Lasting Impressions

You can tell this episode was written by Seth, himself. It is based upon the film "Laura" (1943) starring Dana Andrews. Like the film, this episode is about a character falling in love with a woman he has never met, as he investigates her life. When the crew finds a time capsule from 2015, Gordon creates a hologram program utilizing the contents of a cell phone that was owned by a young woman named Laura Huggins (cf. Laura Hunt in the film). Virtual reality becomes Gordon's reality as the episode explores the differences, if any, between objective truth, subjective truth, and virtual truth.

What a joy to watch a story that is intelligent and challenging. And romantic! In the end, Gordon must decide which truth he will embrace, leading to a beautiful denoument. Those who enjoy this episode should check out the classic film and another film that plays with the same theme, "Sharkey's Machine" starring Burt Reynolds.

If the two parter Identity was a homage to Best of Both Worlds. This new episide definitely has to be a homage to The Inner Light episode from Season 5 of The Next Generation.

It was the episode where Picard gets taken over by a time capsule of a long extinct planet and seemingly lives his entire life inside of it as a member of that planet.

This was a fantastic episode. I went from a mixture of teary eyed at the Gordon scenes to literally laughing out loud at adiction to smoking scenes.

Both were handled brilliantly. This really is a must see episode. I feel I am not over-rating it giving it 10/10

The girl who played Laura was also very cute and I hope she gets cast in other things too.

When I first watched Orville, I thought it was fun, but I couldn't figure out what it wanted to be...was it a parody, a comedy, a legitimate sci-fi drama? It obviously borrows so heavily from Star Trek that I thought it was a straight up parody. Then I began to realize that regardless of what it was, I liked it far better than any version of Star Trek. It stood well on it's own right. And the later episodes have been getting better and better. This one had by far the funniest comedy, thanks to smoking Bortus, and yet it was easily the most touching of the episodes to date. I think we can all relate to Gordon...he's likeable, and down to earth, and things rarely go his way, just like many of us. I think he reacted to the circumstances in this episode just about exactly as any of us would have, and that's what made it great.

Episodes are getting better and better, please continue like this - make it so! Btw, reminds me a lot of Voyager. It has that warmth.

The transformation began several episodes prior. No longer is the Orville a comedy with a hint of Star Trek it is now its own space show with a hint of comedy. This episode was fantastic and heart felt. Give it a try!