Futurama is a sci-fi comedy sitcom which follows the story
of a young pizza delivery boy named Philip J. Fry who was cryogenically (low-temperature
preservation) frozen for a thousand years. Futurama displayed a not so usual
way of time-travelling. Compared to the typical time-travel concept we know,
using a time-travel machine and travel through space and time, Futurama’s cryopreservation,
though lacking the ability to travel back in time, is more possible and
probably will be achieved by humans earlier.
After being in a capsul for a long time, Fry was finally
thawed and woke up to a completely new environment, the future. Thinking that
he has a second chance and a new start, he was very happy only to find out that
he would be a delivery boy again, which was his job in the life he hated one
thousand years ago. Before I watched the pilot episode, all I can think of
about the future are the advance technologies like flying cars and robots but
Futurama has shown some concepts that never crossed my mind. It shows that in
the future, society can force who you are as shown by the Fate Assignment but
you can also be free at the same time as shown by the suicide booth. The series
also exhibited the possible cohabitation of aliens like Leela and super
advanced, almost humanly, robot like Bender.
To think that this series was made in 1999, I can say that
the producers have a great view of the future. They have a different view, more
realistic, compared to the usual robot-technology-spaceship view of the future.
Futurama does not only tackle the future setting, it also tackles what the
society can be in the future. It makes you want to tell yourself, “I won’t let
society dictate who I’m gonna be.”
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