Speaking of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", I think the actor who played The Master would make a good Krill officer or captain!
THE ORVILLE S2, E10: "BLOOD OF PATRIOTS"
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He certainly made a great crazy ROTC officer in Animal House.
Orville has taken a decidedly dark turn.
It has done so with such panache.
And with characters that all have some depth and development, brought to life by actors who were quick to find and hone what was on paper into something special and with believable sincerity.
Season 1 grew on me, it had comedy but was never an outright parody. It's been a blend.
Little did I know that loveable Isaac would be in the middle of a dire situation (which on repeated viewing was perfect in where it needed to be - he was constructed long after those Kaylons who did the nasty things. Just like how Mercer and co didn't do any nasty things for what the Kaylons were allegedly (but ironically!!) damning humans and all other biological species for doing.)
But that's the recap, here's where I'm going with this:
Many people were thinking that the Krill coming in would be tempted to destroy the Planetary Union after sending the Kaylons back. Given how Kaylon weaponry can mince any Krill or Union ship with comparative ease, we can only hope this alliance ends up growing stronger. The teaser for the upcoming episode here certainly teases us with that possibility. But the show's been so well-written that there could be another mystery coming out of left field. Or perhaps not, we already had the curve ball with the Kaylons. (Or is the plural term identical to the singular term, "Kaylon"?)
And that's what I've liked the most about Orville so far - season 1's Krill adventures aren't one of shiny happy fantastical magical (read "ersatz, hollow") optimism but felt grounded. And anyone can read into them any way they like, the show is wise enough to avoid sledgehammers while telling a story, that or the intended age group is being given enough credit by the writers. The upcoming episode could take the current situation in any direction and surprise us all yet again. People who guessed an alliance might be formed were correct - I was not one of the people who hypothesized that possibility.
It has done so with such panache.
And with characters that all have some depth and development, brought to life by actors who were quick to find and hone what was on paper into something special and with believable sincerity.
Season 1 grew on me, it had comedy but was never an outright parody. It's been a blend.
Little did I know that loveable Isaac would be in the middle of a dire situation (which on repeated viewing was perfect in where it needed to be - he was constructed long after those Kaylons who did the nasty things. Just like how Mercer and co didn't do any nasty things for what the Kaylons were allegedly (but ironically!!) damning humans and all other biological species for doing.)
But that's the recap, here's where I'm going with this:
Many people were thinking that the Krill coming in would be tempted to destroy the Planetary Union after sending the Kaylons back. Given how Kaylon weaponry can mince any Krill or Union ship with comparative ease, we can only hope this alliance ends up growing stronger. The teaser for the upcoming episode here certainly teases us with that possibility. But the show's been so well-written that there could be another mystery coming out of left field. Or perhaps not, we already had the curve ball with the Kaylons. (Or is the plural term identical to the singular term, "Kaylon"?)
And that's what I've liked the most about Orville so far - season 1's Krill adventures aren't one of shiny happy fantastical magical (read "ersatz, hollow") optimism but felt grounded. And anyone can read into them any way they like, the show is wise enough to avoid sledgehammers while telling a story, that or the intended age group is being given enough credit by the writers. The upcoming episode could take the current situation in any direction and surprise us all yet again. People who guessed an alliance might be formed were correct - I was not one of the people who hypothesized that possibility.
Lieutenant Dorsett (Michele Boyd), Gordon's love interest from ep.4 will return. Now just look at her closely. Cute, blonde, funny. Last but not least - green uniform. Now compare to this:
https://orville.fandom.com/wiki/Janel_Tyler
Another Krill spy. Krill spies are everywhere!
https://www.newsarama.com/44215-the-orville-flies-into-comic-books.html
Bit more generic news but an Orville comic is coming from Dark Horse
Bit more generic news but an Orville comic is coming from Dark Horse
^^Woo!
That's what it seems to be moving toward.
One thing I wish they'd done a bit better, this guy was in a brutal lightless prison for twenty years and he's socially normal?
I don't see him as twitchy, he's got that extreme hate for the Krill that he wants to kill them even against their best interest in saving human lives, but his demeanor in regular conversations is relatively normal if you don't mention the Krill.
Even now that we know it was an act to cover his absolute need for revenge you think he'd be out of practice interacting with humans.
Hope it bodes well for a third season.
I thought it was a good episode overall, if a bit oversimplified. They were in the territory of The Wounded and every Battlestar Galactica episode where human terrorists are outraged about protecting or dealing with a cylon, but felt more emotionally restrained than all those examples.
Still, a good entertaining episode which at least did something with those themes and had an interesting twist.
Still, a good entertaining episode which at least did something with those themes and had an interesting twist.
Great episode. It reminded me of the TNG episode "The Wounded". That episode also featured an officer who was scarred by war and bent on payback and preventing peace. And that officer also had a previous friendship with a member of the Enterprise. Similar theme.
That was another good, solid, episode that ended up playing out better than I was expecting based on the previews last week and the opening moments. It's also nice to have a solid, dramatic, episode with Gordon to give him a chance to not so much be the comic relief character.
I knew as soon as he entered the friend's quarters and said it's time to go he'd already talked to Ed and this was some kind of ruse, nicely the show didn't play that card too long and gave it up pretty quickly after the shuttle went into [warp] and left. Interesting solution to how the guy was making the explosives using the alien woman with the unstable blood.
Got to say, the show continues to do very, very well for me.
Next week, we get the trope of someone falling in love with a [holodeck] character, be interesting to see how Orville is able to expand or possibly improve on that story.
Yaphit tells us how his species reproduces in the first-season episode with Rob Lowe and his rape-causing pheromones.
I knew as soon as he entered the friend's quarters and said it's time to go he'd already talked to Ed and this was some kind of ruse, nicely the show didn't play that card too long and gave it up pretty quickly after the shuttle went into [warp] and left. Interesting solution to how the guy was making the explosives using the alien woman with the unstable blood.
Got to say, the show continues to do very, very well for me.
Next week, we get the trope of someone falling in love with a [holodeck] character, be interesting to see how Orville is able to expand or possibly improve on that story.
Yaphit tells us how his species reproduces in the first-season episode with Rob Lowe and his rape-causing pheromones.
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