Five-Minute Orville: "Old Wounds"

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by Wowbagger

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.

I found it much better on second viewing, when I knew what to expect from it: a real sci-fi setting but no real sci-fi content just yet. Prep yourself for Galaxy Quest and you'll have a good time. My parents loved it!

Originally Posted by Wowbagger

CONFESSION: I didn't get this one.

You need experience to get a new job, right? And killing enemies is worth XP.

I'm forced to conclude that Gordon has been in stuff.

You didn't think you were making a dirty joke, but the guy who "looks like" Gordon isn't a Scott Grimes character, it's Scott Grimes himself. See, he was married for a while to Adrianne Palicki...

(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.)

[Wowbagger]

Originally Posted by Zeke

You didn't think you were making a dirty joke, but the guy who "looks like" Gordon isn't a Scott Grimes character, it's Scott Grimes himself. See, he was married for a while to Adrianne Palicki...

Gracious. Imagine working 12-hour days on a television show opposite your ex-wife. What the heck, Hollywood.

(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.)

[Zeke]

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.)