Winn always made my skin crawl!

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      Burke was a horrible racist and bigot who went against the entire point of the academy. If I can see her as an awful bigot, in her futuristic society she must have been the equivalent of a klan member. She was a horrible person through her entire existence and we’re supposed to like her cause she redeemed herself in the last 10 seconds? Nah she sucks. Also she wasn’t really a proper character, just a racist Alara clone

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        In all fairness alot of it stemmed from the fact she watched her partner die after they were betrayed by a supposedly ally - trust from that wouldn’t come back quickly.

        Would have liked to see the series carry on a bit more though

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          I get that. But if she’s that compromised, she should never have been on active duty and serving alongside the race she was prejudice against.

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            Extention level threat, qualified officer, not injured who can serve. Predjiced against said event.

            100% would be allowed to stay.

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      Because she had untreated PTSD and hated the robots who killed her best friend/lover/whatever.

      And then she was rude to a robot belonging to the same group as the ones who killed her best friend/lover/etc.

      She’s pretty well written imo, of a traumatized character.

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          She should have, but plot. And also traumatized people irl have a habit of rejecting help

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        The question is whether the dislike of the character was because it was poorly written or poorly acted.

        In this case I feel like Charlie was a well-written character who had a good arc (despite a touch of Mary Sue-itis) but Anne Winters’ delivery was absolutely flat.

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          The Orville has literally some of the worst acting I’ve ever seen put onto film, and Seth’s girlfriends were rarely bringing up the average. Seriously, it’s like the half the cast was there specifically to make Travis Mayweather seem like an Emmy-winning tour-de-force.

          The fact that it was so damn earnest and had a some good slush-pile scripts from Star Trek saved it overall, but nobody was watching The Orville for the acting, though Penney Jerald, Peter Macon, and Adrianne Palicki handled the material well.