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Seth MacFarlane's The Orville
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Oh funny. I just mentioned this in my comment as well. The lack of prosthetics in that scene were apparently scripted. It is supposed to represent Alara picturing herself as a human.
That's what I read somewhere. It makes absolutely no sense to me. Makes about as much sense as Ed having fantasy dreams where he's a Moclan, or a Gelatin.
Not at all a good comparison. Ed is happy and confident in who he is. Alara has always felt like an outsider because of her interest in a military career; you even saw how her parents almost treated her like someone with a disability who like, refused to get something fixed or something like that. And meanwhile the mostly human crew has welcomed her with open arms and treated her like a full equal even with inflated respect. Why wouldn’t she fantasize about how her life might be if she had been human.
I don't know. That's like suggesting black people have fantasy dreams where they're white. Maybe it happens? It just stretches my suspension of disbelief. Feels like a retcon to make up for a miss, like not being able to coordinate makeup and location schedules.
Well several people have stated it was in the script, so that’s planned ahead not retcon. It’s surprising to me as well, but I have no trouble believing the reasoning.
Even more confusing to viewers was that scene in the trailer has NO CG at all. It's a girl riding a horse on a beach. This is probably what fueled the belief that Human Alara was a mistake or due to some production constraint.
Here's the ComicCon trailer, it's at 2:19:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWBRMaKsGN4