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starone
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Originally posted by FishyJoe: I disagree. They didn't really start going for the big emotional moments until season 3, when we had plenty of time to know and love all the characters.
Plus, look at all the emotion in the first season of The Simpsons. We had Homer being depressed and trying to kill himself in the second episode! Plus Lisa and her whole thing, and Homer and Marge's relationship on the rocks a few times.
Otherwise, I agree with your post. The first season of Futurama couldn't really compare with classic Simpsons, which may have turned some impatient viewers off.
Still, I rest all the blame on FOX. If they had supported the show, and kept it in a decent timeslot, the show would have gotten good ratings. When King of the Hill is aired at 7pm Sundays, it gets worse ratings. Yet KotH is renewed, and Futurama is cancelled. *Gets out a sharp ax and hacks everyone in koth to pieces then heads for fox for gail bermen's head*
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MonkeyLord
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Originally posted by VPActionRanger: the bad ratings were prob b/c of the stupid footbal games. some people on the the west coast may be watching a football game cut half of Futurama while the east coast sees the whole thing. (adjusted for time zones) then it is seen with maybe 1/2 the people who want to see it. It shouldve had a 7:30 spot. I agree with that. It's those stupid football people. Why can't they just be shown on other networks like eveyone else? It also may be because of lack of funding like the reason "Family Guy" went out. It all boils down to; it's FOX's fault.
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User_names_suck
Professor
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actually i think simpson emotinal moments were generally better. Futurama rarley moved me at all. I generally dont like much emotion in anything, i dont know where the fault lies but futurama did'nt do enough to make me care about the characters.
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Professor
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its not a case of levels. maybe its me and not the show but i dont get moved by it.
an example of simpsons moving me would be say the episode where homer tells the story of why they have no pictures of maggie.(cant remember the title) and after the story you see he uses the photos of maggie to cover up the placue that says "rember your here forever" to say do it for her. that moved me more than futurama ever has.
and as i say its not a case of levels of emotion its probably just me and how i react to it.
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Professor
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Originally posted by Slashco: I respect your opinion, but you should be able to back it up. Can you name me a Simpsons episode that reaches the emotional level of The Why of Fry, Jurassic Bark, The Sting or Parasites Lost? firstly sorry for double posting but i think its appropriate this way. I hate fry and leela relationship based episodes. so that crosses of the sting and parasites lost. I loved the why of fry but didn't consider it very emotional.I liked it because of the itriguing story, and for the orphan jokes. As for jurrasic bark, i didn't see why i should care about a dog that had been introduced for one episode. so i guess thats why those episodes didn't move me
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Professor
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actually my first impressions of futurama were that it was sentimental
so your wrong there your probably just a nerd that's easily moved by anything
nah i'm just kidding your a wonderful person
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Habodes
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I guess it's the time slot problem or something... I never knew when it was on TV, which was why I didn't get into it until it came out on DVD.
But now it's my favorite show! I only have the season 1 and 2 DVDs, but that was enough to make me love it! I hope I get enough money for the third season DVD. I think that the DVDs are a great way of making the show more popular.
I just wonder how much more I would like it if I knew anything about science fiction, because I'm sure a lot of those jokes went over my head. But I didn't even notice that until it was brought up on this board! I had no clue it was geared more towards sci-fi fans than the general public. (I feel stupid)
I hope they advertise a lot for the DVDs so at least then people will be able to see episodes no matter whether it's on TV or not.
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Professor
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wow what a novel idea boycotting fox by not watching there shows, genius because i dont know becausei live in the u.k. but i reckon its gonna be tough to expect people to boycott fox i mean think of all the great quality shows they make i'm sure most peelers watch fox all day and in the even of boycotting, well that could probably put them our of buisness, that would really hurt them. yeah what a great idea
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Gallaher2002
Poppler
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Futurama's rating were actually one of the highest Fox had. I believe the series was cancelled because it had the same number of episodes as the original Star Trek series, and they wanted to go out with a little twist
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Baddblood
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It's just too brainy for some people.
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