Futurama Bender’s Big Score – It’s real SciFi (kinda) December 7, 2007
Posted by showmescifi in scifi.Tags: Bender, Futurama, paradox, Sci Fi, science fiction, sciencefiction, scifi, time travel
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Sure sure Futurama is a cartoon..and it’s funny and insolent.
But i just finished watching the new movie – Bender’s Big Score – and guess what? It’s actually really solid plot wise with a really intricate time travel plot thread that really works.
Time and time paradox have always been a part of Futurama but never in such an intricate and well thought out way.
The comical – doom meter – which measures how likely something bad is going to happen – is a campy – but fun way to explain away the paradox of time travel and multiple instances of person.
Instead of wiping another person from existence or multiple timelines/parallel universes – the doom paradox is simple. Because the paradox person should never have existed they have a higher doom quotient and thus are more likely to have doom hit them and so the universe will fall back into order.
Yeaaah i know the problem is still the causality of it all. Since the new paradox person will impact the timeline in a way that the old timeline hadn’t been impacted..even if doom hits that person.
Still…
Futurama Bender’s Big Score isn’t just funny (and it’s VERY FUNNY) it’s actually interesting SciFi too.
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I don’t understand why sci-fi keep doing time travel stories, they are confusing as hell and show that the writter dont bother to read anything about time travel. I didnt think this was a good film at all but I was glad to see the characters back again, better luck next time…
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