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* BittersweetEnding: Sargus 4 isn't changing its ways any time soon, but at least Lysella has learned to be a better person thanks to her interactions with the crew, turning off the latest apology tour instead of voting on it with insufficient information.
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* BittersweetEnding: Sargus 4 isn't changing its ways any time soon, but one of the anthropologists is dead, and the other is lobotomized. But at least Lysella has learned to be a better person thanks to her interactions with the crew, turning off the latest apology tour instead of voting on it with insufficient information.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: A few scenes towards the beginning of the episode show how Sargus IV's culture compares with Earth's: two business men greet and compliment each other by giving each other upvotes, a little girl gives her grandmother an upvote for buying her a sundae, and a man gets a downvote for accidentally spilling coffee on a stranger. Lysella herself gets one at the start of the episode, showing her as an average woman who sees nothing wrong with her culture.
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* MildlyMilitary: The Union's somewhat laid-back command structure bites [=LaMarr=] in the ass hard in this episode: if he'd listened to Kelly (who is literally ''ordering him'' to stop grinding on the statue) he might not have ended up getting arrested.
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* CulturePolice: This episode is an example of the Cancel Culture taken to the extreme. The only punishment for "wrong thinking" is effectively brain damaging the subject in the mistaken belief that total conformity to the group is the only way to have a civilized society. Also, the points, or "Down Votes" that one might accumulate during a "rebel phase" in youth stay with the person throughout their entire life. Accumulate a lot and they haunt you for the rest of your life.
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* SociallyScoredSociety: The residents of the planet Sargun have Reddit-esque "Vote Badges" where others can upvote or downvote them based off how they come across. A low enough ranking and you lose certain privileges such as access to establishments. One million downvotes mean you need to go on an 'apology tour' to win back public approval. Refuse and die, fail and you can get lobotomized. This can be easily manipulated, as mob mentality leads to an execution that is only circumvented through fake news.
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* CrapsaccharineWorld: Sargus 4 is very similar to 21st century Earth and appears to be pleasant on the surface, but it's a world where failing to give up your seat to a pregnant woman gets you lobotomized for being a jerk, even if you're just absentminded and didn't notice her standing there.
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* CrapsaccharineWorld: Sargus 4 is very similar to 21st century Earth and appears to be pleasant on the surface, but it's a world where failing to give up your seat to a pregnant woman gets any act of rudeness (even if unintentional) can get you lobotomized for being a jerk, even if you're just absentminded condemned to an effective lobotomy. This "correction" is apparently the only punishment this society has, and didn't notice her standing there.it turns people into smiling, contented shells of themselves.
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* DramaticIrony: The viewer knows (or at least suspects) the ''Orville'' is on a doomed quest, but the crew doesn't figure this out until about halfway through the episode.
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* DramaticIrony: The viewer knows (or at least suspects) the anthropologists the ''Orville'' is on a doomed quest, looking for are beyond help, but the crew doesn't figure this out until about halfway through the episode.
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** The jumpsuits for the penal system is labelled "Department of Correction," since the goal is to "correct" the thinking of the subject.
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* DemocracyIsFlawed: Sargus 4 runs on direct e-democracy. Everything is voted on by public opinion and facts are what the majority considers true. Essentially, conviction by social media. Of course, the [[AnAesop Aesop]] seems to be that DemocracyIsBad only when taken UpToEleven and not grounded in the rule of law, as Mercer extols the representative democracy of the Planetary Union.
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* DemocracyIsFlawed: Sargus 4 runs on direct e-democracy. Everything is voted on by public opinion and facts are what the majority considers true. Essentially, conviction by social media. Of course, the [[AnAesop Aesop]] seems to be that DemocracyIsBad only when taken UpToEleven up to eleven and not grounded in the rule of law, as Mercer extols the representative democracy of the Planetary Union.
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* RayOfHopeEnding: Lysella turning off the latest apology tour rather than voting, a hopeful sign that one day, the planet will come to its senses.
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[[caption-width-right:350:[=LaMarr=] learns what a true cancel culture is.]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:[=LaMarr=] learns what a true ''true'' cancel culture is.]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:[=LaMarr=] learns the hard way that reputation matters]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:[=LaMarr=] learns the hard way that reputation matters]]what a true cancel culture is.]]
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* GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul: If citizens get 10 million downvotes, they are subjected to "correction," which involves electroshock therapy designed to remove all negative thought. However, the society's ability to actually ''do'' this is limited; one survivor is shown reduced to a childlike state where he'll never be capable of his original intellectual feats.
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* GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul: If citizens get 10 million downvotes, they are subjected to "correction," which involves electroshock therapy designed to remove all negative thought. However, In practice, however, it's effectively a lobotomy that reduces the society's ability to actually ''do'' this is limited; one survivor is shown reduced victim to a childlike state where he'll they will never be capable of his original intellectual feats.recover from.
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* GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul: If citizens get 10 million downvotes, they are subjected to "correction," which involves electroshock therapy designed to remove all negative thought.
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* GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul: If citizens get 10 million downvotes, they are subjected to "correction," which involves electroshock therapy designed to remove all negative thought. However, the society's ability to actually ''do'' this is limited; one survivor is shown reduced to a childlike state where he'll never be capable of his original intellectual feats.
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* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: On Sargus 4, failing to be polite enough to others or one lewd act in public can get you arrested and lobotomized.
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* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: PoliticalOvercorrectness: On Sargus 4, failing to be polite enough to others or one lewd act in public can get you arrested and lobotomized.
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* TheWholeWorldIsWatching: While on the landing party, LeMarr unwittingly earns the displeasure of a world similar to the 21st century, with ubiquitous cell-phone devices, and legal judgments rendered by social media voting. A video of him dry-humping a statue of an important historical figure goes viral, and seemingly the entire world starts giving him downvotes, which in this society leads to him being arrested. After the trial, his fate is once again up to the whims of the social media public, though the Orville crew start fabricating stories to make him more sympathetic and swing the vote in his favor. They manage to get him off, just barely.
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* TheWholeWorldIsWatching: While on the landing party, LeMarr [=LaMarr=] unwittingly earns the displeasure of a world similar to the 21st century, with ubiquitous cell-phone devices, and legal judgments rendered by social media voting. A video of him dry-humping a statue of an important historical figure goes viral, and seemingly the entire world starts giving him downvotes, which in this society leads to him being arrested. After the trial, his fate is once again up to the whims of the social media public, though the Orville crew start fabricating stories to make him more sympathetic and swing the vote in his favor. They manage to get him off, just barely.
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* ArrestedOnArrival: [=LaMarr=], which seems innocent at first since, by Union standards, he had not done anything serious. [[OhCrap Then he finds out how the "justice system" works.]]
