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<blockquote data-quote="GreyLord" data-source="post: 7574625" data-attributes="member: 4348"><p>I probably wouldn't watch it with little kids, but S2E2 in my opinion was on the verge of one of the best episodes.</p><p></p><p>I heavily disagree on some of the ideas it pushed forward, but at the same time addressed a modern issue that concerns a LOT of far right Conservative Religious Americans. </p><p></p><p>They see it as a particular type of addiction (while REAL scientific studies I think have actually debunked it's a type of addiction at all, that substance and other types of addiction trigger different parts of the brain etc.).</p><p></p><p>It, however, does address the ideas of addiction and what addiction can do. It also addresses as to why someone might sink into addiction (to me, it would have been better to have it as alcoholism as it would seem that the reasons for the addiction as well as the results would be more closely aligned to what the show discussed).</p><p></p><p>I think it takes something that is modern and recognized (addiction in general and it's affects on someone and others around them) and addresses it a pretty good fashion.</p><p></p><p>It probably is not for the little kids to watch, but when discussing addiction I think it does it pretty well. If you are a far right conservative religious individual (especially American) that considers that topic of the episode...I'm not sure how well you could discuss it than the episode does itself. It makes strong hints as too what is involved but does not actually get into anything really explicit. You never really find out how an alien species actually performs something, and overall is discreet as far as the actual acts go. At the same time it discusses and makes very clear the problems that arise due to addiction.</p><p></p><p>I think it was an excellent episode (it's ironic, I've only actually seen three episodes yet and that was one of them that I watched). If it represent the other episodes that the Orville has I think the Orville is probably doing a better job at discussing modern problems through the sci-fi lense (something that the Original Star Trek did and the Next Generation attempted to do) than the real Star Trek (discovery) is doing (which is more of just a straight up sci-fi show in general).</p><p></p><p>PS: I agree it probably isn't a show for the entire family to watch, especially those families which are more conservative in the religious front, but then, the Orville while being an obvious copy of Star Trek, is not actually Star Trek and in many ways is it's own show as well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GreyLord, post: 7574625, member: 4348"] I probably wouldn't watch it with little kids, but S2E2 in my opinion was on the verge of one of the best episodes. I heavily disagree on some of the ideas it pushed forward, but at the same time addressed a modern issue that concerns a LOT of far right Conservative Religious Americans. They see it as a particular type of addiction (while REAL scientific studies I think have actually debunked it's a type of addiction at all, that substance and other types of addiction trigger different parts of the brain etc.). It, however, does address the ideas of addiction and what addiction can do. It also addresses as to why someone might sink into addiction (to me, it would have been better to have it as alcoholism as it would seem that the reasons for the addiction as well as the results would be more closely aligned to what the show discussed). I think it takes something that is modern and recognized (addiction in general and it's affects on someone and others around them) and addresses it a pretty good fashion. It probably is not for the little kids to watch, but when discussing addiction I think it does it pretty well. If you are a far right conservative religious individual (especially American) that considers that topic of the episode...I'm not sure how well you could discuss it than the episode does itself. It makes strong hints as too what is involved but does not actually get into anything really explicit. You never really find out how an alien species actually performs something, and overall is discreet as far as the actual acts go. At the same time it discusses and makes very clear the problems that arise due to addiction. I think it was an excellent episode (it's ironic, I've only actually seen three episodes yet and that was one of them that I watched). If it represent the other episodes that the Orville has I think the Orville is probably doing a better job at discussing modern problems through the sci-fi lense (something that the Original Star Trek did and the Next Generation attempted to do) than the real Star Trek (discovery) is doing (which is more of just a straight up sci-fi show in general). PS: I agree it probably isn't a show for the entire family to watch, especially those families which are more conservative in the religious front, but then, the Orville while being an obvious copy of Star Trek, is not actually Star Trek and in many ways is it's own show as well. [/QUOTE]
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