SpaceGoldfish fromWazn
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Im not sure, a lot of people who hate cats probably sympathised with Amy.
Its an episode that works on both levels. Cat lovers like to see a cat focused episode, and cat haters like to see them as allergy packed, villainous balls of evil and fur.
Myself, I would pamper them with feasts most fancy. One thing I'm not sure about: Are all earth cats Thubans?
*raises hand*
I kind of despise cats, so I was totally on-board with Amy and Nibbler's mission to take them down. I mean, "That Darn Katz!" isn't a favorite episode of mine, but in terms of its cat-related observations, and its utilization of two secondary characters in the roles of Kick Ass Heroes, it's pretty good.
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Gorky
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I think the implication is that all cats are descended from the Thubans who landed in Egypt and grew complacent once they realized that people for some reason found them endearing, and fed them dead fish and scratched behind their ears and such. So there are nth generation Thubans, and those would be modern cats: born on earth, but ancestors of the original cat immigrants.
Right?
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SpaceGoldfish fromWazn
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I think the implication is that all cats are descended from the Thubans who landed in Egypt and grew complacent once they realized that people for some reason found them endearing, and fed them dead fish and scratched behind their ears and such. So there are nth generation Thubans, and those would be modern cats: born on earth, but ancestors of the original cat immigrants.
Right?
That makes sense. Me I take it that all Thubans are cats, but not all cats are Thubans, and I would like the show to clear it up. Also I just watched BBS, and noticed a lot of stuff that I missed the first time (as is usual with Futurama). My favorite was "Today's Special: Insolent Waitress". I'm guessing the unfortunate waitress was Neptunian, so I wonder what Neptunian tastes like? Probably like purple long pork. Bam.
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futurefreak
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I find myself enjoying the first half of season six way more than this second batch. Maybe it's because I've watched them more, or maybe because they're just better episodes heh. But there isn't one really super bad episode that I would choose to skip over in the first half, whereas there are quite many of them in this batch.
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DannyJC13
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I'm honestly glad that there's new Futurama episodes at all, so why should I complain ? I Enjoy every episode to the max.
EXACTLY.
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SpaceGoldfish fromWazn
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« Reply #333 on: 08-11-2011 05:52 »
« Last Edit on: 08-11-2011 06:44 »
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Indeed. While the Duh Vinchi code is my least favorite episode, or at least one of my most disliked, I thought the Clock Punk planet was beautiful, and the Vinchian spacecraft was well... pretty magical.
Another special mention goes to Clockwork Origin, for bringing us the very stylish 20s robot world. I was sorry we didn't spend longer in that era. And of course, the robot dinosaurs, and the metallic forest, complete with honking swan. Hell even when I don't like an episode, I can enjoy it for the creativity that has gone into the artstyle and animation. Some of it is downright spectacular.
I think these episodes weren't just eye candy, they were visually inventive. A lot of thought went into their artstyles, rather then just drawing ooh pretty flowers and making the whale do a flip.
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Otis P Jivefunk
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One thing i will say, is that the animation and visuals are gorgeous. The spacewhale and the mineral planet are two of the most beautiful looking episodes ever.
I totally agree with you there. The animation has been of top quality through the new run.
In Möbius Dick, yes, exceptional. In the rest? Some of the worst animation in Futurama's run. Too much stuff off-model, and general mistakes...
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Otis P Jivefunk
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« Reply #338 on: 08-11-2011 21:39 »
« Last Edit on: 08-11-2011 21:44 »
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Nothing's been particularly off-model so far. There have been some visual treats in even the worst episodes like the Holiday Spectacular and Yo Leela Leela.
Compare Season 6 to Season 4, the characters are off-model a hell of a lot more in Season 6 than Season 4. Particularly Professor Farnsworth; the first few eps of 6A had some rather bad off-model animation of him... When I look at the other sides of animation, the budget cut has also lessened the great CGI scenes. Möbius Dick somehow wasn't any worse off and was the only ep to match old Futurama animation-wise, but aside from that I'm talking about things like the candy hearts in Love & Rocket, the excellent scenes in Leela's Homeworld (like the birds eye street view which suddenly pans down into the sewer), the great piece of animation in 300 Big Boys where the we follow the view through various places (at one point again briefly in the sewer with the foot mutant). The Sting with the various settings Leela sees while on honey etc. Not seeing so much clool stuff in Season 6... The animation in most of Season 6 feels different, looser and less consistent...
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DannyJC13
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Bender's model looks a little different-y...
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futurefreak
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I didn't think she was unlikable in Fry Am The Egg Man, but in general I am finding her a tad more eyesrollworthy.
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Gorky
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« Reply #352 on: 08-14-2011 03:50 »
« Last Edit on: 08-14-2011 03:52 »
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I think Leela had her bitchy moments in the series (her behavior in "Parasites Lost" always bothered me the most, I think), but I agree that she's been particularly...off...in a few episodes this season (mostly 6B; 6A seemed fine to me). Though I enjoyed both episodes, I do think her character was stretched to the limit in both "Yo Leela Leela" (the lying) and "Mobius Dick" (the wild-'n'-crazy obsession)--but, then again, I think Leela's personality has always been the most elastic, and the one the writers are most willing to play around with to suit the needs of a story. Inconsistent characterization leads to unlikeability, I think.
That said, I didn't have a problem with her behavior in Egg Man, mostly because that "platonic friends" crap was less about Leela's personality and more about the writers' inability to commit to Fry and Leela's relationship. It would be a lot more jarring if Fry decided he no longer wanted to be with Leela (as it was in "The Beast With a Billion Backs"), and since Leela was always rejecting Fry in the original run and status quo is god, I understand--but don't appreciate--the way the writers have been portraying her attitude toward, and relationship with, Fry. But at least in Egg Man, she comforted Fry after he let Mr. Peppy go, and was the only person to tell him that Mr. Peppy didn't have to die ("He just gave me a little love concussion"). It was really just the flirting-with-Angus stuff that seemed inconsiderate of her.
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futurefreak
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If you were to put this episode alongside the original run, it would fare fine. But because of all the are they/arent they stuff from the movies on, it seems to cause issues. I am more annoyed when the writers presume they are already a couple, like in The Prisoner of Benda. The whole "you aren't attracted to me anymore" is established couple talk.
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