About a Girl
- Episode aired Sep 21, 2017
- TV-14
- 44m
IMDb RATING
7.6/10
5.1K
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Bortus and Klyden debate whether their newborn child should have a controversial surgery.Bortus and Klyden debate whether their newborn child should have a controversial surgery.Bortus and Klyden debate whether their newborn child should have a controversial surgery.
J. Lee
- Lt. John LaMarr
- (as J Lee)
Norm MacDonald
- Yaphit
- (voice)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIn the simulation program, Seth MacFarlane wears the same Western outfit that he wore in A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014).
- GoofsBortus petitions Captain Mercer to order Dr. Finn to perform the "corrective procedure" on his newborn. As chief medical officer, Dr. Finn has absolute authority over all medical matters, outranking even the captain of the ship. Ed couldn't order her to perform a surgical procedure even if he wanted to.
- ConnectionsFeatures Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)
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I said it before and I'll say it again
If you're watching this for laughs, you're not going to enjoy this. It uses humor as a complement but not as something that carries the show whereas any plot line that comes out of shows like Archer is driven out of humor.
This episode cements Orville trying to be a serious take at what Star Trek envisioned. And it did just that. People crying about this and that are literal clowns. Watch this episode or any other episode from Star Trek TOS or DS9 with serious ethical dilemmas. Not all of them end happily, especially when they try to uphold what's best in the long run. This episode is similar in fashion; it addresses some social issue that we might face today (as TOS has done) but approaches it so that you can ask questions and debate about it in ways that isn't so preachy but rather out of core ethics. The sense that we have the ability to choose what is best for us and not have things set in stone and dictated for us.
Obviously the writing is not as deep as Star Trek but they embody the same atmosphere of it. One problem I had with the ep was that a lot of the ways they showed that men and women were equal were superficial and you couldn't apply the same points IRL when seriously talking about the same issues. However it's not scared to tackle and confront these issues.
If you really go back and watch Star Trek TOS, it had a lot of bad tropes/poor writing/bad acting/poor plot lines/deus ex machina's too. Get off your high horse. Not to mention the technobabble. 90% of problems could be described by "There seems to be something interfering with the power relays or warp plasma injectors" and you can "bypass" a seemingly impossible to solve issue by saying "I can adjust the frequency which should force the power couplings to burst!" in Geordi voice.
Just enjoy it for what it is. There aren't many shows like this today.
This episode cements Orville trying to be a serious take at what Star Trek envisioned. And it did just that. People crying about this and that are literal clowns. Watch this episode or any other episode from Star Trek TOS or DS9 with serious ethical dilemmas. Not all of them end happily, especially when they try to uphold what's best in the long run. This episode is similar in fashion; it addresses some social issue that we might face today (as TOS has done) but approaches it so that you can ask questions and debate about it in ways that isn't so preachy but rather out of core ethics. The sense that we have the ability to choose what is best for us and not have things set in stone and dictated for us.
Obviously the writing is not as deep as Star Trek but they embody the same atmosphere of it. One problem I had with the ep was that a lot of the ways they showed that men and women were equal were superficial and you couldn't apply the same points IRL when seriously talking about the same issues. However it's not scared to tackle and confront these issues.
If you really go back and watch Star Trek TOS, it had a lot of bad tropes/poor writing/bad acting/poor plot lines/deus ex machina's too. Get off your high horse. Not to mention the technobabble. 90% of problems could be described by "There seems to be something interfering with the power relays or warp plasma injectors" and you can "bypass" a seemingly impossible to solve issue by saying "I can adjust the frequency which should force the power couplings to burst!" in Geordi voice.
Just enjoy it for what it is. There aren't many shows like this today.
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- joekinplaya
- Sep 21, 2017
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- Runtime44 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 16:9 HD
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