I don't want to do this, but I am really asking myself, how could this be on the front page of Hacker News?
Because enough people upvoted it? I wish it was possible to downvote stories.
Thankfully it's possible to downvote comments, though.
Futurama Canceled Again
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#32Agree, Futurama's last season was quite unentertaining. Not as funny, and too focused on the emotional stuff, which was more effective being spaced out.
I think that the 'Fausto' episode, finale of the S05, was by far the best ending Futurama had.
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#33I'm as big a fan as anyone, having watched Futurama since day 1. I was lucky enough to randomly bump into Billy West at Comicon 2010 and nervously muttered how much I loved Futurama, and he was especially gracious, saying fans like me were the ones who brought it back. That being said, I felt that the new episodes never captured the quality of the original run. They tried too hard at tugging at our heart strings and…
I agree with the hit/miss ratio of the last two seasons, but The Late Philip J. Fry and A Clockwork Origin are as good as anything in the first five seasons.
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#34I'm as big a fan as anyone, having watched Futurama since day 1. I was lucky enough to randomly bump into Billy West at Comicon 2010 and nervously muttered how much I loved Futurama, and he was especially gracious, saying fans like me were the ones who brought it back. That being said, I felt that the new episodes never captured the quality of the original run. They tried too hard at tugging at our heart strings and…
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#35I'm as big a fan as anyone, having watched Futurama since day 1. I was lucky enough to randomly bump into Billy West at Comicon 2010 and nervously muttered how much I loved Futurama, and he was especially gracious, saying fans like me were the ones who brought it back. That being said, I felt that the new episodes never captured the quality of the original run. They tried too hard at tugging at our heart strings and…
It did have trouble getting its groove back, but it was still better than most other shows of its type. It's a sad day.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
He just skipped those 15 years, for now, but he'll get to them eventually.
They happened, just in "other media" then the last part was time locked, then the whole universe was rebooted, and time restarted, and a whole bunch of other things that I forgot in silence.
I was wondering why I had these tally marks on the back of my left hand.
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#37Same story, submitted hours before (by me), is the actual primary source (follow the slate links to vulture then to my story), flagged
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5592733
http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/04/22/futurama-not-renewed-comed...
edit I'm not complaining, but it is a little bit frustrating to have it flagged then see a 3rd-level derived article show up. How can I prevent it in the future?
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think that is a matter of expectation. In England (AFAIK), series aren't (necessarily) expected to be as continuous, nor even to run through the whole year. So, for instance, Doctor Who could "get away" with a specials-only year, between the 4th and 5th series.
Yes, it's quite common here to have series where a season is 6-8 episodes, once a year or less frequent. E.g. Red Dwarf have had seasons ranging from 3 (if you count "Back to Earth") to 8 episodes, with most seasons having 6, and occasional multi-year gaps between seasons.
I wouldn't just say 'quite common'. I'd say it's the norm.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BritishBrevity
...usual warning about a tvtropes link, and your subsequent drop in productivity
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#39I'm as big a fan as anyone, having watched Futurama since day 1. I was lucky enough to randomly bump into Billy West at Comicon 2010 and nervously muttered how much I loved Futurama, and he was especially gracious, saying fans like me were the ones who brought it back. That being said, I felt that the new episodes never captured the quality of the original run. They tried too hard at tugging at our heart strings and…
It seemed to have become much more formulaic. Most of the new episodes follow the same pattern as The Simpsons. Random intro topic that leads to the main topic, often something in recent pop culture.
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#40Same story, submitted hours before (by me), is the actual primary source (follow the slate links to vulture then to my story), flagged https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5592733 http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/04/22/futurama-not-renewed-comed... edit I'm not complaining, but it is a little bit frustrating to have it flagged then see a 3rd-level derived article show up. How can I prevent it in the future?
I'm going to guess that most people here will flag an Entertainment Weekly article just out of reflex. (I didn't, just saying).