Clicked on one of those astroturfed youtube vids of a battle involving the Kaylon or whatever and I kept getting bombarded with 'The Orville' Youtube shorts in the days since. One of them was about that Abortus guy and his husband fighting over their kid's gender.
I never got passed episode three or four of the first season, so I had no idea. These are such thinly veiled Hollywoke talking points and specific political pet peeves. You must be absolutely blind to not see what was going on. Charlize 'My Sons Are Girls Now' Theron was also on the show.
And this microwaved slop was supposed to be the acceptable normie alternative to Star Trek Disco/STD?
The first two seasons were mostly good, fun TV, then almost 1/3rd of the third season revolved around trans rights. It was horrendous and even worse than you're imagining.
The tranny shit was hilarious because it was actually a detransition plot. Those aliens have state-mandated homosexuality, so the girls are trooned at birth.
Yeah, the wife and I mostly enjoyed the first two seasons, we were still able to just cringe and ignore the odd woke comment and plot point here and there.
My favourite was the episode where Gordon was trying to teach Isaac about practical jokes, but Isaac kept taking it too far to the point where Gordon wakes up with his leg amputated 😆🤦🏼
Then season 3 begins and there’s some new teenage girlboss (I forget its name) shoehorned into the show, walking around rolling her eyes at everyone and even barking orders at McFarlane’s character (who’s supposed to be the captain). It was just far too “current day” to ignore anymore, not to mention the gags and humor started taking a back seat to leftist talking points. Don’t think I made it more that 3 episodes in.
Then you left before multiple episodes had their A plot revolve around the new child character's (trans)gender issues, with all the subtlety of a bad zipper scar.
Charly Burke was a really good character though.
Sounds like yet another grrlboss Mary Sue, which is ironic since the term originates from Star Trek self inserts.