Svip
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I made a simple countdown page with instructions on which episode to watch today. It's very simple.
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Gorky
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Very neat, Svip--although it doesn't quite mesh with my countdown at present. Must be that pesky time-zone thing.
I watched "Space Pilot 3000" last night and was reminded of how great it is. It's one of my all-time favorites, I guess because it shows you that both the hilarity and the emotion were always there from the beginning. It's not the funniest episode (or the most emotional, for that matter), but it's a great introduction and it's so full of, like, promise and possibilities and stuff, and it just makes me happy to watch it. Like F_F1, I haven't seen an episode of this show in a few months, so watching through the series one episode at a time should be pretty interesting (you know, in a dorky way).
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Svip
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Very neat, Svip--although it doesn't quite mesh with my countdown at present. Must be that pesky time-zone thing.
Currently, it is purposefully local time. So it should 75 days left and "The Series Has Landed" if you live in Europe or North America.
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Gorky
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Ah, that's the ticket. Sorry to be a pest, Svip, but you can't really expect me to count down myself...
And MightyBoosh: Interesting question; I've never really thought of that. If I had to guess, though, they probably don't talk about the old crew because they were never that close to them; in "The Sting", the doomed crew (on the black box) says something to the effect of "we're not as good as the old crew." So I'm guessing, until the current crop of characters, Farnsworth couldn't keep a crew long enough for Hermes, Amy, and Zoidberg to get too attached. And anyway, the old crew's fate just seems comically tragic (mostly just comical) until it becomes a major plot-point in "The Sting." Their gruesome demise is really just a contrivance to set Fry, Leela, and Bender up with jobs at Planet Express anyway.
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Gorky
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It's still April 10th here, so I just got done watching "The Series has Landed", which is another one of my favorites. I love the Bender/Amy interaction (and it kind of stinks that that dynamic wasn't explored much in the rest of the series), particularly this:
Bender: Hey, look what I won from a tourist's pocket! Amy: Shut up. You're distracting me. Bender: Come on, it's just like making love. Y'know: Left, down, rotate 62 degrees, engage rotor. Amy: I know how to make love!
And that scene between Fry and Leela in the lunar lander makes the shipper in me mighty happy. It's just sweet and earnest, in a way that subsequent episodes really aren't. This episode has always given off a different vibe to me, and I can't quite explain it, but I like it.
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Gorky
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You're saying it's good that they both know how to make love, right? Continuity at its finest.
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Svip
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To boost my geek cred even further, I have added a new feature on the countdown page, where you can check when we are gonna get to a specific episode. It currently understands 'season number', 'episodenumber' and 'episodetitle', e.g. 'season 3', '5' and 'the problem with popplers'.
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Svip
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Microsoft does not release a modern version of Internet Explorer for my platform, so I don't care nor do I wish to go through the entire trouble of testing my site in Internet Explorer.
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This countdown seems like a pretty good idea I might do it
I really liked "The Series Has Landed" too
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Gorky
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Just watched "I, Roommate", which is an episode I always go into thinking I don't like, but am then always pleasantly surprised by. There's something a bit off about it--the pacing, maybe, or the sitcom-ish plot--but there are also some really funny moments. I like the housewarming scene ("That lady's got a huge ass") and Bender's blind-stinking sobriety ("I hate the people who love me and they hate me").
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Gorky
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"Love's Labours Lost in Space" reminds me why I love Zapp so dang much. He makes this episode for me.
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Gorky
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I actually think that a lot of the Vergon 6 stuff from "Bender's Game" kind of contradicts things seen in "Love's Labours Lost in Space" (and, to an extent, "The Why of Fry"). I can't think of specifics right now, but I guess my point is, I don't think it was a long-term plan so much as something they chose to work into BG because it made sense in terms of what we'd seen thus far in the series.
Oh, and I really like "Fear of a Bot Planet"--it's a funny episode--but I find myself thinking that those robots are pretty dang stupid not to realize that Fry and Leela are humans until they take their helmets off. I get that it's part of the joke, but it is a bit of a stretch.
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I just watched the first four. Zapp's still the funniest. Kif, show them the medal I won!
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Frisco17
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"What class is this?"
"Ancient Egyptian Algebra."
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Tedward
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"Misss-ter Fry, are those your underpants?"
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Gorky
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I'd love to comment on "A Fishful of Dollars", but I'm off to some charity BS for knocked-up teenage sluts.
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Svip
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I'd love to comment on "A Fishful of Dollars", but I'm off to some charity BS for knocked-up teenage sluts.
And you are none of the sluts? Heh...
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Gorky
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Oh, my sluttiness is a given--it's just that I always use protection.
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Gorky
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I've been living such a wild and crazy life this weekend that I am now a couple episodes behind; I'll have to catch "A Big Piece of Garbage", "Hell is Other Robots", and "A Flight to Remember" at some point today. I've never been a huge fan of the first two episodes (I love the Robot Hell song, though), but I feel like re-watching these episodes generally makes me appreciate them more. You know, reevaluate them or whatever. For example, I used to think "I, Rommate" was mighty boring, but when I watched it last week, I really loved it. Either my tastes are evolving or I simply get more out of the episodes now than I did as a 12-year old. Perhaps I'm more enlightened (but probably not).
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