Futurama Thread

[Hayden]

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.

[Strongsadioware]

I personally think it's going to be a success.

When you bring back the oldies, you earn the fans of said oldies back.

[corruptbiggins]

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.

[Hayden]

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 Fawful]

Bender - I'M BACK BABY.

[Molokov]

Originally Posted by haydenwce27

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?

[Hayden]

Originally Posted by Molokov

Wait, what? What happened to Season 5? Do the four dvd-movies from 2008/2009 count as Season 5, then?

Yep

[Icedhope]

It's Back BABY!

[Hayden]

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.

[tredlow]

Professor, my hair is all crazy! Well, that's it...

Definitely watching this season.

[Shwoo]

Originally Posted by David X. Cohen

[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")

[patters]

Originally Posted by haydenwce27

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.

[Hayden]

Originally Posted by patters

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 Marsden]

Originally Posted by patters

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.

[patters]

Originally Posted by Darth Marsden

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.

[Shwoo]

The movies are considered the fifth season. They can be broken up into four episodes each.

[Hyperkinetic_Martian]

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

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* ><

[Shwoo]

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 Dashing]

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 Kollic]

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.