Biyernes, Enero 10, 2014

Futurama: Pilot Episode Rxn Paper

               Futurama is a science fiction cartoon series with Philip Fry as the protagonist. He is a pizza delivery boy who is sick of his life. On New Year’s Eve, after delivering pizza in a cryogenic laboratory, while trying to understand why his life was so miserable, he accidentally got into a cryogenic tube that froze him for 1000 years.

                Waking up from a thousand year slumber, he was amazed to see how advanced the future is: flying mobiles, buildings with “creative” architectural designs and a woman with one-eye that would assess him, Leela. The computer-determining career assessment, it was shown that Fry’s job would be a delivery boy, again. When Leela was about to install the career chip in him, he refused to “do what you gotta do”. He clearly doesn’t want to be a delivery boy again because he doesn’t want to be a loser according to him. He promised that his second chance would not got to waste.

                While running away, he discovered other things that the future can offer: transportation tube and suicide booth. Fry met Bender inside the booth. Apparently, Bender wants to die, Fry wants to phone his great great great nephew. But because Fry has no intentions of dying, they both survived the booth. They became friends and shared how much their life sucks. Together they ran away from Leela and found themselves in a deserted underground place. This place turned out to be from Fry’s time.  Leela cornered Bender and depressed Fry. He told Leela that he will accept the delivery boy job. To his surprise, Leela removed her chip. She confessed that she, too, knows what it feels like to be lonely and that she hates her job.

                It can be inferred in the pilot episode that the future promises us advanced technology and a relatively easier life. But it does not assure us that it would give us a contented life. It basically showed the other side of the coin: that amidst all these higher grade automation, people doesn’t seem to find their happiness. Doing a job permanently based on computer assessment isn’t something to be thankful of.   

 Zhedrik Chua
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