The Orville (S2E05) -- "All the World Is Birthday Cake" -- 01/24/2019
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Re: The Orville (S2E05) -- "All the World Is Birthday Cake" -- 01/24/2019
She looked familiar to me as well, and I've seen some of the things she has been in, but nothing that I would recognize her from. Might be the raspy voice and I'm thinking of someone else, dunno.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Szohr
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Szohr
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Re: The Orville (S2E05) -- "All the World Is Birthday Cake" -- 01/24/2019
But once the "star" appears it's all birthday cake and singalongs...except for the fatherless children and widows of those pointlessly slaughtered by the heroes of the Orville. Turns out the jelliacs are OK, but those dicks from the Orville are the worst.
Something else that bugged me: What people that have yet to make outside contact nevertheless name their home planet Rigor-2?
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I was pretty good with everything up until the resolution.
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Looks like a planet. We shall call it Rigor.
Sounds good. But what about naming our planet?
Hmm... Rigor-2 comes to mind.
Or maybe all planets are named Rigor and theirs is simply "Rigor too."
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Re: The Orville (S2E05) -- "All the World Is Birthday Cake" -- 01/24/2019
Did the Orville have any name for the planet before they visited it? I can't remember if it was uncharted, or if they just didn't know it had life on it.
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Re: The Orville (S2E05) -- "All the World Is Birthday Cake" -- 01/24/2019
This is why I wish they would focus on comedy/sci-fi satire. The "serious" plots on the show are trite and paper thin, completely falling apart under the slightest scrutiny. If they are going to be this bad at incorporating traditional sci-fi someone needs tell them they shouldn't bother.
If they continue with episodes like this one the show won't last.
It would just be a bad imitation of TNG.
She looked familiar to me as well, and I've seen some of the things she has been in, but nothing that I would recognize her from. Might be the raspy voice and I'm thinking of someone else, dunno.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Szohr
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Szohr
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Re: The Orville (S2E05) -- "All the World Is Birthday Cake" -- 01/24/2019
Despite some of the criticism of this episode, this and last week’s are the two most accessible Orville’s for my wife, who is a hardcore TOS/TNG/DS9/V/E fan. No puerile humor, but some laughs, and decent Star Trek style plots. My wife is a twin, so she found the whole “shared birthday” subplot very funny, plus Bortus' comment “An egg is easier” during the birthing scene.
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Re: The Orville (S2E05) -- "All the World Is Birthday Cake" -- 01/24/2019
Also stupid for the fact that the stars look different at different places in the universe, and more importantly, planets revolve around their suns at different rates, so a year on one planet is not a year on another. Thus Kelly revealing her birthday does nothing to denote where the stars were on this planet when she was born. I know, I know, there's a lot about this show where you have to suspend disbelief more than you ordinarily would. But the whole astrology thing was just plain stupid.
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Re: The Orville (S2E05) -- "All the World Is Birthday Cake" -- 01/24/2019
Egotastic Funtime's First Impression video of this episode
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Yeah, I’d suck as a ship captain. I’d have just used a dropship to collect my crew and then blasted those fuckers from orbit.
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Re: The Orville (S2E05) -- "All the World Is Birthday Cake" -- 01/24/2019
the Federation's (or whatever) stance on this was dumb. just leaving 2 crewmembers behind. ridiculous.
knock out gas the entire area, grab your people and get out of there never to return. fin. certainly less of a breach of the prime directive (or whatever) than their ultimate solution.
also makes me wonder if they will ever incorporate transporters in this show.
knock out gas the entire area, grab your people and get out of there never to return. fin. certainly less of a breach of the prime directive (or whatever) than their ultimate solution.
also makes me wonder if they will ever incorporate transporters in this show.
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Re: The Orville (S2E05) -- "All the World Is Birthday Cake" -- 01/24/2019
Notice on Star Trek how they always had to keep coming up with reasons why the transporter would not work when they created a situation that the transporter could solve instantly.
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Re: The Orville (S2E05) -- "All the World Is Birthday Cake" -- 01/24/2019
Exactly. This is the point in my post about everybody speaking English. You're suppose to concoct a reason so the audience doesn't ask "Why don't they use the transporter?" or "Why do they speak English?".
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Re: The Orville (S2E05) -- "All the World Is Birthday Cake" -- 01/24/2019
They speak English because this is a television show produced in the USA.
Seriously, if you are watching The Orville and wondering why everybody speaks English then you are watching TV wrong.
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Re: The Orville (S2E05) -- "All the World Is Birthday Cake" -- 01/24/2019
I'm certain that Seth thinks having a female security chief and having a female be the physically strongest person on the ship is an important representation that he did not want to abandon just because Sage left the show.
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Re: The Orville (S2E05) -- "All the World Is Birthday Cake" -- 01/24/2019
Nobody questions why everybody speaks English on Hogan's Heroes. Why? Because the Germans all speak with German accents. This tells the audience that the German characters have learned English as a second language. Give a character an accent and all is explained.
Why do the Germans continue to speak in English when they are alone among themselves?
Correct answer: Because it's a tv show.
It's still a valid question.
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Re: The Orville (S2E05) -- "All the World Is Birthday Cake" -- 01/24/2019
If everybody who watches the show understands that all the human characters and all the alien characters speak English because it is an American TV show, then why would you request that Seth insert some ridiculous explanation into the show for why everybody is speaking English?
These are people flying around the galaxy on a star-ship, 400 years from now, and they watch movies and listen to music from 40 years ago. None of it actually makes any fucking sense.
These are people flying around the galaxy on a star-ship, 400 years from now, and they watch movies and listen to music from 40 years ago. None of it actually makes any fucking sense.
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Re: The Orville (S2E05) -- "All the World Is Birthday Cake" -- 01/24/2019
And they’re already pushing the Trek similarities about as far as they can without getting sued into oblivionby Paramount. Transporters are about as distinctly Star Trek as you can get, and introducing something like that would probably cross an actionable line.
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Re: The Orville (S2E05) -- "All the World Is Birthday Cake" -- 01/24/2019
In the second episode of the show (S01E02 - "Command Performance"), the far more advanced Calivon civilization used some type of transporter to kidnap Ed and Kelly for exhibits in their zoo. If the show last long enough, maybe a future episode will depict the Union finally getting transporter technology, either through espionage or developing it themselves.