Geeks of the world rejoice: Futurama is back. After a long wait, today is the official release date of "Bender's Big Score!", a 90 minute direct-to-DVD film, that will later be chopped up into the first four episodes of the new season. Filled with geek and nerd references, Futurama is a popular American cartoon series, by Simpsons' creater Matt Groening, that sadly got cancelled way before its time by the Fox Network. Now, it's back, and the opening sequence, a big slap in the face of the Fox Network executives, is already a classic. I have already seen the new film, and as a big, big Futurama fan, I can tell you it will not let you down. Three more direct-to-DVD movies are already planned, so go out, buy the DVD, and just like Family Guy, let's get it back on a regular schedule! My personal favourites: Zapp (s03e02): "That young man fills me with hope and some other emotions that are weird and deeply confusing to me." And of course the classic sign over Amy Wong's parents' house (s04e06): "You came to the Wong place."
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Many people are hyped about that thing, but after having seen it I have to say it suffers from the same deficits that made the Simpsons movie bad: Lack of good writing, lack of momentum, lack of story structure. It's a long Futurama episode with the same flat characters acting just as they did in the series with a "story" that feels like a bad episode (Time Travel? Come on, why that amateur move?).
Fans might have fun, but people not religiously attached to Futurama will probably as bored as I was.
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I disagree. I just finished watching it and I thought it was great! The time travel aspect was well done - just because time travel is often the first refuge of the bad sci-fi writer doesn't mean you still can't write a funny story about it.
Oh, and "flat characters?" Give me a break.
Well, too bad for you. No go away, no one here wants to talk to someone who likens appreciating a TV show to being part of a religion. Here's an idea: go back to writing that funny, well-written, well-structured screenplay filled with three-dimensional characters.
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Since I stopped watching TV in the late 90's. However, I was at a friend's house once and caught part of an episode. I guess the internet was like a 3D world, and they were flying around in it, trying not to get nailed by the flying ads. Guess adblock doesn't exist in the future 
Pretty funny though.
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Fox was expecting something familiar, The Simpsons in space. Executives certainly were not prepared for the bizarre contours of Groening and Cohen's brave new world. "The network's attitude quickly went from tremendous excitement to great fear," Groening says. "They were very troubled by the suicide booth. They didn't like the 'All-Tentacle Massage' parlor."
Futurama premiered to strong ratings, but as the show was shuffled around the schedule, viewership slipped. Every season, the renewal notice came late — so late that there wasn't always time to deliver a full slate of episodes. After the fourth season, the people working on the show waited and waited for a renewal notice until they eventually assumed — correctly — that it wasn't going to come. (c) Wired
That's why.
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>futurama was cancelled because half of the writers from the simpsons were pulled to write for it
Actually most of the original Simpsons team was moved to Family's Guy (a show I don't like).
Most of Futurama team was formed by people who left Simpsons after it started to decay (after 4th season) and returned.
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series? I thought they were just doing the four DVD movies and showing each one on TV as four episodes (next movie is due in 6 months *ish* apparently).
I'd be over-joyed if there's a series to go with each one though. There have been hints in interviews I've read that there is a series too, but I haven't seen any concrete confirmation..?
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Farnsworth: These are the dark matter engine I invented. They allow my starship to travel between galaxies in mere hours.
Cubert: That's impossible. You can't go faster than the speed of light.
Farnsworth: Of course not. That's why scientists increased the speed of light in 2208.
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I watched Firefly after serenity and I must say that Serenity does the show very little justice. The Show was incredible and I only regret missing it when it first came out. This could have been an emmy winning show if it were on the right network and if it were still around. I loved the show but I feel cheated because I never got to see where it was going and the movie gave me very little to no closure after watching the show. Screw fox, they can put crap like Kithcen nightmare;s on but can't keep a decent show on if it smacked them in their faces and family guy had to literally bitch smack them before they put it back on.
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Maybe you just prefer outpatient anal medical procedures over what really is just a movie. I wouldn't exactly call it over hyped, as we haven't been inundated with Futurama ads/reviews/whatever.
I watched it last night, and thought it was pretty good. I can see that is it really meant to be spread over several episodes, as the story seems to be written that way, but over all, I thought it was a pretty good flick.
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