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THE ORVILLE S2, E3: "HOME"

The Krill are okay in small occasional doses. Watching these people fight alien enemies is no more appealing than it is on Star Trek.
 
JirinPanthosa said:
It's fun to see the effects of gravity on Solea, but it would have been nice if they worked harder to visually distinguish it. I'm sure in the hands of a human that grass is lead razorblades. But I wish they'd worked a little harder to make all the trees and such look a little more like they were surviving in super gravity instead of just letting us use imaginations that all those things are just way tougher than they look.

Also can't help but feel geographic features should be a little flatter? Buildings should maybe have more support columns?

It's a scifi show on a planet with super gravity and they made it look just like Earth so we had to use our imaginations that everything was actually way stronger and tougher, instead of using it as an opportunity to imagine the visual implications of that gravity. Seems like a waste of the genre.

Also now I'm hoping Gates McFadden and Alex Siddig somehow show up playing Soleans.
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Using your premis, shouldn't Akara have been a very stocky, heavy limbed person instead of waifish?
Possibly you are applying Earth physics to the unknown.
I like to belive that if there was actually life on other planets, the Earth science would have no bearing on them.
 
RJDiogenes said:
I definitely liked that they hired a TOS alumna for the role and I did like Pulaski, though I was not happy about them kicking Crusher to the curb. I always thought that it was a shame that she never got to reprise her role in later seasons or on DS9. I always kind of envisioned DS9 as a place where fringe characters might show up, like Pulaski or Lore or the Traveler or whatever, before they turned it into a war show.
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Now see, I like Bashir, but now you make me want to see DS9 with Pulaski as the medical officer. That could have been spectacular.
 
jbny67 said:
My thoughts were more along the lines of -
They don't have a second suit?
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We don't really know enough about what they consider standard equipment for landing missions. It seems the regular EV suits handle most things, but Xelaya's gravity is beyond their usability. It's like having a scuba suit, but on a rare occasion you might need an atmospheric diving suit. Most ships don't carry such specialized equipment.
 
Comparisons between Alara's departure and Tasha's departure from TNG have been made. But I hope a better comparison would turn out to be Beverly Crusher's return to TNG. It would be great if Alara returns in season 3. I can only hope.


My eyes might have been fooling me, but was Alara not wearing any pasty makeup in that scene where she was sitting on the bed? The one where she was arguing with her dad. Her face looked human flesh color. I couldn't help but wonder what was going on.
 
scottydog said:
I'm hoping that the loss of Alara doesn't negatively impact the show. Seems odd that the actress would make a decision to leave the series after only a dozen episodes. Even if she did break up with Seth, can't they just be professionals and get over it?
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I've to see a lot of actors leave after the first season on shows I've watched. If anything I'd say it's actually one of the more common times for people to leave

RJDiogenes said:
I definitely liked that they hired a TOS alumna for the role and I did like Pulaski, though I was not happy about them kicking Crusher to the curb. I always thought that it was a shame that she never got to reprise her role in later seasons or on DS9. I always kind of envisioned DS9 as a place where fringe characters might show up, like Pulaski or Lore or the Traveler or whatever, before they turned it into a war show.
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Pulaski actually has become a recurring character in the post-TV series DS9 book.
 
I don't take the gravitational effects as literal. In order to get across the peril Mercer was in, and to heighten tension, they had to show a can getting crushed. It's visual hyperbole.
 
The Wormhole said:
Maybe not, but they could have come up with something a bit better than being bitch-slapped by a tar pit.
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Most lives end with little to no fanfare. Unlike many of the heroes in our stories, people die alone, they're killed with barely a whimper, and it's over so quickly people don't realize it until it's done and that life has gone. Think of all the "redshirts" who died after one disruptor blast and then became free floating atoms. I think Tasha's death was, relatively speaking, more realistic.
 
I think the best thing about Yar's death was that it was unexpected. I remember that when she died during the episode I thought she would be resurrected somehow by the end. It wasn't until they were in the holodeck that I realized it had actually happened.
 
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