Danielle Elisha F. Ching
2013-68141
Freezing over
Fry for a millennium, the creators of Futurama definitely let him travel in
time unconventionally in order to show what they think of the future world. As
expected with any sci-fi, the future is usually depicted as a society run by
robots, machines, and advanced technology. The world Fry discovered after
getting off the freezing capsule was a dystopian one. It’s a world wherein technology
overcomes humanity.
Bounded by rules
and limitations set by the society, the” world of tomorrow” has citizens which
are unhappy and uncontented, living off their lives like robots, their whole
life dictated by a single computer chip. Just like other dystopian societies
(e.g. Panem in Hunger Games), eventually
there will be revolutions. I believe that in the succeeding episodes of the
series, the people’s revolutionary spirits will be more highlighted, especially
with Fry’s coming.
Unlike any time
travelling fiction stories, the time travelling in Futurama, as I’ve mentioned
earlier, was unconventional. Fry did not leap through time using a time
machine, and neither was it his own intention. Also, this time travelling is a
one-way trip to the future; there are no buttons or meters which could turn
back time, and instead only fast-forward one’s life. And, the price Fry had to
pay for it, even though he was only a victim, was living in an unfamiliar world
with everyone else he knew already a part of history.
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