You can blame the lightning display for the game running long, I guess. (We had a couple of almost-no-delay-between flash and crack strokes over here, too.)
The Orville episode where the little chick takes over command
suddenly appeared on an over-the-air Fox channel last night, but wasn't on their schedule.
It didn't take long for me to figure out it was supposed to be a comedy... of some kind. It seemed to be a little chopped-up, continuity wise, as well, although the over-the-air station might have been re-feeding it from their cable channel or something, which caused the continuity problem.
I started to realize it was a conglomeration of all the "bits" from "Star Trek Et Cetera" and the "Star Wars Et Cetera" franchises... even including a takeoff on Chewbaca. I thought the scene where she suddenly decides to disobey orders and rescue the captain and his exec and everybody whoops and cheers was ridiculously trite (Oh, Yaayyyyy!)... but was supposed to be.
Next thing you know, after penetrating the outer defenses of the antagonist species by a new cloaking and disguising device, she and that android are in the zoo, talking face to face with the captain and his ex-wife.*
Next thing you know after that, a deal is struck** and the captain and his ex-wife/exec are rescued, as in "Poof! You're rescued."
I felt as if a couple of panels had fallen off the story board and none of the writers noticed.
If it pops up again, I'll watch it just to see if the writer got his act together, but for now, it looked as if it were badly cobbled together and nobody could figure out what they really wanted to do.
Hey, I recognize parody. I wonder how many recognize
lousy parody.
Terry
* And as with just about every episode of Star Whatevers, I hated the notion that the top echelon of officers went a-derring-do and a-transporting around into unknown situations, but, you know, there's the story, and what can you say? Somehow, it's like expecting Admiral Halsey (the real one, not the fake one in Orville) to hop into a PT Boat and zoom around, actually pulling triggers, shooting at enemy shipping. I can suspend reality only so much.
** I don't want to spoil the inane "hook" at the end. You'll just have to sit on the edge of your chair biting your nails and wringing your hands until then.