Its wonderful to have the Orville back but this particular episode was not one of its best offerings. I would say it has been the worst episode so far in the series:
1. Sloppy representation of a potential First Contact, including rookie mistakes from a senior crew that you would think would have been better trained as to how to manage themselves diplomatically in these situations.
2. The whole incongruence of the Astrology/Birthday premise. Astrology as we know it and time in years as we know it are only relevant in our earth and our solar system. How can you determine age in a foreign solar system?, not to mention the teeth piece removal procedure to determine birth date on a new species,,,,,
3. The solar sail, "we will fool their telemetry", create a star where there was once a black hole and stop a certain execution of our heroes in a snap.... Supended disbelief is not enough.
The premise was interesting, the script was lazy and the execution was mostly awful with a few honorable exceptions. Just saying it like I saw it. I still love the series though. I hope this was a very infrequent exception.
1. Sloppy representation of a potential First Contact, including rookie mistakes from a senior crew that you would think would have been better trained as to how to manage themselves diplomatically in these situations.
2. The whole incongruence of the Astrology/Birthday premise. Astrology as we know it and time in years as we know it are only relevant in our earth and our solar system. How can you determine age in a foreign solar system?, not to mention the teeth piece removal procedure to determine birth date on a new species,,,,,
3. The solar sail, "we will fool their telemetry", create a star where there was once a black hole and stop a certain execution of our heroes in a snap.... Supended disbelief is not enough.
The premise was interesting, the script was lazy and the execution was mostly awful with a few honorable exceptions. Just saying it like I saw it. I still love the series though. I hope this was a very infrequent exception.
