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Title: What started out so excellent became... this.
Review: AEon Flux: The Complete Animated Series (Peter Chung, 1996)I remember, back in the day, seeing the first eight episodes of the first iteration of AEon Flux on MTV, and it was just about the coolest thing imaginable. And then, well, something went horribly, horribly wrong. The end result? AEon Flux: The Complete Animated Series.The great thing about those initial episodes was their complete lack of context. The viewer was thrust into a world entirely different than ours, but still recognizable. We were given some characters, a plot, and no dialogue whatsoever; we had to figure out what was going on for ourselves. The big mistake, of course, is giving the characters context, giving them dialogue. Suddenly the mystery, the challenge, of the series is gone, and we're left with nothing more than another cartoon-- and not one that's in any way interesting. I gave it my best shot, but I couldn't even manage to finish watching it. (zero)
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