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Brawnfire posted:Big crack-up moment for me. Yup. There was a lot of love in the effects work this episode. Wait, nobody ever batted an eye that Bones or Crusher were hanging around the bridge.
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mllaneza posted:Yup. I think TNG started the doctor being off bridge in season 2. And every iteration before and after TNG had the ship psychologist be so far from the bridge that you never see them.
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The Human Crouton posted:I think we're assuming too much Federation protocol here. Federation protocol? Scotty and Bones were routinely on the bridge. Same can be said for Crusher and La Forge.
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Brawnfire posted:And drat, loved the hull plating peeling off while the ship plummeted into the sun. I wonder if that damage will persist or if they'll just offhand mention they took it to a repair yard or whatever the Union uses.
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bull3964 posted:Federation protocol? Check an few posts down, cadet. I'm way ahead of you.
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power crystals posted:I wonder if that damage will persist or if they'll just offhand mention they took it to a repair yard or whatever the Union uses. Wasn't the first episode already supposed to be the second one til fox moved it around?
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The Orville is such a good show especially when Seth is hardly in it.
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Azhais posted:Wasn't the first episode already supposed to be the second one til fox moved it around? I've seen claims that both this episode and the previous were meant to be the end of S1, and also that these two were and weren't swapped. In my opinion S2E1 would have made way more sense as the end of S1 given its lower stakes and the wrapping up of the Ed/Kelly garbage. It'd make a fair bit of sense if Fox saw the plot for this one and went "no gently caress that we're not putting that in a season premiere" and then held back that last episode for that reason but I have no idea how far in advance this one was written. Or maybe I'm talking entirely out of my rear end, who knows.
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This one was from last season. The Ed/Kelly relationship, the call-out to an earlier (but same season) episode, and some of the production details give it away. Plus the production number.
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I said it before, I wonder if we will ever get a real First Contact scenario where it isn't just accidental or they have to rescue the new species from doom. Somehow with how the crew is portrayed I would imagine it as less an invitation to a larger world but more like inviting them to a frat party.
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drat, that opening shot of the bridge was great. Great episode, but it definitely felt out of order. I can see them burning up the ship before the season break. Apparently there were some reshoots with the new sets though. I wish I was cool enough to make my own Space Trip.
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evilmiera posted:I said it before, I wonder if we will ever get a real First Contact scenario where it isn't just accidental or they have to rescue the new species from doom. There was a First Contact situation in the season trailer, so probably.
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Windows 98 posted:The Orville is such a good show especially when Seth is hardly in it. This is true for the most part, but it's his rodeo and that's the price of admission. He does have his moments like "Neat! What now?" Also, how can you have a Giant Junior bacon cheeseburger?
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Maera Sior posted:This one was from last season. The Ed/Kelly relationship, the call-out to an earlier (but same season) episode, and some of the production details give it away. Plus the production number. Fair enough!
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Rewatching with my wife who went to bed early. Bortus just compared the sex drive to a baby seeking it's mother's teat. I sure hope someone got fired for that blunder.
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we haven't seen yaphet yet this season, other than I think a glimpse in the background of one shot. I wonder if they're easing off on the character? Last season he always felt like a forced insert into episodes. I didn't particularly care for him and I hope we don't see as much of him moving forward.
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What blunder? He was talking about how strong biological compulsions can be, not that the baby is getting hard on for titties.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:What blunder? He was talking about how strong biological compulsions can be, not that the baby is getting hard on for titties. All those Moclan mothers.
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They can be all male and still have one be the mother. Klyden got them perky bois.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:They can be all male and still have one be the mother. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K03qSe8id0&t=54s
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Brawnfire posted:Big crack-up moment for me. That whole exchange was great. I also liked "Free gas!" very early on
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If their entire shuttle bay filled with that super rare mineral only powers them for a year that actually doesn't seem like great fuel efficiency for a long range exploration ship.
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Rewatch: Did Bortus say: I did not realize SHE was this unhappy. Is that an actor miss read or was that the character Bortus still being conflicted with Klyden's sex change?
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Gaj posted:Rewatch: I watch all tv with captions and they say He.
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In 20 years kids on the internet are going to be posting this pic as a meme and think it's from TNG.
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Gromit posted:Christ no. I want to see an episode of just Bortus taking the place of the innocent co-ed in every cliché straight porn scene ever. I admit I was a little surprised they didn't do that one.
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Beachcomber posted:I watch all tv with captions and they say He.
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It bothered me when Bortus said "a child after their mother's teat" because why would he say mother? Otherwise it was a really enjoyable episode. The alien with the practical effect body but (I assume) a CGI face was really goddamn good.
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LividLiquid posted:Captions are done by remote workers making less than minimum wage. On new shows, don't they just use the script? I've never noticed any discrepancy except for older things.
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Taear posted:It bothered me when Bortus said "a child after their mother's teat" because why would he say mother? Could simply be a writer slip-up. Could also be a Freudian slip given Bortas' guilt over the forced gender alteration. Could even be both
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There's a lot of possible explanations for that line. It could be that most species in the Union have males and females, so that kind of metaphor is used by a Moclan regardless. It could be that they literally breastfeed their children too, and mother is a gender neutral term for them. A lot of the Moclan physiology doesn't make that much sense to me regardless, but I don't really care because Bortus is a fun character.
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This episode was gold. Perfect mix of humor and sci fi. I thought the season premiere was a little weak but this episode has me in board 100%. Porn addiction, cultural ritual murder for divorce, a solar glare destroying the last of a species, then getting a computer virus from dodgy porn. Amazing. Not perfect (they need to work out exactly what they are doing with kelly) but pretty close.
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It's an idiom. I chocked it up to cultural influence. I remember reading a book from a Caribbean author set on a Caribbean island and a local character indicated that -- the coast is clear -- by saying -- no hay moros en la costa -- which translates to -- there are no Moors on the coast Apparently carried over from Iberia to the Caribbean. Note: Landlocked people say, "the coast is clear," too.
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Accretionist posted:It's an idiom. I chocked it up to cultural influence. That's still the result of hundreds of years of cultural homogenization, the Moclans are still at a point where they have to explain that they divorce people by stabbing them and have yearly piss parties to other members of the Union, it doesn't seem likely that they would have picked up and internalized that kind of idiom yet. And anyway it's doubly weird that a man from an all male species would choose to describe a biological impulse to a robot from an all robot species with an example from a third species with completely different reproductive systems. I mean it's minor oversight not worth getting all worked up over but it's not something that should have survived to the second draft. I would be interested to know if Peter Macon or Kevin Hooks (director) overlooked it or left it in because they thought it was more important to relate to the audience than strive for verisimilitude.
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Don't Moclans have eggs? It would stand to reason that they don't nurse at all, and he's referring to creatures that do nurse their young.
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In that case it's odd for a Moclan to use that idiom. That sort of thing is the hardest for non-native speakers to pick up. This is a weird thing to sperg out about though.
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Phenotype posted:In that case it's odd for a Moclan to use that idiom. That sort of thing is the hardest for non-native speakers to pick up. Don't be an ableist. And it's more that it stuck out when they make such a big deal of how the race is all men. I guess everyone being baffled at Moclans stabbing their partners is sort of surprising too though. They must be channeling TOS with the Ponn Farr, that's all I can think. Picking up phrases about mothers when the cultural practices of Moclan are new is a bit disappointing to me and feels like something Seth would be super careful about, I dunno.
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It’s just Bortus advancing his new pro-female agenda.
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Seriously, have any of you ever tried to explain something intangible to someone else? Sometimes you have to fill in the holes with something else you're aware of. So many Bortus has seen human babies reaching for their mom's titties. Anyway, watching this episode with my roommate really just gave me a relaxed, familiar feeling, like when I used to watch TNG with my dad. It really is too bad my dad is a trek lifer who's all-in on STD.
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