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Or so the myth goes.
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(For the record I enjoyed Abram's Star Trek. Flame me if you must.)
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Kidding.
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Her mom, for sure. Deanna? Nope.
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Somewhere the whole theme of helping others in A Christmas Carol might be lost in a Klingon Translation.
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If I had the means, I would fly all the way from Los Angeles just to see this.
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Some of the original would follow. A Klingon that values money too much would definitely need a good kick in the pants.
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See, the advantage that the series had was that when they ran long, they could pick the worst parts to trim out. When they switched it up to a four-ep movie format, suddenly they were both forced to pad the main story to fill out ~90 minutes, and they were forced to disregard the overall pacing so they could keep all the secondary stories within a strict range of runtimes. On the flip side, they had to sacrifice any pretense of quality on the secondary stories so they could try to keep the main stories flowing well enough to be followed. It just didn't work the way they'd hoped, even if it succeeded in bringing new life to the series.
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I think it's more like they just tried to be movies. It was the same with the Simpsons movie. They took a 30 minute show and tried to expand it out to 2 hrs. If you look at the Family Guy movie, they put 4 episodes together so they could keep the fast pace of the show and still fill 2hrs.
The Simpsons and Futurama movie (I only saw one) were made more to be 2hr movies and so the energy level is much lower.
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I've never seen the Simpsons movie, and that may be true, but I'd really like to believe that the Futurama crew could turn out a really good movie if they made it a _movie_.
See, I bought the first two seasons of Tripping the Rift, and I liked them. Then they released a movie, and it kinda sucked. It wasn't until I'd watched it a second time that I realized the reason for that was because it was four unrelated episodes that had been smashed together. But the crazy thing was that when the third season came out, those same episodes worked fine on their own.
The difference is that with the Futurama movies, each one is supposed to work as both a cohesive movie and four stand-alone episodes. Only they don't.
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It looked the same size because it was the same set, and it wasn't Ten Forward, it was just an officer's lounge. Ten Forward was the size it was because it served three times as many people, on a much larger ship.