Futurama 1st Episode Reaction Paper

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The first episode of the series Futurama was about a man named Fry who was a delivery boy. He was already sick of his life where he was stuck with a job he doesn’t like, a girlfriend who was with somebody else, and even his bicycle was stolen right after he parked it. On the new year’s eve for the year 2000, he accidentally put himself in cryogenic machine where he was frozen for a thousand years leaving his old life behind ruined along with that era having only one very far relative left. There starts his journey as he sees on what the future is like and the changes that happened from his time.

            The show has a different approach about time travel. It is unlike the usual thing that comes to mind when hearing the words time travel where one will think of a time machine where a person may travel across time, traveling back and forth to the past or future which gives rise to the non-ending what ifs and paradox. The time travel portrayed in Futurama is different and simple but it is only a one way ticket because he can only go forward and cannot return to the past. Instead of the ideal that time will be stopped and travel through it, he stopped himself as he let time pass making him in a distant future. If that is the concept of time travel to be followed then we can consider our daily lives time travelling because we travel in time every moment as the second passes by and the only difference with Fry is that he traveled a lot more not to mention a thousand years more than all of us.

            The future in that world showed a great advancement in science and technology given the many examples like transport tubes, independent robots, preserved living heads, interaction with alien life forms, DNA matching technology, and many other things where most are mainly ideal until today. It gave the viewers an idea on what the future may seem to be like from the current trends of today by showing the many technological advancement but it would have been also better if it featured how to face current world problems like famine, global warming, energy source, and others.