Love, Death & Robots?
Looks like I know what I'm watching tonight!
Thanks for the heads up (I'm running between work and bed lately so I really need someone to keep me connected to the screen) and also thanks for the positive thread. It feels there are too many threads about things people don't like these days and not enough about things they like.
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Two of the 'episodes' were based on short stories by an author I had started reading pretty much right after watching all of them.
I had no idea about the relation until halfway through the second book.
https://www.markokloos.com/?p=2136
Love, Death + Robots sort of reminded me of Liquid Television.
But I suppose any collection of short animated features would do the same.
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Finished all the episodes - and I have to say that all of them did a really good job, though at different things. The design and looks, story, message was different, and it was also different on how much focus a certain episode had on each. I liked "The Dump" the least, but that still made a really good job at setting a tone and had a nice little story going with it.
Also it feels important that many story were just a peek into a universe where a certain concept exists ( The different, but advanced technology in Suits, Zima Blue and Blindspot, for example) and it leaves the viewer to think that further. How different Shapeshifter's world can be on the everyday scale? The series is like an anthology of novels, short, great concepts and food for thought.
I really liked the art style/design in most of the stories - Sonny's Edge, Suits,Good Hunting, Zima Blue or Sucker of Souls, and I really liked the way "life, death" was on a different scale than expected in The Witness, Ice Age, Beyond the Aquila Rift, Zima Blue or even Alternate Histories. Even through the life and death of civilizations, by showing repetition, a neverending cycle, returning to the beginning. Also Zima Blue's had the topic of autonomy and choice, which was an interesting addition to many pieces where "it's bigger than us" was the theme
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Read this thread and decided to watch a couple episodes (Sonny's edge & Three robots). Didn't really enjoy Sonny's edge... I feel like it needed more backstory or something. It just felt a bit dark and edgy but for no apparent reason. Animation & the end were pretty dope though.
I quite enjoyed the three robots, I thought it was well written and witty!
All in all i will probably watch more.. Up to suits at the very least but most likely the whole series. The length of each episode is pretty perfect for my attention span haha. Thanks for the post, never would have looked at it otherwise!
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I will meet with friends after Easter to watch this :)
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i just watched the first episode. i know what im doing the rest of this zombie jesus day.
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the show is pretty damn good. alot of fun concepts there. the witness and zima suck nuts but all the others are pretty awesome.
some of the story's id like to see as movies', shows, or games.
show should be called death, love, and robots and boobies, and penises.
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the witness and zima suck nuts but all the others are pretty awesome
Funny you should say that, because there are some people who thought Zima was the best, and others who thought the Witness was the best...
It's amazing how every person finds different episodes amazing, and mediocre.
It's like a personality test - tell me what you think about each episode, and I'll tell you who you are.
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both of those are really good, but i have seen them b4 in different forms.
i gotta say suits and lucky 13 are my favs.
i binged watched so ill watch again someday without it all blurring into 1 big marathon.
suits would be a cool world for a game.
13 is like me and my flip phone. people have spent 1-2 k on phones since i got my flip 15 years ago, when im on the pier or on a boat i get better reception then people with $500 "smart" phones. old tech is reliable and you grow to love it.
beyond the aquila rift is fucking amazing but it ends too soon. that one would make a great movie.
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i have seen them b4 in different forms.
I think that's true to most of the stories in one way or another.
Suits - is basically a take on Mechwarrior
Lucky 13 - Is a classic "robot sacrifices life to save human" story
Ice Age - Has been done so many times, even the Simpsons did it at some point
The secret war - is basically Starship Troopers
and Aquila Rift - was done in the Matrix movies trilogy
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yup thats very true and its why i didnt find the surprise twist ending of the witness very surprising or twist like.
Suits - like i said great for a game.
ice age and secret war ur totally right.
spoiler warning
lucky 13- thats not what lucky 13 was about. the ship didnt sacrifice itself it was set to auto destruct and took a few extra seconds to do so, ether it was considering if it wanted to or it was waiting for the enemies to get into a better position.
Aquila Rift - hardly resembles matrix at all. just because people are sleeping in a machine doesnt make it like the matrix. the differences are so vast that if u use them to relate the two to each other yo might as well consider every show with a human the same.
anyway love death robots is a good watch, and your post made me move it up on my to watch list. ty
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lucky 13- thats not what lucky 13 was about.
I disagree. Throughout the episode we see the ship watching it's crew and what's going on around it. So it's obviously has some minimal sentience (like the fact it killed off crews in the past, but makes sure to protect the protagonist). So in the end when it doesn't explode, we're made to think that maybe it's decided it's life is to precious to be destroyed. But when it finally does blow up - we see it actually kills 100% of the enemy. So we realize it actually chose to make the ultimate sacrifice to save the protagonist, it just waited for the right moment to be 100% successful.
Similar to a team-mate holding a live grenade while his buddies retreat, so he can hold off the enemy and give his friends a chance. This concept appears in many movies.
So does the concept of a sentient machine sacrificing itself to save it's human master
the differences are so vast that if u use them to relate the two to each other yo might as well consider every show with a human the same.
I think you may have missed a part of the Martix.
First of all, both feature people living in virtual worlds while in fact being asleep and kept artificially alive - that's true
Secondly, both feature people who are unaware of living in a virtual world, believing they are in the real world
Thirdly, both feature the concept of waking up from a dream (virtual world) but actually continuing to be within a dream
The only thing different is that in Aquila Rift, when the protagonist wakes up, he sees a monster/alien and not a robot. But even in the Matrix, when people wake up the robot they see is an alien looking creature (especially seen well in the Animatrix - https://causticsodapodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/matrix-sentinel.jpg)
So the two are actually quite similar.
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That was such a funny episode. Reminds me of a short story from the 60ies I read a while ago.
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Actually watching the "Yoghurt Who Took over the World" episode while eating yoghurt.
Because I won't let dairy be the boss of me! Nope!
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digging this up because season 2 here, and I like it even better than season one. I missed the edgy aspect of the 1st season but this season has some really nice story-telling!
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Definitely worth watching.
Albeit it's shorter than the first season...
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at least we already got a comfirmation for season 3... I really enjoy how the same subjects get rediscovered in different aspects and artstyle like this series. It's kinda refreshing in someway.
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I saw both seasons, the first one was really boring, it just felt like some college animation students made something with fincher money and uploaded to netflix. Second season it's still meh, because i feel a lot of the stories had already been told: Oh, technology stars and want to kill you. Best stories were the one of the tall grass and the one with the ice whales.
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I've seen it, but it was all over the place. Really liked the first one, but then it flopped into something else. It's hard to judge it as it is, but interesting never the less.
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David Fincher is directing one of the episodes of S3, but I'm overall really looking forward to it.
Anthologies may only have only a few episodes, or 80%, or none, but it's a risk I like, especially when they may still tell an interesting story in a lackluster way, movie/films is a lot more lenient medium than games are.
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huh, this popping up for the new season and me thinking it's a new post, I was confused why you said it's a new series lol. Anyway, I loved every seccond of it and I'm excited for the new season.
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I saw it, the first season made me go "meh" overall. There were some really good ones but some that were O_o
I want to give the second season a shot, though! Thanks for the recommendation.
Edit: I can't read apparently, this is an old post bahahaha
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I'm totally going to watch some of this in a few! It sounds great. I love animation, too.
Hopefully I can remember to watch season 3 when it comes out, because the trailer made it looks super good.
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Yes, i had many chances, just doesn't appeal to me at all. As most things on NF.
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What an utterly useless necro...
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Ok, so there's this amazing new animated series on Netflix, released on March 15, called Love, Death & Robots
It's hard to describe it exactly, but it's something between the Animatrix, Black Mirror and Oats Studios Volume 1.
It's a series of short animations, each with a distinctive animation style, each representing a complete and unique story, each being only 5 - 20 minutes long, and exploring different SF genres (Space opera, Fantasy, Steampunk, etc.).
But the description does not do it justice.
Each and every story is simply a masterpiece!All stories are fun to watch, but some are real masterpieces!If you have Netflix, and haven't checked it out yet - please do. You won't regret it.
The entire series is very short (around 2-3 hours for 18 episodes), and each episode is very short (as I mentioned 5-20 minutes).
You can see the regular and NSFW trailers on the Netflix page
It's supposedly created by Tim Miller (Deadpool) and David Fincher (Fight Club, Se7en, Gone Girl, etc.) but according to IMDB, David Fincher is just the executive producer, and only Tim Miller is the creator.
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