The Orville.

You have completely nailed it! I feel the same way. Glad to see a lot of people in the comments agree with us and feel this show has real potential and fills a niche sorely lacking in today’s field of grimdark and gritty dystopian cynicism.

Spoken like someone who didn’t watch the episode, at ALL.

Really? Cuz I’m one of those, and what I’ve seen so far has proven me right. And there are a LOT of us old-school classic Star Trek geeks who have wanted something more in the TNG mold rather than the “dark and gritty” thing which is fine for other series but not Trek.

If you liked AbramsTrek, Discovery should be right…

Watch this back to back with “Encounter at Farpoint” and see if you still think that way.

This is some epic level speech of wisdom, here. I hope she listens. I hope many others do as well, and learn something from your words.

True applause for truly well-spoken advice.

Don’t trust the reviews, watch it yourself. It’s sitting at 91% with viewers on Rotten Tomatoes, the critics at only 17%. Watch it yourself and decide which one you agree with.

If you watch the whole show, you’ll see that they’re setting up pretty much exactly that. She makes things right, he grows up and moves past it and forgives her, and the makings of a great team are there.

You missed the part where they were WRONG about the ex-wife. How she went out of her way to help him out to make up for her past wronging of him, and how he forgave her at the end and grew as a person because of it. That moment, where he stopped her and said “I’m asking you to stay” was a HUGE moment of character…

Cold blood my ass. Greedo had directly threatened his life. He may have shot the only time, or the fitst time, whatever, that doesn’t matter as much as the fact he realized there was only one way out of that situation --over the Rodian’s dead body-- and he didn’t hesitate to take it.

She actually learns the Ka-Rey-ahmeha!

Pointe and Gunn made her do it at hanfinn. You heard it here first.

Isn’t it odd for half-Japanese to use a Hawaiian term rather than the Nihongo term “hafu”?

I’m not sure exactly how an actor could “represent” a white russian at all, let alone “well”... I mean what, would he need to accurately convey the correct balance between cream, vodka, and Kahlua? Would the appropriate glassware costuming be important? I’m trying to figure out how this would work.

Oh please. If you don’t realize this whole storyline was designed to end in a reset button from the day it was sketched out on a napkin to the one it first hit the printers and remains so now, you have no idea how comics work. It was ALWAYS meant to be temporary. A deus ex machina changed him, and a deus ex machina…

I had a fanfic concept for a “darksaber” many years ago, it’s one of those concepts that is pretty easy to extrapolate from the existing canon. My version was a legendary weapon that was used by an enemy of the Jedi (maybe Sith, maybe not) who was reknowned for hunting and killing many Jedi hundreds of years before…

You’re not alone. I found the film full of plot holes and convenient coincidences that made the villain seem like a super-genius because the writing made everything he did work out perfectly while everyone else fumbled around in the dark. Too much made no sense if you thought about it for more than a minute, like the…

Ninja prostitute. The answer is ninja prostitute.

I really hate the use of the word “pervert” when it comes to natural sexuality and sexual interest, it’s so anti-sex and implies such a twisted puritanical worldview. I mean, the word perverted means twisted or corrupted and natural sexuality is anything but. In fact, from an evolutionary viewpoint and one of…

The Terminator and T2 are like ALIEN and ALIENS, two very different films that are each perfect in their own way. They even follow a similar formula of taking a small, tightly focused film with a horror tone (yes, The Terminator was basically a horror movie) and making a sequel that ups the ante and has a lot more…