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I believe still saying to Gordon they were going to take his version of 10 years ago was undeniably cruel. They could have just gone back in time again without even telling him.

This episode was so gut wrenching. There was no perfect solution and everybody was as equally justified as they were flawed. This episode is my absolute favorite of any show ever!

This episode was a complete gut punch. I've been a fan of The Orville from season one and one of my favorite episodes was the one where Gordon fell in love with Laura four hundred years after she was dead but, this episode took it to a new level, it's far and away one of the best time travel stories I've ever seen. When Gordon opened that door ant Talla was standing there with that look on her face you knew he was going to lose his family one way or another. It was heartbreaking and this should win multiple Emmy awards.

*Gordon Malloy, Pilot and Flight Engineer, Dies at 96* Mr. Malloy died peacefully at his home in Pasadena, California on July 12th, 2068. He was an exceptionally skilled pilot and maintenance mechanic for a local charter airline. He moved to Pasadena from rural Connecticut in 2018 and married his beloved wife, Laura Huggins, a singer and teacher, the following year. Little is known of Mr. Malloy's life before he moved to Pasadena. According to acquaintances, he earned his private pilot's license in his late teens, and was largely self-taught as an aircraft mechanic. Colleagues described him as one of the most intuitive and insightful aerospace specialists they had ever known, with a knowledge of engines, aerodynamics, and electronic flight systems surpassing that of many graduates of top-tier universities. In a career spanning more than three decades, Malloy logged some 25,000 flight hours in a variety of commercial and experimental aircraft. He was certified to fly contra-rotating twin propeller planes, single, twin, and triple-engine jets, and, late in his career, hypersonic trans-atmospheric vehicles powered by liquid, hybrid solid, and metallic hydrogen fueled rocket motors. His favorite flying machine was a single-seat, jet-powered stunt plane he designed and built himself. Although he clearly had the skills and the experience, he never sought to break records or impress his friends and family with extraordinary maneuvers, preferring to maintain a low profile and spend his off hours tinkering with some of his classic German sports car and home-built plane. He received numerous offers to fly privately for wealthy business executives and famous celebrities for much more money than he earned on lo[???] flights but as far as anyone knows he never deprived himself of these opportunities. After work, Mr. Malloy spent most of his free time with his wife and son. He was a devoted father and husband to his family hiking and camping in the Sierra mountains, and in the first weeks of summer, on [???] drives to the coast of New England. His wife Laura described him as a homebo[???] prankster. Even in the most trying times, he could always make her laugh. He enjoyed watching movies and classic sitcoms, and attending professional music performances at local clubs [???]houses. Malloy retired from the aviation business but continued to consult on various transportation engineering projects, focusing in his final years [???]to-electric propulsion systems for hovercraft for aircraft mechanics and flying was only [???] love for his family. He is survived by his wife, his son Edward, and two granddaughters. Funeral [services were] private. In lieu of flowers, the family requested donations in Mr. Malloy's name be made to the [???] Sanctuary.

This episode took the time travel trope and spun it on its head! The genuine heartache of knowing that they were erasing his family from existence was hard! Superb writing and acting this season! The Orville has definitely grown! I was extremely skeptical of investing into this show since it was on Fox (notorious for canceling shows ie: Terminator SCC) since moving to HULU, I'm ALL IN!!!

With writing like this…THERE’S GOTTA BE A SEASON 4 and 5! I don’t care about a TED series or even another season of family guy. This series is better than Star Trek, especially compared to the current new series. Except the cartoon Lower Decks (I love that show too!) Seth has to keep Orville going!

Here's my prediction: Later on in the Season we're going to see something happen similar to in Season 2 where the timeline changes because Gordon didn't stay in the 21st century. The crew will discover that 2025 Gordon was right in that him having 2 kids in the past lead to his family line creating the Planetary Union, so they find a way to send him back in time again to return to Laura. And at the end of this episode, the sandwich that Gordon sent forward 3 months will arrive in front of the rest of the crew and they'll have a good laugh about it.

Can Gordon get a single win? Just once.

This and the two topas episode were the best of the season and in the tops for the series. More Please: Ethical/moral quandaries in a sf setting among characters we care about.

The idea gordan does not remember is a crime. Perfect villain arc.

Gut punch of an episode. I was so happy to see Laura again and even happier for Gordon that he found her and had a family. Their chemistry was really strong I always loved that relationship.

Seth and cast have made an emotionally charged sci fi comedy drama that resonates on every level. It just feels right..

I was so devastated for Gordon he really deserves love and his happy settled life was taken away 😭😭😭

I would have loved it if that alternate fractured timeline also existed and the paradoxical children of Gordon Malloy made it their mission to take revenge on the Union for taking away their father.

This is a powerful episode, I recommend it to all.

This is the pinnacle of Star Trek stories. This is an excellent episode. The only dramatic extra was telling Gordon they would just go back to 10 years ago.

Season 4 please, and give Gordon a happy story. Please!

I hated how they took Gordon away from his family, that wasn't justifiable

This series deserves so much Attention. One of the most UNDERRATED Series.

This show is the best show I've ever watched

If you look at 0:25 you can see multiple versions of Gordon like Time Remnants.

Twice in a lifetime episode reminds me of Star Trek's City on the edge of forever there are lots of elements that are similar Kirk is looking for McCoy who's run off and Seth MacFarlane's character is also looking for someone who's run off but there's other similarities as well

I love this episode, a great thing with the Orville is that they are revisiting characters that we knew from previous seasons, thank you, keep the good job

This episode was soooooo good. I was crying just about everytime Gordon and his family were on scene. But when Talla showed up at his doorstep, the dam broke. *Spoilers* However. While that scene was extremely emotional, I think Ed could have had the best of both worlds by just letting 2025 Gordon be and just going to the past and grabbing him. I think forcing Gordon to come in the 2025 timeline would have been very messy and possibly could have caused more damage than what was already being caused. And honestly, his 2025 self seemed to be the Gordon that the computer file pulled up. And I get that Lamar and Isaac said that everything wax in flux. So I wonder if permanent affects weren't yet affecting everyone due to proximity of the Aranov device (similiar to how the Enterprise was able to not be affected by changes to the timeline in First Contact) and that in time, people would forget that Gordon served as a pilot on that ship. Saying that though, one has to wonder as to the kind of future that pops up when a ripped apart family now has a vendetta on that future. As Lamar said, temporal mechanics are muddy. And we can ask these questions all day long and spin round n round. Thank you Orville for these fantastic episdoes.

One of the best eps of the show. Can't wait to see more!

This was a really great story with a cool twist from your generic time travel sort of thing, very very much enjoyed this.

After this episode, I don't like Captain Mercer very much. That was horrible to just tell Gordon he was going to go back in time and erase his family

I loved this episode. So emotional. Best episode of the Orville so far.

This show is absolutly amazing. This episode and last especially. After his animated stuff I’m happy

The ONLY reason I got HULU was for the Orville

Man that episode really hit me they had to erase his family his timeline he made Seth said so clear he took two life that day

This episode brought me to tears!!! Love The Orville

The Aranov device visually split Gordon into many Gordons. Apparently, he had a lot on his mind. I think each Gordon created a new universe and that we'll see more of exactly what happened in a future episode. IMO, the Gordon in 2025 still exists, only he's in a different universe. I predict travels through the multiverse should _The Orville_ be renewed.

I think they missed a real opportunity with Gordon's time travel episode, they did the same thing most sci-fi especially series do by erasing the events of the time traveling( they learn their lesson and get sent back/they fix the machine/it was a simulation/they recreate the accident etc). They could have brought his family back with them, sure he would have been 10 years older than he was "yesterday" by the Orville's time perspective but he was perfectly happy and rightly so to trade that time for his family especially as it wasn't really a trade as he lived those years with them and wouldn't simply be losing time. There was really nothing saying Laura being in her original time was vital to the Orville's present, the vast majority of people have pretty well zero impact on history save for when they have children as those have their own and so on until someone "important" is born, one average person that never invents/discovers anything or never saves the life of someone that then does begets a bloodline or never has kids of their own will have zero impact on things 400 years later. By having his family come forward in time with him they would have had a genuinely unique take on the fairly standard at this point "time travel episode", they'd have been able to explore storyline of Laura adjusting to the jump in technology and culture, their kids would have rounded out the child character group opening up storylines between the kids themselves and the adult characters having to interact with each other as parents, given Gordon and Isaac's friendship we'd likely have seen some "couples' double date night" episodes and a "Clueless man and equally clueless but for a different reason android try to figure out what they did wrong" or two. And by bringing them forward that would solve the "this reality was never supposed to exist" as there would no longer be "extra" people in the past to effect the future so events after they left would playout the same as they originally did. The only reason Gordon was ok with it at the end of the episode was because it wasn't real to him, to him it was nothing more than a story being told to him that happened to "someone else", he still believed Laura married Greg after donating her phone because he doesn't remember learning they got back together only to eventually breakup again for good like 6 months later nor did Ed and Kelly ever know that as they never gave Gordon the chance to tell them and instead accused him of changing the past to/by stealing her away from Greg. Their entire reasoning for having to "fix" the timeline was based on the idea that Laura was "supposed" to marry Greg, but the only evidence they had of this was text messages complaining about guys dated after the breakup and saying at least his flaws were a known factor to settle for, only castaway Gordon knew that never actually happened in the first place. Frankly I don't get how Ed being the person he is could live with himself after violating his bestfriend in such a horrific way, he not only effectively killed his family he robbed him of even knowing he should be angry about it.

I can't believe how good season 3 was...

Genius show

The best show ever!!! It's smart sci-fi and Seth MacFarlane is awesome.

They were really unredemably evil for telling Gordon they were going to erase his family. Just lie and say they accept his decision, and go back earlier anyway.

They erased his family because of a law, but it was okay to go back in time to stop the robotic invasion….

This episode is similar to city on the edge of forever from Star Trek in the 60s

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How do you introduce a future sandwich that never shows up? Was it a plot device showing his casual attitude toward the timeline?

Bring it back

Gordon Malloy is a funny guy. 😁

I remember this episode. It made me so sad for him. But it also needed to be done. Gah.

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i never watch this show but the guy on it gosh i miss watching ER

Really hurt for Gordon in this one.

I love this show, but I do have a nitpick, we know that this is fantasy, but there are still rules to maintain the suspension of disbelief, so basically they established a rule and break them themselves, the sandwich example set the rules that they should send the sandwich back or there would be a temporal paradox. Then they created one by rescuing Gordon before he send the distress call telling him the time he was stuck in. But the show said that they didn't create one by saying that Gordon's son and baby would never be born.

wow

My favorite episode. But a question? On a Timmy wimmy thing. If Gordon would have went back with them. Then as his older self. His relationship with his wife and son and unborn child would have been part of history. It happened. They would still exist. Just his history from then on would have changed(his Obituary for example).

I'm interested in how they know it was a future that was never supposed to happen. Because it happened by mistake? People get pregnant and people die by mistake. A mistake doesn't inherently mean that the result was not supposed to exist.

Letting Gordon stay in the past would've changed nothing, fact is the majority of us are absolutely insignificant and not only have zero impact on history but will be entirely forgotten within a hundred years of our deaths.

this in a way was a hard episode to watch knowing there was a reality where gordon had a wife and two kids and got completely erased

Time travel does exist

Ed and Kelly were just terrible in this episode 😞

Real question. Did Gordon ever enjoy that sandwich he sent 3 months into the future?

2 things that for me abit miss on this episode. first, why Ed won't just simply say goodbye to Gordon and pick him up on 2015 instead of saying it out loud. second, Ed and Kelly sad thinking about Gordon family but what about Laura "real" family, they forgetting Gordon shouldn't be there in the first place

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That was one of my favorite episodes this season it was sad to see Gordin having to lose his family but that time line wasn't meant to be.

IT WAS SO HARD TO WATCH THIS WHAT WAS WAS GOING ON WITH GORDON 😫😭

Literally hated Ed and Kelly so much in this one..

This would have been a good episode if not for the Charlize Theron episode.. They have already established the Orville shouldn't exist and anything it does has already made massive hits on time.

they should've left GORDON in the past

If there using the time travel rule that all choices create a universe, then them going to get Gordon doesn’t change anything his new universe/time line still exist. Like Trunks from Dragon BallZ his timeline doesn’t erase just because they did something in the past. The past and future are just another universe

Hmm. Time travel. It's a tempting prospect. There are so many untidy strings to pull. That pulling one of these apart. Can lead to huge ramifications of staggering possibilities. I have quite a few of them, myself! Would I want to do so by this? Temporal laws were established in Star Trek Discovery and in previous series of Star Trek, that postulated that to do so! Would have huge ramifications of staggering complexity and could upset many applecarts. If I was offered the chance of going back into the last 20 years of my life, for instance. What would - or could - have happened! The only thing that I could be certain of. Is that it would be different. But what about the consequences of this choice? It cannot be calculated.

How is that playing Gordon's wife?

If anyone has seen the waters of mars from doctor who then you will know what i say How victorious of them

People need to stop pissing on Isaac, Charly is just pissing me off, he didn’t destroy her ship, the rest of his kind new where Earth was, it ain’t on him, it’s on primary

Why didnt they explore the fact that Maloy got split into multiple versions of himself? You clearly see that when he is flown back in time! This could of had a happy ending.

He should have killed all three and stayed in 2025 with Leighten.

Another sci-fi show that will probably fall to the waste side and most likely won't return. It's such a shame.

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