A Clockwork Tomato | 12-25-2003 01:24 PM |
No one else seems to have started a re-repeat thread. What are you guys, busy on Xmas Eve or something?
ACT 1 --
Before Roger Smith knew Dorothy was an android, he could NOT keep his eyes off her. He and Dorothy spent Soldano's entire initial rant with their gazes locked on one another.
Soldano is rather incoherent, isn't he? One wonders if he's having a nervous breakdown. He sure acts like it. Wild, staring eyes, gasping breath -- you wouldn't be surprised if he fell down with a heart attack at any moment.
Beck is driving cars in his signature color. Stupid and unprofessional.
Does ANYBODY give Dorothy a ride home? Or do they all drive off and leave her there?
Dastun and Roger get along almost as poorly as Roger and Angel in later episodes. For a top negotiator, Roger is sure abrasive!
Roger the Louse -- not only does he let luscious young women enter the house without an appointment, they are shown up to the penthouse floor, which is where his bedroom is. The dining room, his office, and the rooms in which he receives clients are all on other floors. Also, Roger makes a point of revealing that the only reason Dorothy was allowed in was that she was, in Norman's opinion, adequately youthful and curvaceous. The ladies don't slap him anywhere NEAR enough in the show.
Roger the Louse 2 -- as soon as Roger realizes that it's the luscious android, he loosens his tie, breaks eye contact, and telegraphs in every way that she's not babulous after all. Also, he treats her with more disrespect than he would an ordinary client. Are you embarrassed that you were strongly attracted to an android, Mr. Louse? I think you were! Busted!
Soldano's hangar -- There's blood on the outside of the glass but not inside the room. Continuity error, I fear, unless Beck fired an unnamed victim from an enormous cannon and the impact with Soldano caused his injuries. If so, I hope the victim was a mime.
Nice turn of speed, Dorothy -- nice gams, too!
"You're a louse, Roger Smith." I fell in love with Dorothy when I heard her say it, the first time I saw this episode.
Dorothy 1 -- Not very impressive as a combat machine, but as a salvage/extraction machine she's a nice piece of work. Was she built to salvage stuff from the harbor and the underground, for example? That's the sort of thing that would attract funding. Beck's daylight robbery seems more like an improvisation using a Megadeus he didn't have to pay for.
Dorothy 1 gloms onto R. Dorothy's mind right away, before Big O shows up. Is she in the habit of doing this? We know nothing about Dorothy's earlier life. Was she necessary to getting Dorothy 1 running the first place? Is Dorothy 1 grabbing Dorothy's mind to help fight off Beck's remote-piloting hacks? Dunno. But R. Dorothy is so completely taken over that she mimics Dorothy 1's movements -- something we'll never see again.
Big O -- he sure causes a lot of collateral damage this time. He wrecked a chunk of one skyscraper when he showed up, and another one tilted on its foundation when he slammed Dorothy 1 into it. As Leela explained in Futurama, superheroes cause a lot of collateral damage, and need a secret identity to avoid being sued!
ACT 1 --
Before Roger Smith knew Dorothy was an android, he could NOT keep his eyes off her. He and Dorothy spent Soldano's entire initial rant with their gazes locked on one another.
Soldano is rather incoherent, isn't he? One wonders if he's having a nervous breakdown. He sure acts like it. Wild, staring eyes, gasping breath -- you wouldn't be surprised if he fell down with a heart attack at any moment.
Beck is driving cars in his signature color. Stupid and unprofessional.
Does ANYBODY give Dorothy a ride home? Or do they all drive off and leave her there?
Dastun and Roger get along almost as poorly as Roger and Angel in later episodes. For a top negotiator, Roger is sure abrasive!
Roger the Louse -- not only does he let luscious young women enter the house without an appointment, they are shown up to the penthouse floor, which is where his bedroom is. The dining room, his office, and the rooms in which he receives clients are all on other floors. Also, Roger makes a point of revealing that the only reason Dorothy was allowed in was that she was, in Norman's opinion, adequately youthful and curvaceous. The ladies don't slap him anywhere NEAR enough in the show.
Roger the Louse 2 -- as soon as Roger realizes that it's the luscious android, he loosens his tie, breaks eye contact, and telegraphs in every way that she's not babulous after all. Also, he treats her with more disrespect than he would an ordinary client. Are you embarrassed that you were strongly attracted to an android, Mr. Louse? I think you were! Busted!
Soldano's hangar -- There's blood on the outside of the glass but not inside the room. Continuity error, I fear, unless Beck fired an unnamed victim from an enormous cannon and the impact with Soldano caused his injuries. If so, I hope the victim was a mime.
Nice turn of speed, Dorothy -- nice gams, too!
"You're a louse, Roger Smith." I fell in love with Dorothy when I heard her say it, the first time I saw this episode.
Dorothy 1 -- Not very impressive as a combat machine, but as a salvage/extraction machine she's a nice piece of work. Was she built to salvage stuff from the harbor and the underground, for example? That's the sort of thing that would attract funding. Beck's daylight robbery seems more like an improvisation using a Megadeus he didn't have to pay for.
Dorothy 1 gloms onto R. Dorothy's mind right away, before Big O shows up. Is she in the habit of doing this? We know nothing about Dorothy's earlier life. Was she necessary to getting Dorothy 1 running the first place? Is Dorothy 1 grabbing Dorothy's mind to help fight off Beck's remote-piloting hacks? Dunno. But R. Dorothy is so completely taken over that she mimics Dorothy 1's movements -- something we'll never see again.
Big O -- he sure causes a lot of collateral damage this time. He wrecked a chunk of one skyscraper when he showed up, and another one tilted on its foundation when he slammed Dorothy 1 into it. As Leela explained in Futurama, superheroes cause a lot of collateral damage, and need a secret identity to avoid being sued!