Behind the Drama of Futurama

Futurama is an animated, comedy, sci-fi TV series created by Matt Groening. The said show features voice actors like Billy West, John DiMaggio and Katy Sagal. The show has been running for 14 years now having 7 seasons in it. Futurama’s story plot revolves around Fry, a pizza delivery guy who was accidentally cryogenically frozen in the year 1999 and thawed out New Year’s Eve 2999.

I have to admit that I am no fan of the TV series but after watching its pilot episode, entitled Space Pilot 3000, I did get some interesting ideas about it. The creators of Futurama had a very wide imagination about how the future would look like if we were to see it in 3000. They visualize the Earth to be populated with mutants, aliens, robots and other bizarre looking creatures. Cars were mostly replaced by spaceships and hovercrafts. Science and Technology were also shown to have a great advancement and it’s almost as if nothing was impossible in the future. Time travel was also common in the Futurama universe. Based from the http://theinfosphere.org Futurama had shown 11 types of time travel as of the moment ranging from Chronological, Linear Time vs. Cyclical Time, Time Skip, Forward Travelling, Time Tunnels and Wormholes, Nexus Point, Time Sphere, Time Rifle, Time Vortex, Time Warp and Farnsworth Effect.

There’s really nothing wrong on how they designed everything on the show. What they predicted to be the appearance of future is not off the track. Though there are some ideas which are somehow typical nevertheless it’s still fine. After all according to some commentaries in the internet, Futurama does get Science right. In an article posted on http://news.discovery.com the TV series managed to have shown some future related stuff that was really happening in the present. One of them is the diamond comet which really existed based from some scientists who have spotted a dead star encased in diamond. Another is the Grey Goo scenario which is about how automated nanotechnology created self-replicating machines that would eventually use up all of Earth's resources. This prediction was seen in an episode where Bender the robot creates a copy of himself and ordered every copy to make their own copies in an infinite series that also threaten all of Earth's resources. Other instances of Futurama getting Science right includes ideas on space travel, robotics, alien diversity, reviving the dead, space travel and a parallel universe. 

Futurama is just one of the few things that could be considered as our “window” to the future. However, the future is one thing that we would never see because tomorrow would always be our present. We can’t change the past but we can be ready for the future. What we should do is enjoy what we have now and strive hard in life so that our future may look bright.

Dela Cruz, Jeff Denver F.
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