Cupid's Dagger
- Episode aired Nov 9, 2017
- TV-14
- 44m
IMDb RATING
7.8/10
3.8K
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While the crew attempts to mediate a peace treaty between two warring cultures, tensions rise between Ed and Kelly when a familiar face comes aboard.While the crew attempts to mediate a peace treaty between two warring cultures, tensions rise between Ed and Kelly when a familiar face comes aboard.While the crew attempts to mediate a peace treaty between two warring cultures, tensions rise between Ed and Kelly when a familiar face comes aboard.
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J. Lee
- Lt. John LaMarr
- (as J Lee)
Norm MacDonald
- Yaphit
- (voice)
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Listening to his voice I'm convinced that even though IMDb doesn't list any credits for the Alien Darulio he has to be played by Rob Lowe. I like this show.Since he was an important part of this episode it seems like they would give him some credit unless he didn't want his name tied to the show.
I recognized the voice of Bobby Goldsboro in the elevator. The song is called The Straight Life. I'd like to know how many other planets are familiar with his music. Maybe they know him from his TV series. I was surprised that I recognized a voice I had not heard since I was a kid. Who picks this stuff? Will there be more space Muzak in future?
Kelly Grayson is amazing. The more I invested in "The Orville" the more I saw a person who is curious, assertive, knowledgeable, funny, likeable, entertaining, sympathetic, a hero. Then the cupid episode comes out. That's right Kelly is "perfect". Not her fault that she screwed her marriage with Ed. Literally. Now Ed falls under the same spell and a perfect explanation as to why Kelly made a mistake. This episode is the beginning of the end for Orville. Kelly is allowed to make mistakes. It's called being human. What made her interesting is NOT how amazing she is but her development in the series from her bottom , with Ed , to her in later episodes. Her goal was to "make things right". How does that even matter if her whole reason to fix things with Ed is some chemical "geo fence" that makes all with in it horny. This is a parody on itself and the beginning of the end for Orville. Stop giving your characters an OUT every FV<K'n time. Kelly made a huge mistake. She is making it right with all that she is doing for herself and hopefully for Ed. If he accepts it . STOP excusing characters for their mistakes with scientific explanations for their infidelities and allow them to be human. It's the humanity that makes them worth watching. NOT the constant excuses to why they are "perfect". Just stop it or stop making episodes.
I can't help. I have to rate this 10 out of 10 stars. Surely, way too many people rate way too high on IMDb due to their emotions. But I don't care, because this episode of The Orville was so much fun!
"Cupid's Dagger" is predictable and it has strong similarities with the Star Trek DS9 episode S03E10 "Fascination", which itself was a variation of the age-old "people-on-a-starship-start-to-act-strangely-theme". But know what? It doesn't matter! This episode still was great and it made me happy. Hopefully there is more of this stuff upcoming!
"Cupid's Dagger" is predictable and it has strong similarities with the Star Trek DS9 episode S03E10 "Fascination", which itself was a variation of the age-old "people-on-a-starship-start-to-act-strangely-theme". But know what? It doesn't matter! This episode still was great and it made me happy. Hopefully there is more of this stuff upcoming!
Tbh, I found this episode to be nauseating. It's just rubbish, not funny, nor interesting. It is called the poop deck that is why I pooped there. You are disgusting. And you sir are misleading.
Did you know
- TriviaMike Henry, a frequent Seth MacFarlane collaborator, makes his first appearance here as Dann, the mushroom-headed man requesting that music be added to the elevators. Dann would go on to be a recurring supporting character throughout the series.
- GoofsWhen Ed and Kelly leave the bridge to go greet the forensic archaeologist in the shuttle bay, Kelly requests that Alara send the name of the archaeologist to their comms as soon as she has found it. When Alara discovers that the archaeologist is Darulio, the main with whom Kelly had an affair, rather than contacting Kelly or Ed via communicator as requested, she runs to the shuttle bay in an attempt to abort the shuttle docking. Had she used the communicator as requested, she would not have been too late to give Ed and Kelly a heads up on the archaeologist's identity. Had she even used the communications system to contact the shuttle bay control room, rather than run there, she would not have been too late to abort the shuttle docking.
- ConnectionsReferences Titanic (1997)
- SoundtracksAny Way You Want It
(uncredited)
Written by Steve Perry and Neal Schon
Performed by Adrianne Palicki
[Kelly performs karaoke]
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- 44m
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- 16:9 HD
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