I watch Futurama almost daily. Usually when I'm doing dishes and I tell my Google home to play it, haha. I'm mostly just preparing my mind to be a little let down, but to also have an open mind!
The whole plot was a not-so-veiled attempt at getting everyone to binge Futurama again, right? Anyhow yes there were a few good laughs and I liked that Bender said the classic line. Curious to see where relationship between Fry and Leela goes
The episode was fine to me. Writing is hard, I don’t expect everything to be ‘best of’ material. I thought the meta was fine, the show is about being a corporate business run by a mad scientist who doesn’t care about his employees… yet always comes back to them. Fry getting out of the suit was decent, fit with the Calculon style melodrama. With such a legacy, it’s like new seasons of The Simpsons, how would you write it?
I thought the voices were fine. Marge SImpson, Julie Kavner, her voice has changed a lot since the start as voice actors I follow for a long time go… and I always notice the change in her voice… but it just seems real to me… I’m over age 50, and I know people whose voice has changed a lot from age 30 to 50.
Writing is definitely difficult! I couldn't do it. The voices were fine, I was just saying that it was pretty noticeable.
As for the legacy with new seasons/episodes and how I would write it.. well I don't think I would. It had a good run and I loved it. In my opinion, Futurama is just like King of the Hill, I'm not really sure it needs to come back because it already hit perfection many times.
I definitely noticed Billy Crystal's voice being raspier/aged but it's not anything that makes a difference.
They did a great job, so what if they made similar jokes regarding being rebooted, it's a reboot? Even moreso, it's meta given that it's a reboot of a reboot in the reboot of time! Lol my own terrible joke aside, they did a good job solely because they were able to answer the question of "how do we make the ending of the last season work". Duh, time broke!
Just watched it - it was… ok. I think it’s important to remember that not all episodes have been winners, there were a lot of other episodes that have also been “ok”, too. I had a couple of chuckles, and after the wretched day I had, that was enough for today.
I hope they got some of the “topical” stuff out of their system, I think it’ll get old if every new episode is a non-ending cavalcade of winks to real-world issues. I know they have more coming, I just hope it’s not a substitute for telling good stories.
I do agree that some of the voice-acting sounded kind of off, but the one I noticed most was (mild spoiler ahead) the robot devil.
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