The Orville (S2E05) -- "All the World Is Birthday Cake" -- 01/24/2019
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The Orville (S2E05) -- "All the World Is Birthday Cake" -- 01/24/2019
https://www.fox.com/the-orville/
S2 E5 All the World Is Birthday Cake
The Orville makes first contact; a new crew member joins the ship.
Aired 1-24-19 • TV-14 LV
Episode Link at Fox.com
S2 E5 All the World Is Birthday Cake
The Orville makes first contact; a new crew member joins the ship.
Aired 1-24-19 • TV-14 LV
Episode Link at Fox.com
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Re: The Orville (S2E05) -- "All the World Is Birthday Cake" -- 01/24/2019
Wow. I thought this episode was just awful, as dull as any episode of Next Generation. The one bit of levity at the end (the birthday video), -like many of their jokes, -is not really even current, let alone something that would be considered "of the future". Wasn't terribly impressed with the new hire, either.
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Re: The Orville (S2E05) -- "All the World Is Birthday Cake" -- 01/24/2019
With Kelly and Bortus killing so many guards you have to wonder if they would have just let them go free or try them for murder.
As to the new hire she's not as attractive as Alara but I'll withheld judgement until I see if she can pull off the role.
As to the new hire she's not as attractive as Alara but I'll withheld judgement until I see if she can pull off the role.
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Re: The Orville (S2E05) -- "All the World Is Birthday Cake" -- 01/24/2019
I liked this episode and think the dilemma was very TNG-like (a good thing, IMO). That the first contact situation degenerated from happy to tense because of the society's strong superstitions is a great sci-fi theme to base the story on. And the lack of transporters on the show made the task of rescue much more of a challenge than on actual Trek series. The main flaw was the resolution was a bit too quick given how their plan would have no easily predictable effect on the society. That it worked out perfect was just pure luck.
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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
This one was not good. Based solely on Star science it made no sense.
Half way in I suspected they were going to change what the stars look like to the planet.
Plus they could have gone in there pretty easily and extracted them without killing anyone.
Half way in I suspected they were going to change what the stars look like to the planet.
Plus they could have gone in there pretty easily and extracted them without killing anyone.
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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
So the captain can just request that the new security chief be from one planet? How about getting the best person regardless of origin? Or does the extra strength of people from that planet make them automatically the best for the job?
So everyone on this new planet just happens to speak English? Or do they have some kind universal translator like on Trek? Even so, how would it work for a completely new language?
Everything on the first contact planet seemed to be to close to what we have on Earth. I think the baby blankets were even the same exact pattern that you see in every hospital for a baby blanket. Kind of like last season where they were on that planet where everyone gets rated and the alarm clock sound was the same exact sound from most modern alarm clocks today.
So everyone on this new planet just happens to speak English? Or do they have some kind universal translator like on Trek? Even so, how would it work for a completely new language?
Everything on the first contact planet seemed to be to close to what we have on Earth. I think the baby blankets were even the same exact pattern that you see in every hospital for a baby blanket. Kind of like last season where they were on that planet where everyone gets rated and the alarm clock sound was the same exact sound from most modern alarm clocks today.
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Re: The Orville (S2E05) -- "All the World Is Birthday Cake" -- 01/24/2019
So this limited commercial interruption episode was 47 minutes of tv show is that more then usual for an hour show?
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Re: The Orville (S2E05) -- "All the World Is Birthday Cake" -- 01/24/2019
I found a recap since I do not watch this show...
https://showsnob.com/2019/01/22/the-...sode-13-recap/
A.1. write-up!
Kelly and Bortus are tied to steaks for their escape attempt.
A.1. write-up!
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Re: The Orville (S2E05) -- "All the World Is Birthday Cake" -- 01/24/2019
All the better to take in the first-day-on-the-job security chief's snarky insults.
This felt like a recycle of a season 1 episode, so it seems appropriate to recycle one of my season 1 comments:
This felt like a recycle of a season 1 episode, so it seems appropriate to recycle one of my season 1 comments:
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Re: The Orville (S2E05) -- "All the World Is Birthday Cake" -- 01/24/2019
That's a sci-fi thing you just need to look past. I mean there are 6,500 spoken languages just on this planet Earth but outside of this planet it's totally English dude. And, you know, like American west cost English not any of that funny accent English. It totally makes sense if you don't think about it.. at all.
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Re: The Orville (S2E05) -- "All the World Is Birthday Cake" -- 01/24/2019
This episode was directed by Robert Duncan McNeill who played Tom Paris on ST: Voyager. Looks like he also directed one last season.
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Re: The Orville (S2E05) -- "All the World Is Birthday Cake" -- 01/24/2019
I enjoyed this episode a lot! Though I probably would have liked to see the Union rain hellfire onto that camp to get their comrades back.
I was imagining a Jack Bauer rescue op haha
I was imagining a Jack Bauer rescue op haha
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Re: The Orville (S2E05) -- "All the World Is Birthday Cake" -- 01/24/2019
An underwhelming episode that felt like a badly recycled ST: The Next Generation plot. Like some others mentioned, the new cast member didn't shine.
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Re: The Orville (S2E05) -- "All the World Is Birthday Cake" -- 01/24/2019
I never realized Klyden is Chad Coleman. Holy shit.
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Re: The Orville (S2E05) -- "All the World Is Birthday Cake" -- 01/24/2019
I feel they were trying to be way too PC with this episode. I feel any entity would say, you invited us, didn't inform us of this item. We will take our people and leave in peace or we will take our people and leave you in pieces.
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Re: The Orville (S2E05) -- "All the World Is Birthday Cake" -- 01/24/2019
The sad part if they shorten episodes of old shows made in the longer episode days by editing down some scenes to make them fit just as many commercials as new shows. (Why it's better to watch old shows on disc or commercial-free streaming, otherwise you're missing some scenes.)
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Re: The Orville (S2E05) -- "All the World Is Birthday Cake" -- 01/24/2019
That's a sci-fi thing you just need to look past. I mean there are 6,500 spoken languages just on this planet Earth but outside of this planet it's totally English dude. And, you know, like American west cost English not any of that funny accent English. It totally makes sense if you don't think about it.. at all.
It's different when everybody speaks a language other than English yet everybody speaks English in the show. The Ten Commandments for example, or Dr. Zhivago. In this case the story is being told in English.
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Re: The Orville (S2E05) -- "All the World Is Birthday Cake" -- 01/24/2019
If you think this was too PC, you should never watch a Star Trek episode.
Trying to place what show I know the new Security Officer from.
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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