The Orville: New Horizons Episode 3.2 "Shadow Realms" Discussion Post

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Episode 03.02 "Shadow Realms" of The Orville: New Horizons is now on Hulu!

The Orville: New Horizons begins NOW on @hulu!!!
- Seth MacFarlane (@SethMacFarlane) June 9, 2022

What was your favorite part???

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[beesknees7]

Bruh, I can't believe they finally brought back certified hottie Nurse Park only to do that to him. 😩

Idk about this episode. Great concept & tone, the design of the creatures was so cool, seriously the make-up work on the admiral mid-mutation was wildly freaky, and Claire's been getting fucking fed these past two episodes. But the writing was sloppy and everything that happened hinged on, just, the most rampant stupidity. Like, this wasn't a team full of ensign red-shirts, you've got an admiral, a captain, a commander just touching shit and sticking their faces in alien tech all willy nilly? No decontamination suits? No isolation/quarantine once he's clearly turning into something else? They're just fine with 15+ crew members becoming the bug borg (burg)? Did they just get dropped on that station for the incoming ship to pick up? Does this burg ship now have the former crew & intel on the Federation. Like??? I kept getting more stressed out watching it and not for their intended reasons.

[awkward_as_heck]

Yeah, this ep really needed another draft to tighten up the details. And the ending just kind of happens. Give me some negotiations with the red spider people. Like, make all the rambling earlier in the episode from the admiral be related to the reason he got infected or something. Flip the whole demon narrative sideways. Show consequences with the Krill. There are a whole bunch of directions here.

[beesknees7]

Yeah, this ep really needed another draft to tighten up the details.

Definitely, you nailed it, it felt like, at most, a second draft. With the admiral, they could have him in a suit and just have him get infected like you said because he was distracted over Claire and got careless.
The Krill probably would have been like "Told you so. Demons. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯" Picturing them like this if they have to bail the Federation out again:

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Since they seem to be setting up the bug borg as the new big bad, they could have done a lot more.

[williammiller]

I was surprised that they didn't go into the ship with suits on either. Claire is like "Kelly, don't touch that" and Kelly's like "Oh yeah, sorry!" Like... what?

I'm also surprised that once the power went out, there weren't more people walking throughout the ship with flash lights wondering what was going on. The hallways were bare.

[beesknees7]

It was maddening! They clearly had suits because Talla & John wore them in the second time. But seriously did they not even leave a warning beacon or anything at the end so the same thing won't happen to another set of equally curious dumbasses? Like even a bad Star Trek episode would have made a point of that.

I'm also surprised that once the power went out, there weren't more people walking throughout the ship with flash lights wondering what was going on. The hallways were bare.

Well, yeah, they needed to be bare to make it all more sinister. Gotta serve the aesthetic at the expense of a good plot.