The Orville: Primal Urges (no spoilers)

[cellio]

All of the humans in The Orville seem to have a shared fascination with late-20th-century American pop culture, which is pretty lame for a show set in the 25th century. I mean, do you and your coworkers all share an interest in one specific historical period several centuries ago? Unlikely.

Until last night's episode I didn't realize it ran deeper. (Maybe it was a subtle clue!) Their ideas about computer security also run to the late 20th century. shudder

Sheesh. First I wanted to yell at the officer who did the moral equivalent of plugging in a USB device of unknown origin labelled "free porn!". Then I really wanted to yell at the ship's IT department for what came next.

Kids, don't learn security practices from those guys. Just don't.

(So far the new season is at "eh, wait and see". It's nice to see followup on that one controversy from season one and I realize that all episodes can't be "Majority Rule"- or "Mad Idolatry"-quality, but I was hoping for a stronger start.)

I've avoided spoilers in this post, but if you're on your own for comments.

Comments

[siderea]

I mean, do you and your coworkers all share an interest in one specific historical period several centuries ago? Unlikely.

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[kyleri]

I mean, you don't even get that when all your coworkers are SCAdians.

[minoanmiss]

Future people interested in our time period (or the time period of the youth of the writer) is a really, really tired trope that I wish writers would get past. I only write fanfic but even so when I was writing Star Trek fanfic I tried to make my few historical references be to anywhere besides the here and now.