I don’t understand how every episode somehow seems just fantastic.
I’m not even going to lie...the end of this one got to me. I wasn’t crying, you were crying!!!
I’ve read some criticisms here and elsewhere that too many of these stories aren’t having enough continuity...no real connections to an overarching narrative. I’m beginning to think that the overarching narrative are in fact the characters themselves. We’ve seen Gordon constantly failing with women, and talking about how he wants to be successful in love, and then tonight we got to see him be successful...even if it was in an unconventional way and ultimately didn’t work out. That character building over two seasons is what hit me about the way this one ended.
As a side note, I also enjoy how often we get episodes that touch on actual aspects of our lives today. We, as members of this forum, have posted quite a bit of information about ourselves without even really knowing it. If one were to try hard enough, and take the time to analyze posting habits, they’d probably be able to put together a pretty good representation of what we like and dislike when it comes to movies and films. As just a simple example, I post about MCU films a lot, but rarely about DC films. With that information alone one could determine that I’m an MCU fan and not a DCEU fan. Now...if we extrapolate that even more...to say the lengths that Facebook and Amazon do, and one has the ability to put together a pretty impressive “digital” version of us.
Now...take that “digital” version and add in all the pictures and videos we have on phones, the text messages we have, the voicemails and emails, and everything else...and you have a literal living, breathing, digital being that could be recreated with a powerful enough computer.
Basically...all my babbling here is to say that the idea that Gordon was able to simulate Laura so much that he fell in love with her doesn’t REALLY seem all that far off, given how much information we all have floating around out there about ourselves.
I’ll close this post out by saying I’ve always liked Seth MacFarlane. I’m a big fan of his animation and I enjoy the films he’s made. I figured I’d enjoy “The Orville” just because he was involved, but not in a million years did I think it would quickly become one of only three TV shows that I truly care about, and one of only two that I watch immediately instead of letting it sit on the DVR for a few weeks.
Man, I love this show.