UnrealLegend

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« #40 : 08-19-2011 08:15 »
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Fun fact: -The blades on the killing machine were poisoned. -The blades were used to cut veggies. -The veggies were made into a salad. -The Professor ate the salad. -Poison kills people. 
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Inquisitor Hein
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« #42 : 08-19-2011 10:46 »
« : 08-19-2011 10:47 »
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-Poison kills people.
The blades would inject the poison into the blood. Just eating/drinking it might have a different effect (like certain snake poisons that could be used as medicine..but I am too lazy to look them up right now;) )
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Svip

Administrator
DOOP Secretary

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« #50 : 08-19-2011 11:59 »
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That's a shitty excuse, you fail Sir.
Sir is not spelt with a capital S, so you fail again. But it is not really a shitty excuse, it is just because you cannot find another example, and your post claimed that there was a huge public consensus against the realism when you can only find one post. Stop being so stupid.
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Pendulum

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« #53 : 08-19-2011 12:22 »
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For the most part I liked it. It was pretty good, definitely not great, and probably my least favourite Ken Keeler episode. That's not to say I hated it though.
I will say one thing though, that there was something unsettling about the Planet Express crew actively seeking to kill the Professor. I know it was mercy killing, but it felt like they were actually enjoying the process of killing him, which I didn't like at all. At least Zoidberg acknowledged what he was going to do would be difficult.
I suppose death is such a non event in the future, that they probably could kill him and then just stick his body into the rebirthing machine to bring him back, perfectly healthy again. Yes, that's how I'll justify this one.
I liked the character development for Zoidberg and the professor, and the jokes were alright. It was a strange episode, but I'll give it 7/10.
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Gorky

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« #62 : 08-19-2011 13:52 »
« : 08-19-2011 13:53 »
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I will say one thing though, that there was something unsettling about the Planet Express crew actively seeking to kill the Professor. I know it was mercy killing, but it felt like they were actually enjoying the process of killing him, which I didn't like at all. At least Zoidberg acknowledged what he was going to do would be difficult. Yeah, it seemed a bit mean-spirited, kind of like Bender's joy at killing Fry in "Ghost in the Machines." That said, I did like that they were all going to add a drop of poison to the blades, so as to all share in the guilt. That seemed like a decent acknowledgment of the gravity of the situation, and it probably would have been silly to dwell on the moral implications of the mercy killing when you could be pretty sure that Farnsworth wasn't really going to die. And I don't see anything wrong with these complaints about the show being too cartoony. Matt Groening has said tons of times that one of the neat things about both the Simpsons and Futurama is that you're able to make people care about the characters, as if they were portrayed by real people in a more "serious" live action show. There are certainly some live action shows that are just as wacky as most cartoons, but Futurama has always kept a lot of the more slapstick humor to a minimum because it can detract from the emotional impact of a scene (or muck with one's suspension of disbelief). I know it's a cartoon, so it's going to employ cartoon logic from time to time, but the turning-into-a-yeti thing reminded me more of a Saturday morning cartoon than an animated show aimed at adults and so intelligently-written.
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SpaceGoldfish fromWazn

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« #66 : 08-19-2011 15:05 »
« : 08-19-2011 15:10 »
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but it felt like they were actually enjoying the process of killing him
They way the professor was concerned with his crews safety and survival in previous episodes, they might really have enjoyed it in a "score-to-settle"way (though no one probably would dare to admit this.... )
That's a very good point you raise there, and it makes a lot of sense. They probably should have included a reference to that somewhere in the episode. A bit of context goes a long way.
"No, it's cheaper just to have you die!" 
The Professor sees his staff as disposable (isn't that part of his slogan in the second episode?). When Hermes is trying to kill himself? The Professor tells him to hurry up, just stop letting that liver going to waste. When Leela was knocked out, he rushed off to get a pair of tongs and a cooler to put her organs in. And he makes no secrets about coveting Amy's blood for himself (if anything happens to her, make sure you bring back her blood). Anyway this was a pretty enjoyable episode. It suffers from the same problems as the other 6b episodes, a rather silly or strange twist ending, and being a bit too thin on the laughs, but unlike those episodes, it has an extremely engaging plot to distract from that (We're always more forgiving of the plot heavy or emotional episodes for being less funny then a regular ep). Also I was very pleased to have Mom back at her finest, rather then her mostly subpar appearance in AOTKA. Carol? Awesome. Again the Were Yeti was rather stupid and tacked on. It would have been fine if it turned out that Mom was just too spiteful or stingy to actually let out there was a cure for the space malaria, (I am sure Yeti blood or whatever is more expensive then hiring new soldiers, and they could have said Yeti blood contains compounds that resist the space malaria.) After all she actually seems to like Zoidberg, or at least respect him, so the were yeti was just rather pointless. Also: Shut up and give me my kidney! Amy had a lot of lines this episode, but I guess it was to make up for the fact that we didn't get to see her operate her own killblade, or that she wasn't featured in the beginning in the spine and liver harvesting. All in all: good episode and easily one of the few I really liked this season. It was so good it was woobawoobawoobwoob.
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Smarty

Professor

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« #72 : 08-19-2011 15:56 »
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On second viewing, I actually like this episode better. There is really a lot of character development in Zoidberg and the Professor. Their friendship is not only explained, but it is solidified and strengthened. (We also saw a little of their friendship in Mobius Dick.) Just the fact that they call each other by their first names shows how comfortable they are. And Zoidberg really was a decent doctor. If he could have been great staying with Mom, he must have been. Not only that but he tried to calm the sick soldiers by saying they'd recover and 'marry a supermodel.' Mom and Zoidberg apparently are on good terms as well, which is interesting, as you wouldn't think of Mom as that friendly, or of Zoidberg as having a decent professional relationship. All together, I thought the episode really helped justify and develop the character of Dr. Zoidberg, and was a refreshing break from the usual missions and chaos. I can look past the cartoony beginning. And the Murdolator is still epic, maybe more impressive.  Also, I just caught a line of Fry's towards the end when Farnsworth transforms: ''He's like some kind of believable hulk!'' Made me chuckle. Also Amy's line after the Murdolator breaks still cracks me up.
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