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Netflix recently abandoned the fourth volume of animated anthology series acclaimed Love, death and robots,. Created by David Fincher and Tim Miller. Since 2019, Fincher and Miller have designed this elegant universe where opportunities for high -end animation and fascinating and folded stories are in abundance. However, after six years and four volumes, it seems that the series is short of original ideas.
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While volume 4 of Love, death and robots Always provides an absolutely magnificent animation and maintains its diversity in terms of different visual styles, it is the narration that suffers.
The first three volumes had a huge success because they have always had some episodes off competition. The series has always been structured to offer a few episodes, generally 10 to 15 minutes, which have the strongest history concepts supported by the most astonishing animation. These episodes offer the start of a banger, medium and end to each volume, which is sprinkled with shorter and generally comical experiences.
The first volume – with its 18 episodes, the highest of all so far – has offered the most jewels. Episodes like The edge of the sound,, Good hunt,, The witness And Zima Blue breathtaking the public.
The edge of the sound was a revenge tale that takes place in the world of combat “ beastie ” underground Good hunt explored the link between a change of form and the son of a spirit hunter in a world industrializing quickly. The witness follows a woman fleeing the city after witnessing a murder Zima Blue Tells the journey of artist Zima and his true identity in a story that leaves your jaw on the ground.
While the second volume of eight episodes has seen interesting ideas such as genetic modification in Ice and the themes of immortality and loneliness in Snow in the desertit was Jibaro In volume three which deserves a place in the big episodes of all time in the series. The masterpiece of Alberto Mielgo has become a cultural phenomenon because of his hypnotic work CGI and his characters and the story bright, all told without words. You could see his influence when tons of fans recreated their own versions of the emblematic sequence of “death dance” with all makeup, jewelry and costumes.
The goal of all this is to say that there are no episodes in the last volume that has reached this level of emotional resonance. This volume is mainly made up of filling episodes which are redesigned from the filling ideas of the previous seasons.
Mini dead night (Vol. 3) has become Narrow mini type dating. The other great thing serves as a prequel to theft. 1 Three robots. Micro experiences like Intelligent devices, stupid ownersAlthough funny, are not strong enough to be complete episodes. They are at best test exercises and feel too short to have a substance.
Even I can’t stopA Red Hot Chilli Peppers concert with animated puppets, made by Fincher himself, seems disappointing.
This is something that Neill Blomkamp Oat studios also done in 2021. District 9 The director has experienced his own collection of strange and fascinating buildings and concepts. Love, death and robots Flight. 4 faces similar problems that Oat studios DID: fascinating concepts that remain half cooked almost as teasers to full films that never present themselves.
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This does not mean that theft. 4 does not offer anything. It just offers enough to continue. There are great ideas in episodes such as Spider pink,, The shouts of the tyrannosaurus,, How Zeke has a religion And Because it can crawl.
The first three of the aforementioned episodes are close to scratching the signature Love, death and robots itch. Spider pinkplaced in the same universe as Swarm flight. 3, explores the continuation of the revenge of a mourning woman using a fur companion.
The shouts of the tyrannosaurus Offers a breed fight between genetically modified gladiators at the top of custom dinosaurs at a space station above Jupiter. He follows the same dystopian science fiction tropes where the poor die for the entertainment of the elite until he turns around. Despite the reworked account and the feeling that perhaps more could have been made with history, the construction of the world and the characters make this episode an addition worthy of the series.
How Zeke has a religion is absolute chaos, a noisy and twisted nightmare that comes to life. It works with a structure similar to Kill Team Kill (Vol. 3) When a team from the armed forces beat us inhuman animals that she did not expect. While this team was at least rude and humorous, the new deployment of forces renounces humor. And given the infernal monstrosity that awaits them in the air, you cannot blame them for not having found the situation funny.
In the same vein, we find 400 boys Where a bunch of survivors fights giant monsters called “boys”. But alongside the hilarious image of the giants in the baby’s face causing destruction, that does not give you much to bring home.
Love, death and robots also offers a surprise this season with a live episode Golgotha in which an aquatic extraterrestrial race arrives on earth. He essentially warns us not to kill and torture aquatic life and maintain the balance of the ecosystem. But the episode itself is not really out of competition. Despite something important to say, he does not say it with impact and style.
Because it can crawl had the potential to be a big episode of all time. Located in London in 1757, Satan was there to fight the cat of a poet when he wishes to take the soul of the poet. The soul is in the form of a new verse and taking it would allow Satan to reign on earth. But his cat is not a pushy and will fight at all costs to defend his master.
An interesting turn to the idea of the agreement with the revelation which prevailed in the myth, literature and the film for so long, the episode always has the impression that it tries too much to be fun. But there are a lot of things that could have been done with this trophy “sell the soul”, and the manufacturers end up choosing an iteration rather with vanilla and a presentation of the idea.
Be that as it may, although the last volume does not just offer enough dopamine so as not to be bored, it is not as engaging or innovative as the first volumes. On the animation front, it always offers first -rate visuals and sound. The problem is not with production, but rather the quality of stories. He feels strewn with vignettes and unfinished ideas, and often weak concepts to start.
We hope we will get a flight. 5 to bounce with exceptional sockets. If manufacturers must follow old concepts and expand them, the worlds of Jibaro,, Zima Blue And Good hunt Offer many rich aspects and depth for the next seasons.
