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Dr.Oblivious posted:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjNw75bJyuM You bastard!  Both episodes were good, though I doubt either of them will be all that close to the best episodes for this half season when it's all over with. Yay, Futurama's back!
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So, did anyone accuse the "Who can drink more Arsenic? Test inconclusive" thing of being straight from the mouth of GlaDOS? If so, I missed it.
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Stonefish posted:So, did anyone accuse the "Who can drink more Arsenic? Test inconclusive" thing of being straight from the mouth of GlaDOS? If so, I missed it. It was sulphur at first where the rock alien said "test inconclusive". Then he decided not to bother with the arsenic test when someone (the professor?) said "just ask us questions!". So I'm gonna go with it not being a GlaDOS thing, and more of a "I don't understand humans don't like to drink chemicals" thing.
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Jun 24, 2011 13:59
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A greater spectacle than the premiere of Futurama my eyes have never seen. ... ... Welp, into the turlet.
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I got my roommates, who have never seen Futurama, to watch the full one hour premier with me last night. They reacted much better to the first episode, where they seemed to laugh pretty hard at the gags, and weren't so enamored with the second episode. I, as a long time fan, agree with most people here that the second was overall better than the first. The important thing is that both episodes were high enough quality to spark interest in the new watchers, and we will be doing a full marathon or at least a best of with three new fans. I'm doing my part for Ol' Freebie!  
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Jun 24, 2011 14:18
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I thought both episodes were great (or awesome, awesome to the max) for what their concepts sound like on paper. Gender swapping all the characters sounds really cliched to me for some reason, so I'm glad it didn't happen until the third act. And Bender just seems to be a little over exposed, but once they stopped being characters and started to be plot elements the episode went from something boring to something interesting.
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I want to voice that I'm legit upset that the thread title isn't "Welp, into the turlet".
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Jun 24, 2011 15:14
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The gender poo poo was stupid (with the exception of the professors titties flapping in the wind), the Banach Tarski grey goo was awesome.
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Jun 24, 2011 15:29
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I did not at all expect a gray goo scenario episode to arise the way it did. I was pleasantly surprised.
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I enjoyed both episodes, but preferred Benderama, which is probably one of the better eps they've done. Neutopia wasn't great, but it was redeemed in the second half by throwing taste to the wind and showing some of the most awful images ever drawn. Glorious.
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Did anyone notice the professor's girlfriend from the episode with the tax rebate just hanging out in the background? She wasn't doing anything, she was just kinda...there. It was weird. And the grey goo is severely underused in sci-fi.
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SlothfulCobra posted:And the grey goo is severely underused in sci-fi. I suspect that this is because when you start to think about grey goo hard enough to write a story about it you realize that it already exists and is called 'bacteria'.
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Anyone else get a Matrix Revolutions vibe from the fight at the end of Benderama? I thought of it instantly when the giant nerd did the slow motion punch to Giant Bender(s)' face and all the debris sprayed, and then thought of it again when the giant nerd had the grayness take him over starting from the center of his chest.
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reflir posted:I suspect that this is because when you start to think about grey goo hard enough to write a story about it you realize that it already exists and is called 'bacteria'. Not quite. The bigger problem is that it's an interesting concept but how the hell do you write a plot about it? Neo_Reloaded posted:Anyone else get a Matrix Revolutions vibe from the fight at the end of Benderama? I thought of it instantly when the giant nerd did the slow motion punch to Giant Bender(s)' face and all the debris sprayed That's a Raging Bull reference, same as when it appeared in Raging Bender
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SlothfulCobra posted:Did anyone notice the professor's girlfriend from the episode with the tax rebate just hanging out in the background? She wasn't doing anything, she was just kinda...there. It was weird.
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Vogon Poet posted:Also, she was skinny in this episode (recall that in the tax rebate episode she was actually morbidly obese). Did she have her navel ring in?
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Jun 24, 2011 19:27
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Just watched both episodes, as I had DVRed them from each other. This is what I saw, and thought drat that's a neat trick.
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haveblue posted:Did she have her navel ring in?
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I think she did have the navel ring. Gotta hand it to her, she did lose an awful lot of weight.
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Jun 24, 2011 19:39
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I guess I was kinda disappointed in the first episode because it did away with characterization for nearly all of the characters. Leela has never been a girly girl but suddenly she's really stereotypical. All the female characters just got transformed into generic girls, and that sucked. It would have been more fun to see them still be themselves. And yeah, the pacing sucked. But what's up with all the modern-day references in the newer episodes? Nicholas Cage is apparently still making movies and Desperate Housewives is on TV? It was more fun when they tried to "futurize" stuff a little more. Still, I think it was a promising beginning! I look forward to more.
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Finally got around to watching the episodes. I thought the first was a little rushed toward the end, but I really did enjoy the 3rd act. I liked Benderama much more, full of laughs, Patton Oswalt, and plenty of Bender with a touch of Scruffy. This season is going to be good.
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Ekplixi posted:But what's up with all the modern-day references in the newer episodes? Nicholas Cage is apparently still making movies and Desperate Housewives is on TV? It was more fun when they tried to "futurize" stuff a little more. The show has always been like that. I can't think of any great examples off the top of my head from the first run, but it happened all the time. It's a comedy cartoon written by people in the present for viewers in the present.
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Jun 24, 2011 22:20
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Also its just Nick Cage's head.
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Jun 24, 2011 22:27
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Remember when it was supposed to be the Simpsons in the future?
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robot roll call posted:The show has always been like that. I can't think of any great examples off the top of my head from the first run, but it happened all the time. It's a comedy cartoon written by people in the present for viewers in the present. Yeah, it did. Like "I can feel myself fading away... like Greg Kinnear"
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robot roll call posted:The show has always been like that. I can't think of any great examples off the top of my head from the first run, but it happened all the time. It's a comedy cartoon written by people in the present for viewers in the present. The Alley McBeal episode. ... having lots of sex.
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IUG posted:The Alley McBeal episode. That one made sense scientifically, though. Sort of.
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Aphrodite posted:That one made sense scientifically, though. In hindsight that episode still works, and yes, the 1,000 years of travel time works too (for those who don't know, Lrrr's planet is exactly 1,000 light years away). However, it's still importing pop culture into Futurama. However, I don't see the iPhone episode getting any better over time.
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IUG posted:In hindsight that episode still works, and yes, the 1,000 years of travel time works too (for those who don't know, Lrrr's planet is exactly 1,000 light years away). However, it's still importing pop culture into Futurama. However, I don't see the iPhone episode getting any better over time. Yeah, but the question was about why the Planet Express cast that are not Fry know about present pop culture. In that case I think the others actually don't know about the show, just Fry.
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IUG posted:In hindsight that episode still works, and yes, the 1,000 years of travel time works too (for those who don't know, Lrrr's planet is exactly 1,000 light years away). However, it's still importing pop culture into Futurama. However, I don't see the iPhone episode getting any better over time. John Dough posted:Then again, it's hard to see that one get worse over time, either. The Ally McBeal episode works so well because it's not really a reference to the show itself as much as it's a reference to the total hysteria that occurred around it. I think the new episodes are getting really close to being way too topical, and have definitely crossed into that (Kardashian joke) at least a couple of times. Overall I'm enjoying the new episodes though.
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Inspector_71 posted:The Ally McBeal episode works so well because it's not really a reference to the show itself as much as it's a reference to the total hysteria that occurred around it. There's also the fact that even if you know literally zero about Ally McBeal because it held no interest and/or you were too young, it's still completely enjoyable. Nothing in the episode is diminished by the fact I know nothing about Ally McBeal. "Cough, then fall over dead" is still loving hilarious, as well as all the other jokes. I can't help but feel the new episodes, while still funny, just don't have the same feel to them I guess. But still, any Futurama (even the odd bad episode) is better than no Futurama. But, with the exception of Scruffy, gently caress the eyephone episode, it doesn't exist  :saddownssNinja edit: By new episodes, I mean everything past the movies.
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Inspector_71 posted:I think the new episodes are getting really close to being way too topical, and have definitely crossed into that (Kardashian joke) at least a couple of times. Overall I'm enjoying the new episodes though. Yeah, this. While there were moments of brilliance in these two episodes ("titty much protally fitshaced" had me rolling, and the photoshoot montages were fantastic) there were also way too many really lazy jokes (namedrop/gender/topical one-liners mostly) that just aren't clever or funny. There are enough cartoons like that and I'd rather it stayed out of Futurama. The characters generally seemed to be written like shallow caricatures of themselves, but that's also true of the movies and the first couple of episodes of last season. I wonder if they do this on purpose to try to draw new viewers in? Overall though, new Futurama, farnsworthtittyflap.gif, can't really complain all that much. edit: It's really a shame how unfunny the gender jokes were, compared to how loving hysterical Amazonian Women is no matter how many times you've seen it. wajack fucked around with this message at 01:49 on Jun 25, 2011 |
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I think these two new episodes were just subpar for the season. Every other episode of S6 I absolutely loved to hell and back, and I'm not really a big Futurama guy. When they stopped caring about the job they had to do and explored themselves and the universe, it's awesome. It's kind of why I feel weird about Planet Express being back in business, instead of it being something everyone ignored all day to go check out various random poo poo around town. Maybe the first 13 episodes this season raised my expectations too high, or I have rose colored glasses for them, it's been a while.
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Jun 25, 2011 01:58
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neonnoodle posted:Why were two of the tiny Benders orange? The matter used to make them was an orange crayon, if I recall correctly.
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neonnoodle posted:Why were two of the tiny Benders orange? Because the matter he ate to produce them was an orange Crayola. At least that's what I assumed. Damnit. Patrovsky fucked around with this message at 02:04 on Jun 25, 2011 |
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neonnoodle posted:Why were two of the tiny Benders orange? The only matter that was used to make them was an orange crayon. Edit: wow.
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