The YouTube algorithm pushed me into the show last year. Watched it all in about a month. I even read picrel, a screenplay Seth wrote for the show but chose to publish as a book. Shit was crazy good, literally could have been an ep of TNG.
>life story of a German boy growing up in the shadow of WWI and its devastating effect on the Fatherland
>Aryan war orphan raised by kind (((shop keeper))) adopted parents
>50% of the story is just this boy growing up and noticing
>joins the brown shirts early, works his way up through the party, by early war time he’s running a death camp
>entire story up to this point is reasonable, non schizo, rationalization of his actions and beliefs which makes him very sympathetic to the reader
>Orville crew arrives at the camp disguised as Red Cross reps
>bring him to ship, reveal their identities
>turns out the guy was a baby when his scientist parents had to abandon a dying moon or something and put him in the simulator room in a bunker
>simulation was “1920s Berlin Cafe” or something that ran autonomously his whole life
I honestly forget the ending but that’s pretty good sci-fi if you ask me, The Orville stuff only made up about 5% of the whole book, if it was original characters of the cast of Star Trek it’d be kino.