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Post by Captain Hygiene on Aug 20, 2010 18:25:32 GMT -5
The newest episode is the best of the season, and an all-time classic. Almost every scene had a great moment, and Scruffy had his best scene ever. Great quotes ("Science can't move forward without heaps!"), great cameos, and great use of every character, especially Zoidberg in Fry's body.
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Post by angilasman on Aug 21, 2010 9:42:17 GMT -5
They've really gotten back in the groove these last few episodes.
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Post by Captain Hygiene on Aug 29, 2010 11:17:29 GMT -5
I was more mixed about this past episode, with Lrrr having a midlife crisis. I loved the self-referential bits at Comic-Con (and Matt Groening and David Cohen's cameos), and the Orson Welles/War of the Worlds bits were great. I just didn't really like the main Lrrr story all that well; relegating him to a sad sack character crashing on the main characters' couch. It seemed like the kind of second-tier character story you do when you're out of ideas. I've enjoyed all of this season's episodes more upon rewatching, however, so I'll give it another chance later.
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Post by angilasman on Aug 29, 2010 14:03:30 GMT -5
I thought it was an okay episode (and it gets major points for having Sergio Aragones and his magnificent mustache in it) but the highlights for this season have been The Late Phillip J. Fry and Prisoner of Bend, two of the greatest episodes the series has produced!
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Post by mrcleveland on Aug 29, 2010 19:00:13 GMT -5
I saw the new "Futurama"!
I'm sooooo damn glad that it's on again!
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Post by Captain Hygiene on Sept 8, 2010 8:41:55 GMT -5
I only recently found out that the season would be split in half, and last week's episode was the last we'll see for a while. Overall, I liked the season a lot, and here's some sort of approximate ranking*:
All-time classics: The Prisoner of Benda - could have been just a weak "goofy accident of the week" episode, but great writing, voice acting, and mathematical rigor turned it into one of the all-time funniest episodes.
The Late Philip J. Fry - so many hilarious moments, a typically great science fiction concept, and a classic Futurama emotional arc that stands with the most moving episodes.
Good to great:
Lethal Inspection - in the running for an all-time great, another very funny episode that features a classic emotional ending that fits in well with some of the previous great episodes.
Proposition Infinity - arguably one of the funniest episodes of the season, the only thing holding it back in my mind was the random change of Bender and Amy's characterization just to serve a kinda weak satirical story. Ignoring the overall problems with the plot, almost everything that actually happened in the episode was absolutely hilarious.
Rebirth - Hilarious from the first lines (Fry: "Why is...those things?"), and pretty consistently hilarious all the way through.
A Clockwork Origin - Consistently hilarious central storyline, although (like several of the other episodes this season), the short storyline that surrounds it is somewhat weak satire.
The Duh-Vinci Code - Solidly funny, with some good parodies of the Da Vinci Code movie, Zoidberg being useful once again, and some great bits of Leonardo Da Vinci being harassed by uber-intelligent jocks on his home planet.
The Mutants Are Revolting - Consistently funny, with a great ending line by Zoidberg, and the Land Titanic being one of my favorite ideas on the show, the main thing holding this back is that it isn't quite where the celebratory 100th episode should be. The idea of Planet Express only doing 100 deliveries in the last ten years was hilarious, but it never really went anywhere beyond that.
In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela - Not quite as great overall, but absolutely worthwhile for the Rocky Jones-era bits about Zapp Brannigan. The rest of the episode improved a lot watching it a second time, too.
Okay: Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences - As I mentioned in my short review, there were a couple of great moments in this episode, but the overall story just felt weak, and I didn't really like the use of Lrrr too well.
That Darn Katz! - I haven't gotten the chance to rewatch this one. It was decent on the first viewing, and may go up in my rankings once I get a chance to see it again, but for now I think of it as a decent episode.
Attack of the Killer App - One of the more mixed episodes, some great moments mixed with some weaker ideas (Susan Boil!) and gross-out ideas. Decently funny overall (again, funnier the second time) but not one of the greats.
--- Overall, the season was a blast, and reminded me very much of season 4 - several all-time classics, several "meh" episodes, and the remainder pretty consistently funny. The one thing I noticed throughout this season was that the story arcs satirizing modern culture were often pretty weak and contrived (much like modern Simpsons), but otherwise good writing made most of the episodes worthwhile. As a whole, much better than I'd hoped the resurrected show would be, and I can't wait for the remaining episodes.
*subject to change without notice
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Post by angilasman on Sept 8, 2010 13:02:34 GMT -5
^I remember a few minutes into Prisoner of Benda thinking: "Oh, what a tired plot. Every comedic Sci Fi thing has done this," then a few minutes later I realized just how far they were going to go with it.
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Post by Trumpy's Magic Snout on Sept 9, 2010 8:49:03 GMT -5
Have to agree with CH's assessment. Some classics and some not so great moments but it's just great to have one of the smartest, funniest shows on TV back doing its thing.
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Post by Mr. Atari on Sept 9, 2010 11:14:16 GMT -5
I just watched the superhero episode from season 4 again ("Less Than Hero"), and was blown away by the brilliant dialogue in that episode.
"No, Fry! You can't fall fast enough!"
"Bad news, nobody! The super-collider super-exploded. I need you to take it back and exchange it for a wobbly CD rack and some of those rancid meatballs."
LEELA: "We have to keep our identities secret!" FRY:"From everybody?" LEELA:"ESPECIALLY from everybody?" FRY:"Give several reasons why."
"Nine, ten, a big fat hen."
I also caught "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings", and realized just how great the show used to be. That's not to say the return hasn't been great. But it hasn't been as tight in terms of dialogue humor or plotting as the classics.
I also prefer crazy, out-there, math-based science fiction to the issue-based stuff. Which means I loved "The Prisoner of Benda" and "The Late Phillip J. Fry", but was less impressed with "Proposition Infinity" or "A Clockwork Origin". Not that I disagreed with the sentiments, I just think it lessens the fun of the show when it works so hard to make a moralizing point instead of pushing the limits of crazy.
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Post by BJ on May 8, 2011 17:21:09 GMT -5
I watched Bender's Big Score last night, and made this wallpaper out of the credits sequence. Some people had already made something similar, but I thought Leela's pose was off. Anyway, I thought I'd dig up this thread and share. I also noticed that Windows does odd things if you set a wallpaper by using the right click menu on an icon. Long story short, you always want to go through the control panel/display selection, or otherwise you can get nasty compression artifacts on the desktop. Stupid Vista.
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Post by Crowfan on May 17, 2011 11:12:29 GMT -5
New episodes start in June!!!!
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Post by georgewendt on May 27, 2011 18:49:03 GMT -5
I LOVE Futurama. I saw most of the new episodes last summer except for the last few, but I finally got around to it today with the help of Netflix. Also, the great thing about the dvd's is the commentaries on every episode. I always find it interesting to listen to them.
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Post by IPTC on May 27, 2011 20:10:25 GMT -5
I'm kind of glad they got rid of the kids. They were annoying. I can't wait to see new episodes but the way they have been going it might just be 1 or 2 episodes and then 6 months of no Futurama.
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Post by torgortega on May 27, 2011 20:22:14 GMT -5
I'm kind of glad they got rid of the kids. They were annoying. I can't wait to see new episodes but the way they have been going it might just be 1 or 2 episodes and then 6 months of no Futurama. Wait, they got rid off Dwight and Cubert?
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Post by Don Quixote on May 27, 2011 21:34:04 GMT -5
I thought we were supposed to hate Cubert. Wasn't he supposed to be the show's Wesley analogue?
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