News Seth MacFarlane’s The Orville
- Thread starter Kai "the spy"
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If Alara goes I'll miss the character but I'll be happy to see the end of her really weak looking alien makeup.
Yeah, I don't see anything either. I forget where I heard it. If not here or SyFy wire, it must have been some random blog. Hopefully it's not true.
It becomes public knowledge, that's not quite the same thing
Interesting tidbit from the above article:
The couple, who co-star in darkly comedic Star Trek prequel The Orville
There are many continuity violations in this prequel, and the show is too dark.
Too light! It's all fluff! And filler!
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Just saw "Firestorm"
It was about on par with that Hoshi episode where it was all a transporter hallucination all along.
It was about on par with that Hoshi episode where it was all a transporter hallucination all along.
If you like Orville, you'll probably like Voyager and Enterprise too. They have plenty of episodes that ended in convoluted bollocks that left the viewer feeling like they'd just wasted an hour of their lives.
I would think most people on a day out with Seth McFarlane would be in a good mood.
If I was on a day out with Halston Sage, I'd be in a good mood. 
I absolutely loved "Firestorm".
Alara refuses therapy but instead gets her crewmates to build a holoprogram out of their worst fears, goes inside mindwiped and uses a security override so nobody can help her if her life is in danger? Soooo dumb.
The character interaction more than makes up for plot shortcomings. I'd be a Discovery fan if their characters were half as interesting as those on The Orville.
But they weren't even the characters for the most part, but holographic duplicates. So anything learned about anyone was for nought, any character progression reset to zero at the end.
I'm not a fan of fakeout episodes.
Fair enough.
As an aside, my one concern going into the series was Penny Johnson-Jerald. I didn't think much of her as an actress on other things I saw her in. On The Orville, she's shown a range of acting I didn't think she was capable of.
That, of course, isn't so if you paid attention. The show was about her character, her approach to dealing with her own anxieties and shortcomings and how she resolved that.
Which she did.
Granted, using roleplaying simulations to solve interpersonal problems is a lame Star Trekism and we don't expect to see better shows doing it, but at least these folks can do it entertainingly. Star Trek can't and doesn't.
I hate holodeck episodes in general. One of the most annoying things they did on DS9 was use the holosuites too much.
In the most ridiculously over-the-top and least believable manner imaginable, yes. Her character had, until this episode, appeared level-headed.
The best holodeck episode I ever saw was Rick and Morty's "M. Night Shaym-Aliens!"
These are people running around in ships that go many times faster than light with ray guns and all other types of fantastic tech fighting people in latex. I'm okay with over-the-top. I did find the episode a creative use of the holodeck, which rarely happened on Trek.
