Otis P Jivefunk
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« #280 : 07-30-2011 12:01 »
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Damn, I was right. I hope that All The Presidents Heads will be good. I'm confident it will be, but my main concern is it could end up getting a bit silly. I'm also concerned it might break continuity again in some way, but hopefully not...
Well, now that I’ve seen it in my opinion it was alright, but certainly not great because just as I’d speculated, it did get a bit silly, and the method of time travel broke continuity just as I’d feared. I’m getting annoyed that my gut instincts are playing true... Next weeks episode is the first one in a long time that genuinely excited me from what we know. I mean a four-dimensional space whale? This is exactly the kind of thing Futurama should be doing, and from there on out each week looks to have a great premise. The bad patch is hopefully over now... |
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Gorky
Space Pope
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« #283 : 07-30-2011 12:39 »
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I guess "The Tip of the Zoidberg" could be interesting, but I think the writers have had mixed success this season with all the unusual character pairings (Hermes and Bender worked well in "Lethal Inspection," and I could buy Amy and Nibbler in "That Darn Katz!"; Cubert and Zoidberg were just kind of dumb in "A Clockwork Origin"), and it seems like that's the direction this episode could take. That said, the Farnsworth/Zoidberg relationship is one that hasn't been explored much, and it's a fairly organic pairing to choose to explore, so it could wind up being a pretty interesting episode. Plus, most Zoidberg-centric episodes from the original run were pretty well-executed, so hopefully this episode will follow that trend.
But yeah, the episodes I'm most excited about are probably "Cold Warriors" and "Overclockwise." Those seem like sure things to me, though I could of course be very, very wrong.
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cyber_turnip
Urban Legend
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« #286 : 07-30-2011 17:39 »
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The Hermes/Bender past helped develop Hermes as a character by showing his parental side. It'll most likely never come up again because Hermes has chosen to keep it a secret and nobody knows about it but him.
The Tip of the Zoidberg on the other hand will explain how two characters came to meet, etc. There's no reason for it to not come up again. Plus anyway, who cares if it doesn't come up again? There's no need for constant callbacks every episode. Whilst I loved the two in All the Presidents' Heads, I wasn't a fan of the Robot Devil callbacks in Ghost in the Machines -it felt like overkill.
As for the unusual pairings, I've loved all of them. I found Zoidberg and Cubert to be hilarious. That's one reason I'm looking forwards to Tip of the Zoidberg.
Another is that I feel like Zoidberg is due for a good episode that focuses on him. He doesn't really have one yet. It's not like his character couldn't carry an episode, it's just that he's been unlucky with the storylines he's been given. Plus, he'll have the Professor's help to carry things along here.
I like how David X. Cohen's been talking about the episode in interviews. He's been playing up this one (along with Cold Warriors) as flashback episodes with a lot of emotion and heart to them, so I'm hoping that Tip has some sort of surprise emotional blow to it, like the ending of Lethal Inspection.
Anyway, I'm looking forwards to it an awful lot, but then I'm looking forwards to every episode that's left an awful lot.
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flesheatingbull
Starship Captain
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« #287 : 07-30-2011 19:57 »
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Damn, I was right. I hope that All The Presidents Heads will be good. I'm confident it will be, but my main concern is it could end up getting a bit silly. I'm also concerned it might break continuity again in some way, but hopefully not...
Well, now that I’ve seen it in my opinion it was alright, but certainly not great because just as I’d speculated, it did get a bit silly, and the method of time travel broke continuity just as I’d feared. I’m getting annoyed that my gut instincts are playing true...
Next weeks episode is the first one in a long time that genuinely excited me from what we know. I mean a four-dimensional space whale? This is exactly the kind of thing Futurama should be doing, and from there on out each week looks to have a great premise. The bad patch is hopefully over now...
shut your typer, dear sir! insulting an american history episode and such. what are you, a commie?! |
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SpaceGoldfish fromWazn
Urban Legend
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« #298 : 08-02-2011 22:59 »
« : 08-04-2011 17:03 by SpaceGoldfishfromWazn »
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A Moby Dick parody with a gigantic angler fish fourth dimensional space whale? Can't wait. My show snack sensors are at Pizza Alert 12.
Also, I'm hoping we will get to see an episode that shows more of Morbo (not too much however, as I think he and Linda are hilarious, but maybe not if they are made to carry a whole episode on their own.) But I would like to see a glimpse of their homelives, the beligerant and numerous offspring, what Morbo and Fawn's marriage is like (she hasn't spoken yet, and I'm wondering if it would what would be funnier, if she was as murderous as her husband and constantly threatened to kill him, or if that would be too much like Lrr/Ndnd's relationship, and despite her monsterous appearance, she's actually quite sweet and mild mannered), and what always chirpy Linda is like offcamera (I am guessing she's an abusive or neglectful mother).
Plus I think the relationship between Morbo and Linda could make for a pretty interesting episode. If that deleted scene was meant to go anywhere, it could say that they have a similar platonic relationship to Fry/Bender: in that while Morbo wants nothing more then humanity's extinction, Linda is his "except one". I think an epiosde where Morbo and Linda have an affair (working around her being absolutely terrified of his torso) and incurring the wrath of Fawn could make an interesting episode, if its not too similar to a Lrr/Ndnd one.
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Inquisitor Hein
Liquid Emperor
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« #313 : 08-07-2011 17:24 »
« : 08-07-2011 17:37 »
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I fail to see Alien references in that clip. ANYWHERE.
The way Bender turns his head is exactly the same scene setting as sigourney weaver turned her head in an alien movie. With the Alien standing exactly the same way as the beast... Besides: A hatching creature growing to be a dangerous monster in sci fi: Everyone immediatelly thinks of a certain classic when hearing this. (Besides: Of course you fail to see the Alien reference in this clip...considering your age, you are not even supposed to know the Alien movies :P ) |
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