Into the Fold

Love the show, but this was so full of plot holes and wooden writing that it's bound to be on a future Mystery Science Theater 3000 show. Unless this episode was aimed at the under 10 demographic?

Not really anything special or noteworthy, but thats OK, every series is going to have its clunkers. There were several plot contrivances and the interactions were pretty weak. Its a really unremarkable episode. This series just got a 2nd season and it deserves it. I honestly had no thoughts of Orville being a decent sci-fi show. There are people who still haven't come to grips with this being Scifi first and comedy second. It seems that SMF wants to make a series show but not make it completely stuffy. I look forward to season 2.

Were they my kids they'd have been dead before the crash landing

Those arguing about this show in their reviews, on both sides, are missing the point. This episode has more moral depth than all the _Star Trek_ episodes I've seen by Braga put together, and more than any by Bormanis. The characters are not all completely good or completely evil, and actions have consequences. It's also morally serious, in a way I suspect MacFarlane would not get away with if the show were not labeled a comedy, with a serious point to make about three kinds of fatherhood, which would have been controversial if anyone had been paying sufficient attention.

Awful. Annoying children, not funny episode, hope next episodes aren't alike. .......................................

. Love the show, but this was so full of plot holes and wooden writing that it's bound to be on a future Mystery Science Theater 3000 show. Unless this episode was aimed at the under 10 demographic?