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It was revived in 2. Comedy Central entered into an agreement with 2. Watch Full "Futurama" A Clone Of My Own 2002' title='Watch Full "Futurama" A Clone Of My Own 2002' />Century Fox Television to syndicate the existing episodes and air the films as 1. In June 2. 00. 9, producing studio 2. Century Fox announced that Comedy Central had picked up the show for 2. The show was renewed for a seventh season, with the first half airing in June 2. It was later revealed that the seventh season would be the final season, as Comedy Central announced that they would not be commissioning any further episodes. The series finale aired on September 4, 2. While Groening has said he will try to get it picked up by another network,8 David X. Cohen stated that the episode Meanwhile would be the last episode of season 7 and also the series finale. A 4. September 1. The Nerdist Podcast entitled Futurama Worlds of Tomorrow Presents, RADIORAMA1. Throughout its run, Futurama has received critical acclaim. The show has been nominated for 1. Annie Awards and 1. Emmy Awards, winning seven of the former and six of the latter. It has also been nominated four times for a Writers Guild of America Award, winning two for the episodes Godfellas and The Prisoner of Benda, been nominated for a Nebula Award and has received Environmental Media Awards for episodes The Problem with Popplers and The Futurama Holiday Spectacular. Futurama related merchandise has also been released, including a tie incomic book series, video games, calendars, clothes and figurines. In 2. 01. 3, TV Guide ranked Futurama as one of the top 6. Greatest TV Cartoons of All Time. ProductioneditDevelopmenteditFox expressed a strong desire in the mid 1. Matt Groening to create a new series, and he began conceiving Futurama during this period. In 1. 99. 6, he enlisted David X. Cohen, then a writer and producer for The Simpsons, to assist in developing the show. The two spent time researching science fiction books, television shows, and films. When they pitched the series to Fox in April 1. Most people think of rainy days as gray, but in Nicols P. Villarreals animated short Nieta, a little girl has exactly the opposite reaction. For her, gloomy. NASA astronaut and biochemist Peggy Whitson will return to Earth as the planets new record holder for longest time cumulatively spent on space by an American or a. Groening and Cohen had composed many characters and story lines Groening claimed they had gone overboard in their discussions. Groening described trying to get the show on the air as by far the worst experience of my grown up life. Fox ordered thirteen episodes. Immediately after, however, Fox feared the themes of the show were not suitable for the network and Groening and Fox executives argued over whether the network would have any creative input into the show. With The Simpsons, the network has no input. Fox was particularly disturbed by the concept of suicide booths, Doctor Zoidberg, and Benders anti social behavior. Groening explains, When they tried to give me notes on Futurama, I just said No, were going to do this just the way we did Simpsons. And they said, Well, we dont do business that way anymore. And I said, Oh, well, thats the only way I do business. The episode I, Roommate was produced to address Foxs concerns, with the script written to their specifications. Fox strongly disliked the episode, but after negotiations, Groening received the same independence with Futurama. The name Futurama comes from a pavilion at the 1. New York Worlds Fair. Designed by Norman Bel Geddes, the Futurama pavilion depicted how he imagined the world would look in 1. Many other titles were considered for the series, including Aloha, Mars and Doomsville, which Groening notes were resoundly rejected, by everyone concerned with it. It takes approximately six to nine months to produce an episode of Futurama. The long production time results in several episodes being worked on simultaneously. Executive producerseditGroening and Cohen served as executive producers and showrunners during the shows entire run, and also functioned as creative consultants. Ken Keeler became an executive producer for Season 4 and subsequent seasons. WritingeditThe planning for each episode began with a table meeting of writers, who discussed the plot ideas as a group. The writers are given index cards with plot points that they are required to use as the center of activity in each episode. A single staff writer wrote an outline and then produced a script. Once the first draft of a script was finished, the writers and executive producers called in the actors for a table read. After this script reading, the writers collaborated to rewrite the script as a group before sending it to the animation team. At this point the voice recording was also started and the script was out of the writers hands. The writing staff held three Ph. D. s, seven masters degrees, and cumulatively had more than 5. Harvard University. Series writer Patric M. Verrone stated, we were easily the most overeducated cartoon writers in history. Voice actorseditFuturama had eight main cast members. Billy West performed the voices of Philip J. Fry, Professor Farnsworth, Doctor Zoidberg, Zapp Brannigan and many other incidental characters. West auditioned for just about every part, landing the roles of the Professor and Doctor Zoidberg. Although West read for Fry, his friend Charlie Schlatter was initially given the role of Fry. Due to a casting change, West was called back to audition again and was given the role. West claims that the voice of Fry is deliberately modeled on his own, so as to make it difficult for another person to replicate the voice. Doctor Zoidbergs voice was based on Lou Jacobi and George Jessel. The character of Zapp Brannigan was originally created and intended to be performed by Phil Hartman. Hartman insisted on auditioning for the role, and just nailed it according to Groening. Due to Hartmans death, West was given the role. West states that his version of Zapp Brannigan was an imitation of Hartman and also modeled after a couple of big dumb announcers I knew. Katey Sagal voiced Leela, and is the only member of the main cast to voice only one character. The role of Leela was originally assigned to Nicole Sullivan. In an interview in June 2. Sagal remarked that she did not know that another person was to originally voice Leela until many years after the show first began. John Di. Maggio performed the voice of the robot Bender Bending Rodrguez and other, more minor, characters. Bender was the most difficult character to cast, as the shows creators had not decided what a robot should sound like. Di. Maggio originally auditioned for the role of Professor Farnsworth, using the voice he uses to perform Bender, and also auditioned for Bender using a different voice. Di. Maggio described Benders voice as a combination of a sloppy drunk, Slim Pickens and a character his college friend created named Charlie the sausage lover. Phil La. Marr voices Hermes Conrad, his son Dwight, Ethan Bubblegum Tate, and Reverend Preacherbot. Lauren Tom voiced Amy Wong, and Tress Mac. Neille voices Mom and various other characters. Maurice La. Marche voices Kif Kroker and several supporting characters. La. Marche won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice Over Performance in 2. Lrrr and Orson Welles in the episode Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences. David Herman voiced Scruffy and various supporting characters. During seasons 14, La. Marche is billed as supporting cast and Tom, La. Mostly Game of Thrones Edition. Greetings, my Westerosi window envelopes As you can probably guess, last weeks episode of Game of Thronesand its increasing dominance over the pop culture landscapehas filled the ol postmans stolen mailbag to the brim. There are a few spoilers for last weeks episode, but more importantly, an answer to a question we should have been asking ourselves since the first episode Should we want Daenerys and Jon Snow to fuck Aunt, Man. Aaron W. So Ive been struggling with this question a lot Is it ok to ship JonDany On the con side, they are aunt and nephew, which is gross. On the pro side it would sidestep Dany needing Jon to bend the knee and is a solution that the northmen would probably accept it would be thematically consistent fireice and it would eliminate almost all of the tension for trying to root for two characters who are at odds with each other due to circumstances beyond their control and the expectations of their subjects. Given that, I still would come out on the con side, except that we already know that some degree of inbreeding e. Westeros and that the Targaryens in particular practiced an even more exclusive e. So the auntnephew dynamic is an absolute deal breaker to modern audiences, but maybe wouldnt be the worst thing in Westeros Lots of reasons it would be good, but one BIG reason it is unacceptable. Thoughts Shipping is shipping. Ive seen worse than aunt and nephew. Much worse. And the show is definitely presenting them as future romantic partnersfuckbuddies, which makes it as legitimate as these things get. Their familial relationship may freak you out, but thats sort of the point. GRRM wants to show a medieval, feudal type era with all the awfulness most fantasies skip over. The relentless sexism, the rape and torture, the horror that regular people could and did experience constantly as the result of what the nobility chose to doyou can absolutely complain about how omnipresent it is in his stories andor how its portrayed, but its not inaccurate to the source material of that reality. And one part of that reality is medieval and certainly ancient nobilitys tendency toward incest, especially between uncles and niecesto the point where its got its own name, avunculate marriage. Free Pooh`S Heffalump Halloween Movie Online here. As you said, the booksshow have already shown that Targaryens have been more than willing to marry within the family in order to keep their bloodline pure, so theres a precedent for Jon and Dany starting a relationship. And since were talking about an aunt and nephew here since Jon is the son of Danys deceased brother Rhaegar and not uncleniece, a JonDany hook up would kind of strike a blow for Westerosi gender equality, in a tiny, messed up way. At any rate, as a Targaryen, Daenerys is obviously going to be down with getting down with Jon Snow, as it would be kind of meaningless to sieze the Iron Throne without leaving a new Targaryen line to carry on ruling. I am far more skeptical that Jon would be cool with sleeping with his aunt, given the rest of Westeros isnt nearly as cool with incest hence Cersei and Jaimes hiding of their sexual relationshipwell, until Cersei took the throne and decided that yes, in fact, as queen she gets to have sex with anyone she wants, and everyone else has to deal with it. Or be tortured and killed. But Jons problem is easily solved by keeping his parentage from him until after Ice and Fire have fucked each other. In fact, I suspect Bran is keepingwill keep the truth of Jons parentage from everyone until after Daenerys gets pregnant for that very reason. The Three Eyed Raven knows this has to happen, so mums the word for now Or GRRMor the show, for that matter, since we know its diverging from GRRMs plan in major wayscould just throw a curveball and have Dany marry Gendry, the closest thing King Robert had to a legitimate heir, combining the Targaryen and Baratheon lines to create a progeny whose claim to the throne is unassailable throughout Westeros. Actually, thats a pretty good ideaJaime in the Water. Brett H. I see people talking everywhere about how Jaime could possibly be alive, but howHes way at the bottom of the lake and in full armor. No way Bronn can hold his breath long enough to get down there, cut all the straps to all the pieces of the armor, pull them off, and then also pull him to safety before they both drown. Im not going to say its unrealistic, since Jaime was pushed into the water to avoid a dragon, but the point of Game of Thrones is that it has fantasy elements but its still realistic in the basic laws of physics. So isnt Jaime getting rescued impossibleYou bring up a good point about fantasy, in that the best fantasy has a set of rules, even if the audience doesnt know them, and doesnt break them. Someone suddenly having a hoist person out of lake spell to save Jaime would be dumb. Tyrion running down the hell and begging Dany to have Drogon fish the dude who was about to kill her out of the lake is more realistic for Go. T, but implausible in terms of Danys character and the time it would take for Tyrion to get down to Dany and ask for her to save his brother. So that leaves Bronn. Heres one thing we all need to make our peace with first, right now Game of Thrones the TV show has begun playing fast and loose with strict reality in favor of presenting the most exciting story possible. This is how armies and fleets are moving gargantuan distances in between and sometimes even during episodes. Its why Tyrion can pick out Jaime from half a mile away amid a battlefield full of smoke and destruction. Its why Cersei and her allies can suddenly kick ass or all of Highgardens gold can get into Kings Landing with a mutter and a handwave. There are only nine episodes left, total, as of the time this mailbag hits the nerdernet. The show doesnt have any time to waste. Yes, part of the reason the books are so good is because they were sprawling and complicated in the way life is, and yes, the show is 1. But the choices were to either have the story on fast forward so it actually ends next year or for Daenerys to have her first battle with Cerseis forces in the season eight finale. So with all that said Since Game of Thrones has forgone its sense of realism a bit, I can see it having Bronn manage to dive down to Jaime, cutting him out of his armor, and dragging him to the surface before he fatally drowns. I also, as I mentioned in my recap this week, think it doesnt make any narrative sense for Bronn to push Jaime out of the way of a giant cone of dragon breath into a lake, only to have him immediately drownif Weiss and Benioff are going to kill the character, having Jaime get turned into cinders by Drogon is a much, much cooler death. So I think the show will forgo realism I mean, how was that lake at the side of that road a full 3. Bronn will cut Jaime out of his armor and drag him to the surface because Jaime is the one whos going to give him a castle, after all, and the Lannister will probably live to fight another day. And I also think hell be the one to perform those book spoilers valonqar duties, and obviously, he cant do that if hes dead. Last time I looked, I didnt see any friendly priests of Rhllor nearby. Where to even begin The Spoils of War was the reason we watch Game of Thrones, one of thoseRead more Read. Gone But Not Forgotten. Michael V. Postman,After re watching GOT from the beginning a few times, I believe that Ser Barristan Selmy is one character whose presence would enhance Season 7 while not distracting from the current main plots of the show. Ser Barristan would have been the most solid member of Daenerys Queensguard due to military and combat experience, but his relationship to Rhaegar is most interesting. When Dany tells Jon that everyone loves doing what theyre best at, Jon disagrees.