Amph The Orville [Seth McFarlane's returning Sci-Fi Show]

I absolutely loved this two parter It was really good! I love that this show can be hilarious one minute then the next minute be way more deep then any Star Trek iteration!

 

Watching Part 1 almost as the credits rolled I saw two Trek vets on the script, Brannon Braga and Andre Bormanis so I sort of got a Borg vibe that entire time that they were going to turn. Also, for those who didn't notice or the crazy cliffhanger swept it up, Issac's speech is actually Sally Field's speech from her Oscars. But anyway, the ending of the 1st episode was fantastic (BoBW epic cliffhangerness) and the VFX wizardry and Issac's stuff in Part 2 was great (both directed by Jon Cessar who has literally entire seasons of 24 under his belt. The airlock sequence was great, if 24 ever goes to space it would play out alot like that) . Maybe that's why the show was so bottle episode heavy for awhile there with smaller VFX, they had to save the budget on this, which totally worked.

I did give it a 10% chance they may totally wipe Issac from the show forever and, to be fair, for a long time they did seem to be leaning into it. Although, while people may complain about it being reset buttoned, this has greatly changed his character and the universe is a lot of ways. Also, if anything, at least it wraps up Issac's "research" plotline, that was either something that needed to be resolved or could have been a running bit forever.

I'm still stumped how they picked Issac out of the pile of robot bodies, didn't his blue didoes go dark as well? and what happened to Norm McDonald's goo guy Yaphet, I'm assuming he exited Issac at some point, probably didn't have the VFX for it. they did make a point that Issac wasn't involved in any biological genocide so that's a plus

 

It's possible, although I get the feeling the Kalon only made Issac if only it would make him unique and sorta explain why he has blue eyes/diodes instead of the genocidal red eyed folks. But I am totally okay with Kalon civil war for individualism, way to do Descent but without the underwhelming 2nd parter.

Maybe when the Kalon commit genocide the eyes flip over to red hahahah

 

The best line this episode, because it takes you a second:

"I'm sorry about the Dick van Dyke one. I didn't know who he was, and I had to go with what I had."

 

Interesting, did they shoot Identity Part 1 while Salton Hage was still on the show? Obviously that means they would have to reshoot scenes with her replacement.

edit: it looks like here that they may have had the script in development for S1 they didn't shoot it back then

https://orville.fandom.com/wiki/Identity,_Pt._1#Production

 

last episode I loved how Ed was flummoxed by the time travel stuff and he says he got a B+ in time travel theory class cuz nobody gets an A. Solid comedy scene with Bortus and his mate at the simulator dance club. ("We're just going to stay here and blow our brains out." "Okay!" "The night is ours!") Also I kept wondering if alt. Kelly was a wig or a different hairstyle? And interesting ending and if it's one timeline or a fragment timeline, did alt. Kelly not have her mind wiped so knew her relationship with Ed would turn out wrong, or she just had a feeling (semi-wipe), or maybe his first call after their first date always ended like that.

 

I think it was intuition caused by the mind wipe not working 100%. I really liked that twist. It was nicely set up.

 

Had to be a wig. She had bangs for alt Kelly and none for regular Kelly. That’s not possible.


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What's happened to Alara ? she was the only character I liked.

 

The last episode I saw was where they find an iphone from 2015 . It was awful , don't think I've enjoyed any of this season . the first year started weak but got better .

 

Spent the last 2 days binging from eps 3 to 13 just in time to watch tonight’s finale live.

GOOD STUFF!

So much I could post about but I ain’t cause the commercial break is over!

 

Surprisingly, Orville season two was consistently better than most Star Trek.

 

I really liked that but that was a HORRIBLE finale lol esp if that is the end. I hope S3 gets the official go soon.

I had a blast binge watching these latest 12 eps! Eps 8&9 without a doubt we’re the best of the series for me. Perfect ode to Descent pts 1&2 and TNG & DS9 in general. Amazing cgi.

 

I absolutely loved the last two episodes of season 2 And I also loved the Cell Phone episode. One thing I really like is you really can feel for the characters they are so relatable that's what makes it way better then any Trek! The Orville does Trek better then Trek!
does anyone know if the show is getting renewed anytime soon?

I just bought this on Amazon,

 

Huh I guess the finale episode answered my own question about alt. Kelly. It seemed very inspired by Voyager's Timeless but not a beat for beat rip off, kind of like how the Kaylon episode seemed Best of Both Worlds inspired. So good to see them taking inspiration but not directly copying it over.