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« #164 : 03-21-2013 19:45 »
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The lighting and colours were exceptional in this episode. The director broke a little from their regular palette to get those warm autumn colours. I also wanted to point out the composition of this scene. The shady rocks in the foreground help the tree tops frame the two characters nicely. Also, the rays of light flow in the same direction as the rifle, as if a higher power is on Bender's side. 
This might be a bit of a stretch, but this particular frame is a bit Blade Runner-esque for me: We have two characters, one with the other's life in his hands whose humanity will in the end be either shed or in question. Did that make any sense? Edit: Forgot to mention, in both cases the one with the power over life is a machine who chooses to be merciful at the last second. Also, I'm wondering now if all the work they put into the dancing sunlight through the trees was to set up the rays in the viewer's mind for this dramatic moment.
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Eternium

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« #167 : 03-23-2013 20:26 »
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Fuck. My phone spaced, fell out, just when I wrote a post -.-' Anyway, I saw the 'cat eater' on screen in law and oracle... And to conparis the fish with the otters:   The otters don't jump in a heart shape, they go up together but push off. It aint very much like. Heart shape but I get the point: moon/sun, water, romantic, both water animals
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The Sophisticated Shut In

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« #171 : 03-24-2013 19:48 »
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Two favourite moments from Billion Backs that go by a little too quickly to fully enjoy:

It just hit me that squashed!Kif in Naturama is a callback to this visual.  In the event of an emergency...
...please use Fry. (from Leela's Homeworld)
This is also called back to in 7a, when Bender uses Fry to beat off the Sunset Squad at the Near-Death Star. Can't find a pic but it's right before Fry says the old people generate electricity. Callback?..or am I just looking too hard?

I took that as a callback too. A few other things are fun in this one : - The golf-clubs are a callback to Bender cyber-golfing at the beginning of The Sting. - The basketball is a nod to his love of the Globetrotters. - The hockey-stick may have been mentioned in the original run, but right now all I can think of is Free Will Hunting, when Bender suggests they beat up Mom's guards with hockey-sticks. - Pretty sure Lars is wearing the same shoes Fry always did. So, because Shut In provided such an insightful commentary, I re-watched BwaBB. I really liked it so much better during this second viewing. And there were a couple of "background" things that tickled me. First, what the heck is this?

It cracked me up so much, even though I don't know what this creature is. The way it's curled around that sunken ship reminds me of my sweet little Eskimo Spitz curled up in her bed. That's from the scene where Calculon and Bender are dueling.
And then the scene towards the beginning of the movie, when the Professor wants to test something on the giant medium-sized ant. When the Professor starts talking about cotton candy and Fry's blood on pancakes, the ant's mandible thingies starts moves around, like the equivalent of a dog licking its chops.
That's how I felt about all the DVD releases, actually. I think they were just such a change of pace that it threw me off initially. (I remember hating Bender's Game at first, and now I really enjoy it.) I love the sea monster - good catch! Although I'm probably the only one who thinks it looks shame-faced in that screengrab - like it's been caught doing something it shouldn't.  I can't decide if that ant was hungry or just neurotic. It had the most incredibly annoying voice, now I think about it. I enjoyed its death more than I probably should have.
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futz
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« #176 : 03-28-2013 00:18 »
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Foreshadowing?  After seeing the episode a couple of times I wondered where Leela got a replacement wrist thingie after the prior one went into space with her arm.
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futz
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« #179 : 03-28-2013 03:58 »
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Sparky: Hmm, no. Speaking of pretty color(PINK&PURPLE) Nice bra Amy! (Italics added).It could be seen as both a callback or foreshadowing. In the context of the scene the look on Amy's face is determined.
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« #181 : 03-28-2013 04:32 »
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It's seen in more normal lighting in the scene that follows from this one. It's a zoomed in view of Amy zipping up her hoodie top and is not quite as hurried as the running out her apartment main door scene. On my hi-def LG TV it shows as a deep red but not a purple. If it follows general cartoon reality rules for character clothes it would be the same bra usually always. Not sure if the red gets darker if Amy doesn't recharge it, though. 
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sparkybarky

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« #198 : 03-30-2013 03:47 »
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That's a pretty shot, Koob. I've always wondered how animators convey so convincingly bright or phosphorescent light. Must be all color theory, which I suck at.  I'm sure someone has pointed this out, probably several times, but I'll say it here with pictures. I love how the icefields of Hyperion are folded into Leela's comatose dreams:  Because there's a print or painting of the vista in her hospital room:  And I also dig the squeezey toy on her nightstand, no doubt a real-life gift from Fry (instead of the dream gift found in his locker). This sort of occurrence jibes with my experience. e.g., whenever I have to pee as I'm asleep, but my body won't wake up, I will dream about using the restroom, but feeling no relief no matter what my dream self does, and feeling increasingly frustrated. Or, if my alarm has gone off, and there's music playing, my brain will incorporate that music into my dream. Ha, I said I was busy, which I am. But I can always find time for The Sting. 
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