Alt Tv Rewind

PetrazickisJul 27, 2003, 9:53 PM ET

Well, it's better than /Bend Her/.:)

The robot rampage background music was excellent and Amy's new hairdo was every bit as cute as she claimed.

BTW, since when are there Jungle on Earth?;)

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Punkass CrabJul 28, 2003, 2:25 AM ET↩ Petrazickis

"Petrazickis" wrote in message news:1p%Ua.1138$[email]...

Is a fake-out upgrade fantasy more or less annoying with more or fewer shockers and inconsistencies? They could have made some cliffhanger clips for Fox promotion of this episode (snuk), like apparently killing off a main character, but that would have made the twist at the end more obnoxious. Still, you'd think they would have played it up more. The idea that robots would suffer psychological effects from upgrades is an interesting one, to me at least.

And didn't the fantasyland ending seem a bit Simpsonesque, like winking sturgeon or kloroform kloud koalas? Tinkerbell giving Bender a light made it a little better than the Simpson endings, but not by much. Was it all an upgrade subfantasy? Suffering the 'gradies? Tripping 2.0? Patch drunk?

--Punkass Crab

PetrazickisJul 28, 2003, 2:32 AM ET↩ Punkass Crab

It reminded me a lot of the recent Fry-in-a-coma episode.:)

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VoVatJul 28, 2003, 2:50 PM ET↩ Petrazickis

"Petrazickis" wrote in message news:Vu3Va.1230$[email]...

made it

Agreed. If they hadn't just done an it's-all-a-dream episode recently (not to mention an alternate-reality episode), I think I might have liked this one better. It was still pretty good, though. I liked the obsolete robots.

I missed "Bend Her," by the way. That didn't turn out to be a dream, too, did it?

Nathan

PetrazickisJul 28, 2003, 6:28 PM ET↩ VoVat

No, but it would have made more sense as a dream. Don't fret too much over missing it.:)

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Rev. Bleech_Jul 28, 2003, 4:28 AM ET↩ Punkass Crab

On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 23:25:24 -0700, "Punkass Crab" spewed forth:

You know, a few episodes this season have made me wonder if maybe it was cancelled at just the right time. This episode was just sort of obnoxious.

JonesJul 28, 2003, 10:29 AM ET↩ Rev. Bleech_

On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 08:28:13 GMT, Rev. Bleech_ wrote:

It seemed to be a fun story idea that got lost somewhere around wood-downgrade.

But then, I just got around to seeing the X-men movie for the first time earlier in the day (the annoying FX "DVD on TV" garbage filled version that tries to push the DVD sales) so maybe I was primed for a super-class schism war with future of the 'norms' hanging in the balance.

[Okay, calling the Futurama robots - either revision - members of a "super class" may be pushing things a bit. ;-]

The da Vinci sub was nice, though.

-Jones

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Doug TabaccoJul 28, 2003, 8:22 PM ET↩ Rev. Bleech_

"Rev. Bleech_" wrote in message news:[email]...

This 'season' is a jumble of episodes from the past two real seasons that got preempted in their original airtimes. This isn't a real season, it's parts of 3acv and 4acv.

Rev. Bleech_Jul 29, 2003, 2:19 AM ET↩ Doug Tabacco

On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 00:22:46 GMT, "Doug Tabacco" spewed forth:

I know that. Doesn't change the fact that 4ACV is spotty as hell. Seems to be either great episodes or forgettable ones, feast or famine

Benjamin RobinsonJul 31, 2003, 9:31 PM ET↩ Rev. Bleech_

In alt.tv.futurama, on the "Re: Obsoletely Fabulous" thread, Rev. Bleech_ wrote:

I've seen this before; the show's honeymoon is over. A show that's popular enough to last for four seasons can do no wrong in the first three. Every new episode is great, shows new sides of the characters, and is the best show of its type on TV. During or shortly after the fourth season, dissent sets in. Fans start to fall into different factions arguing over what direction the show should take. Every now and then an episode is deemed to be a clinker, "but we're sure they'll be back in form next week." By the start of the fifth season, out come the wolves.

The episodes were seeing now were intended to be part of "Futurama's" fourth season, and right on schedule we're seeing some debates over the merits of new episodes. Had the show survived, alt.tv.futurama would probably have divided into "old school" and "new school" camps, much as "The Simpsons" did around the same time.

Rev. Bleech_Aug 1, 2003, 1:29 AM ET↩ Benjamin Robinson

On Fri, 01 Aug 2003 01:31:02 GMT, [email] (Benjamin Robinson) spewed forth:

Yeah, but unlike "Simpson Tide" and afterwards, they still have some greats mixed in with the clunkers at least.

YamaJul 28, 2003, 1:34 PM ET↩ Petrazickis

Petrazickis wrote:

They weren't on Earth, they were in Bender's oneiric trance.

ProginoskesJul 29, 2003, 1:29 AM ET↩ Petrazickis

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