Year 3000

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Futurama - Reaction Paper

The Space Pilot 3000 episode of Futurama started with Fry doing his usual deliveries of pizza. This time it was the New Year's Eve and when he was delivering a pizza to this place with time capsules, he was accidentally put into one when the New Year ticked in. A thousand years passed, many things have happened-- alien invasion, the destruction and reconstruction of the planet, the changing of empires. 

He time traveled into the year 3000 and here we see how the future and science is pictured out. Society changed greatly; people are assigned to one job and only one job specifically. You are only destined for one thing, so you just have to "do what you gotta do." Sadly (or not!), our main character here is definitely destined to be a delivery boy. Knowing he will be stuck forever as a delivery boy, he tries to escape his destiny. We then see how buildings and transportation changed. The buildings are racing to reach the sky; they have become taller, with better structures to support these heights. Transportation is so much faster, you get inside a tube, say your destination and voila, you get to the place you need to be. As we go on further in the episode, we see different creatures. Aliens as we should call them. They live with the humans which is not entirely harmonious. We also see here the existence of robots and how they can co-exist with our race. Bender, our robot in the show started as the typical robot that was programmed and only follows his program. But the shows take on robots is actually not so typical when Fry pushes Bender to be different from what he is programmed to be. Later on, the episode shows some more futuristic things like the laser beams and space travel. 

Time travel was not very problematic in the episode. Since Fry was alone and broke, he basically had no one or nothing to lose. But time travel would really have been lonely if he had someone.  What is probably the only good side about this was that he could start fresh, back to scratch. He could be anything, but alas he still became a delivery boy (in space!). Furthermore, there was really no problem about time travel, whether it messes with the time continuum or erases your entire existence.