Destroy All Podcasts DX Episode 107 - Æon Flux

Be happy that we did not post the "picture of a Mexican Hat" that I found. No, you should not go look for it yourself.

Although you tell people to get the 2005 DVD edition, some would contend to keeping their original VHS/DVD releases out of spite of the way the newer DVD's make use of added digital effects, additional script re-writing/ADR that Peter Chung was involved in. It was pretty noticeable to me to see what that was, so either way is OK.

The original short or pilot was what was seen in the first season of Liquid TV (the film itself was split into separate installments). The second season of LTV had several shorts for several episode. I often thought of it as a representation of a video game death in my opinion, and how I first viewed Aeon Flux back then prior to the TV series.

The weird camera angles can be seen in other earlier Peter Chung-involved projects like these....

Sesame Street segment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_r4jRm-T50

Rugrats pilot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zsNcbPDyx0

You definitely come to appreciate him more as a director than a designer overall (remember once coining the term "98 pound weaklings" to describe the characters in Aeon Flux).

Peter though had nothing to do with that awful live-action film that came out half a decade ago.

Those shorts, non-verbal as they are, do have some quite intriguing approaches to the plot and seeing what happens to Aeon every time. The TV series ends up being more a mess given the self-contained approach to the characters and situations which change in every episode. The only episode I ever liked was when Aeon gets stuck in that gelatinous void and it was like a death despite her being stuck in suspended animation anyway. You also get the episode where she 'dies', but a clone of her continues anyway.