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The first part of the episode dragged because the "trivia contest" trope just annoys me in general. I thought the rest of the episode was pretty good. I thought the David mistaken identity thing mostly hit the right notes.

Or Gurgs just likes the guy in the May photo. When MR said "the guy said that almost never happens" I finally laughed at a non-Fielding line.

I kind of meant the 1993 show where John Larroquette played a recovering alcoholic bus station manager. This time, Abby is the recovering alcoholic.

This episode kind of took a turn into The John Larroquette Show, but I'm here for it. I can definitely see that there were about two more episodes before this since more times seems to have passed and they kind of put Abby's motivation right out there.

The first episodes were okay. I mostly found myself laughing at the lines or exchanges with John Laroquette and not so much with the other cast.

I almost thought they were going to just segue into Season 2. It's only 10 episodes a season.

"Alias marathon." Okay, then.

No. I haven't even read "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" when I borrowed it in college (I gave it back).

Then there's "Just Shoot Me" which was about a daughter and her estranged father working together. They were both writers. It seems like one of the aspects of this show is that while execs want "edgy" they end up doing the same things that make money. Hulu backed the Timberly casting because of audience demographics and they probably know that funny Step Right Up will do better than dark sarcastic Step Right Up.

For that matter, so do Kirby and Adam. I guess she likes to keep it in the family. Adam was the "lost" Carrington who was kidnapped as a baby by his "mother" (the one he basically poisoned when he found out he was a Carrington). He is a full sibling to Fallon and Amanda.

I have to say, for a uneven show, this was a pretty satisfying finale. I was pretty sure Steven was Graham after plastic surgery, so the Mission Impossible twist was a fun surprise. Also, Adam ends up back where he started, except with a fake real British accent. The time jump also seemed likely since they just did one and it's a finale. So, this season took place over about 18 months. No really big changes with the rest of the family, which is fine because Fallon and others generally bored me anyway.

I'm thinking chances are high that Steven shows up in the finale. However, I think chances are low that it will be the same actor.

I looked up the actress who played Lysella and thought "oh, she was a vampire on Legacies." Then again, "Majority Rule" aired almost 5 years ago and she was on Legacies last season. I'm a little less hopeful on more seasons of Orville. This was kind of a vanity project for MacFarlane and Fox would have given him anything for more Family Guy. Now that it's part of the Disney empire, I think it's headed into the sunset.

The matter synthesis thing is kind of an interesting thought experiment, but a machine that makes things might not solve the need for land or energy. Even travel would be an issue on Earth 2022. Even the idea of reputation as value is kind of wonky if you really think about it. Original Trek delved into the Prime Directive stuff a couple of times and came to the conclusion that the natural development of a culture is important, even if giving technology to a planet wouldn't lead to nuclear annihilation.

The last thing I saw on The Orville was a fast-forward through yet another Gordon song done to montage. I should be glad there wasn't an unanswered cliffhanger, but there was a lot of callbacks. Weird Moclan ceremony, Isaac taking bad advice from John, Planet Reddit, finale with Alana, check. That being said, I didn't hate the episode. It was kind of their version of "Data's Day" spread out over a week. If this is the end of The Orville, I think it ended on a good note.