I thought I would review this episode as I wasn't expecting The Orville to cover
such adult material as sex addiction (albeit with holograms in the simulator). They touched on the idea that the holodeck might be used for sex on Deep Space Nine but this went much much further.
It's actually not a bad episode if you can get past the fairly explicit nature of some of the scenes but there are a few glaring things wrong with it:
The cgi of the star and the planet was good in places, but not so good in others. At times the image was far too static and it didn't look at all realistic.
When the shuttle landed on the planet they parked it in a way that meant the people would have to walk as far as possible to board it. That made no sense as we were told there was deadly radiation between them and the shuttle. They did it right in the Season 1 episode Pria, so why couldn't they have just done that here too. Very poor, IMO.
Some of the dialog was a bit iffy too. For example, at one point Bortus says "I assume you have radiation suits", which he obviously should have known. Some of the dialog between Kelly and Ed seemed a bit sloppy too.
I really didn't like the new alien. If they've got rid of the funny alien that was made of jelly (I can't remember his name) and replaced him with this guy, I will go off this show fast. He/it reminded me of N'Grath in Babylon 5, but worse!
Overall, the episode was alright but far from great.
It's actually not a bad episode if you can get past the fairly explicit nature of some of the scenes but there are a few glaring things wrong with it:
The cgi of the star and the planet was good in places, but not so good in others. At times the image was far too static and it didn't look at all realistic.
When the shuttle landed on the planet they parked it in a way that meant the people would have to walk as far as possible to board it. That made no sense as we were told there was deadly radiation between them and the shuttle. They did it right in the Season 1 episode Pria, so why couldn't they have just done that here too. Very poor, IMO.
Some of the dialog was a bit iffy too. For example, at one point Bortus says "I assume you have radiation suits", which he obviously should have known. Some of the dialog between Kelly and Ed seemed a bit sloppy too.
I really didn't like the new alien. If they've got rid of the funny alien that was made of jelly (I can't remember his name) and replaced him with this guy, I will go off this show fast. He/it reminded me of N'Grath in Babylon 5, but worse!
Overall, the episode was alright but far from great.