The Orville 1x7 Reaction
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Yeah, I think I agree to a point. They layered in a bunch of social commentary here, and the gags didn't help either. Making John's and some of the other's reactions and behaviours somewhat illogical, given the situation he was facing. But as a means to show how ridiculous the whole setup of mob mentality could be under certain circumstances. I think it's brave to highlight the real flaws of democracy. But this was more unfettered, as they had no other law frame work either. Which overly complicates a comparison. The idea that if the majority thinks it, it has to be correct. Nice little throwaway line in there. Don't worry, they won't corroborate the lies the Orville were adding in. Why, because they will be too busy obtaining their pound of flesh. Justice is said to be blind, not willfully ignorant. Which was why narratively, and for the commentary, it had to be done that way. Simply fixing the vote rather than influencing it with missinformation. Bottom line, he was guilty of what he was being accused of doing. It was the one size fits all punishment, decided by arbitrary opinion, that was being fully lambasted here. This might not have been their full objective, however. Which leads me on to say. Fabulous take Clint, on the idea of a justice / injustice trade off for this society. The notion that maybe this could be objectively better, we don't know. As, no, we don't know their history, or how they got here. The question could be. Do we want our fate to be guided by a set of rules and formulated guidelines. Certainly not perfect, and regularly manipulated with dubious arguments by people with nefarious means. Or simply to line their pockets from those with more means. Or, in this case, solely by the crowd. Which, like a court verdict, is presented by the way of a 100% binary choice. John didn't know that what he was doing could garner such disapproval from the masses. But.... Ignorantia juris non excusat. The Black Mirror episode was probabaly executed better. It maybe had a clearer ideology driving it's structure. This Orville episode was more clumsily with it's talking points, and thus was probably unintentionally nuanced.
Death Lego
2025-10-10 08:45:08 +0000 UTCI too thought of Sliders. Not a fan of that show, but yes, there was an episode where social feedback votes made big decisions.
picjapan
2025-10-10 07:00:36 +0000 UTC
