Space delivery boy. Futurama!

I really enjoy watching comedy series. I appreciate it even if it’s in cartoon form. It actually gives a comic relief from the serious stuff and it relaxes or lighten our mood. Futurama is an adult sitcom, probably because of some of its rather violent scenes, that aired its first episode way back in March 28, 1999 which is almost 15 years ago. Its first episode “Space Pilot 3000” introduces the main character, Philip J. Fry. He apparently ended up in a cryogenic freezing accident that allowed him to awaken only after a thousand years. Futurama in general is largely influenced by classic science fiction series like Star Trek and The Jetsons.

Since the concept of the series is inspired by Star Trek, they showed a lot of imagination of the possible future. One of which is space travelling. Like the last scene where Fry was recruited as a crew-delivery boy on his nephew’s space ship. Another interesting imagination presented is about the suicide machine. I think It symbolizes something very deep. Since the targeted viewers are young adults, it speaks of morality in a way that we shouldn’t throw our lives away. Like the suicidal robot named Bender, we can always cheer ourselves up and go on. Another interesting take aside from the vision of flying cars, are the matching tubes of transportation. It closely resembles water tubes but instead the transportation of water, humans are transported. The future is viewed in a very creative way in short. It has lots of positive imaginations such as the mode of transportation made efficient. But there also negative such as the suicide machine and the way of living dictated by the very technology themselves. Science is again viewed as a double edged sword. It has really nice pros such as the improvement of technology and so forth. But during the time Fry was “frozen” in the tube, I can’t help but notice the robots gone wild and attacking the city of New York. As a result New York wasn’t the same again when he woke up. It was just a wasteland. Although the character has no sentiment to the place I still think that the city’s destruction is a symbolism to the catastrophe caused by the cons of technology.

Fry travelled in time by the accidental cryogenic freezing that made him still until he was defrosted 1000 years after the accident. It differs from series like “Back to The Future” where the character has this time machine.