Thoughts on 6ACV06 - Lethal Inspection - SPOILERS

[Reply #160 on:]

Already mentioned, seattlejohn01. Though I don't think anyone can argue with 1, your second complain has a simple explanation. The assembly line showed when he was finalized. Hermes checking him as a baby was mid-way through, he was later on changed into an adult.

[Reply #161 on:]

Ok, that could work.  Not really complaints, just minor contradictions, kinda like Bender being 30% iron, platinum, zinc & chromium.  Minor fun stuff like that.  Loved that episode...

[Reply #162 on:]

Actually, seattlejohn01, it was a Floppy Disk. Sorry, but...
C:/OSrun Nerdy_Powers.exe!!!!!!

[Reply #163 on:]

After watching this episode a few time, I find that it really contradicts "Rebirth" and many other moments. While this episode was nice, I wouldn't take the conclusion that "if Bender dies, he dies" seriously. There are way too many ways for him to return. The Planet Express crew just must have not noticed any of those ways, ranging from taking past records of the individual Bender and merging them into a sentient being through a blank body or by using that rebirthing fluid mixture on his remains.

Besides the major contradiction to the episode that aired less than a month beforehand, it was still an excellent episode (once you finally get yourself to drop all possibilities).

Oh yeah, I don't want to look like a total idiot. The first time I watched it I never expected for Hermes to be Inspector #5. There's two things I must mention about that to clear my reputation. One, I barely had any time to even process the obvious possibility. You see, with the Comcast package, the program you watch is recorded. Apart from a few interruptions and a few freeze-frames early on for the "Sith-al War" reenactment, when I usually went to watch it live, the commercial breaks were already passed (ya, I know, lame excuse, huh?). Two, when they got to Hermes's former home, I actually thought that the lizard was going to be Inspector #5. I'm serious- I thought that when the lizard crawled into Bender's eye and out him, Bender was going to recognize that the lizard did something during that short time it was inside. Bizarre, almost anti-climatic ending, I know, but I had high hopes for that lizard...

[Reply #164 on:]

- He's Mexican, I'm Mexican. Let me handle this.
- Sus papelos, por favor?
- ....Siiiiii.
*guitar crashes over head*
- OUCHO!!!!!!

^ Made me laugh the very hardest

That's what he gets for messing with El Kabong.

[Reply #165 on:]

That makes sense Frida.  Anyways I cried from this episode.  Also I exploded in my pants.

[Reply #166 on:]

Waterfall, I have to disagree with you about the contradictions.

1) The rebirth machine returned Bender as he was right before the crash, with all the memories, dents and whatever that he had before returning. If he was to gain a defect (their version of illness if so will) and die, he would be returned with that illness, only to die again. Just like throwing Leela into the rebirth machine again wouldn't get her out of her coma, she'd only return exactly the same as before being thrown in.

2) Yes, his personality is saved in cameras (and can probably easily be saved as a backup), but that wouldn't help much if he didn't have his body - the different bending units are not exactly the same and supposedly you couldn't just take, say, Flexo and put in Bender's in-your-face interface instead of his. They aren't compatible.

[Reply #167 on:]

After watching this episode a few time, I find that it really contradicts "Rebirth" and many other moments. While this episode was nice, I wouldn't take the conclusion that "if Bender dies, he dies" seriously. There are way too many ways for him to return. The Planet Express crew just must have not noticed any of those ways, ranging from taking past records of the individual Bender and merging them into a sentient being through a blank body or by using that rebirthing fluid mixture on his remains.

Besides the major contradiction to the episode that aired less than a month beforehand, it was still an excellent episode (once you finally get yourself to drop all possibilities).

I'm with Aki here: "Rebirth" basically took the concept of death and laughed right in its big ugly face. In that episode, every character was as good as immortal anyway. "Lethal Inspection", meanwhile, was about Bender coming to terms with the fact that, contrary to what he thought in "Rebirth", there are some things that can kill him.

I know that's a stretch, but if you look at it that way, "Lethal Inspection" is kind of a logical follow-up to "Rebirth."

[Reply #168 on:]

 

[Reply #169 on:]

Good ep, not outstanding but yeah, enjoyed it...

[Reply #170 on:]

Also I exploded in my pants.

Ewwwww!

You really need to get more women in your life, Winna.

[Reply #171 on:]

After watching this episode a few time, I find that it really contradicts "Rebirth" and many other moments. While this episode was nice, I wouldn't take the conclusion that "if Bender dies, he dies" seriously. There are way too many ways for him to return. The Planet Express crew just must have not noticed any of those ways, ranging from taking past records of the individual Bender and merging them into a sentient being through a blank body or by using that rebirthing fluid mixture on his remains.

Besides the major contradiction to the episode that aired less than a month beforehand, it was still an excellent episode (once you finally get yourself to drop all possibilities).

Oh yeah, I don't want to look like a total idiot. The first time I watched it I never expected for Hermes to be Inspector #5. There's two things I must mention about that to clear my reputation. One, I barely had any time to even process the obvious possibility. You see, with the Comcast package, the program you watch is recorded. Apart from a few interruptions and a few freeze-frames early on for the "Sith-al War" reenactment, when I usually went to watch it live, the commercial breaks were already passed (ya, I know, lame excuse, huh?). Two, when they got to Hermes's former home, I actually thought that the lizard was going to be Inspector #5. I'm serious- I thought that when the lizard crawled into Bender's eye and out him, Bender was going to recognize that the lizard did something during that short time it was inside. Bizarre, almost anti-climatic ending, I know, but I had high hopes for that lizard...

It's pretty easy to weasel out of the rather far-reaching implications of "Rebirth" if you just say that the rebirthing project isn't repeatable or somesuch.

[Reply #172 on:]

Also I exploded in my pants.

Ewwwww!

You really need to get more women in your life, Winna.

Don't encourage him.  Besides, he forgot to mention that he shoved a grenade down his pants.

[Reply #173 on:]

Aah, the "grenade down your pants" trick. Too many people have tried to make this true.

[Reply #174 on:]

Here's a thought about "Lethal Inspection" that no one seems to have posted ... If robots really are "immortal", then what's the point of the Robot Mafia?

And here's my review of "That Darn Katz!": Stupid title.

[Reply #175 on:]

Also I exploded in my pants.

Ewwwww!

You really need to get more women in your life, Winna.

What? So they can take advantage of me and claw my heart to little shreds?

[Reply #176 on:]

Here's a thought about "Lethal Inspection" that no one seems to have posted ... If robots really are "immortal", then what's the point of the Robot Mafia?

Thr Robot Mafia does Mafia stuff more efficiently, everyone knows that. Also, if you recall A Tale of Two Santas, they also do mafia stuff to humans.

And here's my review of "That Darn Katz!": Stupid title.

No, you shut up!

[Reply #177 on:]

And here's my review of "That Darn Katz!": Stupid title.

No, you shut up!

I think you just failed the Turing Test there, Jezzem ...

[Reply #178 on:]

Awwww. Dat was sho shweet at the end. Pretty average as eps go but still nice.

[Reply #179 on:]

I'm just waiting for the inevitable "The New Futuramas are the Holocaust and David X Cohen is Hitler" argument.

Has it happened yet or did I miss it?

[Reply #180 on:]

Actually, I think we already covered Godwin's Rule in another thread.

[Reply #181 on:]

It seems as though the people calling themselves Futurama fans that use this website are but a stone's throw away from invoking the rule.

[Reply #182 on:]

Alright, after two pretty average episodes I really liked this one.  The beginning was unfortunately slow, and I'm huge fan of good puns so that Darth stuff, "Sith-ll," and "What the Hoth" were cringe inducing in all the wrong ways.  After that though, it really picked up.  The second two acts were great, and I enjoyed the dynamic of the Bender/Hermes interaction.  The ending was spoiled for me while I was at comic-con, so I can't attest to how good the twist was, but it was sweet nonetheless.

"And he's not turning back to look at that cool explosion... he's a hero!"
8/10

[Reply #183 on:]

It seems as though the people calling themselves Futurama fans that use this website are but a stone's throw away from invoking the rule.

Some, but not most.  I've liked the new episodes, and really enjoy the writing.  It sometimes took me 2-3 viewings of the classic episodes to really like them, and that's happening here as well; the more I view them, the better I like them.

[Reply #184 on:]

It seems as though the people calling themselves Futurama fans that use this website are but a stone's throw away from invoking the rule.

Some, but not most.  I've liked the new episodes, and really enjoy the writing.  It sometimes took me 2-3 viewings of the classic episodes to really like them, and that's happening here as well; the more I view them, the better I like them.

same thing for me except for AOTKA, strangely the more i watch it, the less i like it...

[Reply #185 on:]

I just gotta say thank god they got away from all the stupid pop-culture stuff.  This was classic Futurama for me!  Looooooooooove it!

[Reply #186 on:]

It seems as though the people calling themselves Futurama fans that use this website are but a stone's throw away from invoking the rule.

Almost there, Fem. It's already been compared to Family Guy.

[Reply #187 on:]

And here's my review of "That Darn Katz!": Stupid title.

No, you shut up!

I think you just failed the Turing Test there, Jezzem ...

And here I thought I was just making reference to an episode of Futurama...

[Reply #188 on:]

It seems as though the people calling themselves Futurama fans that use this website are but a stone's throw away from invoking the rule.

Almost there, Fem. It's already been compared to Family Guy.

AOTKA was a pretty Family Guy-esque episode. Lethal Inspection, on the other hand is about as far removed from Family Guy as it's possible to get.

[Reply #189 on:]

AOTKA wasn't really like Family Guy at all. I would've said that some of the stuff in the episode had more of a South Park-ey vibe to it...

Not that I didn't actually enjoy the episode...

[Reply #190 on:]

"Like Family Guy" to me is a synonym for "going with a forced joke and taking it twenty times to make sure everyone got it before moving on". Ofcourse that can happen on any show and yes, Futurama has done it. But I wouldn't say AotKA i much Family Guy-y.

[Reply #191 on:]

Only part I didn´t like was the Sithal war opening. I like Star Wars (altough I am not SW nerd) and I know continung joke that sci-fi is Futuram´s world history but that should be reserved for sight jokes not implications there really is/was real Sith empire somewhere.

This episode surprised me, as I thought that main theme will be Bender´s mortality itself, not inspector´s identity and it´s strange how we discovered that Bender is different from the other robots in a way we never knew that even exists, but I still liked pairing of Bender and Hermes .It was one point below Bender and Amy, though.

8/10 

[Reply #192 on:]

I just took it as go that most robots have that same back-up unit, not that Bender was anything special.

[Reply #193 on:]

Me too, I think what they meant was that all robots (or all by Mom's) are created with a backup unit.

[Reply #194 on:]

Surprisingly good for the new season. 7/10.

[Reply #195 on:]

The funny thing is, Hitler was in the new episode. FARNSWORTH IS A FREEDOM FIGHTER!

[Reply #196 on:]

Me too, I think what they meant was that all robots (or all by Mom's) are created with a backup unit.

And we never heard about it.

[Reply #197 on:]

Great episode, gave it a 9, would have been 10 without the Sithil War stuff taking a little too long to get across the "bender fears death" point.

I loved the conversation about coping with mortality, it lampooned one of the things I really don't understand about humanity, the fact that our desire not to die, combined with our modern secular society hasn't completely driven us all insane with fear, or driven us to dedicate our life efforts to the pursuit of immortality... instead we fill our lives with enough trivia and distractions to avoid thinking about the subject, and reserve our most irrational emotional reactions for dealing with the concept of oblivion.
Most people I ask either have Fry's reaction or a similarly pathetic "I'll be dead so I won't know I'm dead!", "It's living now that's important!" statement that neatly sidesteps the horror.

Was a very bold subject to put in a cartoon, and not one that gets mentioned much on TV either*, I love how Futurama briefly touches on stuff like that and gets the point across with a few lines of humour.

*most recent other example I can think of are the hints on Stargate Universe that Rush is motivated by finding a scientific solution to end human mortality.

[Reply #198 on:]

i was prepared not to like this episode.... i'm not a big Star Wars fan so i didn't get the opening, it took me a while to even realise the joke was starwares related.
I loved How Hermes Requisitioned his groove back, so was quite opptimistic after we saw the Central Bureaucracy, but again was disappointed with the office cube bit (Gee, I always thought giant cubes were pretty exciting up until now indeed!)
But after that, i think it started to pick up its pace and the ending more than redeemed itself! It was so obvious but i didn't seem Hermes as #5 coming.... and the end with baby bender was ridiculous, but adorable! And for that sceen alone, my rating goes from 6 to 8!

[Reply #199 on:]

I could see the "twist" ending coming from a mile away.