If the bottle was uncapped, then the pressure inside should be equal to the pressure outside regardless of gravity, so it wouldn’t crush. If it were capped, it might crush (depending on the strength of the bottle) because the pressure inside would be lower. (You can do that experiment right here on Earth, btw.)
It wouldn’t be crushed due to atmospheric pressure.
If the gravity was extremely high the can would rapidly accelerate towards the ground and pancake like a bullet hitting a wall. So maybe that could happen, but it’s a high gravity planet not a star. 4 feet of acceleration to that effect did not make sense.
It would have taken a *lot *of gravity for a bottle to compact that flat after that short a fall. I don’t know how much, but much more than merely 2 or 3 times Earth’s gravity.
well - Kytus caught Bortus @ the Holodeck - why do you think Klytus was going there?
This episode was the first I’d seen. And, as a sci-fi fan, I was impressed.
Even though I knew nothing of the characters, the writers* gave us enough to quickly understand and feel for Alara. Though I was waiting for her to prevail through “superior deductive skills”. The sets and effects were well done, and Alana’s home planet was gorgeous.
I thought the acting security guy was just the right amount of humor. I may have blurted out “Hey, it’s Puddy! I mean, the Tick…”
*I’m assuming a good team, because I can’t believe that this was written by anyone immature enough to give us interminable Peter vs Chicken fights, and six minutes of Conway Twitty.
Actually, my first comment was an amazed “Whoa, Seth grew up when I wasn’t looking.”
Yeah, but I don’t think any of the character development so far was enough to carry the length of that final hug-off.
This episode was actually written by Cherry Chevapravatdumrong, a longtime Family Guy writer. 
Alara and her sister went to the caretaker’s cottage, not the other couple’s claimed beach house. They found his stuff still in his own cottage.
A better episode but still not a great start to season 2. I hope next week delivers on the promised action and maybe a bit more humor.
I was expecting a Rear Window riff myself but the she has is bravery more than street smarts. Dad needed her encouragement to find enough bravery to go out a window. The encouragement he never gave her.
I wondered if they had tried to get Gates McFadden, as well, for the episode?
Agree. It would be nice to hear what Klyden’s life is like. There are jobs that could be done from a ship - does he have one of those?
That would have been nice to see. One could interpret what we see as her parents also disrepecting the toughness that Alara has, which allows her to take action rather than be frozen in fear. So when a weakened Alara manages to take action when her physically fit family can’t make themselves do so, it is showing her parents what Alara can do - not punching, but having the guts to do so.
Yeah.
The computer system in their home lets approved people know where you are if you’re out, just like servants in the 19th century would let people (of the right class) know that the master and his family were at their country estate this week.
My god, yes. That scene went on forever. We get it already.
I’m a little bummed Alara is gone; she was one of the more interesting characters. I kind of hope Patrick Warburton sticks around for a while now, though.
No. They should turn ‘Security Chief of the Week’ into a running joke. Like Murphy Brown’s secretary or Dilbert’s ‘Ted.’
Yep, they wear red shirts, right? Keep that tradition going. To the point future assignees beg and plead for mercy upon learning they’ve been sentenced to the Orville.
That reminds me, this was the second week in a row The Orville was “presented with limited commercial interruptions” according to the announcer guy just before the episodes started. I don’t think that’s a good sign.
Every tv episode ever has extra raw footage that they edit down to fit the allotted time for broadcast. Both this episode and last episode had portions that dragged and could (should) have been edited down, but I get the feeling they were re-edited to extend the running time.
I wonder if they’re having trouble selling advertising.
The latest one was 48 minutes (and maybe some change.) Apparently it is going to be that way all season? Wiki lists 43 min per for season 1, 48 pin per for season 2.
The whole “limited interruption” seems a little odd to many people.
First off, there seems to be just as many breaks, if not more. Seems like every scene change is a commercial break. Except … you get a commercial, an advert for an upcoming show, then The Orville continues. People are complaining the there aren’t limited commercial breaks, but Darren Garrison: right here did the math – there are more minutes of showtime
I’d vented about this sort of regarding Saturday Night: Live. For years its seemed to me that it had become skit…commercial…skit…commercial which really sucks when, as Edward Murphy once admitted, “Not every skit is hysterical.” I claimed the show was effectively shorter, and people here called me out on the logic…if that were true, the DVD would effectively be shorter, and thats not happening to SNL DVDs.
Seems like, a long time ago, movies on TV were two hours long. A 90 minute movie, with a few cuts, was padded out to two hours with commercial breaks. Now tv showings of movies are longer and longer, there’s no shame, on the networks, to play 9 minutes of movie, 4 minutes of commercial, and run the whole thing for four hours. The WIZ, I’m looking at you.
So we’re getting the “DVD on TV” version of The Orville (although Fox can’t call it that, 'cause that’s what TNT network calls it.) Lots of reasons possible for that: like you said, they could trim some scenes, but I guess they want to tell more story. Maybe they’re trying to add value to the show, so what commercials they do sell, they can sell at a premium price, because they can claim the commercial isn’t lost in the shuffle.
Maybe The Orville is like a loss-leader, and as long as people tune in, and keep talking about it, they’ll accept a smaller advertising income. Remember my link a few pages back, Season 3 is already ordered, and the article seems to strongly imply that Fox saves taxes by committing to the cost of the next season of The Orville now.
Just looked at the episode again, and 2x03 is 48 minutes, 26 seconds. So barely 11 1/2 minutes for commercials.
Remember Spock in The Galileo Seven? 2nd in command, smarter than the rest of the ship put together?
Command of a vessel involves much more than just intelligence. It demands the ability to lead. One of the recurring issues explored in the first season of Star Trek was the ability of Spock to be a commander of men, given his inability to empathize with them (lack of emotions). The same issue was eventually explored with Data, specifically in the episode where he’s put in command of one of the fleet of ships trying to blockade the Romulans from getting supplies to their Klingon allies during the Klingon civil war.