[Netflix SciFi Animation Series] Love, Death & Robots

lulz @ "styles"

you know you slowed it down to "check out the various animated" sexy cyborgs

 

Watched this. Some pieces are more interesting than others. Overall liked it.

Also made me go read some of the source material short stories on which the animated shorts are based. Highly recommend Ken Liu, who wrote Good Hunting

 

I'm 2/3 in and there are more misses than hits. The better ones where the less serious takes and more meta. I don't recommend binge watching this.

I read Ken Liu's anthology and was pleasantly surprised.

There's a bunch of cg nudity which made me cringe because the count in that series was almost twice as much as what I've seen from all other Netflix originals combined.

Not the silicone bewbs I wanted to see.

 

Yeah this show came up in my recommended feed while I was looking for 'The Animatrix.'

 

Oh. It's Heavy Metal: The Series.

 

It was okay, some of it was nudity just for the sake of nudity really.

 

That's the first thing I thought of -- some of the animation is amazing deep into the uncanny valley.

 

It's definitely worth a look for the varied animation styles alone. Some stories are good, some just ok, and same with the voice acting/dialogue. Some needless gratuity as well.

My favorites: Sonnie's Edge (Ep1), Good Hunting (Ep8), Zima Blue (Ep14), Secret War (Ep18)

Very Solid: Three Robots (Ep2), Suits (Ep4), When the Yogurt Took Over (Ep6), The Dump (Ep 9), Helping Hand (Ep11), Fish Night (Ep12), Blindspot (Ep15)

Average: Shapeshifters (Ep10), Lucky 13 (Ep13)

Meh: Sucker of Souls (Ep5), Beyond the Aquila Rift (Ep7), Ice Age (Ep16), Alternate Histories (Ep17)

Neither loved it nor hated it but WTF: The Witness (Ep3)

 

I agree with a lot of needless nudity. There were some good stories and some boring ones.

I liked Sonnie's Edge (E01), Suits (E04), Beyond the Aquila Rift (E07), Good Hunting (E08), Lucky 13 (E13)

These were okay: Three Robots (E02), The Witness (E03), Sucker of Souls (E05), The Dump (E09), Shape Shifters (E10), Helping Hand (E11), Blindspot (E15), Secret War (E18)

Didn't like: When the Yogurt Took Over (E06), Fish Night (E12), Zima Blue (E14), Ice Age (E16), Alternate Histories (E17)

 

It looks more like:

 

The combination of the uncanny valley animation and nudity is kind of creepy. Also, seems the animators are going for some gender equity in their nudity. Quite a few pen15 shots to go with the b00bs.

 

I would absolutely love a full length series on Beyond the Aquila Rift and Sonnie's Edge.