“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, transportation—everything 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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