The Orville: Electric Sheep (2022)
Season 3, Episode 1
9/10
After a long hiatus an improbable show is back
2 June 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Wow. You can't help comparing this to TNG at times and how Star Trek wrote Data. If Star Trek had written Data like this even a little fans would have gone crazy and yet Isaac as a character is fascinating. "Electric Sheep" is a beautiful exploration of hatred, self loathing, and ultimately forgiveness. And all done with an Android who supposedly can't feel any of those. And yet the ending with Claire yelling at him trying to convince him logically that suicide is never the answer was extremely well done.

Loved how Marcus played a heavy part of the show. I have always said that one of the things I really like about the show is how human all the humans are. The kids act like kids and the adults act like kids as well at times. The fact that Claire has children isn't something that isn't important to her character and the fact that Isaac really did betray her family is very important to their story as well as his.

Not a big fan of Charly at this point but I am not sure we are supposed to be. She is the unknown on a crew that is mostly known. She is also the one who seems to be the most angsty and standoffish with a crew that is mostly already jelling. That being said I get her reasons for not being cool with Isaac and I like the idea that she might never be but after talking to Marcus helped Isaac anyway. Not for Isaac but for Marcus and maybe because she didn't want to be "that person."

Awesome opening episode after a long hiatus.
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