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Futurama Thread

HaydenHayden
edited April 2013 in General Chat
This year, on the 10th of June, the first episode of Futurama season 6 will go to air :)! This will be the first official Futurama episode (excluding the feature length films) since 2003; 7 years (for those who can't count)! It's fittingly called "Rebirth", and will be the first of the 13 episodes in season 6, and then a season 7 is also planned - we'll be having a total 26 new episodes! The whole original voice-acting cast is back and Matt Groening and David X. Cohen are still heading the team and writing episodes!

Now, I've known about this for quite a while now - as I'm sure most of you have as well - but actually getting an official release date and episode title just makes it seem that much more real and make me, personally, that much more excited. So how about you? Are you excited about the television return of Futurama? Or are you worried that it may be a failure and forever tarnish your opinion of Futurama? Will the episodes live up to the old ones? And how did you think the feature length films fared against the classic episodes?

Opinions and speculation please.
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  • StrongsadiowareStrongsadioware
    edited January 2010
    I personally think it's going to be a success.

    When you bring back the oldies, you earn the fans of said oldies back.
  • corruptbigginscorruptbiggins
    edited January 2010
    I can't wait, though will probably will have to wait even longer as I've no idea when it'll get aired here in the UK. I guess Sky One will pick it up (considering they already have The Simpsons and still are showing all the old episodes & films) but as to when, well who knows.
  • HaydenHayden
    edited January 2010
    There'll probably be mass youtube uploading. If you get in quick, you may be able to view the episode on there before it gets pulled. I'll probably be doing something along those lines (or just downloading the episode) as I doubt that in Australia we'll get the episode at the same time as the US.
  • Secret FawfulSecret Fawful
    edited January 2010
    futurama_bender-753559.jpg

    Bender - I'M BACK BABY.
  • MolokovMolokov
    edited January 2010
    haydenwce27 wrote: »
    This year, on the 10th of June, the first episode of Futurama season 6 will go to air :)!

    Wait, what? What happened to Season 5? Do the four dvd-movies from 2008/2009 count as Season 5, then?
  • HaydenHayden
    edited January 2010
    Molokov wrote: »
    Wait, what? What happened to Season 5? Do the four dvd-movies from 2008/2009 count as Season 5, then?

    Yep
  • IcedhopeIcedhope
    edited January 2010
    It's Back BABY!
  • HaydenHayden
    edited January 2010
    I though that everyone would find these interesting:

    The storyboard of the opening 3 minutes of "Rebirth" that was shown at Animation SuperCon in Florida last year.

    Some of the "Rebirth" storyboard images that have been coloured by a very devoted fan.

    The Infosphere (Futurama Wiki) "Rebirth" page. Some interesting info on there.
  • tredlowtredlow
    edited January 2010
    Professor, my hair is all crazy! Well, that's it...

    Definitely watching this season.
  • ShwooShwoo
    edited January 2010
    David X. Cohen wrote:
    [Also], the Professor invents a time machine that only goes forward in time, and Fry does not want to wait 10 minutes for something, so he and the Professor go forward but it instead goes ten years, and so they decide to keep going forward until they can find a time machine that goes backwards, so they keep going forward for thousands of years until the universe collapses, and then they keep going beyond that.
    From here. I really want to see that episode. That's exactly the kind of thing that interests me, and since it's Futurama, it'll probably be based on current knowledge instead of being made up out of nowhere.

    (Note: I said "based on", not "scrupulously matching")
  • patterspatters
    edited January 2010
    haydenwce27 wrote: »
    This year, on the 10th of June, the first episode of Futurama season 6 will go to air :)! This will be the first official Futurama episode (excluding the feature length films) since 2003; 7 years (for those who can't count)! It's fittingly called "Rebirth", and will be the first of the 13 episodes in season 6, and then a season 7 is also planned - we'll be having a total 26 new episodes! The whole original voice-acting cast is back and Matt Groening and David X. Cohen are still heading the team and writing episodes!

    WAIT, it would be season 7 technically, the original run was split into 5 seasons, though the DVDs were in 4, unless you are going to disregard the movies in that context. Otherwise you have to count it as purely a season 5 as that is the way it was produced, Seasons 1-4, the films then season 5.

    Either way I am happy about it.
  • HaydenHayden
    edited January 2010
    patters wrote: »
    WAIT, it would be season 7 technically, the original run was split into 5 seasons, though the DVDs were in 4, unless you are going to disregard the movies in that context. Otherwise you have to count it as purely a season 5 as that is the way it was produced, Seasons 1-4, the films then season 5.

    Either way I am happy about it.

    Let's not get nit-picky. I just went off this.
  • Darth MarsdenDarth Marsden
    edited January 2010
    patters wrote: »
    WAIT, it would be season 7 technically, the original run was split into 5 seasons
    Only when they first aired in the US. Most people accept that there should be four series... sorry, seasons, and the films made up a fifth.
  • patterspatters
    edited January 2010
    Darth Marsden wrote: »
    Only when they first aired in the US. Most people accept that there should be four series... sorry, seasons, and the films made up a fifth.

    My point exactly, the films aren't a season, The only way you can say there are 6 is by disregarding the films and counting the original airing run. If you buy the dvds you have 4 seasons, and 4 films; yet if you count the original run there are 6 seasons. I guess you could take an average though.
  • ShwooShwoo
    edited January 2010
    The movies are considered the fifth season. They can be broken up into four episodes each.
  • Hyperkinetic_MartianHyperkinetic_Martian
    edited January 2010
    Hmmm...I never really thought of the films as being their own season. I just thought of them as...well, just movies. Though I guess you could consider them as hour-long episodes...

    Anyways, on topic :p

    To be honest, I was more or less disappointed with the films. For me, they just didn't carry the same sweet essence earlier episodes did. I just remember feeling a hint of that in the dosage of disappointment I tasted after watching them. Only exception to this was Bender's character, which for me saved the films...

    But I try to be optimistic and I did enjoy the series as a whole, so I am looking forward to this with sheer optimism that they'll live up to the quality of the older seasons :)

    *hides behind Sam, awaiting potential flaming she may've reaped upon herself* ><
  • ShwooShwoo
    edited January 2010
    I half agree. I really liked the plotty Bender's Big Score and Into the Wild Green Yonder. Especially Bender's Big Score. But when they tried to stretch out the less serious plots over ninety minutes, it didn't really work. It didn't help that the plot elements the other two were marketed on didn't appear until about the last twenty minutes. I kept waiting for the fantasy world and the giant tentacle alien to show up without enjoying what was happening at that moment.
  • Rather DashingRather Dashing
    edited January 2010
    Bender's Big Score was the best of the films, and I actually really liked it. Beast with a Billion Backs, oddly enough, didn't thrill me at all. I was really disappointed in it. And then Wild Green Yonder surprised me by being pretty good after I thought they may only have only one good film in them. Big Score is still the best.

    I'm wary about this new season more than excited, I guess. I thought that Futurama ended on just the right note, and then they caught lightning in a bottle AGAIN with the ending to Green Yonder. I'm not sure how many times they can do that.
  • Jen KollicJen Kollic
    edited January 2010
    On the one hand, I love Futurama more than any other adult-aimed animated show, so more of it sounds like a good thing. But on the other, the ending of Wild Green Yonder would have been a good place to end it, I'm a bit wary about how Fry and Leela's relationship will factor in to the new series and whether it'll change the tone. Then again, I also thought that about Guybrush and Elaine getting married, sooooo... *shrugs*

    Bender's Game was definitely my favourite of Season 5, but as a D&D player all the D&D related jokes and references cracked me up, and I can understand why someone who's never played it wouldn't get them.
  • Darth MarsdenDarth Marsden
    edited January 2010
    I liked all the films, but Bender's Game would be my least favourite, because the whole D'n'D thing is a massive 20-minute 'And now for something completely different' moment. Funny, but totally out of sync with the rest of the episode, and very jarring as a result.
  • tredlowtredlow
    edited January 2010
    Darth Marsden wrote: »
    I liked all the films, but Bender's Game would be my least favourite, because the whole D'n'D thing is a massive 20-minute 'And now for something completely different' moment. Funny, but totally out of sync with the rest of the episode, and very jarring as a result.

    Ditto. My favorite is actually the first one. It's just way better than I expected it, with pretty much everything you'd ever want from a sci-fi animated movie; time travel, space battles, naked aliens, Mark Hamill playing a zombie, screaming skulls, and a tragic romance story.
  • HaydenHayden
    edited January 2010
    Call me extremely optimistic, or a bit of a fanboy, but I really enjoyed all of the films. I don't see why Beast with a Billion Backs was so widely disliked, I always like films like that - when the world is being taken over by monsters/one big monster and the final few people left un-found are forced to be evasive and lay low. It's quite exciting and keeps you on the edge of your seat. Beast with a Billion Backs also had one of my favourite moments/lines out of any Futurama episode ever:

    Fry (under monster's control): "Silence! I have traveled far and seen deep, and I have come to know the purpose of our existence."
    Randy Munchnik: "Finally."
    Fry: "Thou shalt love the tentacle!"
    Farnsworth: "Well, at least we don't have to love one another."

    ...And as for the Dungeons & Dragons world in Bender's Game, what's wrong with a "now, for something completely different" moment? I don't object to those moments taking place in a show like Futurama - if anything, I think they belong there (when the time calls for it, which I think it did in this particular film). Plus, I really enjoyed seeing how each character looked and what creature they would be in the Dungeons & Dragons world.
  • Butterscotch-BirosButterscotch-Biros
    edited January 2010
    haydenwce27 wrote: »
    Call me extremely optimistic, or a bit of a fanboy, but I really enjoyed all of the films. I don't see why Beast with a Billion Backs was so widely disliked, I always like films like that - when the world is being taken over by monsters/one big monster and the final few people left un-found are forced to be evasive and lay low. It's quite exciting and keeps you on the edge of your seat.
    I agree - the first and second time I watche it, I actually found it to be superior to BBS. But after that, it's repeated viewings just couldn't withstand.

    BBS gets me laughs and enjoyment every time, and is indeed my favourite of the four.

    I'm surprised for the love of The Wild Green Yonder, I didn't find it funny at all except for the odd chuckle, it just seemed too serious and the ending was in my opinion quite tacky - but to be fair, they didn't know the series would be renewed, so it was good of them to wrap it up like that.
  • Darth MarsdenDarth Marsden
    edited January 2010
    haydenwce27 wrote: »
    ...And as for the Dungeons & Dragons world in Bender's Game, what's wrong with a "now, for something completely different" moment? I don't object to those moments taking place in a show like Futurama - if anything, I think they belong there (when the time calls for it, which I think it did in this particular film). Plus, I really enjoyed seeing how each character looked and what creature they would be in the Dungeons & Dragons world.
    Because it has absolutely no bearing on the rest of the episode and goes on for far too long.

    Don't get me wrong - if it was just a single episode in a full season of the show, then I wouldn't have had a problem with it at all. But in the middle of what is basically a film, it feels very out of place, which is why I had an issue with it.
  • doggansdoggans
    edited February 2010
    My biggest problem with the D&D/Tolkien portion of the story: wasted potential. I felt like they could have done so much more in that universe than they did. Couldn't we at least have seen Zap Brannigan as Eomer, or something?
  • Ray-The-SunRay-The-Sun
    edited February 2010
    And I won't be able to watch these new episodes for a very long time! I love England so, so much!
  • Deadly ChlorineDeadly Chlorine
    edited February 2010
    Darth Marsden wrote: »
    Because it has absolutely no bearing on the rest of the episode and goes on for far too long.

    Don't get me wrong - if it was just a single episode in a full season of the show, then I wouldn't have had a problem with it at all. But in the middle of what is basically a film, it feels very out of place, which is why I had an issue with it.
    Also that really, really long knife infomercial. It was a pretty what the hell moment in the middle.

    I kinda liked Bender's Big Score and Beast with a Billion Backs, though the regular episodes outshined them by a mile or more.

    Can't comment on The Wild Green Yonder because I can't watch it. :(
  • serializerserializer
    edited February 2010
    Good news, everyone!

    Yeah, I found out about this ages ago, but it absolutely warranted a new thread here :) When I heard about this the same kind of feeling as when I heard about ToMI! Then there was a terrible moment when the whole original cast dropped out over pay disputes, luckily they sorted the whole thing out, because Futurama would be unwatchable without those guys :(

    Anyway I'm really excited about June. It's going to be epic.

    Now, if you wanted to top all of that, how about a "TTG are making a Futurama game" announcement?
  • Darth MarsdenDarth Marsden
    edited February 2010
    Ray-The-Sun wrote: »
    And I won't be able to watch these new episodes for a very long time! I love England so, so much!
    That's why Al Gore invented the internet. :p
  • Ray-The-SunRay-The-Sun
    edited February 2010
    Darth Marsden wrote: »
    That's why Al Gore invented the internet. :p

    Unless they're uploaded on Youtube, I still wouldn't be able to watch 'em. I can't use services such as Hulu (Whatever the crap THAT is)
  • Rather DashingRather Dashing
    edited February 2010
    Ray-The-Sun wrote: »
    Unless they're uploaded on Youtube, I still wouldn't be able to watch 'em. I can't use services such as Hulu (Whatever the crap THAT is)
    Hulu is a service that was created via an amalgamation of a few different networks, to legally stream episodes of shows. Fueled by advertising, new episodes of new shows are on there generally for a week or two.

    You could always buy it? :D
  • HaydenHayden
    edited February 2010
    Ray-The-Sun wrote: »
    Unless they're uploaded on Youtube, I still wouldn't be able to watch 'em. I can't use services such as Hulu (Whatever the crap THAT is)

    Try jogyjogy.com - it's great for watching tv shows on as they don't get removed due to copyright as they do on youtube. It's just too bad that it's not that widely known, so you might not always find the show you're looking for.
  • Butterscotch-BirosButterscotch-Biros
    edited February 2010
    Rather Dashing wrote: »
    Hulu is a service that was created via an amalgamation of a few different networks, to legally stream episodes of shows. Fueled by advertising, new episodes of new shows are on there generally for a week or two.
    It's not available in the UK.
  • Rather DashingRather Dashing
    edited February 2010
    Butterscotch-Biros wrote: »
    It's not available in the UK.
    That was an answer to "(Whatever the crap THAT is)". I know it's not available in the UK.

    They do sell and rent the DVDs in the UK though, don't they?
  • tredlowtredlow
    edited February 2010
    haydenwce27 wrote: »
    ...And as for the Dungeons & Dragons world in Bender's Game, what's wrong with a "now, for something completely different" moment? I don't object to those moments taking place in a show like Futurama - if anything, I think they belong there (when the time calls for it, which I think it did in this particular film). Plus, I really enjoyed seeing how each character looked and what creature they would be in the Dungeons & Dragons world.

    I liked it, but it was my least favorite between the four movies. Not because of the characters being in the DnD world (which was brilliant, actually) but I just didn't think the jokes were as funny as the first two. The same goes to the jokes in the fourth movie. But unlike the third movie, Into The Wild Green Yonder's plot has more to do with the Futurama Universe. Everything that happened in the third movie felt like they didn't matter (aside from revealing the fact that
    Ignar is The Professor's son
    and
    Dark Matter becoming obsolete
    , which didn't change anything in the fourth movie).
  • FriarFriar
    edited February 2010
    You know, i have still to see the futurama 'movies', despite being a huge fan. Odd.
  • HaydenHayden
    edited February 2010
    Friar wrote: »
    You know, i have still to see the futurama 'movies', despite being a huge fan. Odd.

    Arh, what!? You gotta watch them before the TV premier of "Rebirth", though. The ending of "Into the Wild Green Yonder" ties in with the beginning of "Rebirth". And, you should just watch 'em anyway 'cos they're... awesome! :)
  • HaydenHayden
    edited June 2010
    Not long now, guys! Just 10 days until 'Rebirth', so why not discuss while we count down?

    Edit: Here's the other thread, if you'd like to discuss there as well.
  • The HighwayThe Highway
    edited June 2010
    Hayden wrote: »
    Not long now, guys! Just 10 days until 'Rebirth', so why not discuss while we count down?

    Edit: Here's the other thread, if you'd like to discuss there as well.

    And how, pray tell, do you plan to watch it? I doubt it will show in Australia on the first day, even on Foxtel.
  • HaydenHayden
    edited June 2010
    The Highway wrote: »
    And how, pray tell, do you plan to watch it? I doubt it will show in Australia on the first day, even on Foxtel.

    The internet my friend. Within a matter of hours, I'm sure it will be available off illegal download sites and streaming on several websites.
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