Shippers Keep on Shippin'! ThreadIV

[#680 :]

not mine, found on deviantart, but so cute!

Yay! first TOTPD ever!

[#681 :]

Nice pic.

Now, a question: Do you lot think that when Fry and Leela enter a relationship, that Leela will throw herself in whole-heartedly (as with her other lovers), or take it slowly, modelling more of what she's done with Fry?

[#682 :]

Probably the latter.  I think the deal with Leela is that she considers Fry her "ace in the hole".  When she does finally get around to playing that card, it'll be with great reluctance and caution.

[#683 :]

That's why the Fry/Leela romance took so long to advance.

[#684 :]

Love the pic!   

And I think Leela would jump in right away, not take it slowly with Fry once she admits it.  Parasites lost anyone?  We saw what she'd do.  But, *shrugs* anything could happen in the new episodes..

[#685 :]

In sci-fi romances it's generally the case that the cold, tough-as-nails female protagonist belatedly realizes her true feelings for the dopey comedic male protagonist after he's been whisked away by a malevolent force and/or is assumed dead. After which point she'll then devote herself to finding her love.

[#686 :]

Woh, nice find gwynhwyfar.

@lemon: I heard that the Fry/Leela shippers will be happy when the new episodes come out because there's gonna be more of the Fry/Leela relationship. Either Fry just giving up or Leela giving in (sorry, that was the only way I could put that sentence)

[#687 :]

deviantart is wonderous!

and call me gwyn lol

[#688 :]

 

Originally posted by coldangel_1:
In sci-fi romances it's generally the case that the cold, tough-as-nails female protagonist belatedly realizes her true feelings for the dopey comedic male protagonist after he's been whisked away by a malevolent force and/or is assumed dead. After which point she'll then devote herself to finding her love.

Just like in the Sting!

[#689 :]

Indeed.

One could also point out Scully in season 8 of The X Files as a prime example of this.
Added to which, Firefly's Inara in the episode 'Our Mrs Reynolds'.

[#690 :]

I’m glad to see you drawing more, Coldy. Great work as always.   

Originally posted by coldangel_1:
... One could also point out Scully in season 8 of The X Files as a prime example of this...

As I’m not an X-phile, would y’mind explaining that? 

[#691 :]

 

Originally posted by gwynhwyfar:
and call me gwyn lol

I heard it was pronounced Guinevere. The name was pretty confusing 

[#692 :]

 

Originally posted by SpaceCase:
I’m glad to see you drawing more, Coldy. Great work as always.      

Originally posted by coldangel_1:
... One could also point out Scully in season 8 of The X Files as a prime example of this...

As I’m not an X-phile, would y’mind explaining that?   

I think I can help:

At the start of the season, Mulder is abducted by aliens, and Scully spends most of her time trying to find Mulder or trying to act like Mulder would to compensate for him not being on the X-Files. There are some points that are close to how Leela acted in The Sting as well (when they find Mulder left for dead by the aliens she runs off in denial that he's dead) and Fry (he ended up being in a coma and she spent nearly all of her time by his bed). A big thing is that her emotions from him drove her to very illogical things, which is against her logical character. I haven't seen all of Season 8, but that's the jist.

[#693 :]

Sine Wave's chunk of blue-cloaked text is correct. Furthermore, it was when Scully *finally* started displaying any overt emotion which would seem to indicate a romantic entanglement.

Arr... I wanna watch X-Files now... but I sold all my box-sets to pay for a debilitating prawn cracker addiction...

[#694 :]

 

Originally posted by FuturamaPac:
 

Originally posted by gwynhwyfar:
and call me gwyn lol

I heard it was pronounced Guinevere. The name was pretty confusing   

right you are! congrats, so many people are like wtf?

[#695 :]

@gwynhwyfar: So true. The first time I saw your name, I thought "Gwyna-what? I can't pronounce that!"

[#696 :]

 

Originally posted by coldangel_1:
Arr... I wanna watch X-Files now... but I sold all my box-sets to pay for a debilitating prawn cracker addiction...

Why not just read one of your own X-Files fics? 

Anyway, everyone's gonna need luck if they want to find shippy pictures now, because they've all been posted. Now people think they can grab a framegrab where Fry and Leela just happen to be standing next to each other. That's not shippyness, that's just coincedence!

[#697 :]

Well how about...



touching!

[#698 :]

Isn't Fry just helping her?

[#699 :]

Which is also shippy. Huzzah!

[#700 :]

Hmm... the ship normally has a control yoke (or 'joystick') like most aircraft, but in that shot it has a steering wheel... 'sup with that?

[#701 :]

Maybe the lion got loose and destroyed the old joystick, and Farnsworth had to use that temoprary steering wheel for an episode's worth of time.

Also: while it's incredibly sweet of Fry to steer the ship without killing Leela's ego by telling her he's actually steering the ship, I don't find it a sign of his love for her so much as a sign of his friendship with her.  He'd probably do the same thing for Bender if the robot were in that position... and Bender actually flew the ship.   

[#702 :]

 

Originally posted by Sine Wave:
Which is also shippy. Huzzah!

Helping people isn't always shippy.It's just what friends do.

Incidentally, after playing Futurama:The Game for the 2nd or 3rd time I saw something shippy. When Fry gets back from getting the backup engine the dialogue goes something like this:

Prof: Fry! You surprised us all and pleasently this time

Leela: Yeah, Fry's great and we all love him but we blah blah blah blah

I wasn't paying attention to what she was saying after the first part.

[#703 :]

   

i need to get the game.. and whatever console it goes with..

[#704 :]

Leela: "In your face, non-playable characters!"

Best line in a videogame ever.

[#705 :]

 

Originally posted by Decapodian:
 Helping people isn't always shippy.It's just what friends do.

I know, I was playing the devil's advocate.

[#706 :]

Fry: Can I pat you on the butt?
Leela: Fry, I'm a professional athlete, so go ahead.



Fry: Awwn.. Now I'm too nervous.


What does this little interaction count as? 

[#707 :]

 

Originally posted by Sine Wave:
Which is also shippy. Huzzah!

Helping people is shippy now? What did I miss?

[#708 :]

The joke, that's what.

[#709 :]

What joke? I don't get it.

[#710 :]

My statements above were exaggerations to mess with FuturamaPac, now let's just leave it be and get back to talking about actual shippy stuff.

[#711 :]

i have a question regarding to a shippy photo on TLZ.. i asked the webmaster where the picture was from since it certainly was not in the tv show and he said he thought it was from one of the comics.. the picture i'm refering to is where fry appears to be half naked and they are holding each other and smiling?

anybody know?

[#712 :]

Hmm...i've seen that too. Most likely to be from a comic, although the picture looks slightly different in colour, so it may well be Fan Art of some kind.

[#713 :]

 

Originally posted by gwynhwyfar:
i have a question regarding to a shippy photo on TLZ...

It would be extremely helpful if you could post either the image in point, or a link to it.

[#714 :]

Does anyone else want Fry and Amy back together? I really don't think Fry and Leela suit each other.

[#715 :]

 

Originally posted by MrBlonde:
Does anyone else want Fry and Amy back together? I really don't think Fry and Leela suit each other.

Get out.     

[#716 :]

 

Originally posted by SpaceCase:
 

Originally posted by gwynhwyfar:
i have a question regarding to a shippy photo on TLZ...

It would be extremely helpful if you could post either the image in point, or a link to it.

to cold.. i agree!

[#717 :]

That's either a comic picture or fan-art. It's not in any of the comics I've seen though but I live in Australia and were like 10 issues behind everyone else.

[#718 :]

The image came from the comic 12, "Sideshow Fry". There is a Russian Futurama website that has many Futurama Comics, including this particular issue. Unfortunately, all the comics are rewritten in Russian, so for non-Russian readers, the comics are like picture books. The url to this site is http://www.futuramer.ru.

[#719 :]

thanks!