The Orville

This is a very insightful video, I recommend it to you. I have almost the exact same opinion:

This was a very touching episode about falling in love, learning to let go, and applicable to real relationships.

However, I made Lara Croft, body pillow, waifu, and "romance mod" jokes the entire time.

One thing I liked about this episode was the palpable excitement the crew felt when they found that time capsule. I could tell how they felt and I felt some of that excitement myself. I had the same reaction when they got that call for first contact back in "Birthday Cake."

So, where did they find that time capsule? It had to have been on Earth right? So where was the Orville taking it?

I honestly think I teared up a bit for a moment. Haven't done that in years, regardless of how I've felt. I guess this episode just got to me somehow.

Tim Russ's character said at the start of the episode that they found it near Albany, NY and it's going to a museum at something Pavonis.

This was certainly a better story than Bortus's simulator episode. Actually, I think it reminds me a bit of Riker's holodeck romance story when some aliens were doing something to the Enterprise computers.

With "Tomorrow x 3", it was very nice to see that the producers had the guts to go with the twist ending and have the timeline presumably go blooey for the season finale. Hope the show gets renewed for another season.

Yeah. I was completely blown away by the end of this episode. I'm very curious as to what happens now.

I also forgot to comment about last weeks episode:

All space battles and land wars need to have Nine to Five as background music.

I admit, I knew it would happen the moment she said it would be the song of the revolution.

And that's Season 2 in the books. Who was the Captain of the Orville in this timeline? Also, early in the episode Ed wanted to go hang out near some guys the Kaylon hadn't conquered yet. I didn't recognize the name. Have we heard of these guys before?

The Calivon? Yep, they were the ones who put him and Kelly in a zoo.

I was underwhelmed. After last week's great twist ending, we turn around and get a pretty by-the-numbers repair-the-broken-timeline episode. Who's the leader of the resistance cell? "Surprise". (Tho it's nice Ms. Sage was willing to come back, they should have had the two Xelayans share some sort of moment together.) Who's the owner of those solitary life-signs? "Surprise". (They should have had it be, I dunno, Klyden, or Dann, that annoyingly-chipper alien crewguy from season one.) The Orville gets shot down and crashes to the bottom of the Pacific, and.. the hanger bay gets flooded and the booze bottles in the ship's bar get a little dusty. Push a few buttons, and we're off to the Kaylon homeworld! (Again, if it had been Dann the engineer, he could have spent the months down there heroically patching the ship back together enough that it could get off the ground.) And the crew of course succeeds Just In Time as the Orville is destroyed. (Nice effects, there, at least.) I suppose I'm glad they avoided a season-ending cliffhanger, but it would have been impressive if after all that, the crew still partially failed somehow, and the show permanently went forward with a third non-apocalyptic timeline.

I'm just a bit disappointed with the inconsistent time travel, though that's par for the course, I guess.

I mean, past Kelly clearly did experience the alternate future, even if it didn't happen anymore. Meanwhile Claire conveniently fizzles out of existence once the original timeline is restored. It would have been much more interesting to keep the time travel consistent and have her stay around.

Just imagine an episode where maybe Claire and Isaac try to become friends again and then alt-Claire shows up to tell all about the horrors she experienced through the kaylons. The could have done a Thomas Riker with her.

Edited by ZheToralf on Apr 27th 2019 at 10:42:06 AM

Having a Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory is easier than being ripple-effect proof oneself, I suppose. I don't think it's that inconsistent to remember a future you were in, but not to be able to exist in a past that doesn't lead to the future you came from.

The show got renewed for a third season. Despite my griping about the finale, woot!

The Orville will now air on Hulu for it's third season.

Kind of a shocking move, since Fox was the one that renewed it. But then I remembered that Fox was now owned by Disney who also owns the majority of Hulu — and if The Orville was getting better ratings on Hulu the next day than it was on Fox, it totally makes sense for them to move it there.

I will admit: I watched the show on Hulu.

Adrienne Palicki and Scott Grimes have filed for divorce already!

Edited by Zarius on Jul 23rd 2019 at 8:32:44 AM

Well is official, next season will be the last, Hulu is cancelling The Orville. Sad, very sad.

https://boundingintocomics.com/2020/08/03/the-orville-producer-tom-costantino-responds-to-cancellation-rumors/

Reread the article... All that is genuinely confirmable at this point is it hasn't been renewed OR cancelled at this point.

"He wrote, 'I like how a producer on The Orville said my scoop about the show ending after season 3 is not true, but they admitted in the same thread that they do not know if season 4 is happening. Okay.'"

I don't understand why this Kaya person is making a big deal out of this. Especially in genre shows, it's really, really common for a cancellation or continuation to be confirmed, at the earliest, right around the airing of the season finale. The Sy Fy channel is flat out awful about this, sometimes telling showrunners that they're getting a continuation but then revealing they aren't after all after it was too late to give the show a proper ending.

Not to mention that the whole entertainment industry is in a bizarre limbo they don't know how to deal with right now. Usually, there's a huge string of cancellations announced in May and June, but that didn't really happen this year, because no one knows when they'll be able to pick production back up anyway.

Doesn't Bounding Into Comics have a pretty bad reputation for inaccurate reporting?

Bounding into comics isn't a reliable source.

I think the Orville might be drifting in the direction that the recent Star Trek shows have. Not in terms of content or anything like that, but in the sense that there's some very loud people who just constantly scream about everything apparently being on the verge of being cancelled. Like how Star Trek Discovery has been on the verge of being cancelled every single week for three years, and how Picard is getting cancelled after season 1 despite season 2 being 100% confirmed.

Cancellation rumors get clicks, so people will make crap up to try and justify it.

There are other sources https://www.thecinemaspot.com/2020/08/01/exclusive-the-orville-canceled-after-third-season-at-hulu/

Almost all news outlets are saying the same.

Edited by Luppercus on Aug 9th 2020 at 10:45:21 AM

Note that the article you linked was written by the guy the other article cited as a source.

Unless the other articles cite someone else, or someone on the staff confirms it, this isn’t a wide ranging story, it’s one guy’s speculations being passed around.

As an added data point, the one person who all those articles are taking a gospel in declaring "Orville is dead" has spent the last couple years writing frequent articles on the general subject of "Orville sucks, go watch the awesome STD instead". Not exactly an unbiased source.

Hulu offers a new teaser for Season Three, with the seasonal subtitle "New Horizons". It'll debut on March 10, 2022.