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NastyInThePasty
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Possibly. Notice how "Lars" excused himself after Fry showed up, almost as if he got scared off by the idea that he would have to continue his charade. I mean, he could have easilly shrugged off any guilt he felt at "stealing" Leela from himself if the "alternate" Fry had simply vanished into the past.
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Frisco17
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He knows that the Fry he's stealing Leela from will go back in time and become him. Plus I don't think Fry would mind if he knew he would be Lars in a few years. The fact that there's two after the original Fry comes back is one of the things (other than his impending death) that leads Lars to call off the wedding in my opinion.
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futurefreak
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Lars left that scene for the convenience of the writers, case closed. Trying to reevaluate certain aspects of the film fries my brain...
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futz
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Fry is not know for being a deep thinker, quite the opposite on a galactic scale actually. I don't think Lars gave going after Leela a second thought, all's fair in love and war. Lars exits when Fry enters scenes is probably more an indication of his maturity - avoiding conflicts - compaired to young Fry rolling up his sleeves early in the show. Lars, until the wedding, would have had no idea what would happen next so there would be no reason to hold back with Leela. He was probably just glad Nudar's bunch hadn't found him and started shooting again.
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Frisco17
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He knew because of the story Fry told after he defrosted and showed up in the park. He would have remembered his part of it and the original Fry filled in the rest.
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futz
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I think it's more like 14 years, 12 years in the 21st Century and I think he set the timer on Michelle's tube to open something like 2 years before Fry rethawed.
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RogerWilco81
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Speaking of Lars rethawing, I wonder if when the time loop catches up with Fry and Bender when thier working at the cryogenics lap if they notice that there's another Bender frozen in one of the tubes?
And the Back to the Future fan in me wants to see a part in the next movie dealing with the stolen items from history being returned to thier proper times, the fact that historical artifacts have been removed from the flow of time like that just doesn't sit well with me lol
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futz
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That's why things start going kaboom at the end of the movie.
Back to the Fry/Lars age thing. Assuming Fry is 25 in the year 3000:
Fry 2000/3000 (25 years old) to 3007 (32)
Lars 3007/2000 (32 years old) to 2012 (44) Freezes self for 990 years - I checked. Thawed 3002 (still 44) to 3007 (49 years old).
Lars is 49 Fry is 32. Not exactly sure on Fry's age in 2000/3000 but Lars is 17 years older than Fry from 3002 on.
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DJ Spider Man
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So it should take Fry about a dozen years to be mature enough for Leela? Man, that's a long wait! Hopefully he still sees Morgan on the side.
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NastyInThePasty
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Since the characters on Futurama seem to not age like the Simpsons cast (i.e. Bart logically should be about 28 now, yet he's eternally 10 years old), let's say Fry is 25 (the age he's generally referred to as in official bios) in 3007. He travels back to 2000 and leaves the "Alternate" Fry who will eventually become Lars. Alternte Fry stays in the past until 2012, so that would make him about 37 when Bender's attempted assassination turns him into Lars. Fry then freezes himself and thaws out (in the back of Michelle's cryotube) in 3002, then gets the job in the Head Museum and waits five years until he meets Leela for the "first" time in 2007. 37 + 5 = 42.
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Frisco17
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« Reply #23 on: 02-17-2008 18:21 »
« Last Edit on: 02-17-2008 18:21 »
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Originally posted by NastyInThePasty: Since the characters on Futurama seem to not age like the Simpsons cast (i.e. Bart logically should be about 28 now, yet he's eternally 10 years old), let's say Fry is 25 (the age he's generally referred to as in official bios) in 3007. He travels back to 2000 and leaves the "Alternate" Fry who will eventually become Lars. Alternte Fry stays in the past until 2012, so that would make him about 37 when Bender's attempted assassination turns him into Lars. Fry then freezes himself and thaws out (in the back of Michelle's cryotube) in 3002, then gets the job in the Head Museum and waits five years until he meets Leela for the "first" time in 2007. 37 + 5 = 42. I tend to agree. It seems like Futurama does in fact follow the Groening rule of aging. For example, Fry doesn't seem to age at all during the show but in two years worth of flash forwards in BBS he is noticalbly older. Amy seems to still be in college after seven years. The Professor would probably be dead if they aged normaly. Since people who are 160 are supposed to be taken to the "Near Death Star" to be held until they die, I'm not sure the Professor would have another seven years. In my opinion they only age when they need to, meaning Lars. The only other explianation I can think of is the Fountain of Aging. Leela: "I think I might be a few years younger." Though I think that is just a joke about women lying about their age.
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Frisco17
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Originally posted by Futurama Llama: True...
And i just got the "Near Death Star" gag. They go there because they are near death. (Facepalm)
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