Reaction papers

Jerico Charles Tenmatay
2010-78004

Futurama

After viewing the pilot episode of Futuruma, What is the show s take on the future and science? How does it tackle time travelling?

The show treats the future as how we would logically perceive it to be due to our current scientific discoveries and expectations. Vehicles can now fly. Buildings get higher and higher. Robots are now sentient beings. The list goes on but ultimately it hinges on the assumption that even if society breaks down and starts again, it will go on the same path that is expected of it. As such it tackles time travel as more of a plot device to move that point across.

Trip to the Moon

If you were present during the first screening of the film what would be your opinion of it and why?

If I were present during the first screening of the film, my first reaction would be a mix between wonder and confusion and I would treat it as a novelty.

I would look at it that way because it would remind me of theater performances in their way of presentation but would be curious as to how they made it in the first place. I would wonder as to how they thought of making the special effects in the film, what equipment and techniques they used to capture those sequential moments, but ultimately I'd feel conflicted about it and treat it as a novelty because I would see the medium of film as a means of capturing moments in time a strange thing because it feels easy to be more consistent about quality that way. Live performances tend to add life to an otherwise repetitive script while filmed sequences always play out the same way. It is like taking a picture of a hand-painted drawing. It may look nice, but authenticity is lost in translation.

All the Time

After considering the politics. science, technology. art and society when the episode was made, If you were going to write an update or adaptation of story, what would you do?

The only thing that I might add or change into the story is that there are more variables to consider now that we have more distractions to look at. One such example is our slowly growing adoption and dependence on the internet as part of our society. When the world does end, it may not be because of a nuclear war anymore. It would be a more subtle and horrible scenario: People would just stop living in the real world and spend their entire lives "living" in the virtual world.