The Orville: New Horizons Episode 3.4 "Gently Falling Rain" Discussion Post

[senshi_forever]

The Orville: New Horizons season 3, episode 4, "Gently Falling Rain", is now on Hulu! What do you think??? Favorite part? Least favorite?

We’re just hours away from a brand-new episode of The Orville: New Horizons! Get your popcorn, this one’s a movie.
- Seth MacFarlane (@SethMacFarlane) June 22, 2022
OMG OMG OMG MY THOUGHTS ON THE EPISODE --

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[senshi_forever]

I can't seem to get the gif link to work. Does anyone have any ideas?

[xpirate_queenx]

What does the HTML coding you used on it look like? It should be:

[beesknees7]

okay, preview wasn't working for me but somehow my comment trying to troubleshoot this for you posted 3x. try this, i shrunk it because the original size was too big for the front page, i think.

img src="https://i.imgur.com/zRRKfZt.gif" width="500" height=250"

with < > on either end

[moonsenorita]

so i'm scrapping my original comment and I think the issue is right now the broke gif image shows me this link, "https://imgur.com/zRRKfZt" and one that works is this link, "https://i.imgur.com/zRRKfZt.gif"

apparently that "i." in the front does something? I think the code that beeknees commented with will work :)

[xpirate_queenx]

HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT

I gasped when they first showed Anaya before the vocal confirmation about her identity. My hands were plastered to my face for a solid minute and a half afterward. I cannot fucking WAIT to see where that storyline goes omg

This episode has been on my mind all day!! Season 3 has been knocking it out of the stratosphere with every single episode right out of the gate.

[xpirate_queenx]

[Spoiler (click to open)]Ed has a daughter y'all omgggggggggg

Seth's acting was on fucking POINT in this episode. Especially his first meeting with...well, you know. MY HEART ;A;

[beesknees7]

I didn't care for the twist, but his interactions with that little girl were very cute.

[kidviciousdonna]

I agree

[wantyourhex]

I am SO glad I took a chance on this show when it first came out. I love it so much! It looks like Hulu is letting them have all the fun they want with the eps and I'm here for it.

[beesknees7]

(the blue alien guy she cheated on Ed with) I seriously doubt Ed would have been so understanding

I mean, they came to an understanding about it because Darulio was essentially roofie-ing people with his pheromones. And I was rooting for Kelly to kick her ass when Telaya threw that in her face.

tbh, the Ed/Telaya dynamic was super interesting to me until this episode. The depths of her fascism are too much for me at this point, when before her hardliner stance could kind of get excused as religious indoctrination. The psychological torture of people who choose to end a pregnancy was psychotic. And I don't know that I would buy her changing for "love" (for Ed or her kid), reason or anything besides maybe sheer pragmatism over the Kaylon.

[senshi_forever]

tbh, the Ed/Telaya dynamic was super interesting to me until this episode. The depths of her fascism are too much for me at this point, when before her hardliner stance could kind of get excused as religious indoctrination. The psychological torture of people who choose to end a pregnancy was psychotic. And I don't know that I would buy her changing for "love" (for Ed or her kid), reason or anything besides maybe sheer pragmatism over the Kaylon.

THIS is why I never thought they would "go there" like this. And you can tell, when [Spoiler (click to open)]Ed went, "You KILLED a man!" that, honestly, I think their relationship is irreparable at this point. But maybe Anayah will become the link of peace between their two societies without Teleya having to go through a 180 with her feelings/values (as wrong as they are). So I definitely agree with you. Hopefully she doesn't change for "love". But I think there's a possibility that Ed and his daughter could form some sort of bond in the future and maybe that will be what changes the game. It's so exciting to

[beesknees7]

Yeah, for me, it's so frustrating like, bitch, you lived among these people, you know they're not the soulless bogeyman you're portraying them as. Like, how did the experience make her a worse person? Even if you could say she saw the baby as an abomination she felt forced to keep, wouldn't a zealot like her welcome the punishment of the psychological torture at that point?
I don't know...maybe the Kaylon attacks their planet and she gets coup'd or she Supermans the kid out of there to Ed.

[screamingintune]

I think the Union is gonna bail out the Krill from the Kaylon at some point that will force the peace back on

I wouldn't go so far as to say I didn't care for the twist but I do agree that I went into this episode carrying a serious torch for the Ed/Teleya ship and ready to have some fine Billy Joel moments and then she was basically Marjorie Taylor Krill, so lmao, nope. I think her fanaticism is actually logical given her character arc, but she still sucks!