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The Orville season 1, episode 7 "Majority Rule"
Written by Seth MacFarlane, directed by Tucker Gates.
The Orville is sent to rendezvous with a missing research team on a planet strangely parallel to 21st-century Earth. While exploring the surface undercover, Lieutenant John LaMarr (J. Lee) is (in)advertently disrespectful of the planet's culture and finds that his life hangs in the balance of what everyone else thinks about him. Running out of time and options, Lieutenant Alara & Dr. Finn offer a sympathetic local (Giorgia Whigham) the ride of a lifetime in exchange for her help.
Originally released: 26 October 2017
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What did you think?
This is my least favorite episode of the season. And yet it’s much better than I remember. The into is also a lot darker than I remember. I think this one benefits from rewatching. The more you see it, the more details you pick up, and the more fleshed-out the world gets.
Details like all the stuff being typed on the main feed. You can see commenters getting into fights with each other.
The police badge is an upvote and downvote arrow superimposed on one another. You are judged by the sum of your total score.
When they make a picture of Lamar as a fat kid, one of the upvoters says “if we downvote him he might get fat again.”
On the surface, it’s a super simple what if…? episode, but it does have some depth to it. And it’s always good to see Steven Culp.
We also get Bortus’ foreboding comment; “I sing.”
I hope this happens for me with Cupid's Dagger. I'm not looking forward to that one coming up in a couple of weeks.