The Orville - 1.09: Cupid's Dagger

[REBerg]

1.09 Cupid's Dagger

I hope that the Navarians shed a bit of that headgear when mating
season ends.

Silly enough for Graham Chapman's Colonel character to show up and call a halt to the episode.

Spoiler

If Darulio's irresistible "in heat" pheromones served a reproductive function, why did they affect not only other species but male members of those species? At least it gave Kelly a morality-free explanation for her indiscretions -- maybe.

 

[J Riff]

Dumbdown in space. The real problem with this show is that it portrays ETs as equally dim... as humans.... and that can't happen.

 

[Vince W]

1.09 Cupid's Dagger

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I hope that the Navarians shed a bit of that headgear when mating
season ends.

Silly enough for Graham Chapman's Colonel character to show up and call a halt to the episode.

Spoiler

If Darulio's irresistible "in heat" pheromones served a reproductive function, why did they affect not only other species but male members of those species? At least it gave Kelly a morality-free explanation for her indiscretions -- maybe.

Dentistry on their planet is positively British!

 

[Dave]

I can't see this yet.

The Orville is called to mediate a peace treaty between two warring cultures, but tensions run even higher between Ed and Kelly when a familiar face boards the ship. Meanwhile Yaphit declares his love for Dr. Finn with surprising results.

So, this episode is basically a farce?

Other than it was quite a sausage fest.

Do they get Bortus to eat sausages?

 

[ctg]

Do they get Bortus to eat sausages?

I should clarify that I was talking about man sausage.

 

[Caledfwlch]

Dentistry on their planet is positively British!

Oi!!!

We have Dentists! it's just they are very expensive, if your working, but your not degree educated with a middle class professional job, the fee's are simply impossible to afford!
I don't think you can get insurance for Cosmetic Dentistry either, that's all loans/finance plans and so on.
Even the lower middle classes are struggling to survive these days, everything is so expensive.

I think I looked at basic general medical insurance via BUPA etc for me and my ex fiance when I was living in Yorkshire, and even if I wasn't Diabetic, the prices were shocking and totally unaffordable!
The whole of Britain is going completely crazed with prices of even basic things, and Brexit is making it worse, and post brexit? It is going to be an utter financial nightmare for ordinary Britons.

A Nice Smile tends not be considered terribly important because of the cost of living Americans are so lucky they live somewhere where prices are much lower, and consumers seem to have more power in many ways.

Still, if my ex fiance hadn't been such a Party Chick, we could have probably gotten some amazing smiles and american style teeth lol
She had her first night clubbing in Doncaster out with her new wok colleagues, and I got the shock of my life at 7am when I went to the bank to grab some cash to get milk etc, and discovered she had spent £120. She is one of them, she will be ridiculously generous anyway, and buy her mates a couple of cocktails, and her new colleagues quickly clocked on to the fact that she was generous, and immediately began trying to take advantage and use her, sob stories, amazing, timely financial accidents and incidents involving totally unexpected direct debits hitting their account that day, or their nasty boyfriend had spent most of their cash on whatever, so they will stay for a drink, then go home and so on, so she would be all, no stay out, and buy them all their drinks that night, crap like that after a few weeks, I simply got into the habit of taking most of our cash out on friday mornings as it was always Friday nights they went out, leaving £70 for her in the account to go out, and even that was too much, but after I left only £40-£50 the first time, it caused an amazing epic argument, when she came home 3 hours earlier than she had expected smashed off her face, so I took the easy option and left more. The things we do for a ridiculously pretty girl

 

[Dave]

I don't know what to say about the latest episode.

I've seen Cupid's Dagger now and I don't know what to make of it either. I guess, at best, I could say that it wasn't quite as bad as TOS: The Naked Time or TNG: The Naked Now. At worst, it was just embarrassing. The Rob Lowe and Mike Henry (knew the voice) guest parts were good, the ending of the war using Darulio’s modified pheromones was a little predictable. Hopefully, the remaining episodes can return to a more consistent quality.

 

[Amelia Faulkner]

Ah good old "date rape as comedy". Will it never die!

 

[ctg]

Hopefully, the remaining episodes can return to a more consistent quality.

I don't know how because they are quite constant with this level of stuff. That was first extended episode, as the original number according to the google, was 8. But honestly I'm not surprised that there's demand for classical SF that speaks to wider audience. People need that more than they need to be awed by real science of series like the Expanse. The Orville makes you feel good inside. Warm in some ways, but for the serious SF lovers this isn't doing it. I bet the wider audience is in the 25 - 45 years old category.

 

[REBerg]

Spoiler: Biggest Disappointment

Not getting to hear Bortus sing.

 

[J Riff]

Orville will not be retutning to this (sensible) galaxy... *... and will remain in spcae, in the (very silly) Galaxy, on a quest to find any remaining real science fiction shows.

 

[Dave]

Well, I liked the earlier episodes and I thought the show had great promise, but the reviews I've read actually thought the last episode was great, so that gives a green light for more of the same next season.

 

[BAYLOR]

I've seen Cupid's Dagger now and I don't know what to make of it either. I guess, at best, I could say that it wasn't quite as bad as TOS: The Naked Time or TNG: The Naked Now. At worst, it was just embarrassing. The Rob Lowe and Mike Henry (knew the voice) guest parts were good, the ending of the war using Darulio’s modified pheromones was a little predictable. Hopefully, the remaining episodes can return to a more consistent quality.

At lease they have they now have the luxury of. a second season.

 

[Cli-Fi]

OK that was unfortunate timing for this episode...

 

[clovis-man]

Obviously, based on the last two episodes, this show doesn't know what it wants to be. I would settle for a drama with a large dollop of comic relief thrown in. But we seem to be swinging from one extreme to the other. From the good doctor fighting to save her kids to amoebic eroticism. Still entertaining, but hardly enlightening. The ending for the last episode was telegraphed almost from the opening scenes.

 

[J Riff]

This show is camp, in a way it mirrors the original Trek, even camper, campier, more campy. Batman was the campiest, but Orville has set up camp, and is entertaining as such. So far.