The Officially Awesome Futurama Season 7 / Volume 6 Time!

[JD]

I thought this week's episode was ok, not one of their best, but not one of their worst. It was baisically just a mob/witness protection story, but I thought it was still had a lot of stuff in it that worked. I've always enjoyed the stuff with the robot mafia, so I think that has a lot to do with why I enjoyed this one.

 

[Myasishchev]

Wow, I don't usually say this about Futurama, but that kinda sucked.

 

[BlobVanDam]

Last week's episode was weak for me, but this week's was ok. I thought the beginning of the episode up until the time travel was hilarious. With the time travel it got a bit weaker, but I still enjoyed it. Not one of the better ones, but not too bad either.

 

[Mr Light]

The kid's show episode was pretty dumb, but I liked the founding fathers episode, particularly when they were in the alternate British universe. 'All of Presidents, lol

 

[ITL]

So many British cliches! But that's cool - rule of funny, and whatnot. Very good episode - plus, TARDIS!

 

[Christopher]

"All the Presidents' Heads" was an entertaining, goofy romp, but it had some major conceptual problems. Hasn't Futurama tended to treat the timeline as basically immutable? I.e. whenever people go back and affect things in the past, it always turns out to be part of what already happened? I find that more clever than the cliched "Oh no, we've altered our present and we have to go back again and fix it" kind of story.

Besides, given how many times civilization fell and was rebuilt in the thousand years Fry slept, I have a hard time believing that the politics and culture of 31st-century America would be so dependent on what happened in 1776. And how do they even have such detailed and accurate knowledge of the founding of the United States when they think Ralph Kramden pioneered lunar travel?

There's just too much conceptual drift underlying this episode. It's funny, but it doesn't feel like it belongs in the universe Futurama has established over the past dozen years.

 

[ITL]

^ What you say is true. However, I'll give it a pass if I'm entertained - and I was.

 

[Gepard]

I'm surprised no one has brought this up yet:

 

[ITL]

I'm surprised no one has brought this up yet:

I brought up some of it...

So many British cliches! But that's cool - rule of funny, and whatnot. Very good episode - plus, TARDIS!

 

[Gepard]

Oops, so you did. I searched the thread for "Doctor Who" but didn't think of TARDIS.

 

[JD]

I'm surprised no one has brought this up yet:

I brought up some of it...

So many British cliches! But that's cool - rule of funny, and whatnot. Very good episode - plus, TARDIS!

Damn, I missed that. I thought this was pretty good episodes, definitely not one of their best, but I still found it enjoyable. I've always gotten a kick out of the heads in jars, so I did like getting another episodes that focuses on them some more.

 

[Christopher]

I've been waiting for an episode focusing on the heads in jars, but I'm disappointed that it didn't explore the paradox of how there can be living preserved heads of presidents and other historical figures who died centuries before the technology to preserve them was invented. Were they resurrected somehow? Were there time-travelling grave robbers involved? I would've rather seen a story about that than this rather random tale.

 

[Myasishchev]

So many British cliches! But that's cool - rule of funny, and whatnot. Very good episode - plus, TARDIS!

See, that's what I didn't like about it. British people talk funny! It's comedy gold!

 

[Temis the Vorta]

It's funny, I think I posted a little while back that I wanted an episode about the heads in jars, but I never thought I'd get it.

Not that this was really about the heads in jars. Time travel hijinks are always funny and there seemed to be more rapid-fire in-jokes than usual (was it made too long ago to incorporate Sarah Palin's Paul Revere-related fiasco?)

I'd still like an ep about the heads in jars that focuses more on politics, given that they're Presidents. I noticed a few "future Presidents" in the jars, how about telling us more about their administrations?

"All the Presidents' Heads" was an entertaining, goofy romp, but it had some major conceptual problems. Hasn't Futurama tended to treat the timeline as basically immutable?

The only time travel rule that Futurama should have is "the rules change from one episode to the next, or even one minute to the next." Hey, there's an idea for an episode - the gang travels through time, but doesn't know which time travel rules apply at any given time. I tried listing them once, I think there are about four major types of time travel, plus variations that bring the total to seven or eight.

PS, I'm choosing to IGNORE the kid's show ep.

 

[JD]

I've been waiting for an episode focusing on the heads in jars, but I'm disappointed that it didn't explore the paradox of how there can be living preserved heads of presidents and other historical figures who died centuries before the technology to preserve them was invented. Were they resurrected somehow? Were there time-travelling grave robbers involved? I would've rather seen a story about that than this rather random tale.

Yeah, the same thoughts have crossed my mind pretty much every time they've used the heads in jars. I'm kinda surprised they haven't explained it yet.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

No discussion of last nite's ep? Well, there were a couple good jokes...Fox News, heh.

Anyone been watching Ugly Americans afterwards? Kinda funny. I like Fish Guy and Tree Guy.

 

[Christopher]

I'm not sure how to rate "Möbius Dick." I quite liked the first act; it was moody and had a nice flavor of adventure and danger. The rest was fairly entertaining and had a lot of good gags, but I felt it depended too much on forcing Leela into a role that didn't grow naturally out of her character, much as "Yo Leela Leela" did. I guess she's always been driven and kind of a control freak, so it's not entirely out of the blue, but it seemed forced.

And how is it that New New York was an empty, open field just 50 years back? Maybe the idea was that the Planet Express building was relocated at some point, but given its position next to the water, I think the intent was that the building was in the same place and the city had grown up around it. That didn't really work for me.

I liked the famous spaceships we saw in the graveyard sequence. And this is the second episode in a row to feature a cameo by the Fourth Doctor (although this one was produced well before "All the President's Heads," so it's technically the first, and not in a row).

And I liked the reference to the "Bermuda Tetrahedron." They remembered space is three-dimensional, yayy!! Take that, Delta Triangle from "The Time Trap"!

 

[Mr Light]

I thought that was a solid episode. Funny, some adventure, some sci-fi concepts, some interesting back-story with the original crew.

 

[Yoda]

I thought it was a stinker typical of revival-era Futurama. The laughs just weren't there.

 

[JD]

I thought it was pretty enjoyable. Nothing amazing, but it was still entertaining. I'd give it an 8/10