Love, Death & Robots
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
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I'm still bothered there weren't/aren't more episodes. Gimme gimme gimme. This shit is great. If you haven't watched, absolutely do. They're all 8-15min long, so no excuse not to. Every. Single. Episode. All of them. Are incredible. Each very unique, though they have varying intensity on the love, death, or robots. Even the Ice Age episode with Topher Grace had an emotional impact in spite of Topher Grace being Topher Grace.
My favorite episode... Couldn't say. The Starcraft episode I probably enjoyed the most. Laughed the most during Three Robots. Sonnie's Edge is probably the best as a complete story.
Either way, completely happy to re-watch episodes at random to show to friends based on what I feel they might appreciate most. Like showing off art, in a way.
My favorite episode... Couldn't say. The Starcraft episode I probably enjoyed the most. Laughed the most during Three Robots. Sonnie's Edge is probably the best as a complete story.
Either way, completely happy to re-watch episodes at random to show to friends based on what I feel they might appreciate most. Like showing off art, in a way.
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it's out now. on a technical level it was all pretty great but honestly only one or two stories grabbed me as noteworthy. fairly disappointed, honestly... i LOVED the first season. it's not awful, just... doesn't stand out on it's own i don't think.
also for what it's worth, there's only 8 episodes. my thoughts are that due to covid they split the season in two and we'll get the other half next year.
also for what it's worth, there's only 8 episodes. my thoughts are that due to covid they split the season in two and we'll get the other half next year.
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Yeah. Definitely a weaker season. Technically awesome, of course. And some episodes started really strong, lots of potential, but none truly landed as the best episodes of season 1 did.
Still, don't regret watching them.
Still, don't regret watching them.
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i liked... uh.. i think pop squad was the name? the one with nolan north about the breeders. i liked it because it felt like there was an actual emotional arc. snow in the desert was good, too, but i feel like there wasn't much of any emotional drive. that's honestly my biggest issue. it was all very nice to look at but was generally pretty simple sci-fi.
life hutch is a perfect example, i think, of why this season failed comparatively.
this is all spoilers i guess.
so life hutch is about surviving damaged AI. it feeds on the fear that machines might try to kill us one day. there's nothing wrong with a story about that, per se, but it's pretty cliche at this point. on top of the fact that that theme was already explored in Automated Customer Service, the very first episode.
Sonnie's Edge and Beyond the Aquila rift from the first season get so much attention because there is a story being told that carry's you RIGHT to the gut punch of the reveal. they are great examples of how to do sci-fi short stories.
pop squad is a good story, i think but maybe suffers a little from it being slow, which doesn't make a short story memorable. i think it'd make a pretty great movie if it delved into the setting and background a bit more, though it might end up being derivative.
Dunno. Pop squad was one of those I was expecting "more" from, not least because it is a reasonably interesting (though probably not super-original) set-up.
Blade Runner but hunting illegal kids, kids vs. immortality. Some getting pregnant jokes and obviously/predictably, main guy is gonna go soft on killing kids and a speech on "living forever isn't "truly living". But then ... that's it? I feel like this needed another wrinkle in the story. Something .. dunno .. to make the themes come together.
Also, funny enough, Snow in the Desert shared many themes .. i.e. people going all-in on getting immortality while those that have it aren't actually too thrilled. But it IMO similarly wasted the interesting world-building and set-up, though the action was a bit more fun in that one.
Also, funny enough, Snow in the Desert shared many themes .. i.e. people going all-in on getting immortality while those that have it aren't actually too thrilled. But it IMO similarly wasted the interesting world-building and set-up, though the action was a bit more fun in that one.