About a Girl

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.

Initially I started this series for the comedy, but I found myself impressed by the deeper substance that the show had to offer. This episode explores social, cultural, and ethical issues with an interesting take from both sides of the aisle. What impressed me even more than that however was the outcome. Even though we may know what's right, life isn't fair, and often we have to deal with harsh realities.

This was not a feel good episode but rather a thinking episode. This is made clear by the negative reviews all clearly being emotionally driven or blinded by political bias and completely missing the point.

Been watching the first episodes of The Orville and I've seen enough to make some comment now, it's very watchable and reasonably amusing. Thank god it isn't just chock full of Seth MacFarlane's crass obvious comedy. Episode 3 was an attempt at a more serious one and it intentionally caught the essence of one of those frequent episodes of Star Trek TNG that tackled some great moral/cultural conflict between different planets, which was always an analogy to every day issues now on this one. Quite impressed that they are showing a genuine love for TNG which doesn't appear to be the case with the real new Star Trek show, which looks pretty dour and overly dramatic. Something TNG never was.

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.