The Orville Season 2 📺

The "comedy" is cringe worthy.  I hope season 2 is better than the first. It's obviously a labor of love though so I appreciate it for that. Voice acting aside, MacFarlane is a pretty shitty actor tho. 

Catman is looking forward to this.

Excellent series, imo the best sci-fi of the last few years. Been climbing the walls waiting for this since the end of season one. Delighted that it is finally almost here!

eh ill watch out of a curiousity as well.

I thought the first episode was great. It's nice to see an ep where the galaxy is not in danger of being destroyed or something.

So my thoughts... and there be spoilers here, so don't read if you don't want.




Interesting way to kick the season off, this. There's no real driving story to it - the ship isn't in danger, the Krill aren't attacking, there's no emergency. Everyone is just chilling out and honestly they mostly seem kinda bored. What we do get is a lot of character stuff. I rather liked that, it was a nice change of pace.

So we see that Ed is taking Kelly's telling him they couldn't be together hard. He's bored, he's boozing pretty heavily. I like the Rhino bartender - Jason Alexander! I wonder how he felt about being under such a heavy makeup job?

They also come up with a new way for broken hearted guys to be creepy. Ed checks a shuttle out and literally goes to hang outside Kelly's quarters to spy on her. That's a cool moment, don't know that I've ever seen it done before. And I always appreciate anything that gives us a sense of connecting the inside of the ship to the outside like that, it makes the ship feel more real to me.

And I love that the Moclans actually make a ceremony of their once a year urination. I have to wonder if they always had this in mind - the once a year thing came across as a throwaway joke in the pilot episode, it's a nice touch to see them taking that and running with it. I also love that after all the buildup, we never got to see him actually doing it. I wonder, what would be funnier? If it was some gigantic torrent of pee that went on for ages... or if after a whole year he just produced a little dribble?

That actually set me thinking about the biology of this seriously. Water is incompressible, so Bortas can't have that much stored up. No more than five times as much as a human, say. So if I had to guess, I would guess that Moclans drink as we do and have some organ that uses water to filter out the stuff we don't want. But then most of that water is probably dumped through the breath, sweat, etc. What remains is a super-concentrated form of urine, of which only a very small amount accumulates per day. And by the end of the year there's about as much as a human produces, more or less.

It seems certain that Alara is going to be leaving, and I guess they are showing her being dissatisfied as a way to set that up.

Nice to learn more about Dann. I love that guy!

I still don't care about Finn's kids. I find myself wondering if they're here to be Wesley antidotes. Everyone hated him because he was too smart, too perfect. These kids seem designed to be precisely not that. I appreciate the realism, but geez, they're just annoying as hell. And how dumb is picking out the simulator to have your illicit booze session? Seriously? I don't care how many simulators they have, there are going to be waiting lists a mile long for these things. It's probably one of the worst places on the whole ship to try and hide!

I like Tyler. Hope we will be seeing more of her. And I have to wonder, if dark matter cartography a new science? In Pria they didn't even know how to detect the stuff until she showed them. Did they pass that tech on and the Union ran with it?

Overall a good start to the season. A good way to introduce newbies to the characters, and fun to catch up with them all.

I doubt it was the show. She's one of their most popular characters, they wouldn't want to lose her.

Another rumour is that Seth is dating Halston Sage. No idea if that had any impact on her leaving. If she is!

I thought the porn addiction episode was the season opener?  Anyway, I enjoyed it for the story and some of the comedy bits even made me laugh out loud.  I've found the comedy the weakest part of the show, previously. 

It was kinky last season when the doctor had sex with that blobby creature that enveloped her.

I don't see why aliens from different parts of the galaxy would be dating, they're as likely to have offspring as if a human mated with a horse. But the ship's bar is hopping with such encounters.