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
2012-15340
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