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hobbitboy
Sir Rank-a-Lot
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« #89 : 04-29-2009 15:38 »
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Parasites Lost: X //
Insane in the Mainframe: X
Roswell That Ends Well: X ////
The Sting: ///// ////
So that 'break' that was to occur after an episode had been voted off wasn't even a half-hour break? Oh, well then... Parasites Lost: X // Insane in the Mainframe: X /Roswell That Ends Well: X //// The Sting: ///// //// |
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Frida Waterfall
Professor
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« #104 : 04-30-2009 01:02 »
« : 04-30-2009 01:07 »
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I'm no longer in a rush to kill off any episode now. They're all pretty good (though I'm surprised that "Insane in the Mainframe" made it this far). Heck, even "The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings" is deserving to be in the top fifteen.
I'm surprised by your surprise when it comes to "Insane in the Mainframe". That episode is easily in my top ten; it demonstrates everything that's great about Futurama. You have a compelling story that is both hilarious and kind of dark (Fry's whole "I'm not a robot!" mental breakdown thing is kind of intense, by sci-fi cartoon standards); and there's some nice, organic ship that doesn't consume the episode; and there are homicidal robots. That's really all I require, as a highly sophisticated viewer.
[/end random pseudo-review]
By my own standards, I'm not really surprised since that was a superb episode. I was acknowledging the fact that it gets little attention. It's certainally not a homerunner episode like "Jurassic BarK", "The Why of Fry", or "Parasites Lost", but it was still really good. It just seems that episodes like "Love and Rocket" and "Insane in the Mainframe" get lost among those headliners. Despite that they may be better than those great episode, they just don't leave the same impression and therefore are left unnoticed. P.S.: For the record, "Insane in the Mainframe" is better than "Love and Rocket". Sheerly based on the funny factor. |
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speedracer
Bending Unit
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« #108 : 04-30-2009 08:31 »
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I'm no longer in a rush to kill off any episode now. They're all pretty good (though I'm surprised that "Insane in the Mainframe" made it this far). Heck, even "The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings" is deserving to be in the top fifteen.
I'm surprised by your surprise when it comes to "Insane in the Mainframe". That episode is easily in my top ten; it demonstrates everything that's great about Futurama. You have a compelling story that is both hilarious and kind of dark (Fry's whole "I'm not a robot!" mental breakdown thing is kind of intense, by sci-fi cartoon standards); and there's some nice, organic ship that doesn't consume the episode; and there are homicidal robots. That's really all I require, as a highly sophisticated viewer.
[/end random pseudo-review]
By my own standards, I'm not really surprised since that was a superb episode. I was acknowledging the fact that it gets little attention. It's certainally not a homerunner episode like "Jurassic BarK", "The Why of Fry", or "Parasites Lost", but it was still really good. It just seems that episodes like "Love and Rocket" and "Insane in the Mainframe" get lost among those headliners. Despite that they may be better than those great episode, they just don't leave the same impression and therefore are left unnoticed.
P.S.: For the record, "Insane in the Mainframe" is better than "Love and Rocket". Sheerly based on the funny factor.
I can't really rate Love and Rocket with the other eps you listed above. Most of the first 15 minutes or so (esp. Fry's quest for the perfect candy heart) made me cringe. The epilogue is brilliant though, what with the string music, quasar, and Zoidberg's narration. By the way, did Fry know that he'd start to suffer irreversible brain damage if he'd gone without O2 for more than a minute or so? Would it have mattered if he did? |
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