AwaSeason 8 Episode 1 - The Impossible Stream [Discussion and Spoilers]
adj16Season………8?
Varies on who you ask, but it looks like both agree on Season 8.
Wikipedia:
FOX: Seasons 1-4 Movies: Season 5 Comedy Central: Seasons 6-7 Hulu: Season 8
TheTVdb:
FOX: Seasons 1-5 Comedy Central: Seasons 6-7 Hulu: Season 8
Hulu in the US says 11 seasons though: [i.imgur.com/sxRF3mX.png](Hulu season list)
Not saying who’s right or wrong, just might cause some confusion since many of the US watchers will see that!
That’s gonna fuck up downloading for me…n of the pirate persuation.
I guess it could be 8 or 11. Production season 8, broadcasted season 11.
If you do a search for “Futurama new season” you will get results with one or the other.
Huh, gotcha! I just saw 11 seasons on Hulu and was super confused
Faceman🇦🇺my plex server is confused, and has been for a very long time.
The library default epsiode ordering works fine for me for Futurama.
Yes but release groups don’t agree on season numbers.
That’s because the DVD collections didn’t agree with the aired order either.
linearchaosCalling the movies episodes… weird.
calling all the episodes that happened in two full years one season. really weird.
doing it again so that there’s 4 years of shows with 2 season numbers… just freaking bizarre.
mine just tool season 6 ep 14 and called it season 8 ep 1… which is sitting next to season 11 ep 1…
Sonarr grabbed the wrong episode for s8e1, and I unfortunately feel like that is going to continue
Gotta manually search and import for now.
Season 11 - episode 1. The only correct thing in your post is the premier date/time.
RePopMy broadcasted TV from the 2000’s and torrents don’t lie, companies wanting to make their TV shows seem longer do, it’s season 8
I suspect it’s because they contracted for two more seasons and then released each of those seasons over two consecutive years with enough episodes to fill two seasons each.
E.g. Season 6 had episodes released in June 2010 and July 2011. It’s a pretty reasonable expectation that that would be two different seasons.
For torrenting and Plex purposes the TVDB is the ultimate source of truth, If they said it was 14 seasons we’d be using 14 seasons for those numbers because it makes our automation work.
Most places seem to be calling 102 and 128 splits of the previous season instead of new seasons.
As much as I don’t care for the idea, the TV databases the ultimate source of truth for many. I know when I inducted into my Plex server it’s going to show up this season 8.
Good news everyone!
That writer’s joke… oof. What a bad time for that joke to air
Seems the perfect time to me.
The one where the writers worked themselves to death and were replaced by a robot that ruined the show?
Which part was bad timing?
BlackEcoI think he’s referencing the Writer’s Guild strike which has been ongoing since May.
I believe they’re implying that those jokes are actually a perfect metaphor for what the writers are striking about.
YoBuckStopsHereI think you missed the joke, they were replaced by a robot.
Binge no less than 10 episodes in a single sitting…got it.
Oh no my boy what have they done to you Slurms
MoxvallixNone of the flavour, all of the addiction!
0101010001110100He survived the mine collapse!
ChamrsDeluxeWas absolutely great. A little too much advertising for the platform we are actively watching it on, but an absolutely great return to form. Nothing felt forced and all the jokes landed well.
Loved the “scarry mirror”
i love how everyone was theorising about how the time skip would work and they fully gloss over it cause it doesn’t actually matter.
Cara Delevingne was listed in the credits - does anyone know who she voiced?
I think she was the car’s AI in the “Scary Mirror” episode spoofing Elon Musk?
I love how it was a nod to Black Mirror
I expected to be disappointed. I am so glad it was as good as ever
emptyotherOnly one episode?! Now I have to binge at least 9 older episodes!
I let it run through 9 espisodes of solar opposites to help hulu get engagement numbers
I liked it, wonder how the rest of the season is gonna be.
anyone know what calculon having died is referencing?
Mainly referencing the episodes where he died
so I AM thick then
naw, we’re just rusty, it’s been a long time and to be honest it’s not his first rodeo
He died in 3012 fighting langdon cobb, ressurected in 3013, died again, and was ressurected again in 3023
I thought it was great! Maybe a few too many nods to their reboot, but they felt veiled enough to remain funny. Sounds like we might get another movie?! I’m so excited to have Futurama back!
Were they praising Hulu for resurrecting it, or decrying that they only bought a single season?
¿¡Porque no los dos!?
I’m pleasantly surprised and really looking forward to the rest of the episodes.
I was underwhelmed by most of the jokes until the geometry near the end. It’s like they happened too slowly, so the impact wasn’t as strong as they were in the earlier seasons.
N00dleThe episode was okay. I think was a good start to the new season.
I generally don’t like meta episodes like the jokes in the show reflects on the real cast and writers. The self a wetness usually ruin it for me. R&m did it well but I didn’t like it too much. Not only that the entire advertising if Hulu was a bit much.
I mean the idea is great, they try to tell us the audience that times are changed and the world have changed with all the pc, me too, gender awerness, etc. And showed even a bit of concern. Also that they laugh at themselves with all the reboots and breaks. But I just didn’t like how it was served. I wish it was an interview and not an episode (they laughed about that as well with the "that’s too smart joke) and just write an episode like the know, without being afraid of all the pc and do on.
It wasn’t bad I still enjoyed it, but as I said it felt to meta and self aware for my taste.
Any one feels the same?
Sorta, yeah. I also didn’t initially care much for the first episode on Comedy Central. I guess maybe the writers feel they have to do this sort of bridge episode.
I’m sure the future episodes will be better. I’m SUPER excited for Parasites Regained as Parasites Lost is my favorite episode.
I really hope you are right!
I’m 40% right!
I’ll take it!
I’m starting to wonder what the fuck is going on at Hulu’s writing offices because Solar Opposites is also filled with jokes about Hulu as well.
And so did the Animaniacs reboots. I’m sensing a trend. Or maybe just a coincidence.
Good News! Kidnap the actors and get back here at once.
Best line in the ep
Not as good as the last reboot but solid episode.
nudny ekscentrykIt really wasn’t bad. I liked how they recalled the tear-squishing ending of the last season and picked up immediately in the same scene. I was a bit afraid they would something like “ohhhh, somehow futurama returned. <unspecified>” and yet they went with the setup the writers left 10 years ago and it worked.
I liked the meta aspect of it, it was very futurama and anyone who says its bad is wrong or prolly doesn’t remember or has never watched the show before. However it felt a bit much halfway through the episode. I think this should have been a short sequence of jokes or one 5 minutes long scene at most; did not have to make an entire episode around the show rebooting after a decade. Yes, we get it: it’s funny how it got cancelled and rebooted so many times by so many different networks.
Having said that though, I honestly expected worse and have high hopes for the remaining 19 episodes.
As a long time fan, that t’was pretty good :)
I mostly liked it. The joke that got me the hardest was probably the robot standup comedian.
My only complaint really was that they pulled an “oh no fry is dead but wait he’s not” again which the writers really started to like to do in like every other episode after the first reboot, so I hope this doesn’t become a running theme in every episode.