What Gordon SHOULD have done.
"Computer, have Greg move to Canada and marry a hair stylist."
"Computer, have Greg move to Canada and marry a hair stylist."
THE ORVILLE S2, E11: "LASTING IMPRESSIONS"
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It had to be pre-Apocalypse.
I give this one an 8. It probably should be lower but I love Gordon too much. I'd date someone like Gordon in the heartbeat. Behind his dudebroness is a pretty sensitive soul. He strikes me as a guy who is pretty lonely and it was both heartwarming and heart breaking to see him build the relationship with Laura. Also the smoking subplot was pretty funny. The scene where Bortus goes arounfdrevealing where is cigarettes are hidden was hilarious.
So there's a pretty good sitcom hiding on the Audience Channel called "Loudermilk" starring Ron Livingston (from Office Space) and Will Sasso (from Mad TV, Doctor Who and Mom.) where they did this exact same story about three weeks ago.
Almost.
Will Sasso is house-sitting, opens a padlocked cupboard, finds a sexdoll, curiosity gets the better of himself, declares it the best sex of his life, and then (days later) goes to Ron Livingston for an intervention, because he can't quit "her".
Almost.
Will Sasso is house-sitting, opens a padlocked cupboard, finds a sexdoll, curiosity gets the better of himself, declares it the best sex of his life, and then (days later) goes to Ron Livingston for an intervention, because he can't quit "her".
Not sure if the data stored in the phone’s flash memory would not have been corrupted after 400 years, but otherwise it was a good episode.
We thought Greg was going to be one of Gordon’s great-great-grandfathers, they seemed to have similar mannerisms and personalities.
We thought Greg was going to be one of Gordon’s great-great-grandfathers, they seemed to have similar mannerisms and personalities.
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Maybe it was vacuum sealed.
As for Greg, technically it's one of those nerd things that after 400 years of marriage and the fact that he's from New York/New Jersey area it probably is likely that (if they had any descendants at all) that Greg is his ancestor with Laura.
If she still has descendants, the chance that he's randomly one of them, given that they are both from the New York/New Jersey area, is probably much higher than one imagines, but I was unable to determine how much higher by random Internet searches.
But for comparison, the identical ancestrors point when all humans that lived are either ancestors of every single human today or had no descendant, may be as close as 5000-10000 years (although that was a simulation, and is not based on specific evidence). 400 years for New York / New Jersey may be enough.
But for comparison, the identical ancestrors point when all humans that lived are either ancestors of every single human today or had no descendant, may be as close as 5000-10000 years (although that was a simulation, and is not based on specific evidence). 400 years for New York / New Jersey may be enough.
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Knowing MacFarlane and his politics, because that was the last year before the world went tits up.
Because it is a year in the past.
Just watched this, I must have missed it the week it came out. Loved the episode, even if it was based on Minuet from TNG. Laura played the part well, very memorable.
Er. It came out a couple days ago.
OK, initially thought so but when I did a search for the episode, I saw posts from early March so I figured I somehow missed it. I didn't read past the first few posts.
There's talk above in this thread about how Gordon learnt important life lessons from this episode, which from the Pictionary party it seemed that his friends already knew.
So? How dumb is he??
No one else in the crew (Except Claire?) needs to learn that when you love a toaster, that it does not love you back.
Also, unless Laura had a home movie of her own intercourse stored on the phone, or wrote some in-depth dirty instructional sexts, then the computer would have given Laura the default sexual capabilities features of a human female woman that it awards every other NPC on the simulator.
The sex should have been nearly identical to last time he had sex in the simulator. Actually, making the sex as repetitive and vanilla as possible in the default Union programming is a fantastic way to trick the crew into getting bored of sex on the simulator.
So? How dumb is he??
No one else in the crew (Except Claire?) needs to learn that when you love a toaster, that it does not love you back.
Also, unless Laura had a home movie of her own intercourse stored on the phone, or wrote some in-depth dirty instructional sexts, then the computer would have given Laura the default sexual capabilities features of a human female woman that it awards every other NPC on the simulator.
The sex should have been nearly identical to last time he had sex in the simulator. Actually, making the sex as repetitive and vanilla as possible in the default Union programming is a fantastic way to trick the crew into getting bored of sex on the simulator.
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Perception. A stranger making a ham sandwich might be adequate, but a close friend making a ham sandwich might taste better to you, even if it was made in exactly the same way. Disturbing analogy aside, our perception of something changes when we believe there is love behind its creation.
I'm assuming that sexual functionality is one of the things most refined (and modded) in holodeckness. But the thing is that Gordon probably isn't THAT kinky or needing much capacity for pleasure in that regard. Sexual capacity is certainly a thing but a lot of it with his girlfriend-bot is that he has genuine feelinsg for her.
Causal sex versus sex with your girlfriend.
But yes, Gordon really is too into his waifu.
I thought it was pretty much a fluff episode.
Guy falls in love with fantasy woman.
Friends tell him it's better to find a real love......
But I liked the episode.
Every day of life isn't mind shattering thrills and chills,
Guy falls in love with fantasy woman.
Friends tell him it's better to find a real love......
But I liked the episode.
Every day of life isn't mind shattering thrills and chills,
I liked this episode. Gordon is a likeable character. His struggle with his feelings for a woman from the past was an interesting plot. This is one of the better episodes for me in this season so far. It is almost like Gordon falling in love with a Ghost from the past.
Its doubly funny that Adriann Palicki is in love with his actor.
