Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Futurama Reaction Paper

The show Futurama is about a 25-year old pizza delivery boy in New York City named Phillip Fry. He accidentally got frozen and woke up 1000 years later. His life was going nowhere so he decided to have a fresh start after he wake up. It was year 2999 then, and technology further advanced. He decided to work for Planet Express Corporation, which delivers packages to the five quadrants of the universe. There, he met a lot of new people, robots and aliens. Yes, aliens and robots are living with mutated humans that time. There, he became friends with Turanga Leela, a pretty one-eyed alien who is loving yet can kick-ass and also with Bender, a robot with human flaws and addicted to liquor, cigars, and stealing.
                The show Futurama showed the future where aliens, robots and humans adapted with each other. There are flying cars, and many other innovative and advanced technologies. It shows the future as where different new species are present, like there are mutants and hybrids of aliens and humans. Robots are also everywhere, and it acts like humans. Robots have work and social life. They also have feelings and can also be evil. Humans aren’t the ones who dominated the Earth anymore.
                The show tackled time travel as not entirely travelling with a machine. The main character was simply frozen for 1000 years. He didn't die, so I can assume that all his cells just stopped working once he was frozen but once he was thawed, his cells and organs worked properly again. Since his cells stopped working, he also didn't grow old. For me it is not time travel because basically time just passed by while he was frozen and he didn't transcend any time medium or anything in order to go 1000 years in the future.

BY Pauline de Leon
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