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Does anyone else think "The Secret War" would make a badass video game

In Beyond eh Aquila Rift the alien isn't actually evil. In the short story it's based off, the alien is trapped there and when new ships arrive, she puts them into a virtual reality showing them a better life so that they die peacefully rather than in the horror of being lost alone in space. She's more of a nurse helping people to the other side since there's no escape form the station. That's why she says, "I care for all the souls that end up here", because she's taken it upon herself to look after all the people that end up dying there. The two other members of the crew actually died from their stasis tanks, if you look at the details on the tanks, they're both painted with custom designs. In the original story, the paint ages and peels off, choking the air filters they use to breathe in the tanks, suffocating them in their sleep, Thom doesn't have his painted which is why he survives for much longer. The alien tell;s Thom about how there are these warp gate's across the galaxy in clusters, and that she was sent to the station hundreds of years ago as well and that Thom and his crew are (if i remember right) the first humans she has encountered.

The episode Good Hunting had enough story to make itself a whole show. Such a badass revival.

Zima Blue was never a biological person, he started as a pool cleaning machine, eventually becoming self-aware and a famous artist, and then decided to go back to being a pool machine for his final piece of art.

This was fun, but Greta wasn't evil, ships keep crashing into her home and she tries to protect and comfort those who end up there as best she can, there's no feeding going on here, she just can't do anything more for them than she does.

Watching good hunting was so satisfying for me, when she was able to turn into a fox again I got so happy

The episode "The Secret War" absolutely could, and should, become an entire series in and of itself.

"Good Hunting" really left me in tears

I think some of these episodes can be turned into movies. I can call these conceptual short films, if you may.

You failed at explaining the ending of Aquila. :( The spider is not evil. Actually you didn't explain anything.

The secret war was easily the best episode, it had a lot of emotion to it in the short time frame of the story. It showed true human valor and bravery and the will to hold back an evil that the protagonists know they can't stop, but just to hold it back long enough for people who can stop the creatures.

Lucky 13: I think you missed the point that the ship had a sort of AI and cared for cutter as much as she cared for it. This is shown to be the case when she sets the auto destruct sequence and rather than going off at 0 it wait to do maximum damage, also when it jammed the seatbelt cord in order to save her life letting go seconds after a fatal blast.

The fact that every episode makes me want to see an entire show commited to it shows how good those stories are

Your interpretation of Beyond the Aquila Rift is actually wrong. The creature does not “trap” these ships and feed off of these people. The hyperspace drives that they pass through are ancient technology of which no one knows the origin(kinda like mass effect), and randomly they will “glitch out” causing the ships that pass through it to end up in these aliens territory. This alien is actually hyper-benevolent and cares deeply for the creatures that get stuck there, and with no way to send them back to where they came from, she alters their consciousness to give them the illusion of something bearable to them to keep them happy for the rest of their lives. However, the mind control rarely works, and the humans usually eventually find out, but she keeps trying non-the-less. The reason I know this, is because it’s based off of a short story.

What truly amazes me is how every single person likes different episodes differently. There is an episode for everyone!

Am I the only one who LOVES The Witness

u missed the entire point of lucky 13. The ship had a personality. It waited until all the enemy fighters got on and near the ship to blow so the pilot could be safe.

For the Aquila Rift episode I was actually confused if they'd had suddenly chose to hire real life actors...turns out it was just REALLY REALLY GOOD CGI. i'm beyond impressed by those graphics.

I loved Secret War’s action section. The music in the background of these men sacrificing themselves is absolutely amazing and that sequence alone makes it one of my favorite episodes

Well, I just binge-watched "Love, Death, and Robots", here are my thoughts on each episode: Sonnie's Edge: This really should have been its own series. It was too awesome for just one episode. Three Robots: Pretty amusing, honestly the ending made it darkly hilarious. The Witness: Well THAT was unnervingly trippy... Suits: Someone's been watching Aliens... and was inspired by the best parts of it. Sucker of Souls: A great survival horror short, kind of wish we got little more detail on some of the characters and their location. When the Yogurt Took Over: ...the fuck did I just watch?? Beyond the Aquila Rift: It's like Coraline and The Matrix had a satanic love child. Good Hunting: Beautifully animated with very likable characters. Once again, this should have been its own series. The Dump: Pretty bizarre but entertaining enough. Shape-Shifters: Must... Resist... urge... to make... Team Jacob joke! Helping Hand: Similar to Gravity, yet shorter and much more entertaining. Fish Night: This feels like a missing Fantasia short-HOLY SHIT A GHOST SHARK!! Lucky 13: How is it that I felt more for the ship than the human characters? Zima Blue: There isn't a word for how I feel towards this... and I'm okay with that. Blind Spot: Mad Max but with cyborgs. Once again, I'm perfectly okay with this becoming its own series. Ice Age: The main characters are way too nonchalant about what's happening. Alternate Histories: I will never get tired of watching Hitler die. The Secret War: This honestly should have been an entire movie.

*Love, Death + Robots, and sometimes Cats.* This is the alternate title for the show.

This show was really good, hopefully we can get a season 2!

Just released my Season 2 Love, Death + Robots All Endings Explained video. Check it out here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZqGYa5Np3q8.html

An important part you missed in lucky 13 was that the ship waited a while to explode, killing all of the enemy troops, implying that it does have a bit of a personality

In the episode where the farmers fight for their lives, the zoom out in the end with the aliens and the domes represent that the humans invaded the planet not the other way around

I'd like to clear a few things on the amazing story of "Beyond the Aquila Rift". You can learn a ton of background information from the short story it was based of: 1) Humanity uses apertures that utilize a type of jump gate technology that was left behind by an unknown, ancient and highly advanced civilization. At some point eons ago the jump network collapsed, but a few immeasurably far apertures still work. Thus, the occasional glitch or system error can send a ship across the galaxy with no way back. 2) "Greta" the alien is not evil or predatory but actually benevolent. "She" along with her people were the first to get stranded there, and because of luck their ship was well fitted enough to turn a close by rock into a habitable place. To fight misery (and have a reason to keep living) they decided to take care of the lost souls that ended up there too. They use the supplies of the stranded ships to survive and make the life of the other castaways easier. Greta is essentially a hive queen and has a multitude of little drone-helpers (their appearance is hinted in the episode when we see real Thom exiting the surge tank from a top view). 3) Even though Greta feeds the castaways a data dream, respecting their freedom she always ease them slowly into the truth. She refuses waking the castaways though, even if they ask it. She states that she has done this "a million times", and when people find out the truth they go insane. Thom insists of course (but non-violently) and Greta wakes him. There is no screaming on Thom's part in the story because he only sees a tiny flash, a glimpse, implying that going back to the dream was either Thom's own choice or Greta's mercy. 4) The reason Thom is almost skeletal in appearance is because he is malnourished. Not to mention that he is barely able to breathe the local atmosphere. He describes the pain as if his veins are filled with powdered glass. 5) If you notice Suzy's surge tank, she has decorated it with stars. She paid a huge amount of money on them, because she hated the sterile corporate look. Her rebellious act is forbidden because it messes with the filters of the surge tank. A minor risk for small journeys, but fatal for such an unprecedented jump sealing her fate the moment she went to sleep. 6) In the episode the main color of the scenes change to imply mood and "reality". Its cold and blue in the dream, and feverish red and rusty in reality. Funny thing is that it aligns with the original story were the station actually orbits a brown dwarf. I might be missing one or ten things, but this it guys and gals. Edit: 500 likes?! Thank you! May you all have love, happiness and robots in your lives! ;)

Sonnie's Edge is based off of books by Peter F. Hamilton, and set in the same universe as the central trilogy: The Night's Dawn Trilogy. This short story is from "A Second Chance at Eden" a collection of short stories. I'm pumping the books because they are all good! I do wish that someone would adapt and make some movies or series based off of this universe. I can only imagine how visually stunning some things from the books would be if put on the big screen...

Secret war needs its own spinoff show. Those 16 minutes were so badass.

You didn't explain any endings, you simply summarized them... disappointed

I feel like it is important to mention that it appears that Lucky 13 actually saves Cutter's life (the seatbelt jamming just before the lower half of the ship explodes) almost as though the ship was in some way alive.

Three robots was such a charming episode, it should become a full series

It would be cool if we got “episode 2” of the ones from the first season

My top 5 are: 5) They 4) Are 3) All 2) Good 1) Zima Blue

Zima blue was sooo deep i stays in my mind for weeks

I don't think I can just pick a top 5 because I loved pretty much every one for various reasons, but my favourite's definitely Good Hunting. Asian mythology, steampunk and cyborgs is all you need to win me over honestly, but Liang and Yan's friendship was really sweet and the ending was so satisfying!

Season 2 is coming tomorrow!!

I think what made this series so good is that they ARE shorts. Making movies or series out of any one would diminish the magic (blatant Good Hunting reference...sorry). Keep their magic, keep an wanting more, KEEP THIS SERIES GOING! The variety and concise stories is the strength.

I think the Shape Shifters episode highlights racism. At the end of the day it didn't matter that the Werewolf saved them all. They will always hate him for existing no matter what.

I think about "Zima Blue" all the time. After he becomes sentient, his entire development as an artist and as a being is based around representing his most basic experience in increasingly complex ways. To me that is a very profound reflection on both the nature of consciousness and growth, as well as the purpose of art. No matter how ambitious and grandiose his projects became, he was always striving to return to his most basic state. The more sophisticated and important he became, the further he strayed from his origin, and the more he longed to experience the simplicity of "Zima Blue."

Fish Night, felt like the story of Icarus and Daedalus but instead of the sun it was night and under the ocean. It highlights the carelessness of youth. That short was underrated.

I love the randomness and how each story is completely different but always has such a well developed story in less then 10 minutes this is how you challenge animation and story give someone a short amount of time to develop a character and it inspires the animator and director to be creative

The interpretation of Beyond the Aquila Rift seems completly off. I dont think the alien spider was evil or selfish. I think she did care for Thom (and all the other people that stranded there), but she also knew that he was going to die there, so she tried to ease the pain of the truth with the dreams/simulations. I do think she spoke truthfully. There was no way of sending them back and there was no way they wouldnt go crazy from reality, thus she gave them dreams, trying to find ways to explain what happened and where Thom is, so that he may not go crazy when she does wake him up. I think the alien spider is using trial and error to archieve that (and pleasure is probably a solution that worked best to connect with Thom, thats why the dream includes a past love interest and sex). By removing the memories of the past dreams, she can try again over and over, which seems cruel, but is the only choice in her capabilities. Sure, it seems malicious, but when digging deeper I dont think it is. It is a dilemma. There is no solution. It is just sad, yet beautiful, that the alien spider has enough empathy to try to ease the pain and make the best out of the situation. Thats what I got out of it. Maybe, a few dozen years in the future and more knowledged gained, the spider might be able to gain enough knowledge from stranded people to help them better or even send them back.

So in no particular order, my top 5 were: The Witness - loved the rich backdrop of colour that reminded me of downtown Hong Kong. The pace was frantic and I'm for the endless loop of each one trading places again and again. Three Robots - I could not stop laughing whilst watching this. This was the the first episode on Netflix here, and drew me in to watching the rest. Zima Blue - This was high art from beginning to end. Just gorgeous with a most satisfying ending. Good Hunting - Ahh revenge is sweet. The way the characters moved on screen was glorious. I really liked the contrast of the Victorian / Jules Verne / Steampunk city against the historical village and the way that the young couple metered out revenge of the imperialist POMEs :) The Secret War: Horror is not my favourite movie genre, but this was straight out of Lovecraft and was drawn immaculately.

The Witness 100% was a metaphor for a toxic relationship! “They are in a cycle where they both murder each other but then chase them saying it’s okay, come back I just want to talk”

Love, Death + Robots is ABSOLUTE HEAVEN for Scifi and Fantasy fans. Thank you, Netflix.

You... *Sigh* you didn't explain the endings. You summarized each episode.

what type of animation style or genera is The Witness? I have seen another short film like this cut can't remember the name. does anyone know any other short film of videos with this style of animation?

I would love a whole series even if miniseries of Sonnie's Edge as the animation, story, concept, and everything was just beautiful making me really want more.

I like how the episode The Secret War stuck to the norm for russian war movie endings. The brave and valiant last stand to death followed by the big guns rolling in.

I'd suggest that in Beyond the Aquila Rift the spider-like species might actually be pretty nice. It may totally be true that the hyper gate has a glitch that sends ships to exactly that far away location or it might even be another dimension. The spiders reveal themselves on demand by Thom after all. He cannot stand it and it may be they delete his memories to heal the insanity from the total shock of seeing those (to the human eye) ugly and horrendous creatures. It is hinted at that the reveal has happened to many trapped humans and noone being able to stand the strangeness of that reality even after many tries. It may also be that there is nothing to feed the humans and they slowly starve to death anyway. If the spider species are evil why would they delete the memories instead of enjoing the total terror of the humans once they see their new reality.

I love that you were able to put sections in the video good job man!

your channel rocks my dude, your breakdowns are always enjoyable to watch, keep doing your thing

I think my favorite was The Witness. I just really liked the surreal art style and the entire episode felt exactly like a dream. Truly innovative.

I had to double take while watching Beyond The Aquila Rift. The CGI was so damn good, I thought it was two real people fucking at first. In all seriousness, this series was awesome. Glad I just randomly decided to watch it this morning. And since the episodes are short, I binged the hell out of it.

Fun fact about Blur, they’re also responsible for the high quality cinematics in Halo Wars, Halo Wars 2, and Halo 2 Anniversary.

What's weird for me is how the episodes on my Netflix are in a completely different order than what everybody else has. Here's how my Netflix arranged the episodes: Three Robots Beyond the Aqualia Rift Ice Age Sonnie's Edge When the Yogurt Took Over The Secret War Sucker of Souls The Witness Suits The Dump Shape-Shifters Fish Night Alternate Histories Lucky 13 Blindspot Zima Blue

I think Fish Night was meant to be a creative retake on the Daedalus and Icarus mythos; however, instead of Icarus flying too close to the Sun, he swims too close to the Moon. As for my top 5 1) - Beyond the Aquila Rift, The Secret War, Lucky 13 2) - Shape Shifters 3) - When The Yogurt Took Over 4) - Helping Hand 5) - Suits

first show in a long long time that I binged. Loved it! Really want a second season. Enjoyed the funny ones and they were in the right spot to break up the heavy content.

A thing I love about The Secret War is that's it's something that finally shows that people can't out run something collapsing, the two Soviet soldiers who set up the bombs don't out run the crumbling ground around them and most likely get crushed or eaten, and I like that in a bunch of movies you can find the main protagonist outrunning some crumbling thing and surviving, wether it's the rooftops of buildings or the San Francisco bridge they always know the perfect way to step and are just faster than gravity, and I'm just glad The Secret War finally showed how it would most likely really happen.

Much love thanks for the good work

My top 5 episode. What are yours? 1) Sonnie's Edge 2) Beyond the Aquila Rift 3) The Secret War 4) Lucky 13 5) Suits

I think the spider thing is actually friendly. You can see the other passengers have died from impact of the crash they haven’t been eaten or removed from there hubs. She was creating a simulated reality of his own mind so he doesn’t suffer his last days alive. I do genuinely think there was a fault with the flight route hence why other ships have crashed.

you didn't mention and I think it'd be valid to look at the way Sonnie's last attack resembles an overcoming of a r4pe situation, by the way Turboraptor grabs the wall while pushing his blade into her and she gets the best by grabbing him back with her legs around. I think this might mean what she wants when entering the ring to fight those who did it to her

I mean, the problem with the arm scene isn't so much that her arm froze enough for her to break it off and throw it, it's that the second her arm was exposed it would start to rupture the rest of her body as well, even if she tied it off. Unless she had cut the arm off prior to tearing her suit. she'd have died there. Not to mention her better bet would have been just poking a hole in one of her gloves and using the smallest amount of air escaping to push her, as it'd act as thrust with nothing to slow it down.

I feel like you missed almost all of the minutia behind the episodes - which makes these explanations basically worthless. For example, the point of the 'Suits' episode is that humanity is invading another species' planet, while the entire episode it is made out to seem like we are being invaded. It's a statement about a whole lot of things, all of which you just gloss over while saying something akin to 'it's a Saturn-like planet with bubbles'. Yeah, I think we got that far by virtue of having eyes....

you have the suits ending wrong....... The farmers are invading the planet and, DB's are merely defending their planets from invaders.

Thank you for the summer up. I am a Big fan of this show. You really dig deep into it soo theres not mutch to say. I really loved the wittnes and the Secret war episodes and you honored them vell. Soo thank you for this experience. Hope you have a good life!

For "The Witness", I believe the first interpretation (about the time loop) make more sense, since it corresponds with the symbol of the snake eating itself at the start of the episode, which is called Uroboros and symbolises an eternal cycle. Also, if the story is about the woman being metaphorically chased by the ghost of the man, it would make more sense if the episode was called something like "The Victim" instead of "The Witness". But with the time loop interpretation, witnessing the murder is like the start and end of the time loop, making the title more appropriate compared to the second interpretation. Besides these, if the girl was really metaphorically chased by a ghost, it doesn't make sense with how the man was trying to explain something to her. If the time loop interpretation is applied, the man could be trying to explain to her that he killed the person on accident when he was fighting back. This is just my interpretation tho (damn I said the word "interpret a lot)

This was one of the best things Netflix has made

I want a TV series of Sonnie's edge!

I really love the secret war, ending the whole thing with a bang, the CGI was the very best aswell, y can’t we have that for all the games that have came out

Thanks for the *summery* man

I think your interpretation of "Beyond the Aquila Rift" is wrong and "Greta" does want to help the astronauts that where unfortunate enough to get trapped in her hive. The gate tech looks alien which makes it likely that it was a flaw in a system the humans do not completely understand. Also "Greta" does not feed on the corpses since they look heavily decomposed. At the end I think Thom did not lose his memories but chose to ignore the revelation to make his inevitable death at least pleasurable.

Boi you need to know what “explaining the ending means” smh...

The episode with the ghost fish made me think it was some metaphor for the kid not taking the old man's advice that door to door salesmen were a dying breed. He didn't take his advice and continued blindly down that path to his destruction.

I noticed everyone else's Netflix has their episodes of this show randomized. We each watch them in different orders

I demand 18 more episodes. Love the entire anthology

1. Beyond the Aquila Rift 2. Sonnie's Edge 3. Good Hunting 4. The Secret War 5. Three Robots

8:38 WAIT! That was CGI!?!

Loved this!!💙

Shape shifters would be an amazing open world game!

Did you notice in lucky 13 that the ship's AI actually waited beyond it's programmed self destruct sequence in order to wipe out as many enemy soldiers as possible?

I love the last pictures of the secret war episode. It looks so powerfull

I love that everyone has a diffrent order on netflix for the episodes. I remember my first episode on the List was 3 Robots

I didn't know what this show was at first. Never seen the trailers or anything. Just went in blindly and came into realization that these are all animated shorts. GOOD ones. Different animation styles and different concepts/stories. The 3D animated ones, most of them look so goddamn realistic. I was blown away by that. Overall, I for sure liked it. Kinda reminds me Black Mirror too but still different from that. Animation takes a longg time and costs a lot of money, but hopefully we get a second season in a few years.

My favourite is Zima Blue. Made me cry. I wish i could write stories like that one day. Second favourite is the first one. Least favourite is the Hitler one, way too silly for my taste.

Great video!

Thank you for that episode🙌🔥

sonnies edge needs its own spinoff i know because its one of a kind that makes it special but the plot and animation are beyond amazing i just need moreeeeeee

Surely you must have noticed that right before the boy in Fish Night joined the fish, he first jumped up into the air. Right above a canyon, no less. Could they have just been having the same hallucination, and the boy jumped down a canyon thinking he was joining the fish? Could it be that when the shark ate him, that was when he hit the bottom?

This series is the pure definition of artist story telling... Beautiful animation too

I really REALLY loved Blind Spot. Reminded me of the times I watched loads of MegaMan sigma and real steel for some reason. If I had to choose, I'd go for Blind spot if it became a series.

I thought the ending of Suits was revealing that the humans were in fact the ones colonizing the planet, and the DBs were just defending their home.

About the helping hand episode, she shouldn't have been able to remove her arm, space is about -270°C yes, but since there's no air to conduct heat, the only way for her arm to lose heat is by radiating in the infrared, which is very slow. If when she removes the suit her arm is at 37°C, then, according to the Stefan Boltzmann's law, she should radiate about 524 J of energy each second for square meter of surface: since the skin surface area for an adult human is about 2 squared meters, her forearm would be about 1/8 of it by eye, so it would be emitting 131 J per second. Thanks to the heat transfer equation we can determine the amount of energy needed to drop her arm's temperature to 0°C, which is, assuming her forearm has a mass of 4 kg and a specific heat of 3 kJ/(kg °C), 444 kJ. That means that the drop in temperature would happen in around an hour. Actually it would take much longer than an hour, because as the temperature drops, the amount of energy radiated drops sharply, since it depends on the fourth power of the temperature, slowing down the process even further, and to actually freeze stuff, bringing it to 0°C isn't enough, as extra energy transfer is required to change between states (see enthalpy of fusion).

The secret war gives the biggest Metro vibes ever. Snow, monsters, guns and Soviets.

The witness is my favorite episode it’s so awesomely shot and edited

I actually had a quite different interpretation for Beyong the Aquila Rift. I didn't see Thom trapped in the web of a malicious space spider... I thought he was just stranded on an alien space station that's totally uninhabitable for humans and that the creature living there genuinly cared about him and felt regret that it couldn't help him to get back home. Out of curiosity I looked up the short story the episode is based on and it seems like the "Greta" creature and her people were the first ones stranded there and had enough resources to set up a sustainable station that kinda resembles an insect hive. Over time many creatures have landed there and she has taken care of all of them... so it seem like the creature is actually benevolent? Of course that could all be a lie she feeds him, but if she just intended to eat him or feed on his mind it wouldn't really make sense for her to show him even glimpses of the truth. Tbh I find the explanation of an alien insect queen that watches over her mismatched multicultural hive more interesting than predatory space spider that eats everyone.

I interpreted the ending of The Witness as men and woman always view themselves as the victim despite that they're hurting each other in the same way.

Me personally, I loved every single episode. And I plan on rewatching the series countless times.

nice detail 3:56 the ship in the building is the Calypso, an BYMS class mine sweeper which was modified and used after ww2 as an oceanographic science vessel (if you ever heard about Cousteau that was his ship).