Love, Death & Robots

Sanrith Descartes

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I saw Ice a little different. The modded brother put himself "in harm's way" to give his unmodded brother a "push" so he could give it his all without feeling like "why bother, I'm not as good as the modded kids".
 
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velk said:
It's the opposite of Gattaca - the story of that is that the human spirit can't be predicted via genetics and the drive to succeed can overcome your innate traits.

The story of Ice is that you can't compete with the superior race in any way, even if one of them tries to make you feel better about yourself.
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A lot of the stories felt like Ice to me. “The future is bleak and hopeless,” is the message that came across most consistently.

In fact a lot of Netflix originals are unfortunately that way. It grates on me enough that I don’t particularly care for Netflix Originals bc I know they’re going to be Nihilistic af.
 
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Sanrith Descartes said:
I saw Ice a little different. The modded brother put himself "in harm's way" to give his unmodded brother a "push" so he could give it his all without feeling like "why bother, I'm not as good as the modded kids".
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The end where he stopped limping was jarring to me. Either way it wasn’t a very encouraging message.

Even if the brother did help him, the storyline didn’t redeem the cultural condition, where putting yourself into harms way is the only way to feel alive or have fun. It was just a little wink and chuckle to the normie.
 
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I quite liked Zima Blue for what it was. It had a nice arc and actually hit the "Love, Death & Robots"-theme pretty well. Ice wasn't nearly as good IMO.
 
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Zweischneid said:
I quite liked Zima Blue for what it was. It had a nice arc and actually hit the "Love, Death & Robots"-theme pretty well. Ice wasn't nearly as good IMO.
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i re-watched season 1 a few days before season 2 dropped. i initially remember not liking zima blue at all, but second time around i think i appreciated the message a bit more. there's something interesting about the idea that the thirst and drive for knowledge doesn't actually DO anything for you but make you miserable. it's like a flowers for algernon type of situation.
 
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I binged both seasons and its been pretty good.

I think one definite flaw this series has is that they try to do surprise endings that you didn't expect. In some cases it works, but in others it just fucks the whole story up.
 
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its interesting little vignettes, season 1 was way more like Heavy Metal with its violence, sex, horror, and nudity and that was pretty awesome. Season 2 was more like Black Mirror and pretty tame in comparison, although the animation for Snow was insane. If you don't have the chops to write good stuff at least they made it way shorter. The showrunner changed from season 1 to season 2, and you can pretty much guess what happened (an asian chick took over).

Glad I watched both, never felt like I was wasting time.
 
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with season 1, it felt like the stories were the star. the animation was obviously top notch, but it didn't NEED to be. with season 2, the stories all took a back seat to how advanced the animation was. it'd be nice if we could just get both going on in the same season... maybe 3 will deliver /shrug
 
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Would love a full season of snow in the desert, even if the animation budget was cut. I just need more mad max / kenshi violence and sex in my life.
 
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Good stuff.

If you guys want a little something to tide you over, look up animated short films on youtube. A lot of groups have been dumping some high quality shorts on the web that are really good.
 
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Ok, I laughed at night of the mini dead...

The 1st season was great. The 2nd one had a few moments. This looks better at least.
 
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where are the scenes with the two lesbians from ? Are they from season 3 or are they from the already released seasons ?
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Wasn't that from the season 1 episode where the woman controls that monster thing, but it turns out the monster was the actual one in control and the woman is the puppet?
 
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