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« on: 07-29-2010 19:23 »
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Another week, another episode: The Late Philip J. Fry airs tonight at 10pm/9c on Comedy Central. This thread is for reviews and general discussion of the episode. If you can express your feelings in a number between 1 and 5, CGEF would like to hear from you, too.
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i_c_weiner
DOOP Secretary
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« Reply #4 on: 07-30-2010 04:40 »
« Last Edit on: 07-30-2010 04:41 »
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I'm mixed on this episode. Part of me is very very pleased with it, but then part of me felt that it was overall meh because they just kept continually going forward and time and didn't really stop and take in these new periods. I enjoyed the time traveling song. The best part was the retrospective shots of previous episodes. I saw Space Pilot 3000, Love's Labours Lost in Space, Future Stock, A Taste of Freedom, Beast With A Billion Backs, and Attack of the Killer App. I was very impressed. i could nitpick to infinity, but that'd be stupid. imo, that was as good as 'jurassic bark', 'roswell that ends well', and 'luck of the fryrish', if not better. No way that was better than any of those episodes. There wasn't as much of an emotional impact as Bark or Fryish, and the plot didn't settle down like the other three.
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speedracer
Bending Unit
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Well done. Glad to see that Fry's tardiness wasn't due to him being completely delinquent, as I've seen well enough of that in the past. Nice callbacks to "I Second That Emotion" (birthdays), "Bender's Big Score" (time travel paradoxes), and others that escape my mind at the moment. If any of Fry, Bender or Farnsworth could read Alienese, they'd have fished the book "Backwards Time Travel Made Easy" out of the bonfire in the year 10,000.
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HannibalBarca
Crustacean
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Pretty good. 8/10. This and LI were the first of the new episodes that felt up to the quality of the old ones in my opinion. I liked hedonism bot's line about there being bodies everywhere and then an explosion. The only problems were that the Planet of the Apes gag, which was good up to the Ape statue of liberty, went on way too long and kinda got annoying. Also the ending felt a bit rushed and I sort of wish that the first time, instead of overshooting the present, the professor had accidentally dropped the laser gun at Nuremburg and caused a Nazi future. But then again I'm a huge alternate history nerd, so that's just that part of me talking.
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Frisco17
DOOP Secretary
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Out-freaking-standing! Easily one of top 10 best episode's ever. Funny throughout the entire thing, touching and clever. If especially loved the way they ended up solving the time travel problem. I actually guessed how they'd do it when they reached the point when all life was extinct because I saw an article a few months ago about a theory that the universe would eventually collapse back in on itself creating a second big bang.
The Planet of the Apes and Hitler jokes were priceless too.
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Frylo
Crustacean
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The Eleanor Roosevelt follow-up was great, but then again, it would've been great at the end of the episode if they noted one small difference in time due to it. There were three instances where they changed time in those two universes!
They kinda did, with the, "Would you like any more meatloaf" line by the waiter. Anyway, loved the ep. 10/10.
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GersonK
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It'll take a few more viewings before I decide if I'm putting this one in with the all time greats, but the first ep of the new season that felt nearly 100% like the genuine article.
And of course they've swept loads of future continuity issues under the carpet with "Nope, this time around history went a little different."
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Frylo
Crustacean
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The Eleanor Roosevelt follow-up was great, but then again, it would've been great at the end of the episode if they noted one small difference in time due to it. There were three instances where they changed time in those two universes!
They kinda did, with the, "Would you like any more meatloaf" line by the waiter.
Anyway, loved the ep. 10/10.
The line was different because we were seeing the beginning of the date instead of the end.
The point was, the waiter was serving meatloaf, at a time when he should have been serving bread. It was supposed to be a slight change that resulted from the time travel incident.
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i_c_weiner
DOOP Secretary
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Or, being the future, it's possible that meatloaf is served before all meals.
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Gorky
DOOP Secretary
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I'm rewatching this episode right now, because the first time I watched it with my brother and a friend, which meant I couldn't quite focus on it as much as I wanted to. My first impression, though, was that this episode was touching and inspired and there were some excellent gags (I loved the nod to "Roswell That Ends Well", the Eleanor Roosevelt thing, and Leela having a date with "some idiot")--but it was by no means the funniest episode of the season or the series. The heart and the story itself make up for what's lacking in the humor department, though.
Initial rating: 8/10, but that's liable to change (probably for the better) in about, oh, 22 minutes.
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Frisco17
DOOP Secretary
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I like that Leela was smart enough to write backwards and upside down so she knew Fry would see it.
I also loved how her solution was to grab her gun and blast a message for Fry out of the rock. It seemed like such a classic Leela solution to me.
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Frylo
Crustacean
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Or, being the future, it's possible that meatloaf is served before all meals.
Well, agree to disagree, you sniveling idiot. Nah, I'm just kidding, you're alright.
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Nasty Pasty
DOOP Secretary
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Fantastic episode. The series has officially hit it's stride.
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B33
Poppler
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Absolutely brilliant.
Quite easily ranks as one of my all time favorites.
The shot at the end sealed the deal.
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i_c_weiner
DOOP Secretary
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Peter Avanzino did a terrific job directing. This was probably the first time that I can remember that I really noticed and enjoyed the direction on first viewing.
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Frylo
Crustacean
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-Time is cyclical? But in 2ACV19 we were specifically told that it was a straight line! I sure hope somebody got fired for that blunder!
Time isn't cyclical, as far as Fry knows. At that point, all Fry knows is that time isn't cyclical from (roughly) the year 2000 to the year 3000. Turns out, he was wrong.
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i_c_weiner
DOOP Secretary
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Did anybody else feel like this episode could've been used as a season/series finale à la Devil's Hands? The call backs made me smile.
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