News Seth MacFarlane’s The Orville
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Lets see... I knew they weren't going to kill Malloy, nor blow-up the ship. People should've been figuring out something weird was going on when the spider army showed up.
What did you believe was happening that the show reset?
Unlike a Berman/Braga reset button, Alara's character development still counts at the end of the episode. Besides, it should have been obvious something was up the moment Nurse Park was killed. If the show was going to begin killing off even minor supporting characters, than they would not have chosen some random redshirt to be the crewman's death that sets Alara off on this emotional journey, they would have likely gone with someone who meant something to the audience, even if they were just a recurring background player.
So, no, there's nothing deceptive about the holodeck reveal, nor is the ending a proper reset.
So, no, there's nothing deceptive about the holodeck reveal, nor is the ending a proper reset.
With everything that is happening in the news lately, Majority Rule is the one episode I think about the most. It also probably still is my favorite of the season.
Katniss Everdeen!
Oh, sorry, I meant Temeen Emideen!
No Seth in the video, but it's about him.
That episode has my favorite visual effect on tv this year with the dark matter nebula. I don’t know what the budget is on an episode by episode basis but watching the Orville fly through that looked stunning, almost animated even.
Were I to rank them right now:
Majority Rule
Firestorm
About a Girl
Pria
If the Stars Should Appear
Command Performance
Krill
Into the Fold
Old Wounds
Cupid's Dagger
Majority Rule
Firestorm
About a Girl
Pria
If the Stars Should Appear
Command Performance
Krill
Into the Fold
Old Wounds
Cupid's Dagger
I guarantee you that after this episode she'll be exactly like she was before this episode. Unless she does change dramatically, it is the very definition of a reset button episode. I'll believe it when I see it!
I think "Cupid's Dagger" would probably be at the bottom of my list as well. But, still find it very entertaining.
By that standard, 95% of Star Trek is "reset button" episodes.
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It's like people haven't heard of episodic television.
Yeah, there are entertaining parts to it but some of it just doesn't "sit" well, mostly the more rapey aspects with Yaphit and Dr. Finn.
To be fair, there was nothing in this episode that "changed" her character this was more about exploring her character and her exploring herself to find more hidden fears. It's still possible she's got other fears and character flaws not explored in the simulation, so unless there's an episode in the future where she's scared shitless by a giant spider there was plenty here to make her character more dynamic, interesting and for us to see more about her.
I've watched it twice and believe Yaphit was affected just as much as everyone else.
Heck, the well-liked trilogy of Star Trek movies mashed the reset button in a major way. Bringing everything back to the TOS structure.
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Exactly. If the characters retained everything from every episode, they'd be mental cases after a few seasons. I mean, look what happens to our characters in a single season: aliens invading people's bodies, kidnappings, rampant viruses, a handful of dead crew every episode, instant pregnancies, psychic violations, more ship explosions, everyone's DNA spinning round and round like a roulette wheel, a main character is killed and brought back to life, somebody has sex with a space ghost, someone gets stuck in the transporter, and so on and so on. We'd all be basket cases if that happened to each of us in a single year.
Episodic television does forsake some shared memory and continuity in order to tell a great story.
Nope, that can't be the case. For starters, Yaphit wasn't lustfully, solely focused on, Dr. Finn his behavior towards her was no different than it'd always been. When she was at his door he acted surprised and confused by her being there and carried on a conversation with her about his quarters he wasn't fully locked on her.
Secondly, there pheromone thing seemed to be focused on Alien Rob Lowe, both Ed and Kelly fell for him after shaking his hand in the shuttle bay. Yaphit became a carrier of the pheromone without being infected with it. He picked it up from ARL during the encounter in the corridor (probably chiefly ARL holding the piece of Yaphit and having to reattach it) and, it would seem, Yaphit's own body adapted it so the pheromone was centered on him rather than ARL. he transmitted it through the flowers he gave to Claire (his gelatinous body holding it on his surface rather than him absorbing it, the pheromones then transferring from his body to the flowers.)
We can think of this as similar to any other kid of gel, "goop" or anything of the sort (think of the "slime" that was popular in kids toys in the '80s or even just silly putty) and how it picks up material but doesn't absorb it. Roll a ball of "slime" on a dusty shelf and the dust will stick to the surface of the slime but not actually become a part of it.
You mean lustfully, solely focused on Dr. Finn?