Excellent Episode (no spoilers)

With all the crap on Fox, I can't see how anyone there wouldn't want to find a better timeslot for it.

That was a fantastic, original episode...

Sigh.

nathan

Leaving Hope wrote:

Ditto. The main storyline was great because we got to learn something new about a character, the Bender storyline was funny (as usual), and the end was quite touching. I loved the animation and camera angles as well.

I'm going to re-watch it again to read all of the signs in the background and gather some stuff for the capsule. Good episode this week, no doubt about it. Makes me wish I could watch the show every Sunday...

"Tom Georgoulias" wrote in message

I noticed that the animation seemed slightly above what they usually do, and I find Futurama to be some of the best animation on TV already.

Or maybe it wasn't really the animation, but they seemed to try a few new 'daring' ideas as far as the camera goes...

nathan

Leaving Hope wrote:

Yeah, it was mostly the camera, but little touches in the animation here and there really made a difference. Like the water pouring out of a drum and falling onto their heads, or the ripples in the sewage as Leela chased the cloaked people (staying in the no-spoilage vein). That was attention to detail.

Loved the shot when they took the camera from way up high and dove directly down through the man hole and into the sewer. Too cool! Tom

On or about Mon, 18 Feb 2002 02:58:33 GMT, Tom Georgoulias made the sensational claim that:

Speaking of that, did anyone else notice the manhole (&associated cover) was missing in at least one of the wide shots of the street & Planett Express building?

On Mon, 18 Feb 2002 02:58:33 GMT, Tom Georgoulias wrote:

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I noticed that they saved themselves a bit of time by using computer animation to do the overhead shot of the pursuing mob. Nothing particularly wrong with that, but it did sort of stand out.

in article [email], Geoduck at [email] wrote on 2/19/02 10:55 AM:

Computer animation saves time?

In article , "petben" wrote:

Sometimes it can, but not often. In the case of the shot in question, only two or three individual mutants would need to be animated. The crowd can then be created by duplicating the mutant animation so that most of them start on different frames and then programming the crowd to move along a path against a static background. It's a lot like programming a sprite-based video game.

I liked last night's episode! I've always thought Leela was an alien who's parents were killed. I was surprised to find out that Leela was really a mutant from the sewers. It was understandable why Leela's parents were ashamed to keep her.

On 18 Feb 2002 16:22:58 GMT, [email] (Wishkah273) wrote:

Someone posted a screen grab from "I Second That Emotion" which clearly showed two mutants with one eye each. The woman bore a resemblance to Leela. I pretty much figured that she was an earth mutant.

If a new species showed up on earth, there would be record of their being here. After 25 years, or however old Leela really is, there would probably be a second contact and Leela would have found their home world.

To me that kind of minute foreshadowing is what makes Futurama so much better than most of what we see on tv. It's also what is killing the show in the important "you have to hit us with hammers just to get our attention" market.

I don't remember who posted the screen grab or I would certainly give them credit. A Google search would probably find it, but "do I look like a guy who's not lazy?"

--Larry

On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Wishkah273 stated this considered view. Waking from my doze, I hastily scrawled -

Odd though - a simple DNA test would show she wasn't from a different species, and its almost impossible to believe that she'd never been tested.

Its plausible that aliens could have human DNA or slightly mutated human DNA, I suppose.

"Paul Hyett" wrote in message news:$[email]...

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On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 18:26:43 GMT, "Lex3001" wrote:

Unless one alien race actually seeded many planets billions of years ago, the odds are about zero.

It can (and has) been argued pretty conclusively that DNA or a molecule very similar must be present for life as we now know it. However, the actual code is semi arbitrary. What amino acid has what three letter sequence etc, would be very different.

However, life on earth could have been seeded with primitive bacteria in the first place, the code hasn't changed since then. Star Trek, Larry Niven's Known Space and many others have used that supposition.

It's very likely that the differences in biochemistry would make earth life toxic to aliens. Buzz Aldrin, for one, pointed that out in "Encounter with Tiber".

Since Leela's DNA is mutated, perhaps the machines couldn't read it. Or perhaps the alien note (has anyone decoded that yet?) she had with her convinced them that she was an alien, so they just never bothered to test her.

--Larry

I haven't decoded it yet, but the parent's tell you what it says in the ep. I have forgotten -- something like "we will always love you."

There are some other references out there that believe humans are aliens -- I think in the book "The 12th Planet" for example, but don't quote me on that.

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