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David X. Cohen Talks About Futurama's New Season
joelkeller writes "I spoke to David X. Cohen, executive producer of Futurama, about the upcoming season, which premieres on June 24 on Comedy Central. He talks about the season finale (!) and how the show is always on the precipice of cancellation."
already seen first two yesterday ...
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And the last time Futurama was funny was...oh never?
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I watched both episodes yesterday on my computer. First episode would've been better as a 15 minute vignette rather than a full 30 minute episode.
Basically Leela builds a Fry-bot after Fry dies. Leela ends up getting killed. The Fry-bot believes he's the real Fry and mourns Leela's demise by building a Leela-bot. Towards the end of the episode the real Fry and Leela come back, confusion reigns, there's a Terminator reference when they change their voices to thick Austrian accents after tearing off their pseudodermis and everyone lives happily ever after. Best part was Professor Farnsworth's Deep Thinking Chamber with the disco ball.
Episode two is a take on Star Trek: The Motion Picture. It travels through the universe censoring unseemly planets like Poopiter, Planet XXX and #%$/@!. Zapp and Leela fly out to blow it up Skywalker style, ship crash lands back on a deserted island which Zapp says is a distant alien world so he can get into Leela's pants. Fanservice ahoy. The Planet Express crew try to save the world by telling everyone to repent and not look at nudity and porn. They go to the last unspoiled place on Earth, find Zapp and Leela, the robot satellite shows up and tells Zapp and Leela to have sex to show their purity and she takes one for the team (off camera).
Thanks to my pirate buddies.
So be it. I post my opinion without giving a shit what the rest of this community thinks. Just like you don't have to care that I think Futurama isn't great.
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Ahh, I see... you fancy yourself an intellectual snob. *sigh* Pity I wasted time reading the "insipid nonsense" that is your comment...
Where do you get that? A season and a half, dude. I really wanted to like Futurama, but just couldn't find anything there which made me care about the characters or think that anything in their lives mattered even the tiniest tiny bit because dumb jokes ALWAYS came before any sense of reality. This was one of the things the Simpsons managed to get right seemingly effortlessly for years before it began cranking out the same kind of aimless nonsense Futurama molded itself after. It's Family Guy in space, for crying out loud? Do you like that shit as well?
Cuz there's "intellectual snobbery" and then there's "breathing". If you can't immediately see what I'm talking about, then you're missing part of your brain.
-FL