After runs on Fox and Comedy Central, Matt Groening and David X. Cohen’s animated sci-fi comedy leaps into the bold new frontier of streaming.
I haven’t seen it yet, but I know that in the past when they’ve come back from cancellation, the first episode can been very meta and fan-servicey.
Leela: “What about us and our many fans?”
I watched it last night. You hit the nail on the head - it was just like the first episode after the other reboots. Not a bad thing, and I enjoyed it. Still felt like Futurama and the writers continue to respect the continuity of previous seasons, which is something I always appreciate.
I’m really annoyed at the sentence “And That’s OK” as if I can’t form my own opinion on a topic. Yes, I’m triggered but it’s a useless choice of words for a title.
It’s framing. If the title ended at “not much more,” it would look like criticism. They could do “not that we’re saying that’s bad” but that’s not terribly professional and isn’t very brief
Yeah first episode was alright, but nothing spectacular, a little too meta in my opinion. I feel like it didn’t have much emotion for the characters, but we’ll see as the next episodes are released
The self-referential aspect of the episode was a bit much, but I was actually buoyed by the episode on the whole. The content was kind of meh, but the tone was right. The Comedy Central episodes always seemed to suffer from tonal issues.
Now, the pacing felt a bit weird in this one, but I feel like a lot of TV is weirdly and poorly paced now.
I felt the same about the pacing and it is endemic of series these days.
They have the same amount of content as they did when they weren’t made for streaming, but for some reason they feel both rushed and slow at the same time. It’s hard to describe why it actually feels off.
