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davierocks
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To be honest the fact that Leela was a mutant didn't have a huge impact on me, although I couldn't see it coming, I was not really shocked by it. I think this was just a one episode thing that didn't really have much of an impact on the series as a whole.
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zoidyzoid
Professor
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Originally posted by Venus: Besides, i actually like her parents, and i like to see her interact with them. I hope they show up in the comics. I think they make an appearence in #11? Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
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Beamer
DOOP Secretary
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Well, you didn't do a very good edit of it - it still says "teh" instead of "the".
Anyway, Leela's parents can be quite pathetic and lame, although her father was pretty funny in TMLH. I don't really have any strong feelings either way over Leela being a mutant - although I would've prefered it if she was an alien instead.
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Teral
Helpy McHelphelp
DOOP Secretary
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« Reply #12 on: 11-02-2003 13:55 »
« Last Edit on: 11-02-2003 13:55 »
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Originally posted by KurtPikachu2001: What did everyone think when they first learned Leela was a sewer mutant? I think the words "paranoid denial" best covers it. You've all heard me rant about this in countless threads scattered around "Human Resource Dep", so I'll keep it brief this time. Leela found out about her origin way too early, and making her a mutant didn't sit well with me. One of the most interesting aspects of Leela was her alien origin, making her an outsider in society (yes, I know she's still an outsider, sort of, in the normal world, but the difference is she now has a people she belong to) and her quest for finding her origin was never cashed in on, even though it could make for a great story arch. Plus "hot alien babe" sounds so much better than "hot mutant babe".
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SubPar_Penguin
Crustacean
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hey' did anyone notice in the empathy chip episode that you see leela's parents?? watch the dvd with audio commentary, if you have it
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Teral
Helpy McHelphelp
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Yeah, that's usually the explanation, but the long production time for Futurama speak against it. The script for "Leela's Homeworld" was written back in early 2001 (at least one draft is from February 2001 (hjs can confirm this, she has the script)), meaning the decision to have "Leela's Homeworld" as a 4ACV episode was taken sometime during late 2000, a long time before any rumors of cancellation had surfaced. Granted FOX had been sluggish about their support for the show and the crew probably had a hunch that the number of seasons wouldn't reach rival the Simpsons, but there's quite a way from "hard sailing" to "wrap all archs up in a hurry".
I'm mostly disappointed about the lack of stories about her origin. I mean, it's a pretty important part of her character, and they made a big deal out of it in SP3K, so it's not something you can just drop, like they did with the career chips. Not that I didn't like "Leela's Homeworld", I love it, just the feel of a missed oppurtunity that forever will bug me.
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Allen
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I hold utter contempt Leela's parents. They made one good decision and that was letting her go. I firmly believe if she'd lived with them, she would not be the woman we know and love. They were willing to let their daughter kill them so she would never discover who she was. Traumatize her even more why don't you? They're also so pathetic, it's unbelievable. "Save us if you feel like it." I couldn't like the ending because I was still mad at what they had almost done. If not for Fry, the girl really would be an orphan.
One of the things Leela had in common with Fry was that they both had no family. Now Leela has a family. Fry still has to cope with his family being long gone.
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SweetShrimp
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I'm not really sure how I feel about Leela's parent's decision to "abandon" her to the surface. On the one hand, Leela spent most of her life feeling alone, and abandoned, and in the end, all she wants is her family. But on the other hand, Allen makes a point about how Leela would've turned out had she been raised with parents. Being alone sort of forced her to develop her emotional (and possibly physical) strength. Plus, what kind of life would she have had living with the mutants. To quote Amy: "Splech!"
As far as her origin, it didn't really make much difference to me where she came from. Alien, mutant, either way, she ends up with one eye.
And personally, I like her parents. They just seem really sweet, if a little on the pathetic side at times, but they always mean well.
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SweetShrimp
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Originally posted by Venus: i don't know if i would call it emotional strength, i think of it more as a huge emotional wall. A little bit of this, a little bit of that... I say "emotional strength" 'cause...well, the girl can take a lot of crap. The emotional wall is there too, she's even confessed that she has a tendancy to bottle feelings up, and that was probably developed at the same time as her strength. And I agree with you with the parents letting her hold her at gunpoint. They probably hoped that she would accept the story that they killed her parents, kill them, and be on her way. But more than likely, she would've unmasked them...now that I think about it, why didn't her parents consider that? Ah well, I guess you can only think so clearly while being held at gunpoint by your daughter.
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Teral
Helpy McHelphelp
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Aww, you're making me blush FC. I agree with Chance, a laser gun at full power would most likely have vaporised the Turangas. I mean Leela is pretty steamed, she think she has her parents killers in front of her, she'd probably blasted them to smithereens. Then again, would Leela really have pulled the trigger? I'd like to think she wouldn't. Originally posted by David A: I guess you're not an X-Men fan, huh Teral? No, they're freaks and should be kept underground. Actually I never saw the movie until recently. Pretty good and Jean Grey were definetely cute.
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