If you want characters being merged, see "Put Your Head on My Shoulder."
FUTURAMA: Rebirth
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If you want characters being merged, see "Put Your Head on My Shoulder."
I thought about that, but it's not really the "Tuvix" sort of plot she's asking about. Fry's head is grafted to Amy's shoulder, but they both retain their normal personalities. The episode where Bender shares Leela's emotions is closer, but still not really what she wants.
All Temis said was "merged in a transporter accident." She didn't specify a "Tuvix"-style blend of personalities; that's something you're reading into her words. Unless you've been having a more detailed conversation with her in PM and are therefore qualified to make such definitive assertions about what she wants.
I liked Duh-Vinci - it was imaginative and unexpected. I love the way Futurama manages to make stories out of pretty much any subject matter. Imagination is sorely lacking in sci fi on TV nowadays.
Yeah - they'll go after politics and business as satirical fodder, but they don't seem to directly parody the sf/f stuff they feature. They could easily have ripped into the ridiculous DaVinci Code stuff this week.
Yeah - they'll go after politics and business as satirical fodder, but they don't seem to directly parody the sf/f stuff they feature. They could easily have ripped into the ridiculous DaVinci Code stuff this week.
I noticed what might be a chronology error in "The Duh-Vinci Code." When Fry thinks Leonardo da Vinci is Leonardo DiCaprio, he says he liked him in Titanic but not so much in The Beach. But The Beach came out in 2000, at which point Fry would've been frozen in Applied Cryogenics.
I guess it's possible, though, that DiCaprio's movies survived into the 31st century and Fry got caught up on the movies he missed.
I guess it's possible, though, that DiCaprio's movies survived into the 31st century and Fry got caught up on the movies he missed.
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The ones on video tape didn't survive; they were destroyed during the second coming of Jesus. Must've been DVD/Blu-Ray/Infra-Ray/Holo-Ray and whatever's after that.
Fry spends all of his free time in front of the television. Of course he's seen every movie ever made.
"Lethal Inspection" had some conceptual issues, but it turned out really well. The main thing that gets me is, if Bender's believed himself to be immortal, why was he using a suicide booth when we first met him? (Then again, his professed reason for wanting to commit suicide was that he'd discovered the girders he bent were used to construct suicide booths, suggesting a qualm of conscience, which we now know he doesn't have.)
But overall, it was a strong episode, with lots of fun gags (I liked the Rubik's cubicles, and we even got a Hollywood Squares/Paul Lynde gag worked in) and a good character story at its core. The bonding between Hermes and Bender was cool, a pairing we haven't seen before. And though I immediately guessed that Hermes would turn out to be Inspector #5, and though I find that profoundly contrived and Dickensian, I just didn't see that heartwarming final twist coming -- that Hermes' "error" in approving Bender without a backup unit was actually an act of fatherly compassion that saved Bender from the scrap heap. That was a major "awwwww" moment.
But overall, it was a strong episode, with lots of fun gags (I liked the Rubik's cubicles, and we even got a Hollywood Squares/Paul Lynde gag worked in) and a good character story at its core. The bonding between Hermes and Bender was cool, a pairing we haven't seen before. And though I immediately guessed that Hermes would turn out to be Inspector #5, and though I find that profoundly contrived and Dickensian, I just didn't see that heartwarming final twist coming -- that Hermes' "error" in approving Bender without a backup unit was actually an act of fatherly compassion that saved Bender from the scrap heap. That was a major "awwwww" moment.
This one should be on the DVR for me by now.
Has anyone tried DVRing the later Thursday night/Wednesday morning repeat of the new eps? Is the repeat also off a couple minutes like the first airing?
Has anyone tried DVRing the later Thursday night/Wednesday morning repeat of the new eps? Is the repeat also off a couple minutes like the first airing?
One could argue that Bender was using the suicide booth precisely because he believed he was immortal. He seems awfully carefree about suicide booths.
Agree on all counts.
Yep, that's how it went for me too. I'd just assumed had screwed up and was covering himself. I was glad to be surprised.
This is the best new Futurama so far.
As far as the actual gags went, "They have phones in booths now? I don't need to carry this cellphone with me anymore!" was the funniest. Second best is the urine that I am so proud of.
I loved "Lethal Inspection." Some great lines ("They have phones in booths now? Finally I can stop lugging this cell phone around!"), great gags (the Rubiks cubicles), and it's always fun to see more of the bureaucrats (a phrase only usable in relation to Futurama). Plus it's hard not to find that ending just a little bit heartwarming, even though the "twist" is pretty obvious.
Maybe not one of Futurama's all-time bests, but it can certainly stand up there with quite a few classic episodes, IMO.
Maybe not one of Futurama's all-time bests, but it can certainly stand up there with quite a few classic episodes, IMO.
It may have been, but the concept of downloading a consciousness into new bodies to achieve functional immortality predates BSG by decades. John Varley was using it in his prose SF in the '70s and '80s (though for humans rather than AIs). And it's a staple of cyberpunk and trans/posthumanist fiction, notably a number of Greg Egan's works (where the main characters are often posthuman AIs that change bodies like humans change clothes).
Perhaps, but that's an awfully revisionist take on the events of the pilot and kind of diminishes the original story of Fry's friendship giving Bender a reason to live.
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