Today is a sad day as Futurama was cancelled (http://www.geeklegacy.com/futurama-canceled-again/)
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Noooooooooo! :'(
Noooo!!!
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Again?
I have a confession to make... I never watched Futurama. So thusly, I really don't care.
*gasps at GrahamRocks* Whyyyy?! D:
And for the record, I don't follow Homestuck either. What's so great about it? I don't know.
Futurama I can understand: from what I've seen from clips, it's funny and a decent story.
Homestuck however, just seems convoluted due to the whole time travel thing, and because it's still going, even if I did get into it, it would take FOREVER to catch up to. Especially since they update 2-3 times a day!
Quote from: KatieHal on April 22, 2013, 11:58:13 AM
Noooo!!!
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My sentiments exactly. :(
Quote from: GrahamRocks! on April 22, 2013, 02:33:07 PM
And for the record, I don't follow Homestuck either. What's so great about it? I don't know.
Futurama I can understand: from what I've seen from clips, it's funny and a decent story.
Homestuck however, just seems convoluted due to the whole time travel thing, and because it's still going, even if I did get into it, it would take FOREVER to catch up to. Especially since they update 2-3 times a day!
...what's Homestuck? :P
I have no idea what Homestuck is either.
But I do recommend Futurama. By and large there's no continuity to worry about, so really just watch any episode at any point in any order, and you'll have a great 25-30 minutes. :)
Agreed, it's one of the best animated series out there and I highly recommend it!
What's a Futurama?
A TV show that just keeps getting cancelled :P
Sometimes things just need to end. We live in a time where nobody wants to let go of things, and we have a billion sequels and spinoffs to everything!
I loved Futurama. It was time to go again.
Bt
Tell you what, I'll trade you Family Guy for it.
Family guy gets cancelled, Futurama is brought back on :P
It's a deal.
Stika: that's an uneven bargain that I love the sound of.
I used to be a family guy fan, but I am sooooo tired of that show's humor
I used to watch it, but it crossed the line way too often for me.
I know what you mean, seems a lot of times they're just going for shock value
You could cancel both Futurama and Family Guy as far as I care. Time to let 'em rest. Let's move on to something new.
Bt
Quote from: Blackthorne on April 23, 2013, 07:56:14 PM
You could cancel both Futurama and Family Guy as far as I care. Time to let 'em rest. Let's move on to something new.
Bt
Yeah, we need to wait 20 years until all TV shows are in 3D and more action oriented, and then bring them back via small independent studios funded by Kickstarter.
I see Lambonius is trying to give me a heart attack :-[
Never watched this, but I heard it was good.
In other Matt Groening news, The Simpsons has been confirmed for Season 25.
ergh, i used to a huge Simpsons fan, but I'm really tired of The Simpsons
Quote from: stika on May 15, 2013, 05:05:53 PM
ergh, i used to a huge Simpsons fan, but I'm really tired of The Simpsons
I don't know anyone who really watches it anymore. Maybe Matt Groening is paying off the people who decide the scheduling at Fox. :suffer:
I think Futurama has run out of ideas and then some. Not that I don't like the newer episodes though. I've read that the series finale is going to be very interesting (won't spoil) and should be a great sendoff so I'm looking forward to it.
GoT's going on right now and Venture Bros is coming back June 2 and Arrested Development is... sometime this month? :sweetheart:
I actually like the newer episodes better than the original Fox run.
Futurama's first season aged kind of poorly if you ask me, watching it now, it feels like it's trying to tell us "Hey it's the 90's but at same time it isn't!"
It was getting kind of stale, it had a good run.
Futurama is not going anywhere.
Matt Groening said they are going to be doing more movies. :)
To be truthful... I found the seasons after it was revived to be, not very good.
Or at least not as good as the premovie seasons.
Including an Ipod episode that came out WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY after when it would have been topical.
Yeah, I never really got the appeal of Futurama. It was ok, I guess, but nothing special. Well, except the episode where they found the cast of Star Trek. That was awesome.
Despite that, I think I'd agree with Blackthorne regardless. Time passes and things must come to an end eventually. Futurama had its chance, got a second one, and now they're done. And it may be for the best because now they can take a break and every so often release one really good movie every so often. Really put all their energy and creativity into that. Or just stay gone. You've still got reruns. Nothing lasts forever.
In other news, screw Family Guy. It's really not funny. Randomness is not funny. You just think it is because it's human nature to laugh when something doesn't make sense. A default reaction is not actually humor. As for the Simpsons. Good god, just die already. I don't know how they're still on. As far as I know, they haven't been funny for well over a decade. Then again I haven't watched recently so for all I know they've found their way again. Ah, who am I kidding? No they haven't. Just go away.
Futurama has a lot of cool characters. I even think that the amount of characters that are really interesting and funny (Zoidberg, Bender, Farnsworth...) is much higher than the amount of interesting characters in, say, South Park where it's basically Cartman who is funny. However, it seemed to me pretty often that the writers don't really know what to do with those characters. So I always liked the characters but was never really enthusiastic about the plot of the episodes. With South Park it's somehow the other way round: Stan isn't such an awesome cartoo character, but that episode "Stanley's Cup" for example was just hilarious! :suffer:
Don't get me wrong; I love Futurama - I think it's fun, zany, smart and hillarious. I'm just of the opinion that things that their time and then they should end. We often indulge too much in things, and let series, movies, etc. go on way longer than they should.
Look at "Spaced" starring Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson. TWO SEASONS. BAM. DONE.
AWESOME.
Bt
Yeah true, shows to need to end *coughs*HowIMetYourMother*coughs*
But it's still sad when the show itself is still good unlike certain other shows *coughs*HowIMetYourMother*coughs*
What is odd is that "How I met your mother" reasonably should have ended.
We SAW how he met her mother and how they got together.
Well, the upcoming season will be the final season, they've already announced that. But yeah, should've wrapped it up a few seasons ago.
Yeah, How I Met Your Mother should have ended LONG ago. It's gotten so lame - I'm sick of everyone's shenanigans on that show; there's been no character development in years. Seriously - Ted was STILL pining over Robin a little this year? LAZY WRITING.
Bt
Seriously! That was ridiculous. Didn't they wrap up a few seasons ago? When it was already past due?
I remember last year I went to IMDB and created a thread about it, my conclusion: IMDB is where fanboys to fanboy over their favourite shows, never say anything bad there :P
As the ancient proverb says: He who types the loudest wins the internet. ;)
Quote from: KatieHal on July 01, 2013, 08:35:18 AM
As the ancient proverb says: He who types the loudest wins the internet. ;)
Okay, uh, here goes:
OMG HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER IS SOOOOOO GAY LOL BTW THERE MAKING A GRUMPY CAT MOVIE AND THAT IZ TEH LAMERS HAHA IM DYING WHAT A WORLDWow, was that annoying or what? I'm never doing
that again.
...and I'm serious about the Grumpy Cat movie. Look it up.
Everytime we watch "HIMYM", my wife says....
"OH MY GOD, WORST SHOW EVER."
"TED. YOU SUCK. YOU SUCK SO HARD."
"WHY! WHY DO YOU STILL WHINE ABOUT ROBIN, YOU WERE FINE WITH IT YEARS AGO! THE WRITING ON THIS SHOW SUCKS."
"I HATE YOU SO MUCH SHOW BUT IF I STOP WATCHING YOU NOW ALL THE TIME WE'VE INVESTED IS IN VAIN, SHOW THE MOTHER. SHOW THE DAMN MOTHER. SHOW THE MOTHER."
When they finally showed her at the end of this season, I think she was finally done with the show. Frankly, I don't care what happens next. Ted turns into Bob Saget, the end.
Bt
QuoteTed turns into Bob Saget, the end
OHH MY GAWD!!!
How I met your mother is the prequel to full house!
WHAT A TWIST!!!
I actually like Full House. Sue me, I think it has good humor!
Quote from: GrahamRocks! on July 01, 2013, 08:46:45 PM
I actually like Full House. Sue me, I think it has good humor!
I think it is hilariously sappy when you rewatch it.
But frankly I'd go with sappy and wholesome over dark and shallow any day.
Hmm...now what if we combined wholesome and dark?
Quote from: KatieHal on July 01, 2013, 09:32:57 PM
Hmm...now what if we combined wholesome and dark?
We get the land before time?
That's Dexter, Katie.
Bt
Haha, win and well-played to both of you!
(Also, OMG final season of Dexter starting soon, eeee! ...wait. No, it started this past weekend didn't it? Man, thank god for on demand!)
I'm still on Season 4 of Dexter :P
Admittedly I've not seen much of the post-(first)-cancellation run of Futurama; they don't air it on terrestrial TV here. From what I have seen, I'm not particularly bothered it's going off the air again.
That being said, I'd keep it over The Simpsons. I'm doing another runthrough of my Simpsons DVDs and refuse to buy anything after Season 8, where they were slightly starting to go downhill... And they've got what, 25 seasons now? Yikes.