Xanfor

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« #240 : 06-30-2011 13:04 »
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Aki

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« #243 : 07-02-2011 13:48 »
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Reposting what I wrote in the 6ACV19 thread, as its of better use here. I’m amazed after having read through this entire review thread that one thing has not been picked up on as it was a major gripe I had with this episode. The nurse advised Fry that "No machines are allowed" on the Amish home world and then not long after the crew come visit Fry, Leela has her electronic wrist thingamajigger on, the very same wrist thingamajigger that Bender had used earlier on in the episode to slap Fry with several times. This bothered greatly as it seemed like a major contradiction and an obvious continuity error. I think I’ll make a thread about this issue actually... I didn't think of that. It could be explained, though, just by having Bender not think of it even though he could have used it.
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Aki

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« #250 : 07-02-2011 16:27 »
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If the people of the Amish Planet are anything like the real Amish, then visitors would be allowed to use machines, just not inhabitants. The Amish lifestyle is personal choice by those who live it, not something that they believe everyone should adopt. Even visitors who walk around among them and stuff? I'm not that familiar with how the Amish societies work, but don't they have villages and stuff where electronics are pretty much forbidden? Edit: What's with the edit?
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Aki

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« #260 : 07-03-2011 01:36 »
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True, but being the Amish are a mostly gentle people, do you think Leela is the type to give up her, her, wtf is that thing anyway? Any who, do you think they would have taken it from her or kept her from going? I doubt it.  I don't think the Amish thought that much about it. They were just visitors for a short amount of time, I don't think they cared that much about any equipment they brought in.
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Onuki

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« #264 : 07-04-2011 02:32 »
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Xanfor

DOOP Secretary

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« #279 : 07-04-2011 22:07 »
« : 07-04-2011 22:08 »
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Maybe all these 21st century references and technologies are part of a larger plot arc. In a future episode, we'll likely see Leela walking by herself through the PE ship, only for part of the bulkhead to slide away, a female Nibblonian with an eyepatch say "No, I think she's just dreaming," and then everything return the way it was. Then Bender, along with all the other robots, will start suffering mysterious CPU process threads, seemingly caused by a patch being installed onto a digital reality. As it'll turn out, the Brainspawn have managed to destroy reality in a battle subsequently erased from human memory, and the entire universe is running as a hologrammatic simulation extracted from Fry's memories, hence the numerous contemporary references. The robots are the only ones who realize this, however, hence the patch to try and distract them from their suspicions, and of course, the heavy Bender-centric nature of this season's episodes and the introduction of a "cloud" plane that only robots can enter. Leela, meanwhile, pregnant with Fry's child, the only one who can defeat the Brainspawn and restore the universe, has been kidnapped by the Nibblonians and kept physically safe, plugged into the same virtual simulation that everyone else is living in, but in order to keep psychological indications of her pregnancy from showing, they've had to mask her feelings for Fry so that she is not aware of how their relationship should be progressing.
You'll see. This all makes perfect sense.
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