About a Girl

Frankly I am surprised the streamer is even allowed to show this episode. The writers clearly were advocating against sex changes to children. Today(2021) just 4 years later to take such a position on various social media platforms would precipitate a ban of that account.

My how times have changed.

No spoilers here...just didn't think I'd see an Orville that was serious for longer than 45 seconds. But it was frickin' great...hmm...hard not to do spoilers without giving away the greatness. Okay...here goes...not what you expect, beginning to end. Enjoy!

The topic of this plot can be seen as a mirror to our current society, where 'the people' expect certain behaviour in spite of the wellbeing of the kids. Or where parents do fundamental decisions for their kids, as if they would 'own' their kids. Or where men decide about what women have to do or have to be. A very sad and serious episode indeed. Great SF.

What is the series even about, their species literally has 1 gender, their sexual characteristics are absolutely identical, all that the operation does is get rid of the pathology, the closest analogue is cerebral palsy, incredibly stupid and unsuccessful attempt to make a plot point using an irrelevant premise, they literally want to condemn the creature to a disease using gender as a reason which is in no way related to the issue, this episode would not have worked if the characters faced with the problem tried to explain themselves instead of playing along with the script, the only episode that is hard to take seriously.

I thought the episode was better than I thought it would be, since Id read ahead of time about the plot. This was the episode the media had seen to review and tell the viewers how good they thought the series would be valued.

I thought the episode strengthened the viewers understanding of the characters. The episode helped me to understand and appreciate the backgrounds of the characters. There are parts of the episode that are like past Star Trek episodes and American culture.

My wife and I sit on the couch together and watch the series. It has been a show we can both watch and discuss. I have a stronger Star Trek background, watching all the past Star Trek series' and Galaxy Quest.

The episode caused us to seriously discuss issues we had with children we both had in separate marriages, but we could discuss. The episode this evening caused us to both laugh but have a serious discussion as well. That was good.