I was screaming every minute for everyone to stop being such shitlib robo racists and it never stopped and they never even got a real reprimand for their utterly abhorrent behavior (which fully vindicated the Kaylons' views of biological life btw, like, they literally cannot separate isaac from the rest of his species and wish they could hate him to death, real classy). I kept wanting at least SOMEBODY to get sent to the brig or something, but woops, they didn't even get some b.s. sensitivity training or other slap on the wrist.
The captain even goes like "yeah I agree with you i'm a little robo racist" like what the fuck seth MacFarlane, people told me this season would be better and this is like 20 steps backwards. How hard is it to double down when Ensign Scratched-Liberal tells you Isaac's heroic betrayal of his own people, at great cost to himself, was "too little too late" because people died? Guess what ensign, if it weren't for him everyone would be fucking dead, you included!
Isaac is literally only guilty of being a spy and they just let this bullshit about him being responsible for these deaths fly without real argument. Isaac only directly killed other Kaylons, you're welcome dipshits! Yeah he was a spy but if it weren't him, it would have been another unit, and they should fucking pray it would make the same decisions Isaac did, because if not, good bye. Extinction. They act like Isaac told them to declare exterminatus when they make it obvious the Kaylons were gearing up for that anyway. Every single person on that ship indirectly or directly owes Isaac their life and that should be drilled into their heads in fucking reeducation camps if necessary.
And then they hinge his recovery on Ensign Racist Cracker, and her magic fucking brain, deciding to save him. I wish so badly the episode had ended with her asking to go back to her post only for her to be told she's still fired for refusing a direct order. At least SOME kind of reprimand for her gross attitude, especially when she leaves with another snide fucking comment after her magic brain helps fix him. But nope, she Did the Thing so her almost letting him die a permanent death because she's a fucking bigot is forgiven.
I'm really hoping they just wanted to get this tension about him being a Kaylon out of the way in one episode because if the rest of this season has people being petty dicks to Isaac because they're bigots incapable of handling their own trauma i'm gonna lose it
It's pretty rough, yes. It's the classic case of the main cast suddenly becoming dumber so the episode can theme itself on the importance of learning something, despite it being completely out of character for everyone.
The season does pick up, though. By next episode, Isaac is basically back to being one of the crew, except for the new character who is constantly taking potshots at him.
It irked me too but I absolutely love the Orville so I kept watching anyway.
Yeah I'm not going to stop watching since it's the best new star trek we're gonna get but
Ughhhhhhhhhh my god. She should be sent to the brig until she gets over it, that's what Kirk would do :angery:
I guess they need to keep her around because of her magical 4th dimensional brain
More or less. I think the writers wanted someone who couldn't just let it go that there's a Kaylon on board, and didn't want to turn one of the main cast into a bigot.
Ugh but then they have Gordon being like "yeah I agree with you" and I thought he was like taking part in a sting to figure out who did the graffiti (like when he was playing along with his friend who destroyed those krill ships) but, no, he was just agreeing with her :yea:
At least John's still cool, keeps his fork with him, literally ran out on some alien lady lovin' to go maybe save his friend, A+