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Old Jun 10th, 2009, 03:15 PM        Futurama Returns!
It is official!

"Comedy Central has made it official, announcing they have picked up the series for an impressive 26 new episodes"

Says 20th Century Fox TV Chairmen Gary Newman and Dana Walden, "When we brought back Family Guy several years ago, everyone said that it was a once-in-a-lifetime thing - that canceled series stay canceled and cannot be revived. But Futurama was another series that fans simply demanded we bring back, and we couldn't have been happier when Matt and David agreed that there were many more stories yet to tell."

I wonder if Fox executives realize how horribly they manage shows. Well hopfully the new episodes of futurama don't turn out to be shit like the new episodes of family guy but then again I shouldn't even compare the creative forces of the two shows.
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Old Jun 10th, 2009, 03:17 PM       
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Old Jun 10th, 2009, 03:20 PM       
I wonder if the episodes will actually be funny
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Old Jun 10th, 2009, 04:01 PM       
From what I hear, its all original writers and actors. Should be good.
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Old Jun 10th, 2009, 04:03 PM       
Hate to be the bearer of bad news but the new episodes are just the movies being chopped up into episodes with some minor added content.

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Old Jun 10th, 2009, 04:56 PM       
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Hate to be the bearer of bad news but the new episodes are just the movies being chopped up into episodes with some minor added content.

But they have already played the movies in episode format while they are claiming these to be "new".
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Old Jun 10th, 2009, 05:43 PM       
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Hate to be the bearer of bad news but the new episodes are just the movies being chopped up into episodes with some minor added content.

No, these are new episodes. Comedy Central was using the movies that were chopped up into episode format as basically a test of futurama profitability. Because they received favorable ratings we now get real brand new episodes

http://tv.ign.com/articles/993/993144p1.html
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Old Jun 10th, 2009, 04:23 PM       
Good news everyone!

I don't care what's in 'em, I'm just glad they'll be back! I freaking love that series!
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Old Jun 10th, 2009, 05:51 PM       
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Old Jun 10th, 2009, 06:24 PM       
Was that what that weird-ass episode was about, with the executive powder? I thought that was an old episode.
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Old Jun 10th, 2009, 08:36 PM       
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10,000 Volt Ghost: BBS goes out of it's way to canonize it's own events. Bender is shown being the leader of the squadron of U.F.O.'s that destroyed the Medieval Theme Park and Seymore is fast-fossilized by Bender's Gun's aftershock. What was a joke and a mystery in the original series are now fully canonized plot threads.

As for nothing changing because of this, Seymore is all the proof I need. In the original episode he appeared in, he spent all New Years Day looking for Fry and then spent his life waiting for him to return. But since Fry 2 showed up he had no reason to go out to search for Fry.

Yancy originally named his son Philip since he missed Fry so much. Now we have no idea why he named his son after Fry (I guess maybe they got closer together. I would think Yancy Sr. would disapprove of not naming a first born Yancy unless they had the original situation of Fry's disappearance).

As for some alternate version of Time-Travel explaning Fry and Lars lives being separate: I don't see where you are going with this. If it's Grandfather Paradox then all the events are canon (which they are) because they were all supposed to happen.

If it's alternate universe then how would that make the events non-canon? It would be like the new Star Trek movie- Events are different but because we are in an alternate universe. The original universe still exists with it's events and this second universe exists with its events. So in other words it still all happened at least in the universe we are witnessing.

And on your example: What, do you mean if a paradox-copy of you went back in time and lived your life differently? Well, I guess you would still remember all the events the old way but that doesn't mean you wouldn't live in a universe with changed events. Semi-example: Back to the Future. Marty changed his family's lives yet he remembers everything from his timeline but knows none of theirs. So Fry 2 did change the timeline. I've already wrote two prominent examples above of what he changed.

I'm not trying to stifle the return of Futurama here. I'm simply stating that I hope that the writers think a little more on how to handle the characters and their stories than they did in the first three movies. The movies/the new series had/has a lot to live up and disregarding the continuity and characterization of the original run is not the way to do it.

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Old Jun 11th, 2009, 02:55 AM       
Hell to the Yeah! Futurama is by far my favorite T.V. series. I'm glad to know that my purchase of the DVD movies was not in vain.

That is harsh but it's true. Aside from ITWGY the movies had problems.

BBS is pretty good but it doesn't take the chance to follow-up on the series finale (F/L reset to zero, again.), the Paradox-Correcting Time Code is lazy (Something doesn't make sense by even Time Travel standards? Whoosh, Paradox Correcting), and the changes to continuity are not appreciated (I think it'd be difficult to find a Futurama Fan who likes the changes done to Fry's Past).

BWABB is strange. It has very little middle ground in terms of the Fandom's opinion on it. For most it's either freaking hilarious or it's an Out-Of-Character mess that trades away witty writing and years or character development for shock/juvenile sex humor (me).

Bender's Game is also strange. Seemingly the entire Fandom feels Meh about it. Mostly because of how disappointing the Fantasy bit (second half) of the movie is. Instead of being the promised skewering of Fantasy it ends up being a surpsingly boring send-off of LOTR. I have no idea why the writers decided to focus on that series since the last movie was realeased in 2003 so any jokes about it would be considered dated (which they were).

On the other hand I'd like to protect the film by stating that it isn't an OOC mess like BWABB is (aside from an extreme exxageration of Leela's anger) and that the first half is pretty good and would have worked as two twenty-minute episodes (which they kind of already work as).

Nothing truly needs to be said about ITWGY. Everybody loves this movie (including I-Mockery's own Dr. Boogie: http://www.i-mockery.com/weeklies/we...e=movies&id=81) and for good reason. It's intelligent, it doesn't bog itself down with "fan-service" moments, it's the most complete, it's funnier than the others, the characters are finally back to a level of development they had in the series (BBS came close), and F/L's relationship is handled a manner more mature than any series episode before it (closest to ITWGY is 412: The Sting). This one is an absolute A+.

Still, I'm glad to have the series back in production. I hope that the writers won't reset the ending of ITWGY. F/L have been linked together for years and after the ending there is no denying that they are finally together. To reset that would show an incredible disrespect for fans and a lack of confidence in the writers.

I also would like a 1 or 2-part episode that explains how the crew got back to Earth after they went through the wormhole. While they could explain it in the first few minutes it would feel like a cop-out and the wormhole has too much potential not to use.

Other than that, closer continuity, F/L's relationship touched upon, and some multi-part episodes would be appreciated.

So, on a final note: YEEEEESSSSSS!!!
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Old Jun 11th, 2009, 10:31 AM       
I'm happy to hear it. Now if only King of the Hill can be brought back in the same way...
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I still love king of the Hill.
The best part about that show is that our whole neighborhood is pretty much exactly like the show.
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Old Jun 11th, 2009, 11:16 AM       
How did Fry's past change in the first dvd movie?
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