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vovatJust finished watching the last two Futurama episodes, and here are my reviews:
All the Presidents' Heads - The show has done a few different time-travel episodes before (even though I think the writers originally didn't want to do any), but this one had enough new and funny material to it to make it worthwhile. In fact, in terms of sheer humor value, it's probably one of the better ones this season. Between the running gag of people in previous centuries thinking Bender was various metal objects, the jokes on different cities and the silly plot devices they used to get different colonial figures into the mix, and the altered British-ruled future, this episode was a lot of fun. We also learn more about how head-in-a-jar technology works, even if it WAS just technobabble. If Professor Farnsworth used up all the powdered crystalline opal in the crew's time trips, does this mean no more heads will be preserved? Well, maybe they'll find another source somewhere. I doubt it will be addressed in later episodes. I wonder how Ron Popeil first discovered its properties of preservation. Also, it was an amusing bit of continuity when Dr. Cahill called Fry Lars.
Mobius Dick - The main impression I got from this one is that it must have been well-paced, because they managed to cram a lot of story into twenty-odd minutes. It was also resolved pretty well at the end. Not quite as funny as "All the Presidents' Heads," but the flashbacks to an earlier time in the future were amusing, as was Leela's Ahab-esque obsession with killing the whale. I'm also glad it gave us a large dose of science fiction themes, particularly the space whale itself and its four-dimensional digestive system. I'm going to have to check and see if any of the spaceships in the Bermuda Tetrahedron were references to anything in particular; I couldn't help feeling that they were, but didn't recognize any of them offhand. Okay, I checked, and they're all listed here, as is a continuity error that I didn't catch while actually watching the show: Dr. Zoidberg was said to have only been working at Planet Express for ten years back in "Insane in the Mainframe." Well, maybe he was fired and rehired. I don't know.
All the Presidents' Heads - The show has done a few different time-travel episodes before (even though I think the writers originally didn't want to do any), but this one had enough new and funny material to it to make it worthwhile. In fact, in terms of sheer humor value, it's probably one of the better ones this season. Between the running gag of people in previous centuries thinking Bender was various metal objects, the jokes on different cities and the silly plot devices they used to get different colonial figures into the mix, and the altered British-ruled future, this episode was a lot of fun. We also learn more about how head-in-a-jar technology works, even if it WAS just technobabble. If Professor Farnsworth used up all the powdered crystalline opal in the crew's time trips, does this mean no more heads will be preserved? Well, maybe they'll find another source somewhere. I doubt it will be addressed in later episodes. I wonder how Ron Popeil first discovered its properties of preservation. Also, it was an amusing bit of continuity when Dr. Cahill called Fry Lars.
Mobius Dick - The main impression I got from this one is that it must have been well-paced, because they managed to cram a lot of story into twenty-odd minutes. It was also resolved pretty well at the end. Not quite as funny as "All the Presidents' Heads," but the flashbacks to an earlier time in the future were amusing, as was Leela's Ahab-esque obsession with killing the whale. I'm also glad it gave us a large dose of science fiction themes, particularly the space whale itself and its four-dimensional digestive system. I'm going to have to check and see if any of the spaceships in the Bermuda Tetrahedron were references to anything in particular; I couldn't help feeling that they were, but didn't recognize any of them offhand. Okay, I checked, and they're all listed here, as is a continuity error that I didn't catch while actually watching the show: Dr. Zoidberg was said to have only been working at Planet Express for ten years back in "Insane in the Mainframe." Well, maybe he was fired and rehired. I don't know.
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Date: 2011-08-08 11:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-09 10:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-09 06:53 pm (UTC)...Unless I completely missed something in the episode, which is also possible. Or maybe I'm just taking characterization too seriously for a comedic cartoon. :P
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Date: 2011-08-09 10:41 pm (UTC)Maybe you should just have some Sherbert Hoover.
I guess it's because nothing in Leela's previous characterization made me think she'd ever want to kill a whale, given prior incidents like her refusal to kill a penguin even when they were severely overpopulated.
Also, she tried to adopt a queen space bee, which led to her going into a coma. I guess her obsession with making the delivery was just supposed to be so strong as to overwhelm her usual love for animals. Also, whales seem to be very unpopular in the Futurama universe, considering that they use whale oil to power their cars.