I'm a HUGE fan. I mean, hardcore huge. I know episodes by heart and watched the whole series twice with audio commentaries. If you ever listened to the commentaries, when they started the series, they set some rules which shouldn't be broken. One of them was absolutely NO time travel. Of course, with the exception of "Roswell that ends well" (3x19), which they declared that they "bent" their own rule.
I think they tried to really "renew" the whole ideas and probably the first thing that came to them was "let's make it BASED on time travel!". That didn't work well. Futurama was always very geeky, and everything had a basis and in some twisted way, it was still believable or explained somehow. Having 3 benders and 2 Frys walking around just made me feel that it wasn't the old good Futurama. And I was really expecting at least the SLIGHTEST indictment of what happened right after the series ended between Fry and Leela, but there just wasn't anything to it. The scammers were really disgusting (something I've never felt in futurama, for the exception of the queen slurm worm), and I'm not saying I'm a prude or was offended, but it's just not that kind of show. Futurama has always been about witty, unexpected, double-sensed things.
It was just not the same. I'd still give it 8/10 because I did laugh and it was just great seeing everyone back, but I didn't love it. I hope they were just rusty and things will get better.
I think they tried to really "renew" the whole ideas and probably the first thing that came to them was "let's make it BASED on time travel!". That didn't work well. Futurama was always very geeky, and everything had a basis and in some twisted way, it was still believable or explained somehow. Having 3 benders and 2 Frys walking around just made me feel that it wasn't the old good Futurama. And I was really expecting at least the SLIGHTEST indictment of what happened right after the series ended between Fry and Leela, but there just wasn't anything to it. The scammers were really disgusting (something I've never felt in futurama, for the exception of the queen slurm worm), and I'm not saying I'm a prude or was offended, but it's just not that kind of show. Futurama has always been about witty, unexpected, double-sensed things.
It was just not the same. I'd still give it 8/10 because I did laugh and it was just great seeing everyone back, but I didn't love it. I hope they were just rusty and things will get better.