I disagree. They (and we) spent over 20 episodes believing Isaac was an emissary to help the Kaylon decide if they wanted to join the Planetary Union, only to find he was basically a sleeper agent to help them decide if they needed to wipe them out as they tried to colonize the galaxy. Isaac was complicit in all this, and he complicit in several members of The Orville getting killed, so there's no way he can go back to being "Tactless yet lovable robot buddy" on the crew.
Even if he does defect from the Kaylon, there's no way Union Command lets him stay on The Orville, or that he can resume his relationship with Doctor Finn like nothing happen.
Only way I can see anything else happening is if they still have unaired episodes with Isaac on the bridge. This show has a history of doing reshoots due to episodes airing out of order, but I'd hope Fox would have enough foresight not to do that.
Good ep overall...but ended a little too cleanly regarding issac....curious to see future repercussions.
the earth battle was dope though
Exactly my reaction. I'm glad they didn't totally hit the reset button, but the whole episode came off a little too cleanly. In addition to the fact that Isaac gets his old job back, I'm not sure why the Kaylons didn't just start executing some "unnecessary" organic in punishment for shooting two Kaylons when the shuttle escaped. They SAW Bortus holding a gun, why didn't they make an example out of him? Why did they even bother let them bring the wounded officer to sick bay anyway?
It's like they had the plan to exterminate billions and billions of humans on Earth, and who knows how many other billions out in the Planetary Union, but they see one human or a small group of humans as no threat so they just ignore the obvious danger to their plans.
The show didn't do a great job of making them look like a real Borg-level threat.
One touch that I thought was kind of funny:
After Kaylon Prime made Isaac read "Roots", he almost immediately commanded him to change his name. In their mind, they were telling him to stop calling himsef "Toby".
at one this episodes cgi being greater than Cw’s Flash entire run.
