Sunny wrote:
> The reviewer was, in my opinion, too kind. Bender's Big Score was the
> most boring animated, adult-oriented, cartoon I've ever seen. I have
> watched every episode of Futurama at least three times...and everytime
> I watch one, I find new twists and turns that I've missed before.
>
> In Bender's Big Score, BBS, I'm lucky if I could come up with half a
> grin every fifteen minutes. Contrast that against an episode of
> Futurama that I watched right after BBS--that would be the one where
> Zap Brannigan destroys DOOP headquarters and is drummed out of the
> service, only to end up leading a mutiny on Captain Leela's Planet
> Express ****p.
>
> Unlike BBS, the Brannigan episode had me laughing about every fifteen
> seconds...sometimes uproariously.
>
> So, to say I'm disappointed in BBS would be a massive understatement.
>
> That said, it really isn't hard to figure out what the problem was.
> All of the cutting edge writers went on to other projects, and
> obviously either couldn't come back...or didn't want to come back.
> This only makes sense, in that they surely couldn't sit around waiting/
> wondering if Fox were ever going to bring the series back.
>
> The acting was fine...but the actors were just stuck with totally
> mundane garbage in the way of writing. Even so, I'm willing to give
> the next three movies a chance, and am hopeful that they weren't in
> the can prior to somebody with a clear eye having the chance to tell
> Groening just how lousy BBS truly was. (So that adjustments could be
> made.) Time will tell.
>
> Sunnovia
>
You're just a tool.
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