Being posted on a* social networking site* kinda undercuts your position. Just sayin’ 
But the SDMB is less social than most.
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You tell 'em, pal!
This show continues to be good. And Fox appear to be showing them in order, too! Amazing.
When you can get Liam Neeson for a cameo in your fourth episode, that means you’re doing something right.
Star Trek is dead to me. I don’t know what STD is, but it ain’t Star Trek. I’d rather go watch my DVDs.
And Charlize Theron tonight. Both she and Liam Neeson were in “A Million Ways To Die In The West.” MacFarlane, whatever his other strengths, seems to be able to develop loyalty in good actors. I fully expect to see Mark Wahlberg in a future episode.
Still enjoying it. Hopefully it doesn’t have one foot in the grave.
TV By the Numbers gives the show an excellent chance of being renewed for a second season. Yay!
I’m surprised no one has mentioned the eating scene. That was SO frakking funny! I think they have gotten more judicious with the humor, which I appreciate, but I also feel that the quality level of the humor has gone up when they do use it.
And that’s actually the one flaw in this episode for me (otherwise, I thought it was the best yet and up there with some of the great *Trek *episodes). I thought for sure this would be like “Nightfall” and people would freak out to see night for the first time (and add in here, unlike in the Asimov story, seeing the sky’s *roof *open for the first time). Especially since no one had warned them what was going to happen.
It’s funny: my wife came in at that exact moment. She hasn’t seen a single second of the show otherwise, so she was like “Jesus, what kind of sick shit are you watching?” I tried to explain that the show’s overall tone actually isn’t like that at all, and had to kind of laugh that of the approximately ten thousand seconds of airtime the show has had up to this point (not including the fifth episode, which I haven’t yet seen), she came in during the very few seconds when it would come across like that.
I definitely took it that way. Love triangle coming up!
Agree 100 percent.
Right? It kind of makes me mad.
I’m sure it had nothing to do with their being gay. But it seemed beyond obvious to me that it had everything to do with being male.
Well, it doesn’t smell like hamster.
That was a literal lol
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Damn, this show is improving. With TNG, I was just watching and learning characters and kind of blah at this point. Into the second season, I think I was still blah on it. Watched it because it was Trek, and there wasn’t much sci-fi on TV. The Orville is making me look forward to the next episode already.
I was a little distracted at first by the casting of Theoron, but Seth and Charlize picked right up where they left off with, “A Million Ways to Die in the West.” They worked well together, Seth seemed at ease and more in-character than I sometimes think he is. He was more, “Ed Mercer” than Seth with lines.
Funniest Thing Yet: The amputated leg falling through the ceiling in the middle of a serious scene. Chekov’s leg. And yes, that WAS one hell of a practical joke. I knew engaging Isaac in a prank contest was a bad idea.
It’s very Trek, and yet, not Trek. I think they’re already finding themselves and the tone of the show going forward. I think the humor will be a little less frequent and scattershot, but used to better effect than in the first couple of episodes, and there will be a casual humor about their interpersonal relationships that wasn’t evident on Trek for the most part.
People still can’t seem to get time travel right. She wouldn’t just vanish under any conventional understanding of time travel. She’d be stuck in the past, that’s all. Unless they are going to say no one will remember that this episode happened. Which is equally as bad, but in a different way.
Other than that, another awesome episode!
More thoughts: Alara is the least effective security officer ever. She stood there while Kelly and Pria did a 15th-round heavyweight slugfest on the bridge. Also, the “jar of pickles” line continues to appear. What is that, in three of the first four episodes? I should double-check that before the show count gets too high, and update the pickle count every episode.
They need a cat fight. Fanservice.
I think that line is funny.
I felt that this episode was a little weaker than the last two, but it was still pretty darn good. I did enjoy Isaac’s “practical joke” on Malloy - in a way, it’s really no harm done since 25th-century medicine is apparently able to regrow limbs in a matter of hours.
During the scene in engineering, Mercer quotes the ship’s top speed as being 10 light-years per hour. It’d be interesting to see if they keep to that number in future episodes.
The ploy of having Isaac upload himself to the ship’s mainframe was a clever one I didn’t see coming, but I have to wonder whether the Orville’s mainframe would actually be powerful enough to run “Isaac.exe”, as it were. You see PCs that were built 3 or 4 years ago struggle to run the latest releases - it seems to beggar belief that the Orville’s systems could accommodate a sapient AI from a culture significantly more technologically advanced than its own.
I liked the use of the Seinfeld clip in the opening, but again, the constant reliance on latter-day pop culture references makes one wonder if pop culture just stopped in 2017 and nothing memorable or culturally influential happened between then and 2418.
I like the pickle line as well, kinda why I’m noticing it. It’s silly, so stupid it comes back around to being funny.
I read somewhere that every episode of, “Family Guy” has the phrase, “What the HELL, Peter?” or “Peter, what the HELL?”
10 ly/hr is 87,600 ly/yr, right? So pretty much our entire galaxy is within a year of travel. But more than 25 years to M31. So 3,000 ships to cover the Milky Way is spreading things pretty thin. Just trying to get a feel for this universe. Must build more ships; make more people.
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Poetic license.
Mercer finds someone and has to lose her to save his ship.
The scripting of this show seems to be a random reshuffling of A, B, and C plots from Star Trek (TOS or TNG) episodes. And it’s working for me. There’s a kind of hey!nostalgia thing going on watching each episode, trying to remember which old Trek plot I’m being reminded of.
Yeah, the time travel stuff doesn’t hold up. Charlize told them that the Orville was supposed to be destroyed in the dark matter storm (cool sfx), but her distress call had diverted their course, so the only reason they were in the dark matter storm was because she came back in time and interfered. Then, when they destroyed the wormhole in their time, it didn’t exist in her time to come back… so they should have been back to being destroyed?
Since she didn’t come back to interfere - they never altered course and never encountered the DarkMatter storm.
OR
Since they changed the past/future AFTER surviving the DarkMatter storm - they are then free to choose what happens next.
Time travel always gives me a headache.
That actually seems surprisingly true to Trek, which frequently portrayed its twenty-fourth century characters as being obsessed with twentieth-century culture. From Picard’s love of “Dixon Hill,” pulp detective, to the way everyone on Deep Space Nine liked to hang out in a 60s-style Vegas nightclub listening to a Rat Pack-ish lounge singer, to Tom Paris’s using an old sci-fi movie serial as the basis of his holodeck program, people’s appreciation of popular entertainment pretty much stops about 400 years before they were born.
To be fair - its very hard to come up with pop culture references that don’t yet exist.