Krill

I wanted to quickly review this episode because out of the first six, I felt it was easily the worst. It's not bad exactly, and I do love the strong classic Star Trek vibes this show brings. It is just that the show needs to know when to tone down the ham and get serious to maximize its potential. I suspect that the second season has learned this lesson and I'll discover that as I move along. Here though, the slapstick humor between Ed and Gordon completely kills the vibe, even if it is entertaining. It's good for entertainment, but sacrifices any potential to ever match some of Star Trek's best Klingon or Romulan episodes. If this show is going to hit the top level, it needs to know when to be full on serious, and this opportunity to establish the Krill on a similar amplitude to the Romulans is absolutely wasted on the humor. Also, the story element of the kids was good, but a bit too hammy in its handling. I suppose the classic Star Trek series had plenty of ham in the early going too. This is a solid show, I just wanted to voice my opinion on the matter in particular to this episode. Sometimes the humor is good, but to be a great show instead of just a good one, The Orville needs to know when to get full on serious.

.... If it weren't for the unfortunate ending.

Great episode with a hopeful message.

This show is a bright light to so many apocalyptic sci-fi shows.

Star Trek is back ....

First of all, the Orville is brilliant. And what Star Trek Discovery should have been. I was eagerly waiting for Star Trek Discovery for years on it being announced. I was then so let down when I actually seen it. It was atrocious. Someone recommended to me to see The Orville instead and I expected it to be some camp poor imitation rip off. Like the Scary Movies series did with Scream.

It is not. It is brilliant. It has the Star Trek 'feel' to it. The characters are all likable and intermix well. And the jokes feel right and are actually funny. This episode, Krill. Hit it right out of the park. It was perfect. The jokes in this had me literally in stitches laughing (no lie). But it also was very well done story wise too. I am so eagerly waiting for episode 7 now. But I suspect it will not top episode 6 and this will be the best of the series. Seth Mcfarlane you are literally my hero for creating this series as it really is the Star Trek of how it should be. And forgetting those trying to be a Star Wars clone that Discovery and the films have become. I hope this series lasts to 7 series like all the star trek's did. It deserves to.

...so I would have just downloaded the much sought after tome... it seems the internet doesn't work so well in the future....

I enjoy just about everything about The Orville. The humor does not work for me in this show. They say humorous things that seemed way out of place. it's kind of like if I was to be transported back hundred and fifty years make humorous anecdotes about current things people would just scratch their head.