{"id":61880,"date":"2019-01-25T11:59:20","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T16:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astrologyexplored.net\/?p=61880"},"modified":"2019-01-25T16:43:06","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T21:43:06","slug":"astrology-the-skeptics-theorville-misfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astrologyexplored.net\/?p=61880","title":{"rendered":"#Astrology &#038; The #Skeptics: #TheOrville Misfires."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Orville 2x05 Promo &quot;All The World Is Birthday Cake&quot; (HD)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L2xgYnkPO8g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>(Astrology Explored)<\/strong> Seth MacFarlane misfires across the bow of astrology in January 24, 2019 episode &#8220;All the World&#8217;s a Birthday Cake.&#8221; Ed Mercer and crew make first contact with a pre-spaceflight society who SETI like, zapped an invitation for any and all to visit. What should have been a party moment turned deadly serious when at a state dinner First Officer Kelly Grayson mentioned that next week was her birthday. You would have thought someone dropped one hundred cobras on the dinner table for the natives&#8217; reaction. Kelly and Bortus (who share the same birthday) are summarily arrested and put in a detention camp, while feckless Ed tries to figure out what caused the native&#8217;s reaction.<\/p>\n<p>Come to find out that Kelly and Bortus were born under the &#8220;Sign of the Geliac,&#8221; an astrological sign that is supposed to be dangerously violent. The society goes so far as to perform medically unnecessary c-section on mothers dangerously close to giving birth to a Geliac child, even if the procedure is dangerous to both mother and child.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>So finding out that Kelly and Bortus&#8217; arrest is based on &#8220;astrology&#8221; Ed begins his tautological rants against astrology. And that&#8217;s when I was out. The Orville isn&#8217;t the brightest star in the entertainment firmament, and I was put off at the inaccurate depiction of astrology.<\/p>\n<p>I promptly posted a tweet on my @starrynightastr account:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/astrologyexplored.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-25-at-11.32.10-AM.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-61885\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/astrologyexplored.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-25-at-11.32.10-AM.png?resize=592%2C139\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2019-01-25 at 11.32.10 AM\" width=\"592\" height=\"139\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-61885\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/astrologyexplored.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-25-at-11.32.10-AM.png?w=592&amp;ssl=1 592w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/astrologyexplored.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-25-at-11.32.10-AM.png?resize=300%2C70&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m the only astrologer who objected. Ed Wollman had this to say on The Orville&#8217;s Twitter page:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/astrologyexplored.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-25-at-10.56.42-AM.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-61879\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/astrologyexplored.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-25-at-10.56.42-AM.png?resize=608%2C306\" alt=\"Ed Wollman commenting on The Orville\" width=\"608\" height=\"306\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-61879\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/astrologyexplored.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-25-at-10.56.42-AM.png?w=608&amp;ssl=1 608w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/astrologyexplored.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-25-at-10.56.42-AM.png?resize=300%2C151&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/astrologyexplored.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-25-at-10.56.42-AM.png?resize=600%2C302&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The strawman arguments against astrology have been knocked back time and again, but they continue to percolate through the opinions of the uninformed, or worse, informed but closed minded. I don&#8217;t know which one Seth MacFarlane is, but clearly his shot across the bow misfired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Astrology Explored) Seth MacFarlane misfires across the bow of astrology in January 24, 2019 episode &#8220;All the World&#8217;s a Birthday Cake.&#8221; Ed Mercer and crew make first contact with a pre-spaceflight society who SETI like, zapped an invitation for any &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/astrologyexplored.net\/?p=61880\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[577,547,1],"tags":[64,1251,568,1252],"class_list":["post-61880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astrology-and-the-calendar","category-skeptics","category-uncategorized","tag-astrology","tag-seth-macfarlane","tag-skeptics-2","tag-the-orville"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcO2Aq-g64","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrologyexplored.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrologyexplored.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrologyexplored.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrologyexplored.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrologyexplored.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61880"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/astrologyexplored.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61895,"href":"https:\/\/astrologyexplored.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61880\/revisions\/61895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrologyexplored.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrologyexplored.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrologyexplored.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}