A Plate of Popplers

 “Suppose you are thinking about a ‘plate of shrimp.’ Suddenly someone’ll say, like, 'plate' or 'shrimp' or 'plate of shrimp,' out of the blue, no explanation.”

-Miller, Repo Man


So, a heavily astersiked addition to the list of stuff I have never finished-- probably because I am an asshole with too much I common with Imperialist author Rudyard Kipling, despite not meaning too-- is Futurama. One asterisk is that, at many points I actually HAVE watched every extant episode of Futurama. But the last time they revived it I stopped without watching the last episode and that was very much on purpose.

HOWEVER, after I did my Kippling List, I realized that 1) Futurama probably belongs on the list AND 2) THERE IS MROE FUTURAMA. I have no idea if I am going to watch the episode that I had been not watching all these years or, actually how or when I am going to watch the new Futuramas. I am STRONGLY opposed to paying for fucking Hulu so I might wait and see if an opportunity presents to somehow avoid that.

What’s more important is the connection between Futurama and Kipling. Thinking it over, I have a strong feeling that, given the chance Kipling would have really dug Futurama. This is just a feeling, but I think I have established that this is, perhaps, the single area in which my feelings count. 

I think it would have helped him, actually, allowed the brilliant observer with the beautiful voice to have more power over the unforgivable racist.

Futurama, like Kipling, loves adventure. But a major theme in Futurama is that the adventurer is the biggest bozo in the actual universe. It is, I think, a reveal that everyone who seriously considered the British Empire, even Kipling, was secretly waiting for.

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