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Roswell That Ends Well is Futurama at the top of its game, winning the series its first Emmy. It’s also the first time the show broke its own rule prohibiting time travel,  and it was certainly justified given the results.

How can you do sci-fi without time travel paradoxes?

You can’t.

And here’s why:

 

This particular sequence feels like an actual movie with the way it’s cut and how it handles reaction shots. One little thing I particularly enjoy is Leela’s silent, stern, disapproving stare following Fry around the last scene as his logic–even sanity–collapses around him.