Tag: LaMarr (character in Orvilles 3)

3D rendered fantasy alien planet. Rocks and moon

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Gary Varner
Date
January 14, 2023

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Arts & Culture, Science Fiction

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Bortus (character in the Orville series), Charly (character in Orvilles 3), Dr. Finn (Orville character), Ed Mercer (character in Orville series), Featured, Gordon Malloy (character in Orville series), Heveena (character in the Orville series), Isaac (robot in Orvilles 3), Kelly Grayson (character in Orville series), Klyden (character in the Orville series), LaMarr (character in Orvilles 3), Lysella (character in Orville series), Moclans in Orville sci-fi series, Seth MacFarlane, Topa (character in the Orville series)}

Final Thoughts on The Orville Season Three — What Went Wrong

_{Unlike Star Trek, which put conflicting opinions in the mouths of beloved characters, Orville 3 screams its opinions to the point of harming the story} _{Gary Varner
January 14, 2023

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Arts & Culture, Science Fiction}

What a terrible season! I remember watching the beginning episodes of The Orville and thinking the show wasn’t quite there yet but held promise. Sadly, things did not improve with time. I think part of the problem is that The Orville was taken over by Hulu which is now owned by Disney. This, likely, prompted a degree of studio involvement that dropped the show’s quality. The Orville tried to address controversial subjects, just as Star Trek did years before. But it did not understand or reproduce the most important ingredient of the way the classic sci-fi series dealt with such topics. Star Trek used its main characters as voices that represented various positions. This is not to say that Star Read More ›

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Gary Varner
Date
November 5, 2022

Categorized
Arts & Culture, Science Fiction

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Charly (character in Orvilles 3), Dr. Finn (Orville character), Ed Mercer (character in Orville series), Featured, Kelly Grayson (character in Orville series), Krill (characters in Orville series), LaMarr (character in Orvilles 3), Teleya (character in Orville series)}

Episode 4: The Orville Writers Try Their Hand at Woke Messaging

_{No, it doesn’t work. In Season 3, the plot gently falls apart} _{Gary Varner
November 5, 2022

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Arts & Culture, Science Fiction}

Episode 4 of The Orville, Season 3, titled “Gently Falling Rain,” starts out strong and then gradually falls apart, in a way that is almost reminiscent of a frog slowly boiling in a pot of water. For most of the episode, there is only one really glaring plot hole and it’s easy enough to ignore. But then within the last quarter of the show, viewers are pounded with so much idiocy that we barely have time to realize what’s happened. As the episode opens, the hostile Krill are ready to sign a treaty with the Planetary Union. They’ve been taken to a futuristic Broadway production of Annie — it’s good to know that that little overplayed gem of a production Read More ›

Mechanized industry robot and human worker working together in future factory . Concept of artificial intelligence for industrial revolution and automation manufacturing process .

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Gary Varner
Date
October 15, 2022

Categorized
Arts & Culture, Science Fiction

Tagged
Charly (character in Orvilles 3), Dr. Finn (Orville character), Featured, Isaac (robot in Orvilles 3), LaMarr (character in Orvilles 3), Seth MacFarlane}

Orville Episode 1: We Witness — a Robotic Resurrection!

_{In this final look at Episode 1 of Season Three, we see how love for a robot, unexamined, entails a loss of sense and meaning} _{Gary Varner
October 15, 2022

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Arts & Culture, Science Fiction}

After I rolled my eyes for what felt like twenty minutes, waiting for the writers to quit wasting time with the whole “Isaac is really dead! We mean it!” routine, somebody finally realizes that there is a way to save the poor robot’s life. Apparently, the robot has a backup, of a backup, of a backup file buried deep inside his brain. The engineer, LaMarr, is fairly certain he can reconstruct Isaac’s programming using this secret backup file. If this sounds lazy and contrived to you, you’ll love this next part. Remember Charly, the girl who was super hateful to the robot at the beginning of the episode? Well, apparently, she is the newest high-ranking member in the crew, despite Read More ›