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The Orville: If the Stars Should Appear (2017)
Rollicking Good Episode
This was a brilliant episode! Great mystery to be solved then peril for some of the crew followed by a race against time to save the inhabitants & help them move forward in their development.
The banter & one-liners were on point tonight! Grayson's courage & fortitude under torture along with her unbroken spirit and smart insults was the highlight for me. THIS is why she's First Officer - she is absolutely brilliant! Everyone brought their 'A' game tonight - heart-stopping moment of fear for Alara, Capt Ed having to think his way around corners & keep all the balls in the air to get not only his crew through safely but also save the ship & her unaware inhabitants. Best episode yet!
The Orville: Majority Rule (2017)
Fireable Offense
The premise is amazing & addresses our obsession with "likes" & social media approval in a fun yet thought-provoking way.
My beef with this episode is the absolute shambles of an Officer so incompetent & so arrogant was not left to the fate he so richly deserved! Lemarr has always been a juvenile & slightly idiotic bridge officer but was comic relief for the most part. THIS episode however, show him to be so moronic that he dry humps a statue on an alien planet they are undercover visiting, completely ignores the order from the First Officer to stop & carries on doing it. After being arrested & finding out his only hope is apologizing - he doubles down on his arrogance & acts like "the awful American abroad" stereotype: sneeringly contemptuous of other cultures, uncaring of giving offence & believing himself too superior to face any consequences. Frankly, they should have left him there & let him be lobotomized. There are plenty of officers on the Orville better qualified to be there than Lamarr.
The Orville: Mad Idolatry (2017)
Incompetence Squared
This episode really frustrated me. I know the crew are supposed to be "normal" people who screw up but for a First Officer to be so stupid? First she takes off on her own for a 'look-see' then she fails to scan for life forms in her immediate vicinity so chances upon alien children. Then, when she spots them she fails to hold still & hide & carries on blundering about so they see her. THEN she compounds her idiocy by interacting with & healing the child then allowing herself to be seen by other adult aliens. Later, learning a whole religion sprang up around her, instead of leaving well enough alone, she doubles down & goes back to talk to more aliens - directly leading to a murder - & risking the careers of her Captain & senior officers. This, plus her insistence on promoting Lamarr last episode despite no evidence he is competent to be on the bridge let alone in a leadership position really put me off the whole show. I hope the next season improves things.