So I skimmed past a headline that said something like
The Orville finds itself in Identity Part 2
It inspired me to remember that Part 2 came out and catch up. 20% of the way in this is a fantastic episode. It's excellent work. All around.
There's a scene where Isaac reveals that he choose his designation in honor of an intelligent human (Newton) and Kylon Prime tells him to change it. We assume he refuses because he's later referred to as Isaac which is confusing because a) it's never brought up again or leads anywhere b) it's unclear if the other Kylon is calling him Isaac because of his old designation or because they all maintain a database of designations and Isaac never actually updated it. The point being it's a wasted scene. Well not whole scene but that line is wasted. There is no point in ever revealing why he's called Isaac. The only thing gained by it is trivia. When it's sci fi trivia night and someone asks what is the name of the robot on The Orville you can remember isaac because of newton. But it does little to expand character, setting or plot. and that small line might be my biggest complaint of the episode.
The thing of it is this episode actually did bring to mind something that I've been thinking about and that's the humor. Sometimes it's a bit non-sequiteurish. It's finally occurred to me that it feels like someone went through the script and then just inserted jokes without telling anyone and they filmed it. Things like the pee corner. If you literally clip that out. The rest of the episode feels like a real spec fic. That said the phantom script editing IS the Orville identity.
That said in no way did The Orville find itself in this episode simply because it found itself in the episode where Isassc began a relationship with the doctor. Or the episode where Bortus had tried to defend having a girl. Or even the episode where starsigns were taken seriously by a budding new civilization. Are there still random jokes someone clearly is inserting into the scripts without supervision? Yeah but all of that is part of the identify The Orville has long ago established for itself. This show has the potential to become a long remembered science fiction classic. It has everything it need to inspire spin off movies and books and RPG and games and sequel shows. And it's had all that long before Identity Part 2.
Review by wolfkinBlockedParent2019-03-04T15:10:12Z
So I skimmed past a headline that said something like
It inspired me to remember that Part 2 came out and catch up. 20% of the way in this is a fantastic episode. It's excellent work. All around.
There's a scene where Isaac reveals that he choose his designation in honor of an intelligent human (Newton) and Kylon Prime tells him to change it. We assume he refuses because he's later referred to as Isaac which is confusing because a) it's never brought up again or leads anywhere b) it's unclear if the other Kylon is calling him Isaac because of his old designation or because they all maintain a database of designations and Isaac never actually updated it. The point being it's a wasted scene. Well not whole scene but that line is wasted. There is no point in ever revealing why he's called Isaac. The only thing gained by it is trivia. When it's sci fi trivia night and someone asks what is the name of the robot on The Orville you can remember isaac because of newton. But it does little to expand character, setting or plot. and that small line might be my biggest complaint of the episode.
The thing of it is this episode actually did bring to mind something that I've been thinking about and that's the humor. Sometimes it's a bit non-sequiteurish. It's finally occurred to me that it feels like someone went through the script and then just inserted jokes without telling anyone and they filmed it. Things like the pee corner. If you literally clip that out. The rest of the episode feels like a real spec fic. That said the phantom script editing IS the Orville identity.
That said in no way did The Orville find itself in this episode simply because it found itself in the episode where Isassc began a relationship with the doctor. Or the episode where Bortus had tried to defend having a girl. Or even the episode where starsigns were taken seriously by a budding new civilization. Are there still random jokes someone clearly is inserting into the scripts without supervision? Yeah but all of that is part of the identify The Orville has long ago established for itself. This show has the potential to become a long remembered science fiction classic. It has everything it need to inspire spin off movies and books and RPG and games and sequel shows. And it's had all that long before Identity Part 2.