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Kernel Monsoon posted:Are we sure that episode wasn't written by AI? Incomprehensible. It wasn't exactly hard to conprehend, though. Honestly, that episode was worse than any given one from Disenchantment.
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Kernel Monsoon posted:Are we sure that episode wasn't written by AI? Incomprehensible. My partner was convinced that the main plot was written by AI. It kinda tracked.
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It was still too coherent for AI. Also, based on the timeliness of these episodes, we shouldn’t expect a Chat GPT themed episode until fall 2025.
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Blind Pineapple posted:It was still too coherent for AI. Also, based on the timeliness of these episodes, we shouldn’t expect a Chat GPT themed episode until fall 2025. Not really. Just asked chatgpt to write an episode that ties three toy parodies into an overarching A-plot and its version was more coherent than the real episode. At least it didn't pull an out of nowhere parody of the Ring with the caharcters from Cars.
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This season has been worth watching once, but never again. Last episode was just wtf, but still had some awesome jokes and wordplay. "This means war!" "War? We don't have that word. But this definitely means peace fighting!!"
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Megillah Gorilla posted:I do not ask what the gently caress was that. I ask why the gently caress was that. Yeah, it wasn't as cringeworthy as the Susan Boil episode but I'm really struggling to understand why anybody thought anything in this episode was worth writing, acting, animating or broadcasting.
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I actually thought Zapp Gets Cancelled was pretty good. Loved DiMaggio as the fake guidance counsellor who also had really funny dialogue and design and Kathy Griffin's cameo was cute considering what happened to her a few years back.
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...man I think this episode broke any sense that the show was brought back for any reason beyond it making money. There aren't any more actual stories to tell in this world, no one piloting the ship has an ambition to do anything interesting with it. At least Archer in it's 20 seasons went balls to the wall with new tropes/settings. Is what it is, which is fine. And expected. But it does make it a pretty hollow watching experience.
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WHY BONER NOW posted:This season has been worth watching once, but never again. Last episode was just wtf, but still had some awesome jokes and wordplay. The one joke I liked was Fry trying to explain the Planet Express free delivery punchcard. "No, so let N be the number of times you've booked a delivery..." is just a funny "the simple process is overcomplicated gag".
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That was the worst episode of the entire show and it isn't close.
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CatstropheWaitress posted:...man I think this episode broke any sense that the show was brought back for any reason beyond it making money. There aren't any more actual stories to tell in this world, no one piloting the ship has an ambition to do anything interesting with it. At least Archer in it's 20 seasons went balls to the wall with new tropes/settings. There's tons of stories left to tell. They just kind of aren't doing them.
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Episode wasn't good.....but it also didn't make me angry like a few CC episodes did. But yeah.....that was all pretty stupid and bizarre.
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Sep 22, 2023 00:18
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LividLiquid posted:That was the worst episode of the entire show and it isn't close. It seems like people keep saying that every episode, and yet they keep watching. Just don’t. I haven’t watched one episode this season, and if this thread is anything to go by, I’m doing myself a service.
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LividLiquid posted:That was the worst episode of the entire show and it isn't close. This isn't even close to correct, the nature documentary anthology of interest episode was easily worse than this one.
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Yeah, Naturama was just... there. I can't remember anything from it other than Bender as an Elephant Seal who's sleeping with all the female characters? I certainly can't think of any jokes it had in the whole episode. But for this anthology, instead of dull, they went for just... I dunno, baffling? Like, they got that the Hot Wheels parody couldn't just be "This is a soulless commercial trying to barrage kids with BUY TOYS" because they did that for the Princess Purpleberry short, and the end result of that is that you get... one joke stretched across the whole sketch. So instead, they made it a Ring parody/slasher film ending on a weird body-horror angle that's just inexplicable. They intersperse characters being hacked to death with jokes about how they can only gain speed by going downhill. Rubber Ducks meet Weebls and it ends with a beach strewn with bodies because gently caress it, why not?
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"That's not aerodynamic enough!" was a great line at least
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Skyl3lazer posted:This isn't even close to correct, the nature documentary anthology of interest episode was easily worse than this one. It was a bit cringey, but it was better than this poo poo heap.
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The Robot marriage episode was my least favourite, it just hosed over bender and amy
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This episode was confusing and bad, but at least it wasn't actively offensive like some of the CC run.
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Honestly I'll keep tuning in every week just because there were one or two this run that have kept my attention or were even mildly entertaining, but I turned the last episode off 1/3 of the way through and I'm not going to hesitate to press the stop button on anything that is just insultingly bad. Love yourself enough to know when to back away 
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Taear posted:The Robot marriage episode was my least favourite, it just hosed over bender and amy That episode had pickled tornadoes and George Takei, it blows this entire season out of orbit
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IUG posted:It seems like people keep saying that every episode, and yet they keep watching. Just don’t. I haven’t watched one episode this season, and if this thread is anything to go by, I’m doing myself a service. poo poo, if Leela's Susan Boyle episode made me tap out, I'd have never seen The Late Phillip J. Fry.
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Scruffy is starting to not believe in this show
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Scruffy the janitor posted:Scruffy is starting to not believe in this show Second
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Between this and the previous episode, I suspect someone on the writer's team has recently read Exhalation by Ted Chiang
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10: All the Way Down The crew investigates whether the universe is a simulation. 
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InsensitiveSeaBass posted:10: All the Way Down Good news, everyone! This episode has a novel concept that has the potential to be very good.
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This season was so weird. Half of it was actually pretty good, two episodes were terrible, three were just kind of boring. That said, it ended on a great note. The quality seems to always pick up when they stick to a premise that actually uses the world they've built. It nailed the uneasy feelings of some of the absolute classics, and had great lines. RIP Baloney Town I hope the second half/next season sticks with what works, because I truly think the show's got a lot more potential, even eight seasons in. Nichael fucked around with this message at 05:52 on Sep 25, 2023 |
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This last one was easily the best one of the season or half-season whatever.
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Sep 25, 2023 05:52
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 I'm trying to think if the writer's room could have used more bodies (which hopefully gets better after the WGA strike ends) or if they're showing their age like on The Simpsons. I liked tonight's episode but I feel like this whole season could have used some polish.
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That was a genuinely great episode. No notes. Edit: Wait, that was the end of the season? I thought they were doing like 20 episodes?
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Yeah that was really good. I had a hunch that they'd do at least one that held up to the show's highest highs. As a whole the season was definitely fairly "half-baked" but overall a little better than the Comedy Central run. I really appreciate that they removed a lot of the crassness that came with that era, for one thing.
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Good episode. Pretty happy. Just still some nitpicks with how it's written but that's all they are.. nitpicks. Like that little bit of dialogue where Leela asks how Bender was in the air that entire time. Why even explain it. No joke could be funnier than just leaving it hanging, no pun intended.
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Jerusalem posted:Edit: Wait, that was the end of the season? I thought they were doing like 20 episodes? Hulu did order 20 episodes; 2x 10 episode seasons. Which is sort of the joke someone, maybe Fry, made on the first episode of this season - binging shows 10 episodes at a time, no more and no less. This is a really small complaint but the role call in the simulation felt really needless. Like how dumb do they think the audience is that we can't discern whose who from the distinct 3 color pixels. Maybe this was originally the first episode and they needed to shoe in who each charade is to remind everyone, then just didn't rewrite it when someone said, "We can't use the best episode as the first episode" But yea otherwise no real complaints, I liked it and it was cute. Sab669 fucked around with this message at 11:35 on Sep 25, 2023 |
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The ending reminded me of "The Late Philip J. Fry" in the way that Bender is now Bender from a higher simulation layer, while old bender is trapped in the lower simulation forever. Very poignant.
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Someone should take morbotron and run it through some pixel algorithm to create an actual simputron that you can search and get tiny pixel versions of the show
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Yeah, that was great. Good concept, good writing, has heart, has jokes, honours the characters. They all get to do their classic jokes but they're recognisably people with emotions too. And Amy gets to be smart without that being what the episode is about! Loved the "Bender leaping" cliffhanger bit. "My first leap missed by a mile...but I never stopped yelling no the whole time," with that self-satisfied delivery was great. Also the mosquito swatting joke, which becomes much funnier when you realise that he just angrily took off his arm and started swatting at Zoidberg with zero stimulus.
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Pretty good. Interestingly, it mostly took place around the conference table with the crew talking sci-fi instead of doing sci-fi.
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PostNouveau posted:Pretty good. Interestingly, it mostly took place around the conference table with the crew talking sci-fi instead of doing sci-fi. Yeah, the pacing was really unusual but it worked for me. It's nice to see a show just do a slow, thoughtful episode when conventional 21 minute screenwriting wisdom says you should be punchy and quick with it.
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