The Orville : New Horizons

Episode 4 made no sense, why would you send representants when imminent election results could change everything? Either galactic union is very naive or just stupid.

The whole "Naa, it'll be fine" attitude just makes them look incompetent.
 
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Episode 6 was rather good. They actually did some research into temporal paradoxes and time dilation and how current understanding of relativity plays out as the ship gets close to light speed. Nice to see recognised science for a change.

This also poses some serious philosophical questions about interstellar travel about life out there that can do it, but we may never see just because of this very premise. Maybe a discussion for another thread :p
 
crikey this is actually a decent show

you care about the characters
the science bits actually have some sense to them and like in this episode quite clever ways out of things
even the moral argument parts are pretty good

nice work
 
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Ep 6 very good, though you could kind of predict where it was going from the opening scenes where
Gordon was showing off the replicated mobile phone.

You saw a new side to Ed and Kelly at their unrelenting determination to correct things even though
It meant Gordon losing the wife and children he had by going native.

The only downer that spoiled it slightly was the ending where
Gordon accepted quite philosophically what had occurred, would have been more dramatic impact if he'd been a bit ******.

And of course with all time travel paradoxes, as the events in the first scenario were experienced and remembered, does that mean an alternative timeline had spurred and would continue, meaning
Stranded Gordon and his family would continue to exist with him living to 96 as originally recorded on the ship's records.
 
Vern1961 said:
The only downer that spoiled it slightly was the ending where
Gordon accepted quite philosophically what had occurred, would have been more dramatic impact if he'd been a bit ******.
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I think Gordon's response made sense

He broke federation rules and you can't miss something that's never happened
 
Vern1961 said:
The only downer that spoiled it slightly was the ending where
Gordon accepted quite philosophically what had occurred, would have been more dramatic impact if he'd been a bit ******.
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smokedog said:
I think Gordon's response made sense

He broke federation rules and you can't miss something that's never happened
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FDor me it would have been better if they had got him back, never told him about his wife and kid(s) but because of the intricacies of time travel/paradoxes, he was different towards them without knowing why.
 
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Oh indeed, but I just think after all the poignant build up it kind of fizzled the whole thing out a bit.
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Yeah totally agree, I wondered if theyd shot that epilogue later in place of a much darker ending. The only other thing I could think is that it'll come back in a later episode (not that there's much room left for that!).

I'm still enjoying the Orville but this series (so far) has felt like a collection of stories/ideas that weren't quite good enough for series 1 and 2. Still better than star trek discovery though obviously :D
 
Very good episode this week, lots of underlying messages to soak in as we are reaching this sort of stage with AI/machine singularity in the coming decade. Also quite cool episode in general with the core story.

Great stuff.
 
Just finished the last 3 episodes - fantastic! Really good writing, visuals etc.

I'm still not sure it knows what type of show it is though. The episode where men are subservient had some real lol moments and slapstick comedy and then we're off to child torture! Not complaining, just an observation.

What started as a parody type of show has gone from strength to strength.
 
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ivrytwr3 said:
Just finished the last 3 episodes - fantastic! Really good writing, visuals etc.

I'm still not sure it knows what type of show it is though. The episode where men are subservient had some real lol moments and slapstick comedy and then we're off to child torture! Not complaining, just an observation.

What started as a parody type of show has gone from strength to strength.
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Yea, that was...weird, perhaps something can be done on Hulu and Seth realised what "more" they could do..I mean that moment with the pain stick things jammed right to the eye lol, out of nowhere.
Plus it was near 1hr.30mins.
I remember reading though Seth did straight up want to make a serious Star Trek show in his own style, but because it was so close was told Paramount would go after them, so he wrote it as a " parody" as a legal work around, and just worked some jokes in here and there. Usually with these things when they see the material the legal guard is dropped after a short while.
 
cu3ed said:
Yea, that was...weird, perhaps something can be done on Hulu and Seth realised what "more" they could do..I mean that moment with the pain stick things jammed right to the eye lol, out of nowhere.
Plus it was near 1hr.30mins.
I remember reading though Seth did straight up want to make a serious Star Trek show in his own style, but because it was so close was told Paramount would go after them, so he wrote it as a " parody" as a legal work around, and just worked some jokes in here and there. Usually with these things when they see the material the legal guard is dropped after a short while.
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I think at this point Paramount should hire Seth lol.
 
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