Season 8 Episode 2 - Children of a Lesser Bog [Discussion and Spoilers] - eviltoast

Airing on Hulu (US) or Disney Plus (outside US) - Monday, July 31, 2023 at Eastern Time (ET) 03:00 a.m/ Pacific Time (PT) 12:00 a.m

  • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
    201·
    1 year ago

    Actually, Leela feels different now, dumber like the rest of them. If anything she’s devolved. It kinda makes sense because why else would she want to be with a guy like Fry, but the show seems to have lost the voice of reason, the only sane one.

    • N00dle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      161·
      1 year ago

      Yeah I found that annoying. Leela being drunk and saying ‘I must have been drunk’.

      • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
        111·
        1 year ago

        And last week supporting Fry being a lazy idiot who wants to binge watch every TV show ever made, which risked his life. And drinking out of a jelly-filled donut this week. Just not things I would expect her character to do.

          • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
            41·
            1 year ago

            Yeah, change for the worse. It made her just another idiot like the rest of the cast. We already have enough of those in the show.

              • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
                3·
                1 year ago

                You’re right, she kept getting dumber as the series went on. But they seem to be leaning especially hard into “dumb Leela” now.

                • MrLuemasG@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  2·
                  1 year ago

                  I don’t really agree that she was dumb in last week’s episode. If I recall correctly, they didn’t know how life threatening the binging was until after Fry was too far gone to immediately be saved, and once they did know the problem, she was at the forefront of keeping him alive.

                  • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    2·
                    1 year ago

                    Supporting Fry as he’s voluntarily encased in a device with tubes and hoses to feed him and extract his waste so he can binge-watch TV is incredibly stupid. It makes sense for the rest of the cast to not really care, that’s how they are, but it’s jarring to see Leela go along with it, too.

      • Awa@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
        71·
        1 year ago

        That was the one part of the episode I didn’t care for. I assumed they put it in to either reminde folks of how Kif got pregnant or introduce the story to those who missed that episode. Regardless, it could have been done in a manner that was more creatively written.