There’s two things I love about the Orville.
Firstly that it imagines a better future, like Roddenberry, where we’ve moved beyond racism, poverty, and pointless wars- And yet that doesn’t mean we have to abandon our crass, silly side that appreciates farts and shallow pop culture.
Second, the way they use that to tackle the more complex issues with nuance and complexity. I was expecting the Moclans to be a constant stream of dick jokes- and we got that, but we also got a lot of hard questions about misogyny, trans rights, toxic masculinity, and whether we can or should challenge another culture’s norms.
