The Orville - Blog Posts
No collage for this fic (yet) but I wrote a nice therapy session between a Kaylon and a Robot from Monk & Robot.
For fans of The Orville, fans of Monk & Robot, and fans of neither! Just a nice chat between two inorganics with different perspectives.
Did anyone else want episode 3 of the Orville to end with the whole tribunal watching Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer and then voting to keep her female?
jesus christ the whiplash of going from season 2 of the Orville to season 3 is insane. It looks so good!!!
im watching the orville (mid season 2) AND I HATE KLYDEN SO MUCH I NEED BORTUS TO DIVORCE HIM
Do you ship it?
reason: They love/hate each other and have a forbidden love child. I live for stories like this.
Brown-eyed beauty Leighton Meester rocking a smart and sexy business blazer in the role of Laura Huggins in The Orville 2.11 Lasting Impressions.
I watched this episode tonight, and I must say, I’m not sure if I was in just the right mood or what, but I don’t think I’ve ever shipped anything on the Orville quite this much before. Like, I find Claire and Isaac and Ed and the Krill lady intriguing, and I root for Ed and Kelly, but none of them give me quite this many feels.
I mean, it was clear from the start that this was going to be a tragic ship, and in a way perhaps it was that underpinning of inevitable tragedy that made it so beautiful. But like... it was so sweet and moving and I felt so much for Gordon. I wanted it to last even though it obviously couldn’t; I wanted them to be happy.
Now I want them to develop time travel for real so he can go back and meet the real Laura, not just the computer-synthesized version of her. Perhaps this is the perfect time for a Doctor Who crossover AU...
Leighton Meester as Laura Huggins in The Orville 2x11
Forget what I said before tonight’s episode about possibly wanting Isaac’s betrayal to stand for the sake of emotional intensity, by the way. Identity part 2 handled things beautifully and I couldn’t’ve hoped for better. While it might’ve been interesting to have all of Isaac’s past interactions so profoundly undermined by the realization that he was simply a genocidal Cyberman playing his role all along, it’ll be more fun in the long term to have an artificial intelligence who believed he was incapable of emotions realizing he has them and figuring out what to do with them amidst being cut off and isolated from his people, all the while having to heal the wounds his betrayal caused.
Also, human!Isaac was great and I love how his expressions are so level and robotic yet vaguely bemused with hints of wonderment. They’re just so on point for a human manifestation of an intellectually curious robot. I’m glad I can go back to enjoying him properly.
I’d like to do more than that.
My main ship for this show, or for Ed at least, is probably Kelly and Ed, but I must admit, I love that cross-warring-species dynamic of Ed and his Krill girlfriend Teleya :) Actually, I was really hoping their relationship would come into play in tonight's episode in their temporary alliance with the Krill, but it was a well-handled plot point nonetheless, and perhaps this tenuous alliance will lead them to meet once again.
Everything with Isaac is so sad and dark now, looking back after last week's episode. Maybe tonight he'll get redeemed and this will go back to being cute again. All the same, it would be a really powerful, heavy twist if they let his betrayal stand. I can't quite decide which I'd prefer, honestly.
