Parks and Recreation New Season will be Sci-fi? Show Creator Talks What the Future Will Look Like.

By Mitch Thorpe, Mstars News writer | Apr 29, 2014 12:24 PM EDT

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It's been almost a week since the crazy finale of Parks and Rec, and we still don't know how to process exactly what happened.

The finale of the sixth season of the NBC series aired on April 24, and featured one of the most surprising season enders of the series so far. The episode, which could have acted as more of a series finale, could switch up everything we know and love about the show.

The last few minutes of the finale jumped three years into the future, and viewers saw Leslie Knope taking on the full responsibilities of her new job, and motherhood, of her now three year old triplets.

HitFix talked to creator Michael Schur about the time jump, and what the future will look like.

While Schur isn't planning to go full on futuristic, he does tell the news website that the show will be... sci-fi?! What?!?!

"Rule number one for the writers when we committed to the jump was: no hoverboards. No one is allowed to pitch that everyone is on hoverboards. It's going to be very gently sci-fi," he explains.

Well that's a little sigh of relief. I don't know if I would have been able to handle Leslie Knope zipping to government meetings on her hoverboard.

So what exactly does gently sci-fi mean? Schur says it will be more of what they are projecting the landscape to look like in 2017, such as the politics and pop culture of the future.

"We will have to be vaguer, obviously, though it also seems fun to do some David Foster Wallace- style projecting in to the near future. That's what I mean by 'gently sci-fi'- there will be the opportunity, should we be so inclined, to make jokes and references to what we imagine the cultural and political landscape to be in 2017."

Season seven of the hit NBC series will premiere this fall. 

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