cyber_turnip

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« #160 : 10-05-2013 02:53 »
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Plus points about the writer: - He's written for both shows
- He wrote "Holidays of Future Past" which was actually a pretty decent episode of The Simpsons - the first episode I'd say qualifies as "genuinely good" in years and years
- "Holidays of Future Past" was an episode set in the future
- He wrote "Roswell That Ends Well" - usually regarded as the very best episode of Futurama
And the cons: - Every other episode of The Simpsons that he's written (and there's quite a few) has been absolutely terrible, just as pretty much every episode of the show is, these days. He did write "Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind" which was slightly less terrible than usual for the show, now, but it still sucked
- All of his other Futurama credits are pretty poor:
"My Three Suns" - usually considered to be one of season 1's weaker episodes "Mars University" - usually considered to be the worst of season 1 "A Head in the Polls" - hardly one of the all-time favourites, a so-so episode "The Deep South" - as above "The Cryonic Woman" - considered by a lot of people (including myself) to be the worst episode of the original run "Where the Buggalo Roam" - usually considered to be one of the show's very worst "Neutopia" - whilst I don't mind it, personally, this is often cited as a lot of people's most-hated episodes and it generally ranks pretty lowly amongst fans
So, yeah, it could go either way, very easily. He might pull off another of his incredibly rare great episodes, or it might just add to the mass of crap that he's written. I'm a bit disappointed that they didn't hire David X. Cohen or Ken Keeler to write the episode as a freelancer, to be honest.
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TheAnvil

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« #171 : 10-09-2013 14:13 »
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Plus points about the writer:
- He's written for both shows
- He wrote "Holidays of Future Past" which was actually a pretty decent episode of The Simpsons - the first episode I'd say qualifies as "genuinely good" in years and years
- "Holidays of Future Past" was an episode set in the future
- He wrote "Roswell That Ends Well" - usually regarded as the very best episode of Futurama
And the cons:
- Every other episode of The Simpsons that he's written (and there's quite a few) has been absolutely terrible, just as pretty much every episode of the show is, these days. He did write "Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind" which was slightly less terrible than usual for the show, now, but it still sucked
- All of his other Futurama credits are pretty poor:
"My Three Suns" - usually considered to be one of season 1's weaker episodes "Mars University" - usually considered to be the worst of season 1 "A Head in the Polls" - hardly one of the all-time favourites, a so-so episode "The Deep South" - as above "The Cryonic Woman" - considered by a lot of people (including myself) to be the worst episode of the original run "Where the Buggalo Roam" - usually considered to be one of the show's very worst "Neutopia" - whilst I don't mind it, personally, this is often cited as a lot of people's most-hated episodes and it generally ranks pretty lowly amongst fans
So, yeah, it could go either way, very easily. He might pull off another of his incredibly rare great episodes, or it might just add to the mass of crap that he's written. I'm a bit disappointed that they didn't hire David X. Cohen or Ken Keeler to write the episode as a freelancer, to be honest.
My Three Suns is one of my favorite episodes. And a lot of his Simpsons episodes are regarded as some of the best since the show went downhill after Season 8 (I also particularly like "The Monkey Suit"). One of his episodes has one of my favorite quotes from Futurama: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYm7DqAAQpc
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Lambda

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« #172 : 10-09-2013 17:09 »
« : 10-09-2013 17:10 »
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Keep in mind, however, that Neutopia is considered by many to be a very bad episode.
yeah, should've clarified that I didn't care for the plot. I don't really know what writers are on The Simpsons these days, but after looking up which episodes he wrote, they are among the better. The Way We Weren't, in addition to those mentioned earlier, being one of them. in retrospect, that episode messed a bit with canon
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