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classicswim[Quids Game]
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.........They just don’t try.
That’s it.
They can’t for their lives write even a fairly decent episode anymore. They are no longer capable of writing good scripts. It’s not at all different from the entirety of the last season. Each show as bad, or more bad than the next because they don’t care at all to write a coherent story or even just a joke anyone can laugh at.
The year 2024 and the best FUTURAMA can do is a copyright friendly product gag? Go fuck yourself.
You know how the episode began with Fry not wanting to have his birthday acknowledged, and then suddenly all of Futurama ever is on the ship, in space... because a-doy? All of the cast that wouldn’t give Fry the time of day subversively loves him because fine?
I don’t know if the staff knew this or not, but New New York isn’t Springfield. People watch Futurama because it’s not The Simpsons.
Seeing as all of the characters die for the sake of dying anyway, and obviously come back out of thin air anyway; I got something! Why not have all of Futurama pop up on the fucking planet when the game has started? THAT WAY, you can write either something mildly humorous in the beginning, or even just have something that makes sense with the show (it’s Futurama, by the way. I know you want to write something else, but it’s Futurama.) you are writing.
But no. Everything’s gotta be lazy as all hell.
Not a single soul looked at Fry’s house recreated and said “oh, boy! Fry’s house! Can’t wait to see the 12th or even 17th scenario of him having a fucked up childhood! This thing with Fry and his family, surely that hasn’t been milked enough as is!”
They put zero thought into the alien villains. Like, none at all. You never get a single explanation for how they know Fry or any simple goddamn motivation for anything they do. Leela went the whole episode not even thinking of *drum roll!* attacking the aliens. Again, the writers completely forgot they’re writing Futurama.
The flashback sequences would’ve been far worse if Fry’s parents were written as normal, but nothing made sense anyway. They pulled punches on being too mean to Fry like they usually would, but still wrote for all the kids to conveniently hate Fry. As if he can cheat pinning the tail on the donkey. Or as if cheating on your birthday party warrants friends hating you forever. It’s not something real that happens, so it’s not a premise worth caring about.
Speaking of not caring... why should I give a single fuck about Fry’s “friends?” They didn’t exist before the episode (unless you count the breakdancing group) and they won’t exist after this episode.
“Everything’s coming up Gecky” or whatever David Herman’s fucking name was as I already forgot.
One of the main kids was a sickly Todd Flanders who was named in the episode as Bartholomew. They’re not even trying in the slightest.
What is anyone getting out of this show being back? Why should anyone continue watching? Is the show being terrible on purpose? I don’t know the answer to this but I do know I should respect my time better.
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Date: 2024-08-13 01:29 am (UTC)- Okay let's be fair here; the show has always always ALWAYS since at least season 2 been inconsistent on what Leela and will and won't attack. Like yeah she's supposed to be a bad ass but as this is a comedy they will sometimes forget that either for a joke or hell a story and expect no one to care. I mean at least here you could say these aliens were like all powerful with their ability to make these childish games come to live from Fry's mind as these gigantic blood filled death traps. Why in the hell didn't Leela like take out Roberto in "Insane In The Mainframe" when all that guy had was a knife and being crazy? Because it wouldn't fit the story they were trying to tell thus they didn't say it.
Honestly I have been liking the last batch of Hulu episodes (I guess the premiere focusing wayyyyyyyyyyyyyy too much on NFTs wasn't that good but not the worst episode ever) but I get it's not everyone's cup of tea and fair enough. I will say though that it does annoy me people hate on new episodes or runs of certain series while acting like the original run was perfect and could do no wrong. And yes shows can certainly go through rot and not be good anymore while still going (Family Guy I do feel that is the case with a lot of it's recent episodes) but it feels like now once a show is in it's third season or comes back from a cancellation or long period people instantly jump on it's back for being the worst thing ever or "not living up to what came before" but won't even admit to what coming before not always being the best.
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Date: 2024-08-13 02:18 am (UTC)