scotteh wrote:
> NOT that I'm arguing with you, but interestingly and ironically, thats
> exactly what happened this time too, beacuse the more mature Fry DIED
> and the immature one is still around to be a goofball in future
> ep(aramas)(get it?).
Yeah, you've got a point there. Notice that there is hope for him though.
> I'll tell you something else though now that I bought the real dvd and
> have seen everythig on it: Tthe commentary is just as good as the
> show! They are hilarious!! And you learn a LOT more about the story.
> The Hypnotoad ep is funny too... but goes on a weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
> bit too long! like... 95% too long...
>
>
> Here's my SPOILER complaint though....
>
> At the end, bender goes back to apply the tattoo so that the whole
> story makes sense to have happened in the first place. I know it's
> kinda funny, but it just doesnt make any sense that the story happned
> at ALL, if it couldnt work until the very end. Or in other words,
> there was no tattoo to start with and if there WAS I'm pretty sure
> someone would have noticed it before then. Or in other other words,
> the begining of the story cant happen until the end! Which just doesnt
> work in my mind.
>
> Additionally, where did the tatoo come from in the first place? With
> the circular referencing they did, there is no actually origin!
>
As Nobby Nobbs sez: "Its cuz of Quantum."
See also _The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the Universe_ by Harry Harrison,
"All you Zombies" by Robert A. Heinlein. Closed time-like loops don't
need to have a cause, they just happen.
"Shit Happens. NCOs make it happen."


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