We Shall Undercome

[vovat]

This week was pretty uneventful, although I guess working for the first time in a while counts for something. It's not very interesting, though. bethje and I were going to go to the Constitution Center in Philadelphia, but she had the audacity to get sick! Can you believe that? :P No, seriously, she's getting better, but we don't know when we might try that outing again. I had to return the books I'd checked out from the library before I'd finished them, which kind of sucks. I'll have to check them out again if I ever go back to that library. Also, here's a Futurama review.


Futurama: The Mutants Are Revolting - The hundredth episode of Futurama is marked by the hundredth delivery by Planet Express, the length of time it took to get this far being alluded to with Hermes' comment about averaging only ten deliveries per year. Really, that's kind of difficult to accept, even if we're only counting deliveries made with the current crew, but that's a minor gripe. They also made a potentially significant change with the sewer mutants being granted the right to come above ground. I have to suspect it's not going to change the status quo that much, as most of the mutants might well remain in the sewers because it's the only life they know, but it does open the potential for new stories involving them. Good episode overall, and a good way to end the season (such as it is). They're airing a new one in December, right?

Comments

[vilajunkie.livejournal.com]

I'm kinda surprised Leela doesn't have a tail OR tentacle arms, since I would think she'd inherit one or both of them from her mom. She inherited the cyclopean eye, after all. Also, just thinking about this now, with all the aliens roaming around New New York City, I'm confused why the mutants wouldn't be accepted by society.

[bethje.livejournal.com]

I think that Leela is just supposed to be seen as genetically fortunate not to have inherited anything other than the cyclops characteristic from her parents. Well, maybe she carries the other things.

[vilajunkie.livejournal.com]

Maybe she has an octopussoir and we just haven't seen it yet. /"Drawn Together" reference

[vovat.livejournal.com]

I guess her singing boil would count as another mutation.

[vilajunkie.livejournal.com]

Ah! I forgot about that. And, I just finally saw the episode last night (Monday). Which was really interesting, because the night before they showed the episode with the other Titanic, the one where Bender met his countess girlfriend. I'm actually kind of surprised that in either episode, the writers didn't throw in a "Starship Titanic" reference from Douglas Adams' text adventure game. I guess it's a little too obscure of a reference for the general audience, or Groening isn't much of a H2G2/Adams fan. I don't remember him putting in any other H2G2 references in the show, and there's ripe opportunity with possible Marvin the Paranoid Android gags.