Five-Minute Orville: "Old Wounds"
Welcome to 2023! I have big plans for 5MV this year, so let's get off to a big start with something I've been waiting for the right time to launch: <b>Five-Minute Orville</b>.
It's been one of the great mysteries of my lifetime that with five Trek shows currently airing, Seth freaking MacFarlane, who isn't making one, is somehow making the best one. I have many gripes with The Orville, but its heart is actually in the right place. It managed a downright weird transition from fan tribute in the first season to actual sci-fi in its own right thereafter. And it takes itself seriously enough for fivers to work (though it's sometimes a close call, especially in those early days). A proper subsite is coming, but for now, here's <b><a href="../orville/ow.html">Five-Minute "Old Wounds"</a></b>. May this New Year's launch bring the show luck for getting renewed this year! |
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I say this as a fan of The Orville overall. Their pilot was awful and now maybe I can just give people this fiver so they can skip the pilot. |
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(The other not-spelled-out casting joke is toward the end. Victor Garber, who plays Admiral Halsey, was one of the main stars of DC's Legends of Tomorrow.) |
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(Meanwhile, Seth was apparently having something with his security officer, and then she left when it fell apart, which is its own kind of gross.) |
The supreme irony is that they also got together on the show. They had an office romance while making a whole show about how bad an idea that is!
Seems to happen a lot in Hollywood. My personal favourite example, for its severe twistiness, is Michael C. Hall and Jennifer Carpenter on Dexter. They played Dexter and Deb, who grew up thinking they were blood siblings -- neither knew that Dex was adopted until Season 1 of the show -- and the actors got married. Then they got divorced. And then the show had Deb fall in love with Dex! It must've been even more awkward on set than it was in-universe. (Mercifully, that storyline was strangled in its crib when Deb found out Dex was a serial killer -- the person she loved was his "normal" persona, and now she knew he'd been faking that all his life. Still creepy though.) |
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