MAMEWorld Forums - News - New Futurama tonight (arcade/video game episode)

> >
> > Well, the whole sixth season has just been between lame and brutally unfunny. There
> > have been episodes, that had glimpses of the past greatness though. I have no idea
> > why the critics love this show. After the second movie it went straight downhill.
> > Pretty sad since the last regular episode before they got cancelled was the best
> one
> > ever. A lot of the recent new shows, that got slammed by critics and/or were even
> > cancelled pretty had more sparks going each episode than Futurama has in its total
> TV
> > run since coming back from the grave.
>
> The problem with Futurama is that they decided to renew it a full 6 years after it's
> cancellation. A show needs momentum for good stories, you can't start and stop and
> change format two or three times like it has. The reason that the Family Guy renewal
> (no judging about the show) went so much better is that they retained 100% of the
> writers when it came back, and even then it took a year or so for it to get back up
> to speed.

I don't really think that's the problem. The first movie was great and the second was still really good, but the next two already started having pointless stories, that just try to spoof things or incorporate the oldest jokes in the world. They also dropped a lot of the back story elements and went to straight standalone episodes. Just recently they finally started picking up on the Fry/Leela relationship more seriously after basically ignoring it for a long time. I think the critics are still "old school cartoon" lovers like friends of mine, that always tell me how great the recent years of The Simpsons have been although they went stale quite a while ago. When Family Guy came back on the Simpsons guys incorporated some of the methods of it at some point and went a bit out of there for a few seasons, which was actually quite refreshing and gave you several "WTF?" moments something you didn't expect. Futurama was always out there in its initial run (those X-mas episodes were shocking), but now they play it safe and family-friendly for some unknown reason, although they are definitely placed in adult programming (it's followed by Ugly Americans, which was IMO the best new series last season).

But anyway. Mordecai and Rigby (from "Regular Show") are the new guns in town and I really wonder who's gonna top that show in the next few years.

Edit: Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh!

Edited by Firewave (09/11/11 02:00 AM)