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So far I'm satisfied and I'm glad to see the show back. I'll admit that there are times when it feels a bit different and I feel sometimes like they're trying too hard to be risque but those are minor gripes. The show still has some heart and there have been plenty of moments that made my laugh out loud, something that most other shows can't do on a regular basis.
It'll take a while for these episodes to sink in so I'm just having fun watching them and I'm taking my time before coming to a conclusion. A lot of things have worked and a few things didn't but overall I'm happy with it so far.
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ghoulishmoose
Urban Legend
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I watched all 3 of the new eps today and omfg! They're awful! Just awful! I can't believe it. I just dont even know what to say... Major disappointment in pretty much all areas. I wasn't even too bothered about watching them straight away like I used to. More interested in True Blood But my bf got hold of them last night and we watched them today and I felt really sad. Just very unremarkable episodes. Not a happy bunny
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i_c_weiner
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You haven't been reading a lot of posts then.
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Gorky
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Maybe it's just me (probably is), but I find that I like each episode more when I view it a 2nd or 3rd time. Same thing happened when I first started watching the original series run.
Oh, absolutely. I mean, I could probably even tolerate Beast with a Billion Backs if I saw it over and over again.
"The Beast With a Billion Backs" was actually a lot more enjoyable to me the second time around. Because of how long we had to wait between movies, I think I put a lot of pressure on each new one to be positively brilliant; it had to lend itself to repeat viewings so that I had something fairly fresh (fresher than the original 72 episodes) to tide me over until the next movie came out. So TBWaBB initially disappointed me, because it seemed like such an illogical way to build off of "Bender's Big Score", and the characterization annoyed the piss out of me; I was too blinded by the fact that this was the only new Futurama I'd have for five months to appreciate it for what it was: a passable B-movie parody with some dodgy characterization but a lot of laugh-out-loud moments. Now I can enjoy it more in the context of the show as a whole: some of the pressure is taken off of it because it's not the newest offering from Futurama. I don't know if that makes any sense, but my point is that the whole "rewatch it and you'll like it" thing applies more for "The Beast with a Billion Backs" for me than for any other episode or movie.
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Zoo Station
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The preview for Proposition makes it look promising.
I'm glad to see a Bender-centric episode make an appearance. Now that we've had several episodes about Fry and Leela it's a nice change of pace to see a story focused on one of the other characters. The show has always been good about keeping that balance and I'm psyched for tomorrow night.
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SorynArkayn
Bending Unit
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I was initially disappointed by BWABB and BG, but after I watched them multiple times, I realized that the parts that I really enjoyed compensated for the few parts I hated. I loved the parts involving Bender and the League of Robots; however, the horror movie parts I didn't like, because they weren't scary or funny.
Similar, I really enjoyed most of "Bender's Game"; it's only when they go to the fantasy world of Cornwood that movie goes off the rails. Some of it was funny, but the over-the-top violence, crude "humour", and the hardcore D&D jokes I didn't appreciate.
Regardless, I consider "Bender's Big Score" and "Into the Wild Green Yonder" to be the best of the Futurama movies. I thought that BBG was the perfect movie for Futurama fans. I didn't care about the continuity issues because they were all part of the joke about paradox-free time travel, and most of them were resolved by the end anyway.
I've seen the episode-versions of the movies, and while they're watchable, the movie versions are inarguably the way they should be watched. Obviously the only reason why they were converted into episodes was to pave the way for Comedy Central to order the new season of Futurama, so I can't be too critical of the movie-episodes.
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Svip
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I have a blu ray of Bender's Big Score. The dvd is better, on the blu ray the colors like in the opening seen look washed out. I don't know why this is. I have a copy of Toy Story on blu ray and dvd and this isn't the case because the blu ray was better.
Wait. When was BBS released on Blu-Ray?
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Svip
Administrator
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Thought so. BBS and TBwaBB hasn't been released on Blu-Ray yet. Trust me, as an Infospheroid, I am keeping my taps on things.
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i_c_weiner
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I watched the HD version of App a day or two after it aired. I have to say that it looked stunning. It could be because I was watching it on a laptop screen rather than a stretched out television, but the picture quality was amazing.
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Svip
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« Reply #275 on: 07-08-2010 19:32 »
« Last Edit on: 07-08-2010 19:42 »
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Why are Groening's signature in both images? I thought they were just screencaps. Also, those screencaps aren't HD either. The best images of that character are only available in BG. Where an eyePhone is NOT obstructing his face. Oh and, weiner, we do also have a French version: http://fr.theinfosphere.org/Accueil
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i_c_weiner
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They are JPGs, so I wouldn't think they'd be in HD quality. They were screencapped from the HD versions though. I have no idea wht the signature are on them, they're on all screencaps for the new season. Perhaps some policy handed down from 20CF to CGEF? And "BG"?
Et merde, je ne pense pas que je peux bien écrire des articles, mais j'essaye probablement.
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Gorky
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That clip is hilarious. "We can't compete with that much stock footage of clouds!"
As far as how nice these episodes look in HD: I've been watching them on the ol' plasma screen TV, and they really are stunning.
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