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Isaac apparently arm wrestled Alara on a regular basis. So, now the banana rotting device is the most powerful weapon in the galaxy. Does time travel happen so often that the Union has a rule about it or did they just watch a lot of Voyager episodes? The episode would have been far less creepy if Ed and Kelly left and just told 2025 Gordon that they didn't want to see him in the history books, THEN went to 2015 without telling him. Then again, the sandwich thing pretty much highlighted that Gordon and Laura are in another quantum reality where they lived a full life together. I've watched a lot of time travel shows and I think the ones who did it best were the movie Paycheck and 3 out of 4 seasons of Continuum.

I was thinking about Futurama (Don't Date Robots!) when I wrote that. Given the timing, it seems like Isaac was trying to help Claire the most. He only offered his assistance when Claire was planning to resign her commission and leave the Orville. It reminds me of DS9 (Children of Time) where "future" Odo saved Kira for completely personal reasons, but in that case also at a great cost.

I think Claire is a robosexual. But that's the comedy! Bortus goes too far.

Worst. Orville. Ever. New horror. Nothing happens. The whole thing ends with an exposition by future Fallon Carrington. Luckily, bad is relative with The Orville, but I'd like to see actual plots to go along with the characters.

The Caroline thing was unexpected and a little weird. Most of the scenes were longer shots, like they didn't want people to realize Caroline doesn't actually look like a 17 year old anymore. Obviously, Joseph Morgan was part of a hastily put together Zoom speech that was dressed up as a magical movie. I guess everything is resolved? Landon gets screwed over once again, so pretty typical for Legacies.

Getting Landon out was probably the Season 5 story. Wouldn't the whole Ferryman curse end with Ken anyway?

Andromeda definitely took a different tone when Robert Hewitt Wolfe left. I think the Krill would look at this new race as evil, sort of like the entire Union. By definition it's a parasitic race, needing to end the lives of other beings to procreate. The Orville will probably not look at them as evil, since one already talked to them.

These things are like the Magog from Andromeda.

I though Holly Marie Combs might show up or something. Opening the door to an empty house was kind of a let down.

Part of it depends on how much was filmed / written before the ax fell. I think Charmed and Legacies had about 2 episodes left they could rewrite.

Adam is hilarious. They can kill him off in the last episode.

The massacre at the CW has something to do with Warner Media breaking deals with Netflix to improve their streaming outlets while making the network cheaper for Nexstar. Supposedly, online CW is pretty popular and shows with whole seasons on CW Seed were mostly spared the ax. Not sure about wokeness, but I found it funny that Supergirl killed off Dean Cain's character while Cain's CW show about stage magicians got higher ratings.

To be fair, he was adjusting the antenna on the live feed, i.e. the present. The past is on VHS.

This reminds me of the fourth season of Star Trek: Enterprise. The show had a budget of 1,9 million per episode, but Paramount (the production company) sold it to the Paramount network (UPN) for 1 million. It was a huge discount, but it gave the show exposure and enough episodes to syndicate. However, syndication performed poorly until it was finally just sold to streamers.

Could they do Dear Evan Hansen next? I don't want to pay to see it.

That would answer the question of where Amanda was in this episode. She and Adam have this weird chemistry, which reminds me of Fallon's talk about how creepy Adam was. I thought there was about a 30% chance of Dua Lipa actually showing up. But that probably won't happen if she has to go to Georgia for the scene.

Then it would be stealing from a Revenge episode.

I don't know about that, but my company made a member of the board of directors the new CEO, then forced out the daughter of one of the company's founders (for the second time). Real life business intrigue is better than the stuff on Dynasty.

Legally, Roarke is the Chief Magistrate of the Island, at least in the original. I'm not big on a CGI Ricardo Montalban given what that was like in Spy Kids. Other people from certain families on the island also had powers. I assume nuclear testing was done nearby.

Works for me. Legends of Tomorrow just ended their season last Sunday.

Making Roarke a real person takes some of the supernatural out of it. Also, OG Fantasy Island would have two fantasies, one was more comedic that the ones on the new show, and one would be more dangerous, or have more of a Monkey's Paw element to it. Ruby is the new Julie. In Cuba, her grandfather was saying she was a great drummer, but needed a lot of work on the bongo drums, so she didn't work as much on the family musical style.

Before I started the rewatch, I mostly remembered the episode where Tattoo got into an accident and there were a bunch of flashbacks while Roarke stayed by his side. Ironically, it was near the end of season 6 and while Tattoo ended up okay, Hervé Villechaize didn't make it to season 7.

So, this almost never happened. Per Wikipedia

I don't know about this mixing of the Fantasies thing, anyway. The Tattoo role was to ask Roarke who so-and-so is and why they're on the island. He also padded out the stories once in a while with some scheme or other. Later on, he would off guests more human advice than Roarke could. There's some stories about how the role of Tattoo was expanded and diminished based on the actor's issues with the show.

I saw her on a short-lived UPN series called "South Beach."