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The Bloop posted:The Hawking blew up Yeah, it probably should have just been crippled. I'm sorry 
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Man the union is bad at vetting crew. A krill in disguise, a robot hiding guns in their head, it's a wonder they've made it this far.
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Mar 3, 2019 01:55
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Sedgr posted:Yeah, it probably should have just been crippled. Seth MacFarlane wouldn't apologize for that, neither should you!
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Donovan Trip posted:Man the union is bad at vetting crew. A krill in disguise, a robot hiding guns in their head, it's a wonder they've made it this far. One thing I do like about the Union is while they have Starfleet ideals, it's clear they are in this uphill battle with all the other species to prove that it's actually a good idea. So, it's not like this monolithic entity that has the support and resources of every people they meet. They seem to be understaffed and stretched thin. Not sure if this is a real thing or if they'll refer to that after the losses they just had.
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Jazerus posted:topa is the alexander of the orville Ty is Wesley, Marcus will (hopefully) be Jake
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Dr. Fishopolis posted:"oh gently caress here come the godawful precocious starfleet children kill me now" I cannot begin to estimate how many parents have considered just destroying then one toy that both kids are fighting over.
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Mar 3, 2019 02:22
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I had to rewind for a second because I was sure they said one of the ships that blew up was the SS Skrillex.
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I love how they sent the kid because he was the only one that would fit, and rather than him having the same, or better, skills as experienced veterans, his job was to mash buttons at random.
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Conclusions posted:I had to rewind for a second because I was sure they said one of the ships that blew up was the SS Skrillex. The USS Marshmello was also lost with all hands.
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Mar 3, 2019 02:34
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Brawnfire posted:The USS Marshmello was also lost with all hands. Everyone was glad to see that the USS Jazz was blown up once they confirmed that all hands were lost.
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Mar 3, 2019 02:44
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The USS West is currently broadcasting to all ships that it is God, won the battle single handed, and slavery was a choice.
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Kurieg posted:One of the conversations with EDI in mass effect 3 amounted to "While the biology isn't there and the mechanic of function is different I do have 'likes' and 'desires' based around past reactions to stimuli." And then there's this from the beginning of Asimov's "Bicentennial Man": quote:It was for Little Miss that Andrew had carved a pendant out of wood. She had ordered him to. Miss, it seemed, had received an ivory pendant with scrollwork for her birthday and Little Miss was unhappy over it. She had only a piece of wood, which she gave Andrew together with a small kitchen knife. He had done it quickly and Little Miss had said, "That's nice, Andrew. I'll show it to Daddy." Sir would not believe it. "Where did you really get this, Mandy?" Mandy was what he called Little Miss. When Little Miss assured him she was really telling the truth, he turned to Andrew. AlBorlantern Corps posted:The Kaylon ships were one and two shotting big destroyers and you had to shoot the gently caress out of them to blow them up. I thought they were sufficiently shown to be more powerful, but not to a ridiculous "one cube can destroy the whole fleet" degree And on top of that, you have the fact that their homeworld is equipped to crank those things out incredibly quickly. To have any hope of surviving, the Union would pretty much have to focus all their top scientists and engineers on studying Kaylon technology and finding some weakness they could exploit.
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Donovan Trip posted:Man the union is bad at vetting crew. A krill in disguise, a robot hiding guns in their head, it's a wonder they've made it this far. I mean, it's not like even without the headguns he couldn't just pick up a rifle and shoot them with that instead. Presumably being in the fleet comes with some level of "we trust you to not randomly murder everyone."
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Cockmaster posted:To have any hope of surviving, the Union would pretty much have to focus all their top scientists and engineers on studying Kaylon technology and finding some weakness they could exploit. There is the "use an EM field to at least temporarily disable all Kaylon on board" trick. Using literal nukes and their EMP side effect might actually be an option.
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JossiRossi posted:There is the "use an EM field to at least temporarily disable all Kaylon on board" trick. Using literal nukes and their EMP side effect might actually be an option. Thats assuming the Kaylon ships were crewed with Kaylon in bodies. It seems possible from the designs and responsiveness the ships might have just been giant ship sized kaylon. Which, in that case would probably mean they would be designed to be hardened against anything in an attack.
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Mar 3, 2019 04:51
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The kid who reprogrammed the replicator to get booze is Nog
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Donovan Trip posted:Man the union is bad at vetting crew. A krill in disguise, a robot hiding guns in their head, it's a wonder they've made it this far. Like, the guy who invented and calibrated the health scanner thing was a former football player and it registered his brain as "normal". I don't know who said it many many pages ago but yes: you can absolutely just SEE Seth McFarlane's utter joy at being a space captain fighting aliens on TV. He's got little rat eyes but they're so so happy to be the new Captain Kirk. If this show gets canceled I'm moving to LA to be part of the production of The Orville he'll be doing in his backyard with cardboard sets.
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Argon-40 posted:The USS West is currently broadcasting to all ships that it is God, won the battle single handed, and slavery was a choice. Adam West was pro slavery?
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Milo and POTUS posted:Adam West was pro slavery? Yes, just as long as they were SPACE SLAAAAAAVES https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcMa6nGDTuQ
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Mar 3, 2019 07:20
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The USS Quimby got blowed up in this episode, too.
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Gonz posted:The USS Quimby got blowed up in this episode, too. Someone pour out a Vin Fiz for poor old Harriet.  
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I do enjoy that instead of being a monolithic AI entity the Kaylons are robo butlers that became self aware and weaponized. They aren't some all powerful superior race, they're a group that's still coming to terms with their place in the universe.
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M_Sinistrari posted:I think for the most part writers get nervous writing for kids and you end up with either the cloyingly precocious or the practically an adult brain in child body types. Even writing for teens gets iffy as we've seen with Wesley. I'd like for the show to last long enough to see how they grow into their own as the series goes on. The best solution to this phenomenon I've ever seen is a fantastic British sitcom called Outnumbered. It was about a family with 3 kids (ranging from around 5-12 IIRC in season 1) and the solution was that any scene featuring one of the kids would be completely unscripted. The kids got some direction as to what the scene was about, and then they were simply unleashed, and the adult actors had to simply improvise. It led to some really great results.
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Until the scene with Tye, I was convinced Isaac wasn't equipped with head lasers for whatever reason, and that would tie in to him coming to the conclusion that there was a developing caste system between those built pre and post genocide, ultimately leading to his own "rebellion". I was also suprised they didn't also reach out to the Zoo aliens. They are both the technological equals of the Kaylon and biologic, so would have surely had a stake in all this.
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swickles posted:I was also suprised they didn't also reach out to the Zoo aliens. They are both the technological equals of the Kaylon and biologic, so would have surely had a stake in all this. "The dog somehow dialed the phone again. Yeah, it's barking like something is happening. It's ok, boy! It's ok! Good boy. Now run along and play, I have important things to do so I'm hanging up."
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InsertPotPun posted:I don't know who said it many many pages ago but yes: you can absolutely just SEE Seth McFarlane's utter joy at being a space captain fighting aliens on TV. He's got little rat eyes but they're so so happy to be the new Captain Kirk. It's so fun to watch. Whenever he gets to give a big command on the bridge or tells someone to come in when he's in his office you can just see in his face "Writing all those Family Guy jokes, all that voice work, producing the Cleveland Show, it was all for THIS moment."
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Brawnfire posted:I'm watching Part 2 again... 13 Button Salute is one of the worst, least subtle codes I have ever ever heard. The phrase should be something that a Union Captain would realistically say to another Captain before signing off, but with a cadence or hesitation stuck in somewhere. I think a better code would have been to use body language which didn't match the tone of the message at all. Admittedly, that would only work for species which know the meaning of the others body language, but it would have worked in this case. It would be great to use on a race of "emotionless" artificial lifeforms which would have no such frivolity in their communication. (Did I post this already? I don't think I did...) Nill posted:The one thing that disappointed me about the shuttle-speed-boost scene was lack of any apparent damage to the shuttle. He did say beforehand that there was a good chance it would tear the shuttle apart, and it seems like even the successful run just blew out the entire power grid completely. Stabbey_the_Clown fucked around with this message at 19:24 on Mar 3, 2019 |
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The code should have been "See ya later, alligator."
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they already call it a salute, just ... do a salute with 2 fingers instead of 5 or something like that
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One thing that I noticed is that each species has a distinct color to their ships. The Union is blue, Kaylons Red, Krill green, and Mochlans are yellow.
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Iron Crowned posted:One thing that I noticed is that each species has a distinct color to their ships. The Union is blue, Kaylons Red, Krill green, and Mochlans are yellow. Yeah, and when those three laser colors started going nuts after the Krill showed up there was a kid-with-new-lego-set me inside just flipping out
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Maybe Seth isn't actually a bad actor, maybe he's just not great at playing the straight man. He's an animator, animators in my experience are animated people. His best voice work is when he gets really really silly.
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Man I was really waiting for a "Your creators must be so proud of you" line somewhere in there. I assume they're saving it for the season finale.
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Brawnfire posted:Yeah, and when those three laser colors started going nuts after the Krill showed up there was a kid-with-new-lego-set me inside just flipping out  I don't have a lot of edge of my seat moments for TV, but as soon as the shuttle left the bay it was near relentless. Some damned good TV, and I am actually hoping that the larger story has better relations with the Krill.
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The code should be "You didn't need to check on us. We're completely fine. 100%." And it shouldn't be written down anywhere.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Yes, just as long as they were SPACE SLAAAAAAVES I just watched this whole trailer, and I'm starting to doubt their claim of "this film is scientifically authentic"!
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Beachcomber posted:The code should be "You didn't need to check on us. We're completely fine. 100%." Everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine, here, now, thank you. How are you? But really, Issac had a 'provisional commission,' so yeah, any 'official' duress codes would be known to him, and hence, out the airlock. I think my favourite was from one of the Honor Harrington books; the bridge gets taken over by 'allies,' the guy calls down to the captain, and says something like 'Don't worry, Captain, we have a bounty of extra hands' or something. Mutiny on the Bounty. TheCenturion fucked around with this message at 00:03 on Mar 4, 2019 |
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