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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 1,117 |
| Posted: | | | | Should the Futurama DVDs have Science Fiction as a Genre? The other two I would suggest would be Animation and Comedy. |
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Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 585 |
| Posted: | | | | It's got spacehips, robots, and aliens. I'm rather curious what prompted a poll. | | | "Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men" - Douglas Bader "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." - Douglas Adams |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 1,117 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting Vega: Quote: I'm rather curious what prompted a poll. Bender's Big Score did it. Then I checked all the online Futurama R1 set profiles and none had Sci-Fi as a Genre. |
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Registered: May 8, 2007 | Posts: 823 |
| Posted: | | | | SciFi, Comedy, Television, Animation
You can only assign three genres though, so I would leave out Television. | | | 99.9% of all cat plans consist only of "Step 1." |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 252 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting Doombear: Quote:
Bender's Big Score did it. Then I checked all the online Futurama R1 set profiles and none had Sci-Fi as a Genre. Or, rather, very very few do (think I saw maybe two in my random sampling.) Most are Comedy/Television/Animation. Personally, I agree with adding SciFi.... tho this calls into question which should get bumped. I find TV to be a waste of an otherwise useful genre slot in my own collection (used a tag instead), but... that's just me. |
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Registered: March 15, 2007 | Posts: 366 |
| Posted: | | | | Well, television wouldn't apply to the new Futurama DVD anyway, so it solves the problem on that release at least. |
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Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 1,022 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting Grendell: Quote: SciFi, Comedy, Television, Animation
You can only assign three genres though, so I would leave out Television. I'd leave out comedy - but that's only cos I just don't get what is funny about it?? I sit there blank faced whilst my son rolls around watching it | | | |
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Registered: March 15, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 5,459 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting nolesrule: Quote: Well, television wouldn't apply to the new Futurama DVD anyway, so it solves the problem on that release at least. Quite right, Bender's Big Score was made for DVD release, so Televison would not be added as a genre. |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 775 |
| Posted: | | | | I don't know, I think that's more just marketing. The end credits list four separate production numbers; this and the other movies are certainly produced with an eye to their eventual distribution as a sixteen-episode season, this movie version simply happens to be the first version they put out. |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 460 |
| Posted: | | | | But main is Animation? | | | Jean-Paul |
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Registered: May 8, 2007 | Posts: 823 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting nolesrule: Quote: Well, television wouldn't apply to the new Futurama DVD anyway, so it solves the problem on that release at least. It's a weird situation with these new Futurama DVDs. Three more are planned. Cartoon Network's syndication contract expires at the end of this year, and it will transfer to Comedy Central. Comedy Central will then have exclusive syndication rights for all 72 episodes, plus the four movies that are being released on DVD. Comedy Central plants to "split" each of the four new movies into four half hour episodes each. So "Television" definitely still applies as a genre for these new DVDs. | | | 99.9% of all cat plans consist only of "Step 1." |
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Registered: July 15, 2007 | Posts: 159 |
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Registered: March 15, 2007 | Posts: 366 |
| Posted: | | | | I'm well aware of the situation behind the direct to DVD Futurama discs. Still, this one doesn't contain any episodes that have ever aired on television. Production numbers are production numbers, nothing more. Television doesn't apply because DVD does not contain any content that has ever aired on TV.
Anything that is released on DVD as it's primary initial form of distribution before being shown anywhere cannot be considered "television". | | | Last edited: by nolesrule |
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Registered: March 14, 2007 | Posts: 452 |
| Posted: | | | | Television isn't a real genre anyways, so it should be last or left out at all. |
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Registered: March 16, 2007 | Posts: 278 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting Grendell: Quote: So "Television" definitely still applies as a genre for these new DVDs. But the DVD release predates the TV airing. |
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