Sounds interesting. Would you recommend it? If you do I’ll pick it up.
I’ve read it too, and I recommend it. Nothing mind blowing, but an enjoyable quick read.
Anyone know the language code and can decipher the Dummies book Bender threw on the campfire?
“Backwards Time Travel Made Easy”
Hee! =^_^=
On a final question, the scene as the time machine recedes into the distance at the end of the universe, the scene and the music reminds me of some other movie. Does it ring any bells with anyone else?
Heh. I loved how cheerfully oblivious Fry was to the fact that “his” original Leela, plus the one in the second universe, presumably grew old and died missing him. Plus, of course, he killed himself. 
I hesitate to show off my nerd creds, but…
In The Cryonic Woman, Fry unfreezes that guy who wanted to go so far forward in time that time starts over and he could meet Shakespeare, because he thought time was cyclical. To which Fry replied, “Nope! Linear!”
Well, which one is it?!?!? :mad:
Good catch, but that can easily be chalked up to an error by Fry and the scientists of the time. Fry knows nothing about anything. Farnsworth was shocked that the universe started up again, so presumably few people knew or believed there would be another Big Bang after the universe ended. And in any event the frozen guy was nowhere close to meeting Shakespeare. He would have needed to wait about a quindecillion years (I think the last proton decays at 10^48 years) for the universe to end and another Big Bang to happen. From there it’s another 13 billion years until Shakespeare walks the earth. His cryogenic tube would have been destroyed long before he got there one way or another.
Or he could’ve just gone to the head museum. Whichever.
As long as we’re talking about Futurama and logic in the same sentence, have they ever explained how the head museum works? Okay, I can accept in theory that current celebrities from our era might end up there. But how did a historical celebrity like George Washington get his head preserved to be put in a jar?
They’ve never explained it onscreen. In the cases where Ron Popeil’s method couldn’t save the heads of the actual celebrities, I assumed they cloned them from DNA samples or used computers to extrapolate their personalities from their works, similar to the way Fry and Leela use surveillance footage to reconstruct each other’s personalities in Rebirth, or the way Lucy Liu’s personality is derived from her movies in I Dated a Robot.
I always assumed there was some sort of alien society that was secretly preserving who they thought were important (or could compensate them somehow.)
But cloning would work, as seen in Jurassic Bark. Copying has only been shown to work on robots, and with video footage. Still, you wonder why they’d only have heads.
Ho ho ho… that may be possibly wrong*. The first time round while they speed through Futurama’s earlier events on their way to the correct time you’ll note that instead of Fry being attached to Yeevo addressing the group (Beast of a Billion Backs) it is Farnsworth. Possible change in the timeline?
*At least that is what I thought I caught that… I didn’t record it so if anyone can verify that for me that would be great. Even greater if I am correct.
(That’s my quote, not NDP’s.) That would be a very interesting twist. I do have the episode on DVR and I’ll see if I can pause it at that moment. Eventually everybody gets hooked up to Yivo, but maybe they have Farnsworth as the ‘Pope’ figure? That’d be funny. And the universe did get 10 feet lower somehow.
Not especially. there are much better time travel books and better haldeman books
Sorry, That was a slip in the coding I edited out the wrong quote= line.
The only way to be sure is if Farnsworth is attached and Fry is standing there listening with the group (impossible in the normal timeline). After Hitler was Killed I thought, there is no way history wouldn’t be changed by that. When the Planet Express scene I mentioned came up, it seemed to linger longer than the other flash forwards, so I noted it. Knowing the creators, that meant there was something to look for. I could swear I saw a red jacket in the crowd.
I could be wrong…
Agreed. Frankly, I think Haldeman’s “Forever War” and “Forever Peace” were brilliant, but that after these he churned out a great deal of good (but fairly unremarkable) novels. Once he stopped dealing with the Vietnam War and its aftermath, he lost a lot of his punch.
No, that’s how it happened in the movie. Fry was busy in the tentacle temple, while the rest of the crew was trying to avoid the tentacle inside the Planet Express building. The Professor gets caught by the tentacle, though, and that scene that flashes by is when the rest of the crew finds out and he tries to get the tentacle to get them.
What, you don’t have a tentacle? GET HER! Get her some LOVE!
Great episode, nice touch with the cyclical universe, I was expecting Bender to flash them forward into the “Terminator-Verse” when he was at the controls for the go-around
the Dumblocks gag was predictable though
In the Yivo’ed Professor scene, Fry is not there, just Leela, Hemes, Amy, and some unknown person, balding brown hair, white t-shirt, blue jacket, olive drab pants, the next scene cuts to "The Killer App with Leela crashing the PE ship, but Hermes is sitting where Bender should have been, as Leela flies straight at Hermes, and Bender’s Twitcher vid of Leela crashing shows her flying straight towards him