SpaceGoldfish fromWazn
Urban Legend
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« #120 : 08-05-2011 04:04 »
« : 08-05-2011 04:09 by SpaceGoldfishfromWazn »
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[/quote] Or sunglasses encrusted with crystals. Or a hat with a lobster on it. Or a dress made of geometric origami flowers... I could go on. Hell, if you watch Bend Her, and see Leela's disguise at the wedding, she's a dead ringer for Lady Gaga, despite the episode coming out YEARS before she made her musical debut. Seriously, I don't really care for Lady Gaga (personally I think she tries way too hard to be seen as eccentric), but I think there are much cleverer and funnier ways you can drop someone in that 31st century, when that person is someone who purposely makes herself resemble a futuristic transvestite hookerbot. Hell, half the people in the People Hose are wearing something she probably has hanging up in her wardrobe.
That could actually be a good way to work in Gaga references- have people wearing her outfits in the future. A meat dress would be immediately recognizable, and suitably weird.
Plus since a lot of people dress outlandishly in the future, I can imagine the 31st century Gaga or David Bowie or Grace Jones being considered "eccentric" or "over the top" or "attention seeking" because he/she wears jeans and a t shirt or a floral print dress, instead of a gyroscope hat and a skirt that looks like the solar system.
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Otis P Jivefunk
DOOP Secretary
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« #135 : 08-07-2011 11:37 »
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I have to say that Mobius Dick was BY FAR the worst episode ever!! It was awful, it wasn't funny & it made absolutely no sense. There are so many "bermuda triangle" jokes that they could have made, but they went with a pirate themed Moby Dick remake?
FAIL
You’re entitled to your opinion, but it’s bad and you should feel bad... I think it "making no sense" is a problem with you rather than the episode given that you're the only person that seems to have that complaint.
Maybe, I still didn't like it though. And I'm not the only one to have rated it 1 out of 10.
One of those was meant to be 10/10 but Nibblonian Leader accidentally voted 1/10... |
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totalnerd undercanada
DOOP Ubersecretary
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« #142 : 08-07-2011 20:25 »
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And when the ship sprouted sails I thought it was pretty weird.
They're explicitely mentioned as being a backup drive mechanism - Solar Sails. The joke here is that they do make the ship look like an 18th-Century whaler, and they're going after a space-whale. It's a fairly predictable outcome, really... if you know Futurama and TVtropes at all well. I'm 30 for the record.
The real question isn't how old you are, it's how hot you are. If you're hot, you can probably get away with having a ridiculous opinion. If you're not, then you may well find yourself fighting a losing battle when it comes to panning good episodes based on your own lack of understanding. IMO, this doesn't deserve to be on anybody's "worst" list. It's one of the few decent episodes (all too few) in Season 6B so far. There have been some truly shockingly bad ones like Yo Leela Leela, and it's episodes like this that help to keep the show's main fanbase (sci-fi loving nerds) interested. So far I have to say that 6B has been a disappointment overall. Benderama and Neutopia are rewatchable, but not brilliant, Ghost in the Machines is funny, but Bender's characterisation is irritating, and the premise is messy. Law and Oracle is funny, but relies on Fry making a rather out-of-character decision (and screws a little with continuity merely for the sake of a couple of jokes). TSOTC was an unusual episode. I still don't know if I love it yet, and All the President's Heads was distinctly meh in parts. It could've been a lot better. So far, Mobius Dick has been the only episode that's not diasappointed me (I had low expectations for it, but it was a pleasant surprise). The last four episodes of 6B have some serious ground to make up with me, and if they don't, then I don't know if I'll be able to be excited (or if I'll even bother watching) the next season after that. I mean, there's only so much average television I can watch before I get the urge to stop watching TV altogether. Oh wait, that's right, I've already quit watching TV, save for Futurama, Doctor Who, and maybe the next season of The Venture Bros. Because of all the low-quality programming and the fact that the internet is so much more engaging. |
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Bend-err
DOOP Secretary
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« #144 : 08-07-2011 20:52 »
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Okay what's with all the underage assholes entering PEEL?
DannyJC13, Age: 14... 
But I don't act like one.
Do I...?
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Mobius Dick
Crustacean
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« #155 : 08-08-2011 15:35 »
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While a good rewatch after at least a few months normally takes away the hate for episodes for me, im afraid i just can't apply this to Bendin In the Wind. I single it out because rewatching it made me realise that Futurama wasn't free from boring, pedestrian plots that feel as far removed from SCI FI comedy as you can get. The whole idea of Futurama is that its comedy with a solid sci core and i can just see this plot working just as fine in the Simpsons - Surely the lowest insult there is.
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Mobius Dick
Crustacean
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« #157 : 08-08-2011 15:46 »
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But it was futuristic-y... Heads-in-jars singing, robots singing, broken robots, showing people from the future about the past (the minivan)...
Close. " Bender Homer suffers an injury and is inspired to put on a concert for other injured robots Nucleur plant workers who have suffered terrible injuries from working with radioactive waste.'' What i mean was that the plot was pretty easy to achieve without the future setting, It's just a previously established futuristic character is used instead. Althought i must admit i was a bit embarrassed to have forgotten that one of the key parts of the plot was fry showing everyone a part of the past, I'll give it that as that was pretty cool  |
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Mobius Dick
Crustacean
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« #159 : 08-08-2011 15:51 »
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Kind of like Yo Leela Leela.
Yo Leela Leela is one of the episodes that most benifits from a rewatch. You have to consider that all of us are watching new episodes with incredibly high expectations that were set due to Futurama normal standard. When an episode comes along which is not what we are used to, isnt hugely funny, and is kinda one dimensional then out comes rage. If you watch it again a bit more relaxed, not watching a poor quality stream at 3am (if you aren't in America you see) then its much more forgiving and just seems like an averge epsisode, nothing special. |
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