The Orville - 1.11: Mad Idolatry

[Cli-Fi]

OK Episode 11 was the best episode of the series so far. A little bit of a reboot for John, and that was needed. The jokes stuck and the graphics once again were beautiful. Keep this up The Orville. This was perfection. I think only one or two jokes in the beginning of this episode didn't land. Plenty of Star Trek technobabble which I love.

Funniest part:

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Issac petting Gordon. Also the alien smuggler was pretty funny too

Best Part:

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The graphics as the shuttle pulled the ship through 2D space.

Nice to have:

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It was great to see the kids continue having a relationship with Issac. Usually a sitcom throws away those types of secondary relationship, so maybe Seth wants it to be something more.

Two more episodes like this and it'll find it's stride.

 

[J Riff]

It's goofy. It's coming on here, in about 5 hours. There will quite possibly be live spoilage. This is the last episode? So I decide whether to blot it out like Trek and the rest of TV SF. Privately, I have already reassigned Orville hour to working on a Kazoo symphony. But we'll see.

 

[J Riff]

Cancel. Boreville, Snoreville, Goreville, next, please*

 

[BAYLOR]

Didn't Voyager do an episode like this ?

 

[J Riff]

Voyage.. to the bottom of the IQ range of spaced-out mainstream TeeVee. )

 

[BAYLOR]

Voyage.. to the bottom of the IQ range of spaced-out mainstream TeeVee. )

Seth McFarlane, should let someone else do the writing and can the unfunny comic bits.

 

[Cli-Fi]

Another brilliant episode. Nothing as crazy as last week's. I don't think the show can top last week's episode. This however was safe classic Trek. It wasn't terribly funny or thought-provoking though. They could have done a bit more with it. Yet another culture not quite ruined by The Orville and her crew.

 

[BAYLOR]

Another brilliant episode. Nothing as crazy as last week's. I don't think the show can top last week's episode. This however was safe classic Trek. It wasn't terribly funny or thought-provoking though. They could have done a bit more with it. Yet another culture not quite ruined by The Orville and her crew.

They could have done far better then this.

 

[J Riff]

Bloody moronic or nears dammit. Cancel.

 

[REBerg]

Another brilliant episode. Nothing as crazy as last week's. I don't think the show can top last week's episode. This however was safe classic Trek. It wasn't terribly funny or thought-provoking though. They could have done a bit more with it. Yet another culture not quite ruined by The Orville and her crew.

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The Union apparently feels very strongly about cultural contamination, but it doesn't have much of an enforcement backbone. A reprimand in Mercer's permanent record for starting a repressive, bloodthirsty, centuries-long religion? Ouch!
Perhaps it has already been done, but moving an entire planet in and out of parallel universes with an 11-day-700-year time differential was a first for me. The progress made by the aliens, despite the obstacles created by first contact with Goddess Kelly, raises hope for Humanity.
I liked the comment that the rapidly advancing humanoids might soon be watching us.

 

[BAYLOR]

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The Union apparently feels very strongly about cultural contamination, but it doesn't have much of an enforcement backbone. A reprimand in Mercer's permanent record for starting a repressive, bloodthirsty, centuries-long religion? Ouch!
Perhaps it has already been done, but moving an entire planet in and out of parallel universes with an 11-day-700-year time differential was a first for me. The progress made by the aliens, despite the obstacles created by first contact with Goddess Kelly, raises hope for Humanity.
I liked the comment that the rapidly advancing humanoids might soon be watching us.

It wasn't that good and episode.

 

[J Riff]

Moronic. Cancel. Sorry, just kidding... hey! Is that a cool alien ball thingy...Ahhh! My hand!! Eeek.
Remember when Trek and Strwars were accused of degrading SF , and people argued about that? This ain't woith arguing about.

 

[ctg]

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Perhaps it has already been done, but moving an entire planet in and out of parallel universes with an 11-day-700-year time differential was a first for me. The progress made by the aliens, despite the obstacles created by first contact with Goddess Kelly, raises hope for Humanity.

I liked the comment that the rapidly advancing humanoids might soon be watching us.

I did find this episode more intriguing than the others as it went so fast from funny to serious and it had balls to show something that would be very unlikely to happen in our universe. That solar system also raises a lot of questions, because in one year the civilisation tied to this planet could reach tens of thousand years edge compared to humanity. And one year is very short time in cosmic scale. So in the span of a star lifetime that particular civilisation could advance so much. It could even die and rise again. And again. And again, which made this episode to be great science fantasy.

I might have to rewatch this episode again.

 

[Dave]

The Union apparently feels very strongly about cultural contamination, but it doesn't have much of an enforcement backbone. A reprimand in Mercer's permanent record for starting a repressive, bloodthirsty, centuries-long religion? Ouch!
Perhaps it has already been done, but moving an entire planet in and out of parallel universes with an 11-day-700-year time differential was a first for me.

I think the "union policy" has been very haphazardly applied during this season. It may be because Brannon Braga directed this episode and the others he did not, but to be fair, Kirk disregarded the Prime Directive frequently, and came across countless planets that were contaminated, while Janeway broke the directive almost weekly. Even Picard broke it, he just felt worse about doing it.

The story is a mix between a DS9 episode, Meridian, where a planet existed between dimensions and periodically shifted in and out of those dimensions; a DS9 episode, Children of Time, where they meet their own descendants on a planet; and VOY episode, Blink of an Eye where over generations, a world tries to uncover the mystery of the strange ship in the sky.

It wasn't that good and episode.

It was probably the best, or second best, of the twelve, but then there is no pleasing some people. Some of these episodes have been dire. This one was good. It isn't the best TV but I have looked forward to watching it. There was apparently meant to be a thirteenth, season one episode but it was cancelled. There will be a second season, but I thought the end, considering it was the end of a season, was a little flat.