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Enjoyable start to the episode, but then it just flushes itself down the tubes of meta jokes. How many shows do we need where the script is full of obvious and subtle winks to the audience? This episode would've been fantastic if we haven't already seen this sort of thing 100 times.

But we have.

Even so, I can appreciate that the new episode still carried some of the old spirit of mildly funny gags. And I mean that sincerely positively. Futurama rarely felt like it was trying too hard. Rather than writers always needing a punchline, it was more about creating an environment of irony, idiocy, and sci-fi world-building, and the reboot did retain some of that. It was more-of-the-same Futurama at first, and then more-of-the-same other shows.

Hopefully they got the latter out of their system, and can get back to pure Futurama in the remaining new episodes.

Honestly the episode itself was fine. Had some funny jokes. I was real worried going in, but I'm a bit more optimistic now. It's just a strange choice for a first episode. It feels really detached from anything significant that already happened in the series. And some of the quips and slapstick were a little too overt to land for me. It's kind of it's own little thing with no continuity, and it was fine. Just a little odd. This episode would have made more sense being put halfway into the season or something. But again, there were actual good things about this episode and it looks like the show is in competent hands. Excited to see where they go from here.

The writing for this episode is fairly consistent with the most recent seasons. Not entirely funny or compelling like the earliest seasons. But ultimately not bad either, my expectations were low and they exceeded them so I'm happy with that. Here's hoping the remaining episodes are equal or better. I'm not expecting Rick and Morty levels of depth or humour just a simple relaxing show with sci Fi concepts and the goofyness of Fry and Bender.

This episode is essentially taking a bit of a dig at streaming services and is fairly meta. Which every other TV show is doing at the moment too. Gone are the days of space adventures for the time being at least.

Flashback to just where we were a decade ago the romantic story of Fry and Leila is yet to begin again.

Long live the 30th century box, wait that was the 29th media, now it's the fulu and their placed advertising that rule the show. Long live the fulu platform. It wasn't much of a episode, the voice actors nail it as always, like they never took a break from voicing the characters. I expected it to way different after so long, but it kinda feels like the same show. Ignoring whatever happen to them and making jokes. Classic Futurama.

I won't ignore the fact that the episode was parody of itself, which considering the long canceling history of the show it turn into some tradition to mock the producers and the studio.

Not sure if they can manage to reboot the show without only relying on the historical and tech events in the last years as parody ground for the jokes in between. Futurama was a big thing, it was very original show, not your casual The Simpsons episode. I hope for a proper season to be remembered by this generation of viewers, no matter the streaming platform.

I'm so glad Futurama is back. This first episode was great too. I don't feel like they undid/soiled the great ending they had last time. Just continuing what's great about the show. Every character felt authentic to who they've always been and the hijinx is par for the coarse. Im so stoked for the coming season. Im rating this episode a 9, because the previous ending was no doubt a 10. I would give this a 10 but I can't say this was better than that ending. So 9. And for me this is the perfect way to reboot a series. Everyone who loves Futurama should take a moment to just rate it real quick. Make sure our love for it is known.