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ketose

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. I kind of meant the 1993 show where John Larroquette played a recovering alcoholic bus station manager. This time, Abby is the recovering alcoholic.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. I almost thought they were going to just segue into Season 2. It's only 10 episodes a season.
  7. No. I haven't even read "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" when I borrowed it in college (I gave it back).
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. Truly, Charley was this series' Mary Sue.
  16. The second picture looks like it's from "All the World is Birthday Cake"
  17. That's more of a story for "The Boys." Angel One came to mind, as well as the movie Bicentennial Man, which had a better outcome for the robot. Ironically, the Gen 1 Kaylon seem to have some emotions regarding biological life. Isaac was able to see that humans / Union members were not inclined to torture and subjugate other races, but the older Kaylons drew this line where empathy only applied to other robots. Kaylons may actually have feelings but suppressed them and upgraded the new Kaylons not to have them.
  18. The destroyed space station was orbiting a different planet. Earth was a space dock they went to get repairs after the time travel damage.
  19. I mentioned one of my favorite time travel movies being Paycheck is kind of a cheat because a person doesn't physically travel in time. The time part is the ability to see the future, which is more likely than actually popping into the future. In that case, the "future" could be changed. Ironically, Strange New Worlds did a time manipulation plot line and came to the conclusion that knowledge of the future allows you to change it, but probably not for the better. The Orville had this device since the pilot and the time travel device is a combination of human genius and Kaylon knowledge, which is also an indication that the Kaylon should embrace biological life forms. So far, this season has been full of callbacks and I think the time device will be back.
  20. Avengers applied the "time heist" theory. They minimized the change to the sequence of history by returning the items when they were done with them. Then Cap changed things anyway. Some shows basically close the loop with a bootstrap theory anyway. So, Orville sees Gordon in the history books, retrieves him and no more Gordon in the past. In terms of the show, I'm pretty sure Gordon and Laura continued and he made sure to cover his tracks so history would look like he wasn't there. This whole thing about time firming up is negated by Orville's own rules. Kelly was sent back into the past, remembered things because the memory block failed, didn't date Ed and changed history so the Kaylons took over the galaxy. They were still able to get to the Orville and use the time machine to fix things years after.
  21. Not really better because my example had to do with the impact progeny had when you consider an individual's contribution to history. Then again, I'm not a big fan of "City" or Harlan Ellison in general.
  22. The original Star Trek did an episode like this (Tomorrow Is Yesterday) where they transported a pilot out of a destroyed aircraft. They weren't going to let him go back because he knew about "the future" now, but then Spock found out his future son was going to be a famous astronaut. They figured out some way to fix things when they went forward in time.
  23. There's a fan theory now that because of the sandwich discussion and the whole 1 month vs. 6 month thing, they're setting up for a return of alternate Gordon. It would also make sense if Gordon changed his and his family's name so that there was no clear evidence in the history books.
  24. The Orville retrieved Gordon one month after he got there. How was he able to send the message 5 months later?
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