We’re back baby! After the show took a three week hiatus it’s a blessing to get some fresh content in “Sanctuary.” It’s a suiting title as Thursday nights with The Orville have been something of a sanctuary for me.

Such a glorious vessel. I love the design more and more each time I see it.

It was Moclans, Moclans and more Moclans on this week’s show. I’ve found the past two Moclan centric episodes to be better than the first two we got this season. This week finds Toran and Korick aboard the Orville as the ship has it’s weapons improved by, you guessed it the Moclans. I love the world building featured in this episode. It shed some light on the innerworkings of the Union. It makes a lot of sense that the Union needs the Moclans in the Union, more than the Moclans are a great fit for them. That and the threat of another attack from the Kaylon have added an interesting layer to the dynamic.

It was great to see Haveena again, this time she played a much more prominent role in the story, but I’m pretty sure I know what we’ll remember her most for…

She looks to be Haveena good time. *throws quarter in pun jar*

The Dolly Parton element of this episode was amazing. From seeing Haveena’s reaction, to the use of it during the climax of the episode and of course, Haveena’s spoken word version of 9 to 5. It all worked much better that it sounds like it would on the surface. I love it when this show takes chances.

The dilemma between Moclus, the colony and the Union was very complex and it had me thinking the entire time. It was cool to see all of the admirals as well as the hearing on earth. The set looked awesome, too bad the Gelatines, Yaphit’s people, didn’t get a seat at the table. Hopefully they get there next year, if it weren’t for their favorite son Yaphit, there might not be a Union at all!

Never forget.

The nebula in this week’s episode was absolutely gorgeous. It was visually stunning, as well as relevant to the story. I like that it not only hid the colony, but Gordon was able to use it to avoid a firing Moclan ship.

Thanks to Scott Grimes Fans for capturing this lovely image. Show them some love on Facebook and Twitter, their pages are always ripe with Gordon greatness.

I didn’t realize the Moclans were on such shakey ground even though it was heavily foreshadowed in Deflectors. It makes sense that a female colony, potentially being protected by the Union would cause quite a stir on Moclus. I didn’t know that Moclus was hiding the number of females born, that’s quite a twist that I can see Moclus not wanting to get out. Perhaps the citizens of Moclus may start to doubt their leaders or faith after this major lie gets out. Similar to a fake star being revealed to the Gilliac, if and when that happens.

That wasn’t the only time I had Gillacs on the brain this week as we saw Kelly and Bortus tandem ass kicking once again! I think this should be a regular occurrence on the show. This sequence is what inspired my favorite phrase that I’ve coined on the podcast so far. You can check it out below or on Podbean, Spotify or iTunes! It was a pretty serious episode but we still had fun discussing it.

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Near the end of the podcast I proposed a theory. I thought that it was possible Bortus was born female. My co-host Ben Bullerwell thought that it was Klyden who was born female. Is it possible they were both born female? Maybe the females can reproduce with each other like the males? Just something to think about. Let me know your thoughts in the comments.

It was great hearing about Gordon’s exploits, taking shuttles to use as party busses. If we could ever find the right actor, I would love a tv series following the adventures of a young Gordon Malloy, with narration by Scott Grimes obviously. On that note, I’ll end this weeks blog. Thanks for checking it out. While you’re here don’t forget to check out some great reviews, articles and awesome games we have under “Puzzles,” for some word searches and jigsaw puzzles! if you want more from The Redenbacher, check us out on Twitter and Instagram! See you next week!

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