Spoilers The Orville: New Horizons Season 3 Discussion

[Cyrus]

I am not watching the current season because I don't have Hulu. But noticed that my favorite new scifi writer Andy Weir gave it props on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/1000451660...8QdnUHgRcvn5jyNv37Ree6dWvbSfwU2ys9gofk6l/?d=n

 

[thribs]

I am not watching the current season because I don't have Hulu. But noticed that my favorite new scifi writer Andy Weir gave it props on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/1000451660...8QdnUHgRcvn5jyNv37Ree6dWvbSfwU2ys9gofk6l/?d=n

Do you have Disney Plus? Try a VPN and set it to the UK

 

[Qonundrum]

Not all right wing.

*goes back to reading Heinlelin*

I'm more partial to Huxley, but Heinlein was cool.

 

[The Wormhole]

That said, it's another one where I don't know if the running time is necessarily justified - for character development I understand the whole b-plot of finding the dysonium (or whatever) particles, but they could have cut most of that and it would have been fine.

Yeah, the extended length of the episodes is not working this season. The problem exists with all episodes this season, but this one seemed especially glaring in that there was really only 45 minutes of story content that got stretched out to over an hour.

 

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

Shades of Children of Time and The Visitor.

But in both those cases the people who were opposed to revert the time lines where the ones that kept their memories.

I am not sure cause and effect here work in the story's favor.

But The Orville has a good track record of picking up previous story lines and we may see 10 year older Gordon again.

For all we know he might pull a Doctor Brown and cobble together a steam punk time train to show up in teh season finale with his two kids Jules and Verne.

 

[Bad Thoughts]

So is Checkov's gun now a sandwich?

Scott Grimes was pretty awesome in this episode.

 

[shapeshifter]

He was almost singing in his Steve Smith voice. lol

 

[thribs]

Speaking of, they should have had them watching American Dad.

 

[ashleytinger]

This season is I think the Star Trek series that Seth had wanted to do all those years ago. This was a great episode. This whole season's been great.

 

[Skipper]

Ok, perhaps I missed it. Why did they go looking for him before they got dysonium? Couldn't they take dysonium and go straight back 10 years? Even if they didn't know about his family, they could have directly saved him 10 years of waiting.

 

[thribs]

Ok, perhaps I missed it. Why did they go looking for him before they got dysonium? Couldn't they take dysonium and go straight back 10 years? Even if they didn't know about his family, they could have directly saved him 10 years of waiting.

Probably for the reasons you see at the end. An extra time jump adds more risk to the anti banana ray breaking.

 

[Skipper]

Probably for the reasons you see at the end. An extra time jump adds more risk to the anti banana ray breaking.

Uhmmmm it makes sense .. .

 

[dupersuper]

Probably for the reasons you see at the end. An extra time jump adds more risk to the anti banana ray breaking.

We now must again fear the banana.

 

[fireproof78]

We now must again fear the banana.

What about pointed sticks?

 

[eschaton]

Holy shit, they Tuvixed Gordon!

 

[Charles Phipps]

Given no one has timed traveled before, are Kelly and Edward REALLY acting like the laws mean anything?

Their lack of concern over murdering a child is also....well, messed up.

 

[thribs]

Given no one has timed traveled before, are Kelly and Edward REALLY acting like the laws mean anything?

Their lack of concern over murdering a child is also....well, messed up.

What child? It never existed.
It was a very weird episode. They went to the past to get Gordon and they got him. Nothing else happened.
I feel like if this was a season 1 or 2 episode a lot more would have been happening when they went back.

 

[Paul755]

Really good episode. Grimes was excellent as 2025 Gordon, especially when Ed told him what they were gonna do.

it does feel off that he let them off the hook. Regulations or no, I would have thought he’d be more upset.

 

[The Wormhole]

it does feel off that he let them off the hook. Regulations or no, I would have thought he’d be more upset.

After spending a month completely isolated in a primitive time period, Gordon is likely just grateful to be back home. What may or may not have happened with some hypothetical alternate version of himself is irrelevant. Gordon's likely glad he didn't have to endure three years of total isolation like his other self did.

 

[Guy Gardener]

After spending a month completely isolated in a primitive time period, Gordon is likely just grateful to be back home. What may or may not have happened with some hypothetical alternate version of himself is irrelevant. Gordon's likely glad he didn't have to endure three years of total isolation like his other self did.

He's guilty of future crimes.

He's proven that given the opportunity to commit a crime he has no self restraint and can't be left in a situation where he is allowed to chose between being a good person and a filthy criminal.

But the time law is weird. Hiding in a cave and eating bugs for 60 years is bullshit. The people who wrote this law were just too cowardly to say what they really meant: if you are lost in time: Kill yo self. So what we have is these idjits sitting in a cave trying to find some reason not to kill the self for weeks or months until they cap themselves or incorporate themselves into history.