January 12, 2014

Futurama: To the World of Tomorrow!


“Welcome to the world of tomorrow!” Futurama, a sci-fi series since the 90s, has represented our generation’s childhood wonders. Aside from the cryogenics chamber which allowed time traveling even 1 000 years in the future, it has showed more than what is beyond our imagination. Not only that it is a bold attempt to portray the new world a thousand years after, but it also introduced the value of acceptance, fate and friendship.
Science is still a remarkable part of the future. Buildings, transportationeverything became more developed and more innovative. The technological improvements are noteworthy. Robots are already part of the society. Cars can fly. People can teleport. Nothing seemed impossible. Fry finds a chance to start a new life without screwing everything up and ending up unhappy just like before. But as perfect as this new world could seem, people here must do what they are supposed to do and not what they want to. Who could have had the same luck as his to have been assigned the exact job he had in the old world? Even at year 3000, he still is a delivery boy.
Running away was his first choice because he never loved being the delivery boy who was sent on crank deliveries from time to time. But after learning about the importance of his job in ensuring the cargo’s safe transportation to its destination from his great-great-great-great-grandnephew Professor Farnsworth, he eagerly accepts his new job as a delivery boy at the Planet Express Ship.
It all depends on how we see things. We could either embrace what the circumstances offer us or be an insignificant bitter person hiding in the past. As I watched, I figured that finding an escape from the present is not the only way to change what needs to be changed. It need not be a thousand years later. The chance could just be lingering there somewhere, but Fry had to figure out his purpose in a time traveler’s way.


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