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i_c_weiner
DOOP Secretary
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The Fourth Doctor appears two weeks in a row? Cue the "Scruffy's in every episode" talk! But really, this episode was amazing from start to finish. I'll give it a more detailed review later, but right now, this was definitely at least Top 15 all-time quality, possibly higher. My only beef was that Leela was uber one-dimensional (ironic given the plot...). I'm confused as to why these episode threads are being created hours prior to the episode airing... and not by an admin...
Because I make them at 11pm UK time, so in my mind, Futurama would be airing around now. Plus, I get bored.
And yes, I understand time zones....
If you understand time zones, then you'd also understand that your argument makes no logical sense whatsoever.
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HezaDelSol
Crustacean
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Way better than I expected! I enjoyed seeing the past Planet Express ship and crew. The 4th dimension was awesome and I would love to see it used more. The entire premise of the episode worked well. Would have liked to see Amy's safari flashback though.
8/10
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DannyJC13
DOOP Secretary
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If you understand time zones, then you'd also understand that your argument makes no logical sense whatsoever.
Leave me alone...
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SolidSnake
Professor
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This episode was ALOT BETTER than i expected! I really have high hopes for the rest of the season! (except for Cold Warriors for some reason :-/) I cant Wait now! I think this was the best episode of the season so far! I have really high hopes!!! CANT WAIT FOR THE REST!!!! :DDDDD
9/10 (Aggressive Leela was a little ehhh but really funny)
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SpaceGoldfish fromWazn
Urban Legend
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« Reply #20 on: 08-05-2011 05:27 »
« Last Edit on: 08-05-2011 05:32 by SpaceGoldfishfromWazn »
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Good theory Spacefish, but Leela did pretty aggressively stab it several times, so...no.
I haven't seen it yet, but we have seen Leela has an extremely violent, sadistic streak, and her aggressive bloodlust can often overpower her maternal, feminine side, or when she is in danger (hence her crushing the Muck Leech when it was trying to eat her eyeball, inbetween bouts of crying). Also a big part of Leela's personality is that she's a hypocrite. She was initially shocked by the idea of eating dolphin, but was soon happily tucking in, along with suckling pig and veal. It just seems that Amy obviously has a lot more experience as a hunter. After all, Leela didn't really catch anything with her harpoon, besides boots. I think Amy coming along on missions usually makes sense (Hermes is a paperwork jockey, so I never get why he comes along) but Amy probably needs experience in the field, she is gifted in mantainance and repair, seems to have skill in hand to hand combat, and can actually pilot the ship successfully. Plus she is the most youthful character, so it makes sense she'd want to go out into space. She seems to spend more time sitting around and sexting up Kiff then she does helping the Professor anyway. I'm going to go download the vid to my pendrive, and hide from my mother and her cleaning regime for half an hour to enjoy it. Night y'all!
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JoshTheater
Space Pope
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Good theory Spacefish, but Leela did pretty aggressively stab it several times, so...no.
I haven't seen it yet, but we have seen Leela has an extremely violent, sadistic streak, and her aggressive bloodlust can often overpower her maternal, feminine side, or when she is in danger (hence her crushing the Muck Leech when it was trying to eat her eyeball, inbetween bouts of crying).
Indeed, but since you haven't seen it yet, you haven't seen that at the point where she gives the harpoon to Amy she's already quite caught up in her own bloodlust and motivation to get the whale that she easily could have done it herself. Still, I don't actually care, her handing it off to Amy was good for the Serengeti flashback gag.
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Smarty
Professor
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I really enjoyed this episode! Lots of laugh out loud humor, I didn't sense any forced jokes...the part about the fourth dimension was neat because I already know about those concepts. Just really enjoyable, top to bottom. 9/10
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meisterPOOP
Professor
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Except for the fact that I really know now about the 4th dimension.
I found this episode to be an intellectual and literary form of singing and dancing...
With more puns and cliches that there was time for.
5/10 (any less than that and I would have never seen it).
THE ABSOLUTE WORST FUTURAMA EPISODES ARE THE ONES YOU 'NEVER' SEE
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Fnord
Starship Captain
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I also spotted two references to 2001 which made me happy...
I only spotted one (when they were inside the Bermuda Tetrahedron): the two-wheeled spaceship. There was another ship which looked like the Discovery One, but which was smoother along the sides. Other spaceships inside the BT included ELO's spaceship (from their album covers, especially Out Of The Blue), a moon lander, Skylab, an Apollo capsule (Apollo 18?). Freeze-frame will undoubtedly turn up a lot more. Goof: When the Planet Earth ship is being launched, it's only identified by the logo, but when we encounter it later, there's a 1 by the logo. When Möbius Dick exhaled a plume, the shape is a self-similar fractal. The ending is very much like Close Encounters of The Third Kind. The name "Lando" was ripped off from Star Wars, of course. "You never said you had a first crew." Great line. The only real Möbius-strip-like moment was when the characters are tripping in the fourth dimension, saying something, and then the vocals are reversed. (Makes you wonder whether the writers put some other lines in there, and are having fun here ...) As a historical note: I flew from a math conference in Fort Lauderdale to Atlanta on March 13, 1998. Thus, technically, I flew through the Bermuda Triangle on Friday the 13th. Nothing happened, of course ...
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Inquisitor Hein
Liquid Emperor
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« Reply #37 on: 08-05-2011 10:49 »
« Last Edit on: 08-05-2011 11:33 »
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Howdy:) Just registered at this forum, and I would like to give my opinion. Sorry I have to be a bit a a spoilsport (as most folks seem to really like "Moebius Dick), but imhO, this was one of the weaker Futurama Episodes: The basic idea's background was good, but the realisation suffered some flaws: - Leela was really out of character in this one. The greatest animal lover of the crew goes on a revenge course against an animal? Might well be possible (concerning her temper sometimes), but imhO, it would have taken a "bigger score to settle" with the wale than just the ship being damaged (which didn't happen for the first time, after all). - "Moby Dick" is a classic. A bit more references than just "Captain has a score to settle with white wale" would have been nice. (Some reference to Queequeg und Elias, maybe. It you go for a classic, I would expect so in a bit more detailed way. At least when most of the story plays in the Moby Dick Setting). The solutions could have been: - If you want to have Leela in command: She should have been given a bigger, more meaningful reason for revenge. - Put Leela out of command and reduce her to pilot for this mission. Farnsworth could have been on board (as Hermes, Zoidberg and Amy were, they might well have placed the old man there as well;)). I would have considered a Farnsworth trying to avenge his fist crew more plausible than Leela trying to avange just some "ship damage" (Probably the owner would not outrank the captain on board of a ship. But in the Futurama Universe, he would probably as soon as it serves the story )
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transgender nerd under canada
DOOP Ubersecretary
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Goof: When the Planet Earth ship is being launched, it's only identified by the logo, but when we encounter it later, there's a 1 by the logo.
It's visible on launch. Leela was badly out of her normal character, but this seems to have been required by the ploty, so I can more-or-less forgive it. The PX building being surrounded by farmland fifty years ago, on the other hand, is unforgivable (unless it were locatyed somewhere else before NNY). It's a continuity futz, and needs explanation if it's to be regarded as canonical, IMO. The animation was beautifully done, but that's not enough to distract me from the flaws this episode has. I'm giving it 8/10 though. Overall, a good sci-fi idea, and a nice take on a classic novel as well. It's just that it could've been a little better. Not much, just a little, but the room for improvement is clear.
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