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  • The Orville S03E04 - Gently Falling Rain

    From Nightfox@46:1/150 to All on Sat Jun 25 10:52:52 2022
    This past Thursday, The Orville season 3 episode 4 ("Gently Falling Rain") was released. The episode was about a secret child of Captain Mercer (of the Orville) and Teleya (a Krill). The episode included a scene on the Krill (alien species) home world having to do with their law against abortion. The strange thing is, this episode was released just the day before the US Supreme Court (on Friday, yesterday) overturned Roe v. Wade, the decision that protected a woman's liberty to have an abortion.

    I'm wondering if this was just a coincidence? It seems really odd that the episode was aired just the day before the US Supreme Court decision was made.

    Nightfox
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  • From esc@46:1/145 to Nightfox on Sat Jun 25 11:10:30 2022
    I'm wondering if this was just a coincidence? It seems really odd that the episode was aired just the day before the US Supreme Court decision was made.

    Overturning Roe v Wade was a priority for conservatives for a long time, and the intent to politicize the court and do this was telegraphed for a long time. I think it's coincidental that the episode and overturning the decision happened so closely to one another but these shows are sociopolitical commentary, not surprising that they used this theme as the backdrop for an episode.

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  • From Accession@46:1/100 to Nightfox on Sun Jun 26 10:08:34 2022
    Hello Nightfox,

    On Sat Jun 25 2022 10:52:52, you wrote to All:

    I'm wondering if this was just a coincidence? It seems really odd
    that the episode was aired just the day before the US Supreme Court decision was made.

    I guess the coincidence depends on when the episode was actually filmed? If filmed say 6 months ago, the closeness of the two occurrances may not have been planned. But if filmed last week it may have been based off of what's going on in real life. You see a lot of that with long lasting TV shows, like Law and Order, Criminal Minds, Gray's Anatomy, ER, etc. If they didn't have people keeping up with current events and creating episodes based off of real life situations, they would run out of content after a season or two.

    Regards,
    Nick

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