OPINIONS: "Anthology of Interest IV"

[c_nordlander]

Whoa... my ears! My face! They're burning up!

Thanks a million for the praise, Missy!

I just hope it's obvious for the reader that the opinions about The Simpsons expressed in this fic only apply to Season 10 and later. I guess it goes without saying...

[missy_misery]

Heh, I but speak the truth!  *shakes fist for making Leela/Zapp PLAUSIBLE TO ME ARGH I DON'T KNOW IF I CAN HANDLE THE BUNNY*

[gkscotty]

A few reviews that are long overdue

Time-travelling Bender - Pretty good. By far the highlight was the revelation about how Fry was traumatised. Some good jokes and good plotting, but the involvement of Flexo rubbed me the wrong way - he's a character I'd rather not see too much of really, and I find the Flexo/Beard/Bender confusion overdone. Angeline's dialogue was very good. However, I don't understand pretty much anything of the ending after the Napoleon part. Why the heck is Bender ran over?

(EDIT: having had it explained to me, Now I Get It. I forgot about the start of "The LEsser of two evils." Nice twist.)

Rating: B


Adopted Leela - A pretty good character piece, that unfortuantely suffers from being too removed from the actual continuity. Leela is the only main character that features, and she fights an OC for the love of two OCs that she apparantly didn't like anyway... and it's a little hard to care about the outcome. It's also not quite as funny as I'd think a AOI should be. Nice twist ending though

Rating: B-


Emperor Zapp - Superb work! Cunning plans all around, great characterisation of Leela, Fry, Kif and even Zapp and an inspired complication involving universe 1. The flight into the country seems a little off... it seems like this is the time intended to make Leela fall in love with him, but all he does is cook a meal. A bit more positive interaction here might have gone a long way. As it is, it seems realistic for Leela to come to Zapp's defence, but a bit much for her to go into exile with him. But aside from that I think it was excellent! And a good wrap up back in the real world.

Rating: A

[c_nordlander]

Thanks for the reviews, Steve! You know how much they mean to me.

You do put your finger on the main problem I myself have with the third story:

Spoiler

while I think I manage to have Zapp redeem himself in Leela's eyes, there's not enough reason for her to actually fall in love with him (as opposed to just coming to be reconciled with him). My idea was sort of that she definitely falls in love with him when she finds that he's prepared to face execution in order to save the hostages, but I haven't really shown that, so her confession of love comes as a surprise.

I'll try to improve that bit when I finalise this fic.

[Archonix]

So it's a cop-out, but all I can say is that I second everything everyone else has said.