Mad Idolatry
- Episode aired Dec 7, 2017
- TV-14
- 44m
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The crew crash land on a planet from another universe; Ed and Kelly consider getting back together.The crew crash land on a planet from another universe; Ed and Kelly consider getting back together.The crew crash land on a planet from another universe; Ed and Kelly consider getting back together.
J. Lee
- Lt. Cmdr. John LaMarr
- (as J Lee)
Chloe Alexa Ibanez
- Woman
- (as Chloe Russell)
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Did you know
- TriviaHeavily influenced by Who Watches the Watchers (1989) (the religion angle) and Blink of an Eye (2000) (the time dichotomy).
- GoofsThe 14th-century-period peasant's cottage has bright steel door hinges.
Not necessarily an error. Different cultures progress at different rates, and different cultures on worlds that are an invention of a writer can progress in any way he/she sees fit. In this instance, at time code 23.33, when a woman is disciplining her son, weapons are seen next to them that are obviously steel (or something that looks like it). There is no reason to think that a blacksmith or former solider, perhaps, couldn't have made the hinges.
- Quotes
Isaac: I believe what we have encountered is a planet locked in a multi-phasic orbit.
[in the conference room with all the senior staff]
Capt. Ed Mercer: Okay, let's pretend I don't know what that is.
Lt. Gordon Malloy: Do you know what that is?
Capt. Ed Mercer: I do not.
Lt. Gordon Malloy: So, we could just say that.
Capt. Ed Mercer: Thanks, buddy.
[sarcastically]
- Crazy creditsAfter having been credited as Lt. John LaMarr up to this point in the season, J. Lee is credited as Lt. Cmdr., reflecting his promotion from the previous episode.
- ConnectionsReferences Brigadoon (1954)
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What a simplistic and idiotic way of seeing religion...
You know Macfarlane and his position about religion and faith. This episode was pretty much expected to come anyway since is the creator and a writer of the series.
Still you can expect that someone that is so critic about the role of religion on culture and society will be more informed about what he is criticizing.
The whole idea that one of the crew members will be become some sort of "God" in a society after 5 minutes of "intervene" or "interact" with someone of that society is totally idiotic. Maybe because the episode is short-timed, the way the series wants to present how religion can be "so bad" for human kind development is so simplistic that actually gives any fundamentalist a good tool to criticize liberals, showing the poor knowledge about how religion has been developing in the world in the last 3500 years.
This episode just does the opposite of what it wants to achieve and actually it serves for the purposes of those who wants to control the faith of people for their own obscure interests.
The last part of the episode is not better but worst, if you think Earth is cool as it was before the humans changed the shape of the Earth landscapes, you will not like what you'll see.
Once again because of their own arrogance liberals like MacFarlane are the worst enemies of science and knowledge, showing how poor is their comprehension of history.
Anyway this episode closed a poor season with a lot of pseudo-science stuff that actually would make any scientist to laugh.
I heard the second season is better, I hope so.
Do not forget to downlike this!! I know most watchers of this show are liberals and they are not so open to criticism and they pretend to be. They are fundamentalist but in the other side of the ideological spectrum.
Do not forget to downlike this!! I know most watchers of this show are liberals and they are not so open to criticism and they pretend to be. They are fundamentalist but in the other side of the ideological spectrum.
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- Park Plaza Hotel - 607 S. Park View Street, Los Angeles, California, USA(church hall where Valondis rules from)
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- Runtime44 minutes
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- 16:9 HD
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