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DannyJC13
DOOP Secretary
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Surely the future would be much, much different than what we see...
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Otis P Jivefunk
DOOP Secretary
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And normal NNY is a realistic portrayal of the future?...
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DannyJC13
DOOP Secretary
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I mean, wouldn't half the characters not exist? Or all of them? I mean, Fry, Bender, Leela and the Professor would, but the rest...
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transgender nerd under canada
DOOP Ubersecretary
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A lot of logic has been ignored for the sake of the plot in Futurama. Even going back to the first season. It's something common to many TV shows. They don't let real-world details get in the way of the story they want to tell, because real-world details are time-consuming and boring, and... well, just get in the way.
This is also the reason that we don't see adventurers in fantasy live action thingies going off to take a dump, or have an entire episode where the characters do nothing except sleep (with us simply watching them sleeping). It would be boring. It would get in the way of telling the story.
So Futurama takes the same liberties as any other TV show with regard to logic and such, only showing what they want to (and ignoring, glossing over, or farting in the face of what they don't want to concern themselves with).
It's the way that television works. Smart TV finds a way to explain these things, but most TV simply charges ahead. Futurama is, sadly, only smart some of the time. The rest of the time, it works the same way as the rest of what's on the telly.
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AllEggsIn1Basket
Professor
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I thought that the Queen looked (and moved) a lot like the crazed Queen of Hearts in the old Disney version of Alice in Wonderland. I enjoyed the time travel when it was for brief moments because it was fun seeing the characters in different costumes. Leela stealing Paul Revere's silverware seemed out of place, something I'd be much more inclined to think of Bender doing. Overall, though, I did like the episode, especially using our DVD player's zoom in feature to see who appeared initially as presidents of the USA and who appeared in the altered version that went through Chester Z Arthur.
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MuchAdo
Professor
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Wow, I thought I was the only one who hated this episode.
It's the only episode I've seen that made me want to change the channel after about five minutes.
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UrlMeister
Crustacean
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Although you pretty much know every little thing about every episode, it seems to be impossible to not watch the series over and over again.
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DannyJC13
DOOP Secretary
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So how are all the heads still alive if all the crystalline opal is gone?
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MeatablePie
Professor
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It's the episodes that debut a fresh new scientific plot which gets me interested. I would never know what's next. But, the jokes are meh. So I would grade it a 6/10
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Inquisitor Hein
Liquid Emperor
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I think it's just a "once needed explanation". After that, they went back to the rule "Underpants ? Profit"....erm..I mean "Head Jar Fluid ? Alive"
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Inquisitor Hein
Liquid Emperor
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I know, but I wanted to make some explanation without continuum-error. Isn't that, what a Futurama fan does?
Indeed. Yet, I feel that we SHOULDN'T. The writing staff openly admitted to consult fan sites regarding continuity questions. Yet, did they ever pay us for it? Nope. So, until they do, I feel they should for once work for their paycheck themselves
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DannyJC13
DOOP Secretary
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After they came back to British present-future, opal was still there. Maybe it's exisiting again after they went to the past and came back again.
Nope, they used Earth's only supply to go back to 1775, then the 'new' only other supply in the altered timeline to fix the past. Dr. Cahill only kept the Earth's supply. They might have stocked up on another planet.
Good idea.
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Eternium
Professor
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Even if the "British" accents are still really shitty
Whatever do you mean? I absolutely adored the accents! Especially Fry's one(but that didn't show up much) A so/so episode to me, It was fun to watch several times but the story off british america ain't very interesting...
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AllEggsIn1Basket
Professor
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Exactly. Just like Natalie Portman in "V for Vendetta."
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Inquisitor Hein
Liquid Emperor
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I thought the accents were intentionally bad. I'm probably wrong about this, but I had thought they were meant to be comedic. I feel like the voice actors could have achieved more authentic accents if that was the desired outcome.
Indeed. British America was heavy on stereotypes, therefore an equally exaggerated accent was in order. A more subtle one wouldn't have done the trick.
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Inquisitor Hein
Liquid Emperor
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« Reply #319 on: 05-18-2013 20:43 »
« Last Edit on: 05-18-2013 20:55 »
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To me, british accents and stereotypes were worst thing in episode. They were too obvious and exaggerated, felt like they were made just for the sake of making fun of it.
Well..."making fun of it" is certainly a credible motive for a cartoon series Though, those stereotypes are often a bit ambiguous, leaving room for interpretation WHO is in fact subjected to ridicule: - Is the joke on the Brits, by exaggerating certain aspects of British culture to the extreme? - Or is the joke on the Americans, accusing them of a stereotypical view on the Brits, and exaggerating it? Probably a bit of both, I guess.
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