We will see that sandwich again.
So what was the point of Ed telling Gordon they’d just jump back 10 years? All that did was cause Gordon, his wife, and child emotional distress. Yes, Ed is himself a father and told a child that he was never going to be born. That’s despicable. O
As soon as they realized they could jump back another 10 years that should have been plan A, not plan B.
I’m disappointed the Johnny Knoxville/Jack McBrayer version of “The Odd Couple” doesn’t actually exist
Agreed! Isaac and Charly should have been sent off to mine the whatever-it-was they needed, and Ed and Kelly should never have even tried to find Gordon in 2025.
My understanding is that they were only able to make the second jump by using the stuff they mined.
I dunno, but I went back to that shot and saw that the year on the registration tag was actually 2025. That’s some pretty good attention to detail.
On reflection, I’m fairly confident that the plate is a mock-up. Certain details that are currently on California plates are missing.
Makes you wonder who had the “Orville” plate.
Yeah. I suppose they might have wanted to reduce the risks of taking another trip by giving Malloy another chance to change his mind, but if that didn’t work, just leave.
The use of time dilation to get back to the present makes sense, but I had to wonder what Earth thought about the ship that had been headed toward them for 200 years, very slowly (by their FTL standards). I’d have checked that mystery ship out
For that matter, what was the point of even going to see Gordon in the first place? I’m pretty sure that Admirals Perry and Halsey, et al will have some questions when they make their report.
Physics question. If a star is 200 light years away and they’re traveling at almost the speed of light, shouldn’t it take them about 200 years to get there, regardless of how time is passing on Earth? Why “just a few minutes?”
It was time dilaiton:
To the rest of the Universe, it was hundreds of years passing. To the people on the Orville, though, it was only a few minutes. One of the weirder bits of physics. A lot of people have a hard time with this, but if you look at the “Experimental testing” section on Wikipedia, you’ll see we’ve actually measured this in real life, just not at the extremes used in the show. If you look at the pop culture section, you’ll see it’s been used in other books and shows.
My guess? Yet another Malloy from a different time line.
Chekhov’s Sandwich.
If Charley and Isaac had gone to a certain cave in San Francisco would they have found Data’s head?
Seth McFarland
They went and talked to him because he is their friend and they respect him. Going behind his back and snagging him from 2015 might be easier for them, just like never even telling him they did try to get him in 2025 and about the family he’d had there would be easier–but if you love and care for a person you give him the CHOICE and that requires full disclosure.
Besides, the timeline with the family is still going on AND his family knows that he intentionally left his old life, abandoned his career and friends and everything else he knew to stay with them and care for them. How many of us get THAT much proof that someone really loves us? I’d love to see how that timeline works out.
I believe that the closer you come to approaching the actual speed of light C, the greater the time dilation becomes.
I’m thinking maybe that was Seth’s car they used.
I enjoyed the two most recent episodes. Loved Isaac calmly arm-wrestling at the biker bar. I thought the realtor stayed upstairs 'way too long, though, while the young ensign and Isaac were doing their drilling in the basement.
And I understand about being honest with your friends, but I think it would’ve been a kindness for Ed, Kelly and the others to agree never to tell Gordon about his wife and kids (for that matter, given what we know of his character, I think he was much too easygoing about the revelation of the averted timeline, once he was told). How did they find him in the wilds of Connecticut when they returned, anyway? Scan for the energy signature of his beam weapon?
Talla and LaMarr look like they may have a thing goin’ on now… or was that just a one-time clinch in Engineering?
It was funny… but mean, too. Wouldn’t they have rehearsed beforehand? I thought Bortus might’ve lost his audience right then, snapping like that at the doctor’s young son.
Well… it looks so much better/different than ST:TOS that I don’t see how it can’t be an alternate timeline. Unless they made everything look the same as Sixties-era TV (as they did so well for the DS9 “Tribbles” episode, for instance, with such retro charm), I think it has to be regarded as an AT.
Hmm. Remind me, did Isaac personally kill anyone? I seem to recall he went along with the Alpha Kaylon who came aboard the Orville for awhile, even after the top droid got all murdery.
FTW, on two levels!
It doesn’t matter how it looks. That’s a function of RL technology, not a function of the story.