Although those early seasons of “Futurama” were probably its strongest overall, one of the show’s flaws was the way that minor characters didn’t receive enough focus.
The first two seasons were very much the Fry, Bender, and Leela show; Professor Farnsworth got plenty of attention too, but the other members of the crew were frequently kept on the sidelines.
Amy was mostly there to obliviously make comments that Leela finds insulting, Kif was there to be target of Zapp’s abuse, and Hermes was just the casually cold bureaucrat who was great at the limbo.All of these characters were fleshed out a lot over the series; it wasn’t necessarily because the show shifted its focus more towards them, but because after 140 episodes or so, those bits of time we got with them started to add up. It also helps that each season tends to give these minor characters one or two spotlight episodes,…
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