"The Orville" season 3, episode 4 contains information that should be avoided.
We were very excited to see this week's offering after last week's revelation that the episode "Mortality Paradox" was worthy of a perfect 10 out of 10.
"The Orville" excelled when it played to its strengths. It shouldn't be compared to Star Trek or any other sci-fi intellectual property. It's unique blend of drama, action, comedy, music and nod to all of science fiction and even contemporary pop culture makes it a show that sadly we never got. This point has been made before, but it is worth mentioning again.
There are a couple of reasons why "Gently Falling Rain" isn't as good as last week's episode. It was almost but not quite. We're going to come to those reasons soon.
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The third episode of The Orville scored a perfect 10 from us.
The Orville is going back to events past to further develop them. The beautiful world building in "The Orville" universe continues by taking the story back to Teleya, a character from the first season.
In the Season 1 episode "Krill", Captain Ed Mercer and his lieutenant are sent on an undercover mission to steal a ship from the Krills.
Their worship of their god Avis is based on this book and it gives them a sense of superiority that renders peaceful coexistence with other species pointless. It's extremely challenging. In this episode, the two men are forced to kill a lot of the Krill in order to escape, but they go out of their way to save Teleya and her kids.
Teleya is taken by the Planetary Union after they rescued them. In the second episode of the season, " Nothing Left on Earth Excepting Fishes", we learn that a lieutenant named Janel Tyler is dating a woman named Mercer. While on their way to a romantic retreat, their shuttlecraft is attacked and captured by a Krill destroyer, and during his unfortunate incarceration, they discover that Tyler is Teleya.
The Orville season 3 episode 2 is about classic sci-fi horror.
She was willing to undergo an extremely painful trans-cellular, micro-grafting surgical procedure to make her look human and fool the Orville's bio-scanners, since a hologram would naturally be detected.
Dukat was a Bajoran in " Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" and Seeska was a Klingon in " Star Trek:Voyager."
There is a race called the Chak'tal, who look like a cross between the Remen from "Star Trek: Nemesis" and the Mondoshawans from "The Fifth Element", and who we haven't heard from since the attack on the ship. They land on a planet that is similar to Earth and face a race against time to contact the Orville before they are attacked. Having to work together naturally presents certain obstacles and once they are rescued, Mercer allows a Krill cruiser to come and collect her in the hopes that this gesture will go some way to establishing peace. That did not work.
This sci-fi series is a tour de force.
The world building is being taken up a gear in the third season of "The Orville." Teleya is the leader of a group of people who are opposed to the peace treaty talks currently taking place between the Planetary Union and the Krill government.
The Orville is bringing a number of delegates, including President Alcuzan, who is played by Bruce Boxleitner, as well as Speria Balask, who is played by Lisa Banes. It is unfortunate that this historic event is taking place during an election. Teleya imposed martial law despite the Krill Ambassador's confidence. The Orville is taken to neutral space because the landing team is imprisoned.
With the whole delegation facing execution, Teleya sends for Mercer who wants them to stop. He was sprung from the streets of the city by a group of unknown people. He is taken to a mundane apartment where he is introduced to an unnamed person and then introduced to his daughter. The human-Krill hybrid result is that during the time he was courting Janel Tyler, they had hanky-pany and little Anaya.
In the second season of "The Orville", there was a spectacular space battle.
The Planetary Union fleet has amassed an impressive armada and we are going to be treated to a space fight of a scale not seen before. Knowing that he has to confront Teleya, he sneaks back into the building. This week's episode of Family Guy is more of a reflection of the modern day socio-political climate than we've seen before, and there's no way that the issues surrounding unwanted pregnancies could've been written into the show.
As the Planetary Union fleet emerges from quantum space the tension is beautifully built by the accompanying score as we have come to love and expect from MacFarlane. There's an orchestral nod to the "Return of the Jedi" score by John Williams, specifically, the "The Battle of Endor part I", which is the only music to have playing when you're part of a huge fleet of starships.
In this episode, we see how the in-universe laws of physics can affect the experience when a starship suddenly starts doing handbrake turns. A quick cut to crew members doing faceplants on the walls and windows inside the ship or a line about having to divert all available power to the inertia dampening fields would have helped. Either way, or both.
President Alcuzan is wounded during the attempt to execute him, but he is still alive. It's the same effect as the first time they were on a boat, but this is more reliable. They used stun grenades to destroy the enemy and then got to a shuttle. The chase through the capital city of Krill leads to the Orville, which gets the hell out of there.
"The Orville" is still very much at the top of its game even though it isn't as highly rated as last week. The twists and turns in the plot make you wonder if Avis is going to be next. The performances are great and the dialogue is good. The only limitations are those of your own imagination now that the show has invested into some serious world building.
The rating was 812/10.
In most countries, the first and second seasons of "The Orville" are available to watch on Disney Plus and in the US at a monthly fee. Thursdays are when new episodes of season 3 will be dropped. Japan and South Korea will soon be accessible on Disney Plus, with viewers in Belgium, Canada, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan and the UK. Star Plus is available to viewers in Latin America.
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