Reaction Paper for Futurama - thybamffuturama

Name: Fabia, Bianca Anne M.

Student No.: 2013-72071

Section: THY

Reaction Paper for Futurama

            Futurama is a television series about a guy named Fry who accidentally entered some sort of a cryogen chamber. After being frozen inside the chamber for several years, he was reawakened in the future. There, he met Leela who was tasked to assign jobs to everybody, including him. When he didn’t like the job to be assigned to him, he ran away. While hiding from Leela, he met a suicidal robot named Bender. Then they began an adventure together.

            That’s basically a short background to the show but my main purpose for this paper is not to tell the whole story of the show but to give my thoughts on it.

            I think that the future world that they created was a bit believable since at the rate we’re going now with science and technology, it could be possible that by that time, we’re able to create a world similar to the world they portrayed.

            I think that they portrayed the future in a similar way that other movies, which talk about time travel, portray it. Basically, their take on the future is that the people’s lifestyles are still somewhat similar to the present but the difference is the technology. They show that in the future, science and technology will be more advanced in way that everything would be faster. The kind of technology they portrayed was technology made for a fast paced lifestyle.

            The show tackled not only about science and technology in the future but also the idea of time travel. The kind of time travel that they showed was one wherein the character, Fry, was not sent to the future by the machine but instead, he was frozen inside a cryogen chamber which has a timer set to end after a thousand years. I thought that that idea was different and I’m not really sure if it would work since I think that in reality he would most probably freeze to death with the temperature required to preserve someone.

            In summary, I think that Futurama is a show that could not only entertain us but open our eyes to the realities of our society.