt badly” about it until he began malfunctioning and was given a reason to tie that to his emotions.
I can see it being the same with Ty.
-Isaac follows his programming and, in doing so, hurts Ty.
-Isaac experiences flaws in his processing.
-Isaac examines those flaws and finds they are similar to those he experienced with Claire.
-Isaac understands that he has hurt Ty.
Now that Isaac has two data points, he understands that these ‘feelings’ are not anomalies. He extrapolates them to his relationships with the rest of the crew and finds that he cares about all of them.
Thanks! There was a moment in the first episode where the Orville is descending into the Kaylon city that I thought he was referencing Carlos’s music for Tron, but in retrospect I think it was just a similar but unrelated used of descending fourths, combined with the visuals, that made me think so.
Isaac’s turnabout was all too predictable. For all its flaws, though, still an enjoyable episode, I thought.
We saw a Moclan divorce filing, er, stabbing, but not the final disposition of the case, as it were. Indeed, there was a reconciliation.
It was pretty cool. Zipping in and out of the exploding ships and debris fields, and relatively low over the lunar surface, blasting away, made for great eye candy.
I would love that! And then someone can say, “You do a really good Brian, sir.”
Charles Stross’s Saturn’s Children has an interesting take on this. It’s a sf novel set many years after humanity has died out, but all the Asimovian robots are still functioning and have formed a droid society across the Solar System. There’s a race on to clone a human being from ancient tissue samples and thus, exploiting the First Law, rule all the other robots.
I half-expected the Krill commander to look around and say, “Well, we drove off the Kaylons, and now Earth doesn’t seem all that well-defended, does it? Hmm. What an interesting opportunity…”
Yes. As long ago as the late 18th century, the Royal Navy had “private signals” that changed monthly so that its warships on the high seas could, when they encountered another ship, hoist particular signal flags and see, by the response, which were friendly ships and which were only pretending to be.
Yeah. I’ve read just about everything by Stross - good stuff.
Yep. That turns up in the Aubrey/Maturin books.
As an expert in divorcing, I cannot help but wonder if the partner has to die for the divorce to be final. Can I just poke my (former) Beloved so that a single drop of blood is spilled? If I don’t kill her with a single blow, and hack her to death…I guess that is what is called a messy divorce.
These are *Moclans *we’re talking about, remember.
They aren’t divorced since Bortus didn’t die, despite his partner doing his best to snuff him?
Boy, it’s a good thing this Board didn’t exist when Return of the Jedi came out so we couldn’t nitpick the nine (count 'em) cuts to Darth Vader watching Palpatine shock Luke before finally deciding whose side he was on.
Meh, it is the same thing. One is comfortable with one’s group, and it takes a bit for one to realized that values shared with others are wrong.
I’ll happily nitpick anything, and I believe criticism of RotJ is a thing.
Still, I would not compare one hammy scene to making a character inconsistent.
I have gone on record repeatedly on the Dope referencing my utter loathing of RotJ.
Elendil’s Heir, that Stross book sounds great! The premise at least.
I’m softening my expectations for this show and trying to grade it more like a comfortable TNG homage rather than wanting it to be more groundbreaking sci-fi. This last two parter would’ve made a good TNG set of episodes, and on that basis it was pretty entertaining. I said the astrology people episode would’ve been a mediocre episode of TNG, and this last few episodes would’ve been very good episodes of TNG. I’m happy enough with that.
I noticed on the IMDB page, in two episodes the plot description is: "Lasting Impressions The crew opens a time capsule from 2015. "
That has the potential to be way too self indulgent and anvilicious. I’m almost pre-cringing.
2015 (rather than say 2018) is a hilarious and very telling date to pick.
“All the World is Birthday Cake” is still their best episode. 
Still available to rewatch for free on Yahoo View for a couple more days!
Return of the Jedi is not a terrible movie the way the prequels are, but it’s not great, and is a huge step down from the previous two films. That’s quite fair to say, I would think. It merits criticism.
ROtJ is two movies, a good one and a prequel-level of suck one, mixed together. The good one has Luke’s journey to becoming a real Jedi (how he handles the situation with Jabba, ending the emperor and Vader). The bad one involves those damn teddy bears and jub-jub and speeder bikes that exist only for the video games (just like to pod race) and the slapsticky ending of Boba Fett.
I haven’t rewatched it since the 90s. But it doesn’t suck like The Phantom Menace sucks.
Actually Gordon made a “Top Gun” joke as he shot out of the Krill cruiser.
You are wise to draw that distinction. It’s a very cool premise; as literature, I thought, it fell short.
Perhaps that might better have been a boxed spoiler?
Even better:
Ed and Bortus walk onto the bridge, talking:
Bortus: “…nevertheless, I fail to see the humor in either a talking baby or a talking dog.”
Ed: “Really? I love that kind of thing.”
Gordon: “Hey guys, what’s up?”
Ed: “I was just telling Bortus about those old Look Who’s Talking movies.”
Only useful if you’re sure your mutual enemy is fully defeated. Otherwise your side ends up much weaker when the next assault comes.