I honestly don’t mind them breaking with established canon. There’s no real need for every story in a universe to be totally constrained by every story told up until that point, unless you’re relying on those other stories to serve as a narrative foundation for yours, in which case it becomes more difficult for…

AV Club articles are more stream of consciousness than traditional prose.

I enjoyed the well written review of the Orville, as I always do. But I am struggling with the central premise of it, which seems to be that Ed’s bad actions make this outing “erratic” or uneven. On the contrary, I think the way Ed Mercer is being written is really consistent across episodes.