Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2017 2:47:54 GMT
I thought this show was their weakest yet. That said... it was still pretty good.
My observations...
It was supremely obvious that Pria would turn out to be a bad guy. Therefore the the whole segment devoted to showing us how nice and helpful she was, was a bit pointless because I never believed it.
Having an insta-romance with Mercer was also kind of cliche. I thought it was handled believably enough, but it was just kind of there... you could subtract it and the episode would still work. I did appreciate that she wasn't THAT evil though, she said she genuinely did care for him, and didn't seem to be lying. And yeah, she actually did save their lives, so it's hard to hate on her too much.
Oh my god, how many times are we going to get a "Jar of pickles / Alara opens a door" thing? That's like three episodes out of five!
Loved the practical jokes. I like how this crew likes to banter and joke with one another, it comes across as very natural. And I love that Isaac thought it was funny to take Malloy's leg off! And that it fell down onto the table when it did. I couldn't help but notice that the leg was too long for what was missing from the leg, though. Minor oopsie!
I also thought Pria had an interesting motivation for stealing the Orville, which worked for me. Liked the weird alien ship from the future too, and appreciated seeing another non-humanoid alien. This show is obviously tightly budgeted, but I am impressed with how they are managing the money they do have so far.
Yaphit has an actual job! Nice to see him doing something new. And how cool is it to have him as an engineer? He can crawl into all the little tight spaces others might have trouble accessing.
Kinda nice to see them wearing civvies in their off duty socialising. You got the impression that TNG crews wore those uniforms almost 24/7 sometimes. And wow, can Adrianne Palicki just wear the hell out of a dress, or what?!
Small point... Mercer's quarters have a spiral staircase in them. So his quarters occupy two decks, which I thought was interesting. Presumably his bedroom is upstairs? Seems like an odd design choice for the ship, though.
Interested to learn a little more about the ship - it can do more than ten light years per hour, which is over 87,000 times the speed of light. Considerably faster than most numbers we are given for Federation warp drive. Which I like, as the speeds/distances in Star Trek are almost constantly screwed up. For comparison, on the TOS Warp Scale the Orville can do more than Warp 44. The ship is more than fast enough to be able to make interstellar trips within a reasonable amount of time - starting at Earth, there are something like 10-15,000 star system the Orville could reach within 24 hours!
Also interesting that their shuttle doesn't have the engine power to break away from a sun. Surface gravity of our sun is about 28 gees, so... are they limited to quite low sublight speeds? It would take hours to a day or two to fly around a solar system at those accelerations. Of course they could just qantum drive it.
The ending didn't make a lot of sense to me. Destroying the wormhole meant Pria had never come back in time... so she vanished from the timeline? But wouldn't that mean that the Orville would indeed have been destroyed in the dark matter field? Yet it wasn't. Not sure what happened there.
My observations...
It was supremely obvious that Pria would turn out to be a bad guy. Therefore the the whole segment devoted to showing us how nice and helpful she was, was a bit pointless because I never believed it.
Having an insta-romance with Mercer was also kind of cliche. I thought it was handled believably enough, but it was just kind of there... you could subtract it and the episode would still work. I did appreciate that she wasn't THAT evil though, she said she genuinely did care for him, and didn't seem to be lying. And yeah, she actually did save their lives, so it's hard to hate on her too much.
Oh my god, how many times are we going to get a "Jar of pickles / Alara opens a door" thing? That's like three episodes out of five!
Loved the practical jokes. I like how this crew likes to banter and joke with one another, it comes across as very natural. And I love that Isaac thought it was funny to take Malloy's leg off! And that it fell down onto the table when it did. I couldn't help but notice that the leg was too long for what was missing from the leg, though. Minor oopsie!
I also thought Pria had an interesting motivation for stealing the Orville, which worked for me. Liked the weird alien ship from the future too, and appreciated seeing another non-humanoid alien. This show is obviously tightly budgeted, but I am impressed with how they are managing the money they do have so far.
Yaphit has an actual job! Nice to see him doing something new. And how cool is it to have him as an engineer? He can crawl into all the little tight spaces others might have trouble accessing.
Kinda nice to see them wearing civvies in their off duty socialising. You got the impression that TNG crews wore those uniforms almost 24/7 sometimes. And wow, can Adrianne Palicki just wear the hell out of a dress, or what?!
Small point... Mercer's quarters have a spiral staircase in them. So his quarters occupy two decks, which I thought was interesting. Presumably his bedroom is upstairs? Seems like an odd design choice for the ship, though.
Interested to learn a little more about the ship - it can do more than ten light years per hour, which is over 87,000 times the speed of light. Considerably faster than most numbers we are given for Federation warp drive. Which I like, as the speeds/distances in Star Trek are almost constantly screwed up. For comparison, on the TOS Warp Scale the Orville can do more than Warp 44. The ship is more than fast enough to be able to make interstellar trips within a reasonable amount of time - starting at Earth, there are something like 10-15,000 star system the Orville could reach within 24 hours!
Also interesting that their shuttle doesn't have the engine power to break away from a sun. Surface gravity of our sun is about 28 gees, so... are they limited to quite low sublight speeds? It would take hours to a day or two to fly around a solar system at those accelerations. Of course they could just qantum drive it.
The ending didn't make a lot of sense to me. Destroying the wormhole meant Pria had never come back in time... so she vanished from the timeline? But wouldn't that mean that the Orville would indeed have been destroyed in the dark matter field? Yet it wasn't. Not sure what happened there.