Warning: Contains spoilers for Futurama Season 12, Episode 10!
Hulu’s Futurama Revival made a massive recon to the Futurama Season 10 ending, which originally acted as the series finale, however Futurama The season finale of season 12 just reversed this change. The various production problems that occurred throughout Futurama have made the series a bit difficult to follow, with the various cancellations and contradictory season numbers becoming a bit confusing. The production difficulties meant that there was no shortage, but Futurama Season 12 just got a recap, and here’s how the massive change could affect the show going forward.
Futurama Season 12, episode 10, “Different” is the emotional finale To the second of Hulu Futurama revival seasons, with them seeing disaster strike Planet Express as their iconic ship is seemingly destroyed for good. After laying the Planet Express ship in a multiversal ship graveyard, strange events, such as a mysterious ghost ship that attacks anyone who comes near the sea. At the end of the episode, it’s revealed that the real Planet Express crew is actually inside the ghost ship, with the characters we’ve been following actually being multiversal counterparts.
Futurama season 11 premiere erases “for now” from Frey and Leela’s memories
It retcons the show’s series finale
Futurama Season 10 had a beautiful ending, with the series finale “Meanwhile” perfectly wrapping up Fry and Leela’s relationship. In this episode, Fry decides to finally propose to Leela. However, using a device that makes the entire universe go back 10 seconds in time ends up getting into some trouble early on, with him seemingly freezing the entire universe. Fry and Leela are the only ones unaffected by the device, with them eventually continuing their relationship and growing old together as the universe remains stuck in time.
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While the ending of “while” implies that the universe is reset, Futurama The season 11 premiere confirms itWith Professor Farnsworth making his way to Elder Frey and Leela. After resetting the universe, Frey and Leela lose all memories of their time together, with their minds being reset to before the Professor’s device was created. Futurama Seasons 11 and 12 did not continue the story of “Meanwhile” beyond this point, but that changed with the Futurama Season 12 finale, as it is moving the circle forward again.
Early is starting to remember “meanwhile” in the season 12 finale
He is getting visions of his “present” life
Although the events of “Meanwhile” have been erased from the minds of Fry and Leela, this is changing in the Futurama Season 12 finale, how early is starting to remember his past life with Leela. Something went off with Frey from the beginning of “Other,” with him starting to have visions of events that he claims didn’t happen. The visions appear to be caused by Frey’s interaction with the Multiversal Sea, with it appearing as if the Multiversal Sea is causing Early to have visions of variants of himself from other timelines.
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finally, Fry begins to have visions of older versions of himself and Leela Living a happy life together, with these visions being clips from the episode “Meanwhile.” Although Frey doesn’t have the proper context for them, he is particularly obsessed with the memories. At the end of the episode, he draws a picture of him and Leela as a loving old couple, trying to show Leela what he has seen. Although he doesn’t know it’s from the episode “Meanwhile,” he tells Leela that he’ll find out where the visions are by how the episode ends.
Frey’s recent revelation could be a major storyline in season 13
Season 13 may give greater focus to the multiverse
Hulu’s Futurama Seasons have focused more on the show’s overarching storylines, and the end of “Other” could be setting up a major story for Futurama Season 13. If Season 13 does indeed see early attempts to uncover where his visions of “Meanwhile” come from, the show could spend even more time on Fry and Leela’s relationship, which is exciting.
The “different” joke also implies that Futurama Season 13 could spend more time exploring the show’s multiverse, a newly introduced concept that could change everything. Since Frey’s visions are a product of the multiverse, it would only make sense for him to further explore it. Frey’s exploration of the multiverse could lead to all kinds of exciting Futurama Season 13 storylines set up an exciting future for the show.