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« #13 : 09-17-2011 18:58 »
« : 09-17-2011 19:05 »
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Most of all, Prisoners of Benda. I hate voice switching (even Family Guy restrained from doing that for more than one short joke) and Futurama makes a whole episode about it... you grow used to certain voices and associate them with certain characters. When that changes, it feels unnatural - because it is, mind switching would by no means include voice switching, because the voice is dependant on the body you're in. Throughout the whole episode, I was very "aware" of watching a fake show. And people over here consider it better than "War is the H-word"... oh well, it's a free world.
Other than that, I'm not sure on how much the people over here like or dislike the episodes, so I can't see whether they are overrated. On CGEF, Tip of the Zoidberg is rated too highly. Because of the stupid medical scene alone and lame twists like "OMG it's yetiism!" it should be lower than 80%. However, the ending was really nice.
Didn't like Möbius Dick or Fry am the Eggman that much either, but judging from CGEF, they are rated about right.
Edit: Have to say however that Zoidberg was on his best in the Fry-Egg-episode. It just gets really lame once they reach space Scotland.
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Otis P Jivefunk

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« #15 : 09-17-2011 19:20 »
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Overclockwise is definitely the most overrated ep of Season 6 to me. The whole Fry/Leela relationship was far too forced and unnatural, jarringly so as if it was taken from a bad fan-fiction. Too much time spent in court, especially considering that Judge Whitey's voice was so far off it ruined the experience. Then there's the fact that they tried to force too much into such a small run-time, no room to breathe, again making it seem forced. The Bender plot was great, should've just left the whole ep to focus on that and forget everything else, that would've been a lot better if you ask me. Either that or a two-part episode. I don’t get how this can all get overlooked so passively. Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah, overrated...
The Tip Of The Zoidberg is the next most overrated ep, so many flaws and it was just a story that didn't need to be told. The medical scene is far too Scully-ish in humour too, just a terrible scene which has scarred my memory. The ep is ok; it has its moments between the sea of blandness washing over the plot flaws and wacky humour...
The next most overrated ep is Lethal Inspection, it seriously isn't that great. I don't find the back-story with Hermes and Bender all that touching. It didn't strike much of a chord with me. I feel almost alone in this. Anyway the whole Mexico thing bored me, it suffers from that taking the future out of Futurama thing again. As soon as an episode goes somewhere like that, visually uninteresting and not Futurama-y it lowers dramatically for me...
Also, all these people saying Möbius Dick is overrated, what the hell? It makes me sad. It's rated highly for a reason, if anything not enough though. At least on Peel the ratings are generally good overall. It's criminally underrated on CGEF. It's my second fave ep of Season 6 after TLPJF...
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Otis P Jivefunk

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« #17 : 09-17-2011 19:42 »
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I like Hermes a lot, even in large doses. I thought How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back was brilliant for example. Lethal Inspection failed to engage me on an emotional level and therefore on a plot level too. I'm not saying it's bad, but not great either and therefore overrated to me... I've read peoples thoughts on here and I popped it back in my DVD player not long ago to see if I was missing something, but it only confirmed that the only thing I seem to be missing is the ability to be touched by this ep  ...
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Inquisitor Hein
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« #22 : 09-17-2011 20:32 »
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Overclockwise is definitely the most overrated ep of Season 6 to me. The whole Fry/Leela relationship was far too forced and unnatural, jarringly so as if it was taken from a bad fan-fiction.
The Leela/Fry thing in overclockwise lacked the usual sci fi plot. In previous episodes, the love scenes alway did involve that sci fi twist. E.g. TLPJF (trying to get in time to a date...ooooold. It grew interesting when time travel through the whole universe was involved). TKOS (the endless chase, yet the timeskips did reveal suddenly that this chase could succeed...in fact, DID succeed.) etc, etc, etc.. Leela should have left because of a sci fi based event, and returned because of another event (or the same with a different twist). That way, Overclockwise's handling of the Fry/Leela subplot would have fit in the show's tradition.
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Otis P Jivefunk

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« #25 : 09-17-2011 22:45 »
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Overclockwise is definitely the most overrated ep of Season 6 to me. The whole Fry/Leela relationship was far too forced and unnatural, jarringly so as if it was taken from a bad fan-fiction.
The Leela/Fry thing in overclockwise lacked the usual sci fi plot. In previous episodes, the love scenes alway did involve that sci fi twist. E.g. TLPJF (trying to get in time to a date...ooooold. It grew interesting when time travel through the whole universe was involved). TKOS (the endless chase, yet the timeskips did reveal suddenly that this chase could succeed...in fact, DID succeed.) etc, etc, etc..
Leela should have left because of a sci fi based event, and returned because of another event (or the same with a different twist). That way, Overclockwise's handling of the Fry/Leela subplot would have fit in the show's tradition.
I hadn't thought of this, but you know you're probably right. Had the Sci-Fi plot played more of an integral role in progressing the relationship elements then it may have seemed less forced and more natural. Leela's lines in particular were dreadful in places. Well, I hope they stick to Sci-Fi plot progression in future then. A good thing about your comics is they're generally quite Sci-fi orientated  ...
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Inquisitor Hein
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« #26 : 09-17-2011 23:32 »
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Leela's lines in particular were dreadful in places.
Script idea: Leela feels uneasy about them beingi so on-again/off-again. Finished Script: Leela "I feel uneasy about us being so on-again, off-again". I can really hear Katey Sagal saying "Sorry, but you gave me the script outline, and not the finished version to read" "This IS the finished version". "....you are putting me on, right?" 
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Inquisitor Hein
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« #32 : 09-18-2011 08:29 »
« : 09-18-2011 08:30 »
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I think it would have been funnier if they skipped the whole "neutral" thing and spent more time with swapped genders. Having everyone the opposite gender is a total gold mine. dumb.
ImhO, they could have dropped the gender-switch, and just stuck to the neutral stuff. Gender swapping has been done in other movies, it's not really something new. Also, the tension between the genders will remain, but just be reversed. With the neutral aspect, suddenly everyone was buddy-buddy. Everyone got along nicely..in other words: everything was booooooring. I did like the acknoledgement/conclusion that mankind is not meant to be that way. It's a rather agressive species that just needs a certain tension...
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Tachyon

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« #34 : 09-18-2011 09:40 »
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...Just the ending that was a little weak.
Agreed. Perhaps the Prof figuring out a way to revert to the original genders, but something doesn't go quite right.
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