Scrappylive
Liquid Emperor
« #2 : 11-07-2015 08:51 »
I received my Bender's Big Score disc this week and watched it last night, with the commentary track enabled. Unfortunately I fell asleep partway into it Much of my entertainment came from those DVDs when I didn't have the internet.
Awww, you missed the chance to cash in on the current Star Wars cycle by using the title "General Futurama Discussion - The Thread Awakens" I'm one of those rare, few people that would prefer the next several years of
Futurama discussion
not be dubbed with a
Star Wars reference. So... thanks, Tweek.
Box Incorporated
Bending Unit
« #4 : 11-23-2015 19:35 »
More info on the Futurama mobile game, "Release the Drones".
http://www.engadget.com/2015/11/23/futurama-mobile-game/ If the TV show that you love gets axed before you're ready to let it go, then there are a couple of things you can hope for. For instance, a streaming service could step in to fund a new season of the show, or people can turn to Kickstarter and do it themselves. But it turns out that there's another route towards salvation in the form of a mobile game, which is how Futurama is going to make its auspicious return. 20th Century Fox has signed a deal with German game developer Wooga to create Futurama: Release the Drones. The story will see the Planet Express crew take on MomCo in a delivery war, with players asked to connect groups of drones to solve puzzles.
Thankfully, Wooga saw fit to call upon some heavyweight names to help create the game behind the scenes. For starters, it'll be designed by Dave Grossman, who wrote The Secret of Monkey Island, Sam & Max as well as Telltale Games' Tales of Monkey Island. He'll team up with former Futurama producer Patric Verrone, who was co-executive producer in the show's later years and wrote episodes like The Problem with Popplers and That's Lobstertainment!. There's no word on when the title will be released, although we imagine that the turnaround time won't be particularly.
Sanfazer
Crustacean
« #11 : 12-25-2015 17:28 »
So I was watching "Meanwhile", yesterday, and I was thinking about why I don't like the second run (mostly season 7) and what I wouldn't like to see in a potential *third* run. I don't know whether this has already been discussed, on this thread or on another, so please don't hit me. And perhaps gifts. (In the form of 00100100.)
I don't think what makes the show interesting are the stories.
Futurama is too nonsensical for that. It's a cartoon show set in space, and everyone's a bunch of weirdos. The only human and not completely unrelatable characters are Fry and the professor.
I think what can make the show great are the interactions between the characters (and not necessarily their relationships (not whether they always fight or defend each other but whether they have memorable exchanges)), namely
Fry-professor Fry-Bender Professor-Bender Fry-Zoidberg (Because Fry and Bender are the most relatable and the professor and Zoidberg are the most interesting. (I'm not including "Zoidberg-professor" because they're too similar (they're both old characters that do weird things) and I'm not including "Zoidberg-Bender" because it's an alien and a robot.))
What I think
Futurama needs to not totally suck is very little Amy, a non-bitchy Leela, a non-whiny Fry, and a lot of Bender, professor, and Zoidberg.
Tedward
Professor
« #12 : 12-28-2015 05:57 »
I don't think what makes the show interesting are the stories. Futurama is too nonsensical for that. It's a cartoon show set in space, and everyone's a bunch of weirdos. The only human and not completely unrelatable characters are Fry and the professor. While I share your sentiment that the interaction between the characters is an even greater aspect of the show than its futuristic setting and sci-fi plots (creative as those often are), I'd have to disagree with your low assessment of how relatable those characters are. Sure, they're robots and monsters and old people, and brains fly through space and everyone eats lasers, but a large part of the show's satire is in exploring how the more things change, the more they stay the same. This applies not only to plots parodying present-day issues (with mixed results, as you'd probably agree) but to the motivations and emotions of the characters too; they may live in a crazy world, but that world is real to
them and they behave as such, living their lives realistically in accordance with their personalities and the means their world affords them (and frankly, our own real world can seem pretty crazy too). A lot of both the humor and the heart of the show comes from the characters having recognizable personalities and being in recognizable situations, at least in terms of their relationships with each other (and I don't even necessarily mean romantically, but just as coworkers who, by the nature of their business and the adventures that they have, become friends and a makeshift family). Having the show just focus more on pithy exchanges at the expense of learning who the characters
are wouldn't improve it much, in my opinion.
Tachyon
DOOP Secretary
« #21 : 01-02-2016 07:50 »
I recently re-watched Reincarnation and noticed that Fry has a line about he wants this moment to last forever. It's near the end of the black and white cartoon segment. I thought that was interesting, considering what they ultimately decided on for the last episode. Perhaps the notion was already rattling around in the writer's heads, somewhere in the back?Was that where the world became still because everything was covered with diamonds and he was holding her hand?
* Tachy looks...
Yep, and them being frozen in diamond seems sort of analogous to time standing still. Interesting theory. I'll have to go back and listen to the commentary track on Meanwhile again.
Tedward
Professor
« #24 : 01-18-2016 19:39 »
The other week Gorky and I were discussing whether or not we thought that the new run of episodes was ultimately worthwhile for us as dedicated fans of the show, and I’ve grown curious as to what other PEELers think (I’m sure this issue has been debated many times before, yes, but I figure I’d bring it up again). It’s not really an interesting question for those who loved the new run and would obviously say yes or for those who hated it and would obviously say no, but what about for those like me who were largely disappointed in the new run but will readily admit that there was a handful of episodes--even if unfortunately small in number--that rank among my favorite things the show ever did? For my part, I feel like I have to say that yes, the show’s return was worthwhile because I’ve been able to see those few outstanding episodes and just had to put up with a lot of unimpressive ones in order to do so…but then again, it’s not like I even knew I was missing out on those great ones in the period before the show’s renewal. We were able to have our cake and eat it too with the original run, I feel, because we could be righteously indignant that the show was cancelled in its prime, and yet could also be quite satisfied with the seventy-two episodes we did have and feel that the show, even cut short like that, was still “complete” as it was (and for that, it is oh-so-fortunate that the show’s makers were predicting the show’s demise and were able to pull out all the stops in season four, tying up the arcs of Leela’s origin and Fry’s purpose in the future). The new run has made it much harder to say “Futurama is my favorite show” because all the episodes I don’t care for are now included in that (in an more extreme example, it’s also like wondering how I could in good conscience say that I love The Simpsons, when at this point in its run I wouldn’t be including almost half of its episodes in that statement), unless I regard the original run and new run as separate entities…which in all honesty I can’t help but do anyway because that’s how I experienced them, but it’s still a shame to have to clarify one’s fandom like that.
totalnerd undercanada
DOOP Ubersecretary
« #29 : 02-23-2016 02:19 »
Stuff I respect Tedward. I think he's a good snail. But quite frankly, I agree with everything he just said.
Personally, I feel that the revived run had a handful of excellent episodes, as well as a handful (or maybe two) of stinking turds. The good more than made up for the bad, in hindsight. There's a definite decline evident towards the end of the show, but I'm glad overall that it came back in the way that it did, and really glad that we got episodes like "Meanwhile", F&LBF, and TLPJF out of it. Therefore, it was absolutely worthwhile.
That's not to say that I'll ever be watching episodes like TSMFP again for any reason other than dusting off tnuk's big book of reasons why he hates stuff, and listing everything wrong with them.
But the revived series was a good thing, because if we'd missed it then we'd have let a few absolute gems fall unregarded by the wayside. Which would, overall, have been an enormous shame.
DannyJC13
DOOP Secretary
« #34 : 02-25-2016 20:57 »
I, too, am enjoying
Game of Drones . The amount of detail gone into the 3D navigation screen is impressive, especially considering
Futurama is pretty much dead.
This behind-the-scenes video shows just how much love has actually gone into the game, pretty cool: