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If you didn't want to do it, you wouldn't have done it.
Futurama Canceled Again
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#53I hope some company will pick up the whole producing team and will continue series. Even though someone can say quality of "after movies" episodes wasn't as high as "before movies" but it's still the best western world animation there is (considering South Park decline). Also, Futurama's main theme has been my only cellphone ringtone for many years :)
South Park decline? I don't see it, maybe you're just getting bored of the show.
Other great animated Western shows: Adventure Time and Bob's Burgers.
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#54I'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'll give a dissenting opinion. I've loved the Comedy Central reboot. The material is quick and snappy in a way that the earlier seasons weren't, packing in rapid-fire jokes. And it still consistently throws in bits of real science and mathematics, like the famous brain-swapping problem and solution. The movies were uneven, but season six hit a new and sustained peak starting with the fourth episode. I often felt lik…
retconning the entire premise of the show and Nibbler's nature
Opinions on humor are subjective, but I'd like to point out that this was set up from the beginning and not at all a retcon. For example we can see Nibbler's shadow in the first episode: http://theinfosphere.org/Nibbler%27s_shadow
Edit: link corrected thanks to meandthebean
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'll give a dissenting opinion. I've loved the Comedy Central reboot. The material is quick and snappy in a way that the earlier seasons weren't, packing in rapid-fire jokes. And it still consistently throws in bits of real science and mathematics, like the famous brain-swapping problem and solution. The movies were uneven, but season six hit a new and sustained peak starting with the fourth episode. I often felt lik…
retconning the entire premise of the show and Nibbler's nature Opinions on humor are subjective, but I'd like to point out that this was set up from the beginning and not at all a retcon. For example we can see Nibbler's shadow in the first episode: http://theinfosphere.org/Nibbler%27s_shadow Edit: link corrected thanks to meandthebean
Corrected link: http://theinfosphere.org/Nibbler%27s_shadow
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you didn't want to do it, you wouldn't have done it.
I don't want to file my tax return but I do because there's some benefit to doing so.
And there's no benefit to whining (and I do characterize it thus) about what other people find interesting on HN. If you think it sucks, flag it. Obviously not many people thought it sucked.
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#58I'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'll give a dissenting opinion. I've loved the Comedy Central reboot. The material is quick and snappy in a way that the earlier seasons weren't, packing in rapid-fire jokes. And it still consistently throws in bits of real science and mathematics, like the famous brain-swapping problem and solution. The movies were uneven, but season six hit a new and sustained peak starting with the fourth episode. I often felt lik…
The problem with Futurama's character-building was that they never had a precise plan on when to end the show, nor a precise plan on when to progress the characters. So the Leela-Fry pairing always has to remain on-again, off-again. Amy always has to remain a ditz and never end her internship (though I'm glad they finally let her have her PhD). The Professor is never going to actually die. Fry is never going to mature to the "Lars stage" of adulthood we saw that once.
You could call it Simpson's Syndrome: a comedy show without planned story-lines or definite end-dates will have a distinctly hard time developing its characters.
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#59I hope some company will pick up the whole producing team and will continue series. Even though someone can say quality of "after movies" episodes wasn't as high as "before movies" but it's still the best western world animation there is (considering South Park decline). Also, Futurama's main theme has been my only cellphone ringtone for many years :)
it's still the best western world animation there is (considering South Park decline).
Maybe it's just the geek in me talking, but what about Adventure Time, and the two Avatar series? Very well done from a technical standpoint, fun to watch, decent writing too.
Though I do think Adventure Time is too far into stoner humor. I watch the show and just want to turn it off and go play Legend of Zelda.