I kind of enjoyed the first 5 minutes or so of the episode. Then it just got bad. I’ve been watching the season hoping the quality might improve and it seems to keep declining. I’m still watching and complaining about, but we’re more than half way through the season and have yet to watch a “great” episode.
I feel like they successfully pissed of both ends of the political spectrum while getting little to no good bits in. It just wasnt funny. I was so excited for the new season and have just grown pessimistic of every episode now.
I took it as a jab about the science behind the vaccine, just like how they made fun of the first ones. Maybe I’m just fatigued by all the anti science BS but it seemed like some antivaxxer stuff.
So I’ve worked out whats been bugging me about the new episodes, not just for futurama but also all the new simpsons episodes for a while too. They’ve been trying to run distinct A and B plots at the same time without any interplay in them beyond happening to occur in the same space of time. The result is that instead of an interesting A plot with a small B plot running alongside we instead get what’s pretty much two completely seperate half length plots that end up feeling underexplored and rushed.
The momazon episode is a good example, we started with leela moving in to fry and benders appartment and the emotional effect that has on bender, but then bender just goes to work at momazon so abrubtly that it doesn’t even feel like a consiquence of the earlier events so much as a really forced way to segway into the momazon plot, the appartment plot is then pretty much completely ignored for the whole episode only to come back up right at the end for a last minute resolution. The result is basically a rugpull on the apartment plot while leaving too little time for the momazon plot to really get interesting, they just jump right from problem straight to solution with no real obstacles that don’t immediately resolve themselves.
Both plotlines could have been served far better if the momazon plot had been the main focus with the apartment situation being sprinkled in as interactions during the momazon plot; this would have given the A plot the full screen time to properly play out while also keeping the B plot relevant throughout the whole episode. I think a good example of this would be the episode where nibbler gets flushed down the toilet, the A plot is finding nibbler and a B plot between bender and leela/nibbler takes place within the A plot without cutting into its run time.
TLDR: B plots have become too seperate from the A plots and end up detracting from them rather than complimenting them.
Amy saying that the moonlanding was faked was pretty misplaced. It should have been said by Dr Banjo, after that someone could have stated that he lives on the planet of the apes.
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I kind of enjoyed the first 5 minutes or so of the episode. Then it just got bad. I’ve been watching the season hoping the quality might improve and it seems to keep declining. I’m still watching and complaining about, but we’re more than half way through the season and have yet to watch a “great” episode.
I feel like they successfully pissed of both ends of the political spectrum while getting little to no good bits in. It just wasnt funny. I was so excited for the new season and have just grown pessimistic of every episode now.
The whole Voodoo thing just fell completely flat to me.
I took it as a jab about the science behind the vaccine, just like how they made fun of the first ones. Maybe I’m just fatigued by all the anti science BS but it seemed like some antivaxxer stuff.
So I’ve worked out whats been bugging me about the new episodes, not just for futurama but also all the new simpsons episodes for a while too. They’ve been trying to run distinct A and B plots at the same time without any interplay in them beyond happening to occur in the same space of time. The result is that instead of an interesting A plot with a small B plot running alongside we instead get what’s pretty much two completely seperate half length plots that end up feeling underexplored and rushed.
The momazon episode is a good example, we started with leela moving in to fry and benders appartment and the emotional effect that has on bender, but then bender just goes to work at momazon so abrubtly that it doesn’t even feel like a consiquence of the earlier events so much as a really forced way to segway into the momazon plot, the appartment plot is then pretty much completely ignored for the whole episode only to come back up right at the end for a last minute resolution. The result is basically a rugpull on the apartment plot while leaving too little time for the momazon plot to really get interesting, they just jump right from problem straight to solution with no real obstacles that don’t immediately resolve themselves.
Both plotlines could have been served far better if the momazon plot had been the main focus with the apartment situation being sprinkled in as interactions during the momazon plot; this would have given the A plot the full screen time to properly play out while also keeping the B plot relevant throughout the whole episode. I think a good example of this would be the episode where nibbler gets flushed down the toilet, the A plot is finding nibbler and a B plot between bender and leela/nibbler takes place within the A plot without cutting into its run time.
TLDR: B plots have become too seperate from the A plots and end up detracting from them rather than complimenting them.
I’m disappointed with the way they’re puppeting the corpse of my favorite show.
The writers lost track of the characters’ personalities. It’s not character growth, it’s wild left turns
Amy saying that the moonlanding was faked was pretty misplaced. It should have been said by Dr Banjo, after that someone could have stated that he lives on the planet of the apes.
I’m glad I’m pirating this season.
It really feels like these episodes were written in 2020 which already makes them feel dated and played out.
They probably were