Airing on Hulu (US) or Disney Plus (outside US) - Monday, August 14, 2023 at Eastern Time (ET) 03:00 a.m/ Pacific Time (PT) 12:00 a.m

  • Mojojojo1993@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    11 months ago

    Folks enjoying it ?

    I think maybe a bit stale. Futurama was my favorite and I recently binged them all last year.

    I think there’s soo much animation these days that Futurama doesn’t do anything new. It was new and exciting when it came out. I love futurology but Futurama doesn’t really use it’s year 3000 much. It’s more humdrum stuff that doesn’t even need aliens and robots and stuff

    • emptyother@programming.devEnglish
      9·
      11 months ago

      All those other newer animations simply arent level-headed enough. They are too impulsive. Not like old, predictable, dull-as-dishwater Futurama.

      /jk

      But I wish Disenchantment became more popular, better advertised, and more predictable release scheduled. Because that was imho the same type of humor but with a fresh new twist. This new return of Futurama just feels like a Futurama rerun. Like nothing has changed in 10 years. Still fun though.

      They should have done more with Fry and Leela as a couple, I think could add a bit more twist to it while not scaring the more conservative viewers.

      • Mojojojo1993@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        11 months ago

        I soooo wanted to love disenchantment. I waited patiently and I’ve watched it, a few times. It’s not good. It’s not funny it’s pretty dull and they just didn’t put that much humour into it. Real let down. I enjoy the animation and the fantasy but it’s nothing on konosuba or something similar.

        • emptyother@programming.devEnglish
          3·
          10 months ago

          Each to their own, I find it funny, though it is just as bad as Futurama at repeating jokes.

          Im no fan of anime and manga, with a few exceptions. I haven’t seen or read Konosuba. Only seen a few fan-arts of it. Didn’t know it was comedy. Maybe I’ll try a few episodes.

          • Mojojojo1993@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            10 months ago

            Oh absolutely. I like the fantasy of Futurama and think they are doing things that don’t require that fantasy. It could be the year now and the exact same plot could play out. I think that’s where the future has caught up to Futurama, they are actually behind the times now.

            I like konosuba as it was a fantasy world but without all the seriousness and was just a goofy. Similar to one punch man. It’s making fun of the genre. It’s easy watching and was a breathe of fresh air.

            It’s now been done to death and honestly doesn’t hit like it did 10 years ago. But it’s where I was hoping disenchantment was going but it never knew what it wanted to do and just kinda flailed about.

        • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          My husband got into it pretty hard, took me a couple goes. Wortha rewatch maybe?

          • Mojojojo1993@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            10 months ago

            I’ve researched it about twice. It’s not too bad but not as good as I think it could have been. It’s not really funny but more story driven

    • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      11 months ago

      Agreed it feels a bit stale. Most of the jokes are just references to past episodes, this episode in particular felt incredibly missable.

    • PepperTwist@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      6·
      11 months ago

      I don’t mind the staleness too much, the show had it’s prime years ago. I’m just glad we’re getting new episodes. I just don’t think we’re going to get another Luck of the Fryrish or Game of Tones this time around, you know?

      • kd637_mi@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        10·
        11 months ago

        I would rather it have ended on a high note as it did before the reboot if all the episodes are going to be kind of meh. New episodes for the sake of new episodes don’t do it for me. I’m hoping it picks up though

    • SamboT@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      The pop culture references aren’t interwoven into a story. Everything revolves around the theme decided for an episode, like cryptocurrency or something.

      There arent events from the universe or born of characters emotion… it’s just this linear march forward where the writers have x amount of time to cram in jokes surrounding a certain topic.

      It’s pretty pathetic. I could write better Futurama.

      • Mojojojo1993@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        11 months ago

        Can you. I’d love some more original Futurama.

        Like when bender lost his arms and became a folk singer