About an Orville

Last night we watched The Orville, Episode Three, 'About a Girl'.

In this episode a Mocklin crew member gives birth to a baby girl. Did we mention that the Mocklins are an all male species that considers being female a birth defect?

The reader knows where this went. Debate and legal trials follow.

That said, the script didn't seem to take sides. There were no good guys or bad guys. In fact We found it impossible to tell if the episode was arguing for or against the tranny agenda. Ordering a sex change for the baby could be scene as militant normalcy or tranny dis-morphia. Pick one.

By the way, this episode once again confirms Seth McFarland's Generation-X militancy.

The crew is on the holodeck playing a western game against Mexican bandits on a set that looks like it came right out of The Three Amigos. The Mexican jefe proposes a dance off to Girls Just Wanna Have Fun. When the crew wants to convince the Mocklin to keep the baby girl as is, they show him Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer.  You know the version we mean, Generation X.

Parable

Review: The Orville

Ok, so last night we watched the first episode of Fox's new show, The Orville (thank you, Hulu).

We totally get this show and we understand why many of the reviews are mixed. We'll get to that in a moment.

Orville looks and feels like a Star Trek show. The score, the pacing, the characters, everything is lifted from Star Trek TNG. There's a Worf character, there's a Data, you get the idea. But there's no Picard. Instead there's Captain Ed Mercer, whose Kirk if Kirk had emotional hangups, you know, if he were actually human. And there's no Riker, either. The ship's XO is Lt. Commander Kelly Grayson, Mercer's ex-wife,

Nice little twist, no?

The plot of episode one was actually kind of interesting too.

Now here's why both Millennial and Boomer critics are having trouble with The Orville. Seth McFarland is 44. This is a Generation-X show. The crew is sarcastic and ironic. They make a lot of wisecracks. They try not to take anything too seriously. Mercer and Grayson bicker a lot, just like normal couples.

Basically, the stuff that would get overly serious is ironically interrupted by real life.

We think it comes through with this trailer:

Well done, sir.