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I’m with you on your analysis. It wasn’t mindblowingly good, but it was certainly good enough to not feel like a band past its prime trying to cash in on one last payday. I do think that Billy West (Fry)‘s voice has aged some as well, but I got used to it after a minute or two and it was fine.
I think when you’re coming back from cancelation…AGAIN, and especially after so long, it’s not like a pilot, but it requires more exposition than a regular season opener. So it was good enough on its own merit, and I’m grading it on a curve as it’s the first episode in a decade and has to do a bit more storytelling drudgery than your average show.
Fry's voice sounds the same but just slower. Feel like they could fix it by just asking Billy West to talk faster.
Yeah, I thought the same about West's voice. But DiMaggio is noticeably older sounding. Yet, I thought Katey Sagal sounded surprisingly youthful.
Damn really? I didn't notice any difference in DiMaggio's voice but maybe I need to binge the old seasons as I haven't watched them in a while.
It could also be that I've watched other shows with him in it recently. Been watching a lot of Adventure Time and Chowder with my little one.
Make sure to get your binge suit and a tank of Slurm
I kinda appreciated that the whole episode seemed a bit slower. I remember the last reboot feeling much quicker paced than the originals.
The pacing was fantastic. Outside of pacing, it's all a bit lower energy though, kind has some season 1 vibes, but with season 11 writing.
They're catering to the fact that their core audience is getting older and harder to understand fast-paced speech lolol (said by one of those people who is starting to get old)
It was like your loved but never seen extended family coming to visit. You are a little uncomfortable that they're aging so quickly, but you forget about it and have a good time anyway after a few.