Rant and Rave

Finally a Dimension of Depth to Lamar I thought the episode was very good and had some interesting moments in it, the sci-fi backdrop elements was interesting and very nicely presented and executed and we’re finally given an episode that gives us some true character growth and development for Lieutenant John LaMarr. Virtually every character in the show so far has been given a focus episode for us to learn more about them (Kelly and Ed have gotten several or sprinkled throughout, Alara has had a couple focused on her. The only one out so far is Gordon), I thought “Majority Rule” was LaMarr’s focus episode since he was central in that, but in it we didn’t get any real growth or development out of him, nor really learn much more about him. Here we’re given much more with him, more depth and a new side to him for both us and the rest of the Orville crew to see. This is probably one episode where I’d struggle to really come up with anything negative to say about it, not sure th...

In Kelly We Trust So, we reach the season finale of The Orville and begin our likely to be near year-long wait for season two. It’s interesting the path this show has taken, the popularity of it with fans and with myself as well. Never would have called this when first started seeing the commercials for this this past summer. Though this episode is the season finale I won’t be treating it or looking at it as such since this season was cut short by one episode, that had already been filmed and scheduled. For whatever reason it’s being moved to season 2, perhaps the episode acted to much as an actual finale that’d no longer work in a show with a second season. With this episode we’re playing with another one of Trek’s cards, the religious episode. Which, sure, we’ve already had one this year but this one plays the more aggressive version of the card and there’s a number of different ways we can interpret the episode’s meaning and message particularly if we take into consi...