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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.
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.
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.
Make sure to get your binge suit and a tank of Slurm
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.
I kinda appreciated that the whole episode seemed a bit slower. I remember the last reboot feeling much quicker paced than the originals.
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)
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.