The Moclans also upgraded the Deflectors, so the combined upgrades have now essentially made The Orville a new Defiant.

The Orville’s shields got a Moclan upgrade not long ago and as it was a test, they would be the only ship to have the stronger deflectors.

Those are just all things pulled directly from the comic.

Wow, well, ok!

chief of security Talla Keyali (Jessica Szohr), a new addition to the crew

Never have I been so glad I forced myself to watch a show (with the possible exceptions of Stranger Things and iZombie).

This man has been alone in a room making deals with the likes of Putin and Kim Jong Un and I don’t think we’re going to know just how awful those deals were until it’s way past too late.

Obviously I have not! sounds insane in the best way

Every time I watch these montages I am more interested in the costume design than anything else. Seriously.

Yeah, they skipped a lot, and merged some plot strings and such, but overall, I think they did it pretty well.

Eh, I think most of these aren’t that important to the movie in general, or will serve as plot points in the sequels.

I think I got this....

Clusterfuck?

The CPD is basically a terrorist organization. I keep thinking of the movie The Fugitive and how randomly stupid and mean it portrayed them as. Now I feel like someone involved in that film knew more than they let on.

My understanding is that MBJ improvised that line on set.

But for reals. Damn near every person in my theater yelled when he said that.

...oh. I thought it was this other line

Many times I’ve tried to make that kind of point to right-wingers. Spoiler alert: they never get it

This moron is too dumb to realize that his radical idea has occurred to the Pentagon and was dismissed from experience. It doesn’t work.