Did you see Beast with a Billion Backs? – Spoilers!

So great idea, poorly executed? Are you sure you didn’t watch Bender’s Big Score?

BBS was such a disappointment. Sorry, but dems the breaks. It actively shits all over some of the most touching moments from the series’ run. I know that the show is at heart a comedy, but it just felt sloppy. And lazy. And… well, disappointing. Great idea, poorly executed.

You enjoyed it, sure. But you’re you. I’m not you. Not at all. I’m me. And I, being me, didn’t enjoy BBS. Funny, that. It’s almost as if we’re two entirely different people.

Jonathan busts Capps in my ass (in an entirely hetrosexual way, of course)…
Yes, my overzealous disagreeing with people isn?t entirely serious.

Snap.

Watched this last night with someone…we actually didn’t make it all the way through. Which surprises me, considering how much of a Futurama fan I am.

It’s not that it was bad–it wasn’t. It’s not that it wasn’t funny–it was. But I think it felt pretty directionless. In BBS, just to grab a related example, you might not have known where the plot was going next, but you knew it was going somewhere. It was clearly enough building toward something.

This time…well, maybe they were–I didn’t see the end–but it didn’t feel that way at all. Good moments, some very big laughs, but we ended up finding other things to do about an hour into the film. Which pains me to admit.

And Ben isn’t exactly WRONG about how he feels…I think we’re just viewing the same thing from different angles. He feels that it devalues two major emotional episodes of the show. Certainly in the BBS version of things that’s an easy argument to make. But the fact that Yancy WOULD HAVE felt that way if his brother hadn’t returned, or the fact that Seymour WOULD HAVE wasted his entire life waiting…it still works for me. In the same way George McFly WOULD HAVE grown up to be a wimpy little weed.

The time-travel alters the outcome, but doesn’t make the original outcome any less affecting.

To me, obviously. I can’t speak for anybody else, and I’m taking care not to make the opposite opinion seem invalid. No matter how you argue it logically, it all comes down to whether or not you feel those scenes retain their emotional identity. (And probably for others still, whether or not you even care about that.)

>NO, BBS IS BRILLIANT SHUT UP

Blindfolded Bowel Surgery?

>It?s Futurama, how would it not amuse me?

They…found…a way

I liked Bender’s Big Score and I liked the Beast’s Billion Backs, but both feel equally padded and constrained by the format. It’ll be interesting to see how they function as individual episodes because they could arguably fail on both counts.

I’ll probably reconsider on a second viewing.

I’ve just bought the Season 1 – 4 box set. YAY for me!!! Just thought I’d let you know

I need to watch Bender’s Big Score and Beast with a Billion Backs, though…

I love you, Dave. Let’s run away together.

Anywhere. There’s a whole world out there just for us. All we have to do is reach out and take it.

Wait, you have gonorrhea?

Oh… uh… I’ve just remembered, I have a… erm… a thing I should be doing, so… er… I’ll just go and… and do that, and I’ll, uh, I’ll… be back. Later.