I love Futurama. I was so excited to hear that it was coming back, and last night it did. I got to see two new episodes, and they were both great. The best part of the Futurama comeback is that the show doesn’t seem completely different than it used to be. Family Guy underwent a huge change after its hiatus, with many of the characters personalities changing, more flashbacks etc. The only difference I noticed between old and new Futurama is that the professor’s voice sounds different.
On to our Sci-Fi storylines then. The opening scenes of the season six premiere have the Planet Express crew being shot out of the sky by the Nimbus. Only Fry and the professor survive, but luckily he killed enough humans to have a huge vat of stem cells to reincarnate the rest of the cast, except Leela. The rest of the episode could have been written by Philip K. Dick, since it has some interesting twists near the end (that I won’t reveal here, since I know some Futurama fans that missed it).
The second new episode was pretty funny too. Zapp and Leela get lost on an “alien” planet, and believe they are the last humans alive. The story isn’t as good as the first episode, since most of it is just Zapp trying to trick Leela into having sex with him, but it was a better episode overall because it was so much funnier than the first one.
Overall, I’m really glad that Futurama is back, and I’m not going to miss any new episodes. It is on Comedy Central at 9PM Central.
Also, this blog will mainly focus on books, but not until after Independence Day.
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