![]() ![]() She notices that one of her comrades is badly injured but alive and takes of his mask so that he might die in comfort. One such soldier is standing alone amid this death and destruction. Aeon paddles through, picking off stray Breen soldiers as she goes. ![]() Their blood covering the floor like a leak from a giant tomato-sauce tanker. As if to bring this point home more effectively, we are then subjected to views of dead Breens piled high all around. Then she runs down a corridor and, firing both guns, kills hundreds of Breen soldiers with each elegant sweep of her arms.Įven I was starting to get a little uncomfortable at the excessive and gratuitous violence given out by Aeon as she tore her way through the Breen military installation. As she went up, she fired at a multitude of guards below her, killing each one. As he died, he fell over the railings and acted as a counterbalance for Aeon to traverse the wall. She dodged the bullets and fired a sort of grappling hook attached to a rope into the chest of the guard. One particular far-fetched confrontation involved Aeon needing to climb a 50-foot wall to get to a small platform….She fired at it and immediately attracted a guard who started firing at her atop the platform. The battle sequences are so miraculous that you just can’t help wonder if they are intended to be comical. The turquoise soldier’s (male and female) drop like ninepins as Aeon rushes to her goal, the apartment of a Breen politician. She shoots from the hip and is far too accurate to be believable. She seems to dispatch death with every bullet fired. The show opens with a blood curdling battle between a few thousand Breen soldiers and our lovely Aeon Flux. This episode has everything, sex, violence, intrigue and a thought provoking script. Personally, I think it was the original MTV trailer and let me tell you – It’s the best ever. The longs were produced for MTV and the shorts were sort of trailers by Liquid Television. In all likelihood the series’ unfathomable nature formed a large part of its charm, for it ended with little more conclusive background information than when it began.I’m not sure if this was meant to be a short or a long episode. Ten episodes made up the third and final season. They might be battling one moment and locking lips the next, so long as their carnal desires didn’t put the mission at stake. As much as their ideological viewpoints were opposed, they had at one time been romantically involved, and some remnant of those feelings remained. Aeon Flux put a good deal of effort into preventing Trevor’s designs from reaching fruition.Īeon and Trevor clearly had a past in which they were familiar with one another. Thus, he expended a good deal of effort in finding scientific means for evolving or changing humanity to conform to his vision of a perfect society. Although marked as the villain of the series, Trevor deemed himself a visionary who ultimately had mankind’s best interests at heart. On the other side lay the nation of Bregna an authoritarian state headed by Trevor Goodchild, who considered denial of personal freedom a fair exchange for the orderly life of the Breens under his rule. On one side lay the nation of Monica a free nation with no heads of state, for which Aeon Flux was an agent. ![]() This barrier made crossing from one side to the other a deadly undertaking. Furthermore, there was no indication whether the stories were tied together as part of a continuous whole, or if they were largely independent and simply involved the same characters.Ī few story elements revealed themselves and remained consistent throughout: A series of continuous walls and defensive zones equipped with automated weapons divided a large metropolis in two. Back story revealed itself in small doses, but the series maintained its ambiguous tone. ![]() Episodes expanded to a half-hour in length, the characters finally spoke, and Aeon didn’t die in every episode - although her fate was, at times, far from envious. The series continued for a third season in 1995, but with several significant changes. Aeon’s uncommonly honed skills in shooting, acrobatics, infiltration and espionage made themselves readily apparent as she carried out her covert duties, but a lapse in judgment or some fluke mishap led to her demise by the end of every story in the series’ first and second seasons. Viewers had to glean story details from the actions of the characters in conjunction with the episode title, because the characters never spoke. Set in a dystopian future, the series focused on the exploits of female secret agent Aeon Flux as she carried out missions against a largely unexplained adversarial organization. Five, 3–5 minute individual stories formed the show’s second season, which also aired on Liquid TV. Named after its central character, Aeon Flux (or, Æon Flux), this bizarre series began as six, 2–3 minute segments that aired as part of MTV’s 1991 series Liquid Television. ![]()
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