I have not yet written a comment in response to a particular episode, yet here I am. The Orville Season 3 Episode 9: Domino was absolute magic. I texted a best friend, just before the conclusion, these words: "The Orville is out Star-Trekking Star Trek."
This episode was a glorious fulfillment of the innumerous emotions to which the show has brought us. We have so far, to name only a few, dealt with drama, conquest, and power struggle, only at the end to be given an indescribably beautiful revelation of the arc of this story.
Given, in my opinion, the first season of The Orville was supremely mediocre, I never once anticipated a future episode would draw me to tears... and...
This.
Did.
Please watch
That text chain is genius; stick around for the end credits. :laughing:
Bran: I can never be Lord of Winterfell, I can never be Lord of anything, I'm the Three-eyed Raven.
Also Bran: I'm the King.
This is one that just feels like a whole lot of nothing much, stretched out to fill a two-parter. The only really interesting parts are the explorations of Data's apparent emotional experience, and the quite excellent scene between him and the Borg in the brig (although it feels very silly when you realise that the security guard is sitting there the whole time and not paying any attention to what's going on), but Data's coercion just feels unnatural. And the reveal of Lore is always a nice little thrill.
Admiral Nechayev continues to be unpleasant, too.
The episode does contain what has to be one of the worst lines of writing in the series: "You have killed Torsus! I will make you suffer for this!"
Dear God, if you write like that you should not be employed.
I honestly have no idea how they're pulling off a season that's this consistently good, episode after episode. Hulu/Disney better renew this show!
Shaun played the shit out of his roommate and left her standing there with the salty face. Haha.
Then he ask the doctor from pathology out a date without giving her the flowers or candy. LMAO.
Holy shit that was a waste of time. And i even skipped a bit
Her father is a asshole
Aw, I would've liked to see more of the Bozeman crew adjusting to the present time.
I love pretty much all of the Doctor centered episodes.
-Hello random murderous ai I've just met in space, off course I'll eat some random things you just offered, how kind of you.
So Boring!!! No attempt to be funny at all!!! Worst yet!!!
Funny that the returning word in the episode titles is "Woe", which is the common abbreviation of "Woensdag", the dutch word for "Wednesday".
What kind of idiot voted 1 point before the episode is aired?
Surprisingly good, taking a very overused TNG set up (a crew member among a collection of primitive alien townsfolk) and placing an intriguing and well structured story around it. Brent Spiner's performance is absolutely wonderful and I liked the way that Data's natural way of doing things began to emerge more as the episode went on. I was also a fan of the people in the village, especially the local scientist/teacher woman who managed to balance her performance between being interested in and sceptical of Data. A good actress in the role of the young girl, Gia, too.
On top of that, the b-story involving Troi's attempt to become a commander was also just as interesting (plus a nice rare reference to the events of a previous episode having an impact on her character). The conversation between her and Beverly at the start is nice and natural, Riker is honest with her and the solution to the test is a pretty tough one. I only noticed that Captain Picard was barely in this when he suddenly turned up at the end.
I did find it hard not to think of Top Gun whenever anybody called Data "Ice Man".
Only just entertaining, locations were the highlights. Overall the GT series has lost it's grass routes of being a "Car show".
Finally got to see this Classic American Holiday movie. It's said enough about this one, but what caught my attention is how much people smoke basically everywhere, in literally all public places. Some guys were smoking right in the bus while travelling between the cities, during a winter time with windows shut.
I guess a lot of things did get better since 1987.
