Hahahaha. I think deep down inside I suspected what was going to happen. Either the Kaylon moved to a new planet and started their own civilization or they replaced their biological creators.
I’m always interested in arguing about Star Wars, LOL; but since it’s a hijack I’m going to spoiler box the topic:
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For me it does suck worse than TPM, and the Jabba/Emperor/Vader stuff are actually the worst parts. Especially Emperor/Vader.
And “Revenge of the Sith” is actually a good movie, other than the one horribly cringey “Noooo!” But that’s one brief cheesy moment in a two hour film.[/spoiler]
Ah, interesting. Maybe he should have tried to find a writing partner. I have thought of doing that myself, as I have a bunch of what I think are really cool premises/outlines for hard SF stories, but although I consider myself a good nonfiction/op-ed type writer, I suck at writing dialogue or evocative descriptions. (I would have been fine in the 1950s, LOL, when that was par for the course in SF.)
Cosigned. Every time the issue of next episode previews has come up on any forum I’ve participated in, there’s a solid contingent (but probably not a majority) who agrees with us (I avoid all previews like the plague, and I’m guessing you do the same?), while everyone else is kind of baffled that it’s even an issue. Even if we’re outnumbered, hopefully the spoiler box allows everyone to be happy? It would be much appreciated. 
As to Revenge of the Sith, my dear SlackerInc, you’ll like this: Star War The Third Gathers: The Backstroke of the West | Star Wars Fanpedia | Fandom
Bleh. If you want to consider something that has already been aired on TV as part of the latest episode as a “spoiler”, perhaps you should wait until the season is over to read threads. Or until the series is cancelled. If it’s been broadcast as far as the International Date Line, it’s fair game for discussion IMHO.
Except we’re talking about the episode two weeks from now, not about something that has already aired.
SlackerInc said “next episode previews”, and in combination with his request from last week it’s clear that he’s referring to the 30 second preview that airs over the credits at the end of the episode. And when you’re speculating what’s going to happen next week, I think anything that’s aired is fair game.
That’s quite different from Elendil Heir’s request of spoiler tags for out-of-band info on future episodes.
Maybe if someone has actual inside information about the episode, then spoiler-box it.
But for the one-line episode descriptions from IMDB, or information in commercials or “Tune in Next Week!” previews? I think spoiler boxes are absurd for public-domain stuff like that.
I’m actually normally one of the people who requests that people spoiler box the previews for upcoming episodes. It’s like how movie trailers give away most of the plot these days - trailer and previews are created by marketing teams, not the people who wrote the show, and so they’re not very careful not to reveal plot information and spoil the episode. I always avoid “next week on…” previews and generally try to avoid trailers for movies I plan to see.
It just didn’t occur to me that in this particular case a description of a part of a plot unrelated to anything we’ve seen so far could be considered a spoiler. If the description of a future episode was “The Kaylon regroup and prepare to attack the Union again”, I could totally see why that would be spoilery, because that would give away a significant plot point with the overall season arc, I just didn’t think a vague description like “the crew finds a time capsule” could merit being a spoiler, since it very likely has no bearing on anything we’ve seen or any ongoing plotlines, and is only a vague description of the episode.
That said, no problem, I’ll spoiler box it if I list descriptions from future episodes again.
Speaking of the Kaylon and upcoming episodes, it occurred to me that it would be a really interesting plot point if the Krill warped out of Earth space, and went straight to Kaylon and exterminated them… in Avis’ name, leaving Isaac really, truly alone, and leaving Grayson and Malloy to deal with the idea that they basically set up a genocide.
Not that I really think the Orville will get quite so heavy (that seems almost Babylon 5 level heavy).
So the Krill religion state that all non-Krill are soulless (you know, like robots), and we were told (implied to?) that the Krill didn’t become super fanatical until after they made it into interstellar space. Presumably that means there are still plenty of Krill who are not xenocidal nutbags.
My prediction is that the war against the Kaylon will become a kind of holy war for the Krill and that some yet-unrevealed moderate Krill leaders (the Krill commander from this episode, maybe Teleya) will use it as a path towards coexistence with the rest of the galaxy.
I could go for that. Roughly analogous to the unaggressive renegade Borg of some later ST episodes.
Every society has it’s heretics and atheists.
Well, this latest one might have been somewhat derivative, but overall I thought it was a tense and enjoyable hour.
And the Krill even have “progressive” factions in their leadership. Also it looks like the Union may get it’s very own Maquis.
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So, did I miss what they did with explosive girl? Seems to me, they should have handed her over.
I think she exploded?
Yeah, that was a bit of a mess. When last seen they had flooded her compartment with N2 to keep her from spontaneously exploding, and set up a force field in case she did anyway. There was no follow up.
It was a nitrogen purge, not flood.
I assumed she was pretty safely imprisoned. I was a little surprised that there was no mention at all of her fate.
Contact with N2 is what makes the blood explode. So they purged the N2 from her cabin. Presumably they added helium or something other noble gas to replace the N2.
I’m very annoyed they decided to muddle the difference between plasma as in “the liquid that blood is comprised of” and “a conductive ionized gas”.
In any case she’s dead, either exploded or handed over to be killed by Krill (who may go and kill all of her race as a preventative measure).