Benders Big Score capsule? [spoilers]

So who's taking the capsule submissions? ;)

I loved the new film, even if only becaue it was new Futurama. I really liked Bender's scripting - nice work keeping him wisecracking even though he was a slave for much of the film.

Was much of the soundtrack taken from the Futurama game? I seemed to recognise a lot of the music.

So, here's my starter list of DYNs (I'm trying to avoid the obvious ones):

Zoidberg uses a free webmail The professors huge telescope only goes up to 4x magnification (and starts at 1x) time almost stops inside the time sphere (giving the operator as much time to state their destination as they need) Benders blanker tape is a head-cleaner, for cleaning cassette players Zylex (from the opening titles) at restaurant before the wedding Leroy (Panucci's?) injuries gradually getting worse a glimpse of the god nebula that sent the time spheres in the final scenes

inconsistencies: When the scammers get Benders email address, Amy's is already on there, but they go to Leela and Amy next. Bender's eyes turn back to black when Fry is escaping into the past Nephew Phillip says his uncle went North on a fishing boat, but Panucci said it was a small freighter. Neptune is shown with two spherical moons and no rings, wikipedia says it has one spherical moon, 12 others and rings.

• Boldra

bakedbeans wrote:

Maybe Neptune changed in 1000 years?

Here's a "sort of" inconsistency: Lars wasn't really doomed, as that applies only to people who travel instantaneously forward through time; he went forward in Michelle's cryogenic capsule. If Lars was doomed, then "original" Fry is as well. (Of course, Lars was probably too dim to realize this.)

-- Don

On Nov 29, 3:51 am, Don Del Grande wrote:

Hello Don - good to see you're still here! I remember reading your posts here back in 2001/2002 :)

I was wondering myself what made someone doomed, but I'm not entirely satisfied with this explanation. Fry *always* travelled instantaneously forward in time, and nobody else ever really did. The Benders and Hermes' body were just waiting in the limestone cavern (Bender could now be millions of years old?). The scammer who first tested the time travel spent the night doubled with himself. They all just waited somewhere off-stage until just after the original disappeared.

At the end of the film the remaining Fry is the one who in went back in time to escape the Scammers and then again for pizza. He has also frozen himself (travelled instantaneously forward) a total of 3 times now, twice for 1000 years and once for 7.95 years. So there is either no correlation between the number of trips backwards/forward and doomediness, or, as you say, Lars got it wrong.

Has anyone had any luck with the "insolvable time formula" yet? I plotted it and it just looked like some superimposed waves ( http://boldra.com/images/paradoxicality%20equation.gif ). I couldn't do anything with the globetrotters "solved" formula, because I don't know what the doom coefficient is :) Do they still have all those maths PhDs on the writing staff?

I'm also still wondering what was so bad about Dwight and LaBarbara being called "Slim". I think I'm missing a joke there. Dwight Slim?

• Boldra

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:37:32 +0100, wrote:

See <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation_of_time>.

Thanks! How did you come across that?

• Boldra

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:56:38 +0100, wrote:

No wizardry involved (and I seem to have run out of Moon sapphires anyway). I just googled for the numbers 9.87 7.53 1.5 and that led me to the Wikipedia entry fast.

Cheers,

Or watch Bite My Shiny Metal X on the DVD extras.

He took Barboados Slim's last name and dropped the Conrad from his real father, Hermes... instead of being Dwight Conrad, he was Dwight Slim.

On Nov 29, 5:37 am, [email] wrote:

wrote:

He took the name of LaBarbara's lover, Barbados Slim. Hermes was sad that his son was no longer Dwight Conrad.

Sad, yes. So where's the joke?

Hermes: "You took his name?? Oh god no! In several ways!"

So essentially my question was, in what *other* ways?

• Boldra

wrote:

So where's the joke?

OH! Right, it's a bit of a puzzler. I guess Hermes is unhappy that: a) Dwight no longer has his name b) The name he chose was that of Hermes's arch-nemesis c) The implication is that Dwight no longer cares about him even though he's still around in head form

Still, I'm not sure that these reasons are enough to warrant "In several ways!" Any other ideas?

Don Del Grande wrote:

But nobody went forward instantaneously through time. It was a one-way time code. That was the whole reason the scammers sent Bender instead of going themselves.

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