Animation
With video games in a slight lull for me over the weekend, I took to Netflix and took in some animation.
The Sex, Death and Robots series was entertaining. It's a collection of shorts. Some are certainly better than others, but over all the series makes me appreciate the format and how much story can be gotten across in little more than ten minutes. There were others I certainly enjoyed, but I think Good Hunting managed to be my favorite for combination of historical mysticism, classism, and steampunk clockworks. It might also help that it resonated strongly with the origin story I established for my cyberpunk Fool's Moon version of Mika.
I also watched Revisions - a more traditional (in series structure) anime-ish show. It's clear almost from the get go that it's a time travel story, and it has some of the problems with inconsistent causality that usually brings. It's interesting, though, and manages to dole out some twists as things progress.
What I found more memorable than the concepts of time travel, pandemics, agendas, and the enemies though was the character psychology involved. The main protagonist is forewarned to a degree, but this make him kind of a self-righteous dick with a hero complex for most of the season. Questions arise about the patron figure and the morality of killing the enemy. There is conflict within the leadership of the town isolated from its own time. Some of it's a bit on-the-nose, but the character arcs are probably the most compelling part of the series - which makes the sequel baiting rather questionable in my opinion.
The Sex, Death and Robots series was entertaining. It's a collection of shorts. Some are certainly better than others, but over all the series makes me appreciate the format and how much story can be gotten across in little more than ten minutes. There were others I certainly enjoyed, but I think Good Hunting managed to be my favorite for combination of historical mysticism, classism, and steampunk clockworks. It might also help that it resonated strongly with the origin story I established for my cyberpunk Fool's Moon version of Mika.
I also watched Revisions - a more traditional (in series structure) anime-ish show. It's clear almost from the get go that it's a time travel story, and it has some of the problems with inconsistent causality that usually brings. It's interesting, though, and manages to dole out some twists as things progress.
What I found more memorable than the concepts of time travel, pandemics, agendas, and the enemies though was the character psychology involved. The main protagonist is forewarned to a degree, but this make him kind of a self-righteous dick with a hero complex for most of the season. Questions arise about the patron figure and the morality of killing the enemy. There is conflict within the leadership of the town isolated from its own time. Some of it's a bit on-the-nose, but the character arcs are probably the most compelling part of the series - which makes the sequel baiting rather questionable in my opinion.
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