Did anyone really understand what was going on in Æon Flux?
Posted by Josephthebear@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 445 comments
Posted by Josephthebear@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 445 comments
hadesscion@reddit
Aeon Flux, The Maxx, and Liquid Television.
The 90s were wild, man.
Producer456reddit@reddit
Nope
scifithighs@reddit
None of these comments surprise me, since it was indeed a weird-ass show, but I'm sad nobody has yet expressed the same excitement for it that I have.
What? Nobody else here is mesmerized by a visceral, horny, creepy action cartoon with an only sometimes coherent story?
Arcanisia@reddit
I remember that movie they made
GhidorahtheExplorah@reddit
I loved it. I found the storytelling beautiful and ethereal.
Rewatching it in a marathon every once in a while makes me feel like my soul is floating.
scifithighs@reddit
Oh good, someone who gets it!
I should cue up a marathon for myself; I know that soul-floating feeling and have missed it for a long while. The story is ours to piece together, to fill in the cracks with our own details, or to bask in its mystery, as we please.
I dare you, dare you, Danger Boy...
cptsears@reddit
Yes, there are dozens of us!
End Sinister may be the first piece of fiction that made me think about how foreign future generations and their problems may be to us.
feldomatic@reddit
I sat through hours of MTV just to get a chance to watch it.
_TenDropChris@reddit
Not a clue
Robot-Candy@reddit
Yes, it’s suppose to be extremely episodic and story based. She or other main characters were to die constantly to reinforce this. So great! Very existential
He also did a version of the Chronices of Riddick and also Rein the Conqueror which was amazing.
NegativeBeginning400@reddit
No, but I thought it looked edgy. I watched it on liquid TV.
Hntrbdnshog@reddit
Liquid TV was the shit.
postitpad@reddit
If you liked liquid TV, check out ‘love, death, and robots’ on Netflix.
Oaken_beard@reddit
And Sturgill Simpson’s Sound and Fury
Dark_Marmot@reddit
YES! IT'S LIKE ALL OF LIQUID TV ON CRACK!
NoLobster7957@reddit
Omg this. I cannot strongly enough recommend Jibaro. That is some of the coolest shit I have legitimately ever seen.
Also Sonny's Edge.
A56kconnection@reddit
Also "The Witness" in the first season of LDR. And you can see his fingerprints all over the Spiderverse movies.
NoLobster7957@reddit
That was the same guy as Jibaro. That's such a unique art style
deathcabscutie@reddit
Zima Blue is my favorite, but I love Jibaro and The Very Pulse of the Machine almost as much.
NoLobster7957@reddit
Zima Blue is fantastic. The arc of that character is golden
elvisap@reddit
So good to find fellow Jibaro fans. Easily in the top 5 things I've ever watched.
NoLobster7957@reddit
I was honestly blown away. Everything about it was flawless and I'm an animation buff.
elvisap@reddit
I was watching through Love Death + Robots, and Jibaro was the final episode I think.
I remember watching it and just being stunned. Immediately watched it a second time, and then showed it to my partner when she got home.
I'm a pretty cynical guy, and it takes a lot to impress me. But that blew me away.
postitpad@reddit
I think we actually had another season after the Jibaro episode. You might want to have a re-look, you might have a season to catch up on.
elvisap@reddit
Yeah I'm up to date. I watch the seasons as soon as they come out. Love them so much.
MAGAisforMorons@reddit
This studio's work on the trailer for the new Marathon game was amazing as well. Don't give a damn about the game but, so good
skvaldur@reddit
It is amaaaazing😍😍😍
Hntrbdnshog@reddit
It’s awesome! I’ve read a lot of the books by some of the story writers and seen all the episodes. The
FidgitForgotHisL-P@reddit
There’s also love death and robots compilation books that include some of the original short stories they used, and stuff that he collected but didn’t up getting used as scripts. Iirc the first book was free on Audible recently.
Kevmandigo@reddit
Same vein, check out Sturgil Simpson Presents Sound and Fury.
951frisky_dingo@reddit
Hell yeah, the rat 🐀 one was cool
BaD-princess5150@reddit
Ooo thx for the suggestion 🥰
HIs4HotSauce@reddit
you can re-watch the series on YouTube
Remy0507@reddit
Sadly, it looks like the Aeon Flux (and possibly other) shorts have been edited out of these, presumably for copyright reasons. Still awesome to see the rest of it!
dirtydragondan@reddit
https://gofile.io/d/LotUmn
i put em up for ppl last night. can get the whole original versions, with commentary tracks too
jojodancer10@reddit
It's on Paramount+ (in the U.S. at least)
Revolutionary-Wash88@reddit
It's worth the fee for new Beavis and Butthead alone
the_D1CKENS@reddit
If that's your only subscription, sure..but what else?
Revolutionary-Wash88@reddit
They have new and old shows from MTV, Comedy Central, Star Trek, Nickelodeon. For movies they have the full series of Alien, Scream, Transformers, Mission Impossible and the new releases are decent. Also a dozen Yellowstone series but I'm not sure why lol
Remy0507@reddit
I'm all set giving Paramount any money, but it's cool. I'm sure I can find them online through...other means, if I really want to see them.
the_D1CKENS@reddit
I don't understand? Could explain the thing? Yanno..the other thing
dot dot dot em dash etc..
Remy0507@reddit
the_D1CKENS@reddit
No, that's not the thing. Safely.. Im very wary of sailing, due to..safety regulations..if you catch my drift
Remy0507@reddit
Oh, Idk, I don't actually do much sailing anymore, lol. I'm just saying... I'm sure I could figure it out again if I had to. 😆
the_D1CKENS@reddit
Out of curiosity, could a Chromebook make it to TVLand without sinking?
theMirthbuster@reddit
It says in the description of the YT videos that they've been trimmed of blocked content, and that the full episodes including Aeon Flux are on archive.org
https://archive.org/details/liquid-television-complete/Liquid+Television+101.mp4
DaxyBean@reddit
Thank you!
ouchibitmytongue@reddit
Thank you!!! I've been trying to explain Art School Girls of Doom for years and cannot do it justice. Now I can show them...THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!
ArtaxWasRight@reddit
they were my faaaavorite. trans representation on basic cable in 1991. the one Art School Girl did wigs at Pat Field’s in New York.
theMirthbuster@reddit
Also on archive which includes Aeon Flux and other content - https://archive.org/details/liquid-television-complete/Liquid+Television+101.mp4
TikiJeff@reddit
Nice
TomPalmer1979@reddit
Man I remembered Liquid Television being the most edgy, groundbreaking, amazing thing I'd ever seen back in the day.
I actually tried watching some of it about two months ago, like an hour long Best Of compilation. What the everloving shit did I just watch? That was...something!
Life-Significance-33@reddit
Did it have any proto-Hank Hill on it?
TomPalmer1979@reddit
No, none of the Mike Judge shorts. But man there was some weird shit. LOL
Life-Significance-33@reddit
I know, I was the right age ti catch all that shit live. Aeon was half cool, half wtf?.
TomPalmer1979@reddit
Agreed. It almost kinda lost its magic when they went to series, and had to have an actual plot. I kinda liked it when it was just shorts that you had no idea what was going on but it was still fucking cool.
Miquiztli@reddit
No mention of Stick Figure Theater yet, but I enjoyed those as well.
tvmediaguy@reddit
Dear Mum.
weBullsWobble@reddit
I hear the voice!!
nopost23632@reddit
Loved the PsychoGrams
Way_2_Go_Donny@reddit
FROG BASEBALL
Allaplgy@reddit
Banned
crystallmytea@reddit
BlackPhoenix1981@reddit
dbwedgie@reddit
Hell yeah. I read the comic too. (Not that I remember any of it.)
Hoppers-Body-Double@reddit
I loved Liquid TV. The only thing I understood was that I had a confusing boner for a cartoon character.
coolpartoftheproblem@reddit
i’d call the boner(s) i had formative
JamesBuffalkill@reddit
I wasn't confused about the one I had for Julie from The Maxx.
Hoppers-Body-Double@reddit
Remytron83@reddit
We are the same.
lordhumongous40@reddit
Fuck yeah! My 11 year old brain was enthralled by liquid tv. It was so bizarre to me.
_frank_tank@reddit
ticklemesatan@reddit
THATS where this quote comes from? Jay Z has lied to me from the start!
anonpharr@reddit
The Running Man (not the Stephen King story or Ahnold flick) was one that stuck with me from Liquid TV.
Unique-Umpire-1551@reddit
You are my kinda person!
I saw this on acid and it stuck with me!
Pat if you're out there, thanks bud!
jcstrat@reddit
It was cool when it was on liquid television. Then it got its own show and i thought it would be amazing. It was not amazing, it was awful. It should have stayed in the liquid television format.
Ok_Monitor5890@reddit
Same
Appropriate-Neck-585@reddit
Same.
archercc81@reddit
It also had some amazing visuals too, and I say that as someone who was too young to be high watching it.
PoolRamen@reddit
vampiremonkeykiller@reddit
DOG BOY! AWOOOO!!!!!
Capn_Yoaz@reddit
There is a whole story if you follow the shorts and episodes.
2 nations are at war - Monica and Bregna
A spy(Aeon) for Monica and a mole(Trevor) in the Bregna government, who happen to be lovers, are constantly working together to overthrow the Breen government.
Every time they work together to achieve another goal it just so happens Trevor turns on Aeon and kills her or she dies, is cloned and goes out again.
The shorts build up to Trevor's coup of the Government and his releasing a biological weapon to make the population sterile.
The TV series follow's Trevor's reign and the ultimate destruction of the utopian society and his obsession with biomechanical engineering and aliens. This leads to the destruction of both countries and the forced evolution of humans into aliens.
Full-March-4700@reddit
So she was kinda like Duncan Idaho, interesting
FidgitForgotHisL-P@reddit
Is the movie (that no one else has mentioned making me suspect everyone forgot it happened lol) retelling the same part of the story as the tv series (after the shorts)?
Reading your description now I could see a world in which the live action is actually set after the series and Trevor is at it again, cloning humans to keep them going after he made everyone infertile, and it’s like the latest “cycle” of him vs Aeon.
Gonna have to binge this all…
philovax@reddit
Wow thank you for a condense summary. I know there is some cloning fetish but I always presumed he had to “kill the spy/assassin” to maintain his position. Clearly it seems she served him to the large degree and it was not cooperative.
kryonik@reddit
I'm going to continue hacking into these government systems to see what I can find about all this national and international corruption I know is going on!
pixelprolapse@reddit
Furiously types
tiddayes@reddit
nice work, upvote earned
Capn_Yoaz@reddit
Was really obsessed with Aeon Flux, Peter Chung & Drew Neumann in my late teens.
Darkling_13@reddit
I didn't get any of this until I got really stoned and happened to catch a marathon of the show that they ran late at night once. In that nebulous headspace, and seeing the patterns and callbacks, it all clicked into focus.
tommessinger@reddit
I have the dvd box set. I love the animation.
hextasy@reddit
I had to go back and watch it a 20th time, 20 years later
Material-Imagination@reddit
Like sometimes, but generally not
Texas_Kimchi@reddit
Aeon Flux and The Head was prime MTV.
howrunowgoodnyou@reddit
Dead at 21?
GalahadEX@reddit
I'm still pissed about the cliffhanger it ended on.
3yeless@reddit
Totally sucked if you were watching intently
howrunowgoodnyou@reddit
Same
platypus_farmer42@reddit
Was The Head the one with the guy who had an alien in his head? Man MTV was airing some weird shit back then
Away-Ad-3407@reddit
purple monkey sneak attack!
TheDanecdote@reddit
You can find episodes of it on the internet archive
SweetCosmicPope@reddit
Not sure if you still can, but Amazon used to offer DVDs of the Maxx and The Head. They were made on demand. And if you bought them, it included the digital edition in your amazon library. I got both.
ThatEvanFowler@reddit
The thing I remember best about The Head was the guy who had the lawnmower blade stuck in his face. Then they're sneaking into the offices of an evil company and the guy stumbles across the plans for lawnmowers with loose blades and starts screaming, "They knew! THOSE BASTARDS KNEW!".
Turbogoblin999@reddit
Edgy ratatouille.
weBullsWobble@reddit
My favorite was The Specialists.
somainthewatersupply@reddit
Let’s not forget about The Maxx! RIP Sam Kieth!
Esarelle@reddit
I dont remember the plot but The Maxx! Was my favorite. Pretty dark stuff.
Allaplgy@reddit
Just re watched the whole series. It definitely got dark when Mr. Gone got more involved.
ConfidentPilot1729@reddit
I had a ton of maxx comics and watched it all the time. Read some wikis on it and it is a pretty deep story.
ThatEvanFowler@reddit
The funny thing about The Maxx to me is that I watched and loved the series, but was always sort of let down by the ending being basically and-then-they-all-randomlymoved-out-of-the-city-one-day. So, I was psyched to learn that the comics had a longer story. I bought them and read them and while it's true that a bunch more things happen that weren't depicted in the series, after all of that, the ending remains and-then-they-all-randomly-moved-out-of-the-city-one-day, lol. Sam Keith got me.
thedudeintx82@reddit
I've got a really cool Maxx comic that is glow in the dark.
EmperorGrinnar@reddit
I still need to finish my comic collection.
CountDoppelbock@reddit
i did not know sam kieth was dead until your comment. and like just weeks ago. woof. was always a big fan of his work and style.
Squidflex@reddit
Dang. Didn't know about Sam Kieth...
somainthewatersupply@reddit
Yeah. I don’t usually get upset when “celebrities “ pass away. But for some reason his death hit me hard. It seems like he was a legit good dude.
Squidflex@reddit
Same. Back in the late 90s or early 2000s, he was in town for a convention. A few of us from his old mailing list met him for dinner. He was really nice and super chill. There were maybe five of us total, but he insisted on paying. Great guy, will definitely be missed.
somainthewatersupply@reddit
What a great memory!
Sydira@reddit
I still have the maxx on vhs. I loved that show so much but it was hard to explain to people.
somainthewatersupply@reddit
One of my favorites! The comics and the show.
toasterb@reddit
My dad and I loved watching The Head together. He was always fostering a love of absurd media.
It's sad how much less absurd mainstream shows are these days. Kids need a healthy dose of something like Pee Wee's Playhouse in formative ages.
Appropriate-Science4@reddit
I still have the Maxx read allowed cassette tape, you had to mail away for.
HeightExtra320@reddit
The head !!!!! Oh wow
RealityOk9823@reddit
I totally forgot about The Head.
SeamusMcBalls@reddit
It’s like east and west Germany with Sado-sexual cyborg-clones as secret agents, like spy vs spy with tits and a boner
platypod1@reddit
I'm gonna need an 8 episode, super serious premium HBO style show that's white spy (tits) and black spy (boner) engaging in a mortal struggle that involves way too much exposition, gore-fest murder, and comically gratuitous sex scenes. It can be set against the fall of the berlin wall and collapse of the USSR.
The show needs to end with both of them, exhausted from a life of trying to murder each other finding that the whole time, they were just tools of warring super powers for no actual point. They smoke cigarettes in a washed out, shithole bar in Berlin with a lot of neon in the back ground.
And then they fuck while "don't stop believing" plays
Steven_G_Photos@reddit
I'm absolutely giving someone good money to watch this. Could we replace Don't Stop Believing with the German version of 99 Balloons though...?
platypod1@reddit
Perfect, approved.
Steven_G_Photos@reddit
Danke.
chihsuanmen@reddit
I would like to make the argument for "Winds of Change" by the Scorpions.
It's a romantic ballad that encapsulates the subject matter.
CallOfCthuMoo@reddit
Im also gonna need Falco's original Der Kommissar in there somewhere, because its awesome.
Aggravating-Tax-2121@reddit
There's a book that kind of plays out that actual plot. It's called This is How You Lose the Time War
Hilsam_Adent@reddit
Standing, against the Wall that defined their relationship for so many years.
Big-Persimmon-7165@reddit
lol I’d watch this.
Seriously.
commandantskip@reddit
So, have you seen Atomic Blonde?
Sorrok2400@reddit
Why did you change the ending of Atomic Blonde? (Featuring Charlize, also from Aeon Flux movie)
Ninja-Panda86@reddit
Yep. Nailed it.
presidentsday@reddit
Nailed it.
Zezu@reddit
Æon Flux?? More like Bœner Tits.
xO76A8pah4@reddit
Bœhner tits?
sturgill_homme@reddit
Before we had Orange one, we had Burnt Sienna
ArtaxWasRight@reddit
sloppy sienna knockers’d bring a tear to your eye
SonicSubculture@reddit
This guy flux
handsomeape95@reddit
Given the time it originally aired that makes sense. I recently watched it again on Paramount+. I don't know if it's the full series. Seemed like there were more epsisodes. But yeah I still don't get it.
Malefectra@reddit
I think the full series is a total of 21 episodes, along with the Liquid TV shorts. There’s very little coherent plot structure. The whole thing runs on vibes, and it’s got more of those than a Hitachi wand…
Josephthebear@reddit (OP)
Revolutionary-Wash88@reddit
The lack of plot is accurate to the source material
cute_spider@reddit
I am pretty sure the whole show was extremely small scale - I'm convinced they were fighting/fucking over two apartment complexes
MysteriousFee2873@reddit
Exactly with a little bit of visual discomfort to pull you further in. Loved this show! Hated Angelina for doing such a bad job acting. She should have had to watch the show before hand.
legna20v@reddit
That episode where the girl lost her legs stayed with me for life.
Anynamehere14@reddit
Don’t give away the plot
stinkytoe42@reddit
There was a plot?
Everyday_everyway@reddit
Acid, that’s what.
Internal-Mortgage635@reddit
Loves it growing up. And the bad live action adaption with Charlize Theron. I have it for my PSP and like to watch it on Long flights.
Ok-Oil7124@reddit
Yes.
UdonSoop@reddit
No. But I love how it just drops you into this complex story with wild visuals, and we all just rolled with it.
mightymidwestshred@reddit
Mugwumpjizzum1@reddit
No. I was a teenager and too horned up to follow the plot.
MattLocke@reddit
Was too young to really get the full context of what I was seeing beyond this is equal parts weird/cool/creepy That surreal shit definitely formed some core memories though.
Haven’t seen it in over 3 decades, but I still strongly remember the episode where they are dealing with a government sanctioned drug called “Bliss” that operates by basically giving you amnesia … ha ha ignorance is bliss.
And I’m still carrying some lowkey trauma from the one that focused on some lady with amazingly athletic legs who tried to escape the city, but got caught by the mechanisms at the border that severed them. Head authority douche gets the final line of “whatever doesn’t kill you, just makes you weirder.”
EGOtyst@reddit
in that episode, she was also a factory worker that made the parts of the mechanism that severed her legs. Very twilight zone. I remmber that one.
MattLocke@reddit
Yeah. Now that I’m older I can see the not so subtle message they were laying down.
Still won’t rewatch that one though. Don’t need to refresh those memories.
bucknert@reddit
Yeah this episode stuck with me as well. I seem to recall in the beginning she has a boyfriend and they are both doing this intense physical training to escape like a gauntlet of traps to cross the border. But the boyfriend tells her not to attempt it because she's not good enough or something but she insists to still go. They do the attempt and he escapes and she is caught on the very last trap and injured. She is then put into the factory to build the machinery as punishment while she heals.
Stuff happens, she practices some more and is determined to do the attempt again. The boyfriend becomes a spy with Aeon somehow and they tell her not to do the attempt again but she does it anyway. She makes it all the way and beats the final trap this time only for there to suddenly be a new additional trap added which involves the machinery she built which this time amputates her legs as punishment.
There was also something about a little kid that lived across from her at the beginning that was happy and playing in the beginning and in the final shot the kid is also now a multiple amputee and super sad. It was fucked up.
thereticent@reddit
Different show, but same time period...Captain Planet also had a designer drug called Bliss. But it didn't wipe your memory, just make you immune to pain and negative emotions.
mindeclipse@reddit
That episode was the first one I saw 🥲
elquatrogrande@reddit
That scene is literally the only thing I remember about the entire series.
Perpe2allyDistracted@reddit
Unlocked a core memory there. The leg severing scene was traumatic as hell for an animated show.
ShakesDontBreak@reddit
No. But it was this cartoon that made me realize I was alt.
Solid-Hedgehog9623@reddit
Great show. I was always confused though.
Antricluc@reddit
Came on after bevis and butthead that's when I knew it was time for bed
MyGirlBaltimore@reddit
No. But 9 year old me was riveted.
deth_rey@reddit
I had an idea but can't think of it now.
LasagnahogXRP@reddit
Some things were so cool just by their nature, I didn’t need or care much about understanding them.
Cold meat mutton pie…
aenflex@reddit
I tried for my username all those years ago when I joined Reddit. And Gmail. I got close…
Wrafth@reddit
"What does not kill you, makes you stranger" - Trevor Goodchild. This is forever in my head.
viddied@reddit
It tried to awaken your world.
bluesmokebloke@reddit
She was forever stepping on that damn nail
Horror_Garbage_9888@reddit
Each episode was kind its own thing, loosely connected to a main story. Main story being an assassin named Aeon chasing/making out with a tech oligarch named Trevor Goodchild. Each episode dealt with moral and philosophical issues kind of like The Twilight Zone but built loosely around the main story. Also the main characters seemed to die all the time making it more confusing.
JayJoeJeans@reddit
I recall having read somewhere that the initial cartoon when she died was a one-off, and it became a success that the decision was made to keep making more episodes and to keep having her die in every episode
santaland@reddit
I was so into Aeon Flux as a kid, then much later when it first hit DVD, and IIRC this is how it was. The show was initially a series of 2 minute shorts and she died at the end of every one of them, just because they were just supposed to be between-tv-show shorts.
The full-length series was originally aired out of chronological order, and the one that was supposed to be first starts with her appearing to be dead and waking up. In the full length series it follows more of a standard plot, and she only gets cloned and the original killed of once.
But, again, this is all if I recall correctly. This is 20+ year old autism that has bubbled to the surface lol
JayJoeJeans@reddit
I forgot about the shorts! Damn I can't believe I didn't recall those. I haven't seen the show in years but I loved it, the movie...not so much
santaland@reddit
Yeah, the movie was awful! It was like someone made a bullet list of weird things that happened in the show, then had another person who had never seen it make a movie from them.
At least it gave us a reissue of the cartoon on DVD!
atxbikenbus@reddit
I believe part of the opening sequence was her as a clone waking up. I took that to mean there were actually a bunch of her trying different ways to beat the "enemy".
AngryGothamBee@reddit
Last episode of the liquid TV run reveals she's a clone
xaqaria@reddit
Because Trevor Goodchild was heavy into cloning, he made multiple clones if Aeon so he could continue to fight her but also keep a harem of Aeon clones that frequently escaped and took up her cause against him.
juggalojedi@reddit
... TIL
Humble_Plate_2733@reddit
I was 13-14 when I watched it and not knowing that the episodes were separate confused the hell out of me. Once I realized they didn’t really have multi-episode arcs I started to get it and I rewatched as much as I could to analyze and pick apart every scene.
big_ringer@reddit
Barely. But goddamn, did it look cool!
GravyPainter@reddit
Made me uncomfortable
edasto42@reddit
I loved the segments that were on Liquid Television, but not as much as when it became a series. The series tried to add too much of a storyline and dialogue that took away from the magic of those shorts. I appreciated the wordless, dreamlike, non linear storytelling that it had (I was also a pretentious arty high school/junior college kid when they came out). But it took away from it that it was exploring themes of control, identity, and memory through a backdrop of bio engineering and whether resistance will actually change anything.
RunnyDischarge@reddit
The short self contained episodes were the best and I never had a problem knowing what was going on
ItCameFromMe@reddit
The short showing hero after hero from each side doing dramatic things before being killed by the next hero is one of my favorite shorts
syntheseiser@reddit
I didn't, and I think that made it better.
darxide23@reddit
It didn't really have a continuity, so I'm gonna guess no. It was kind of like an erotic Spy vs Spy. That's how I heard it described once and I can't think of a better description.
anne10solo@reddit
Nope, but I remember watching it with my brother and thinking to myself, "maybe this isn't something we should be watching together."
ClockworkJim@reddit
It was all about vibes.
Vibes to match the artwork.
theluzah@reddit
dude, I fucking LOVED AF. Then Reign the Conqueror immediately following. My happy place.
Grilled0ctopus@reddit
Yeah, I watched it as a teen and it’s loosely explained (loosely because each episode was different and the regularly appearing main and support characters could possibly die in an episode), was that there was a futuristic society and warring factions or countries, and we are seeing various instances of espionage and conflicts between those play out. Sometimes it’s on a large scale, sometimes it smaller and situational. Sometimes it involves metaphysical happenings, sometimes it’s just a spy plot. Aeon is usually portrayed as a force for somewhat good and Trevor is portrayed as fascist, although sometimes with greater good intentions. Overall it’s supposed to be about those concepts set against the sci-fi setting that is that world, being illustrated in one-offs, rather than as an ongoing serial drama. I always loved it for its creepy themes and subject matter, and how the stakes were real each episode. Aeon could die or get stuck in some seriously unpleasant fate, or she could win the day and move on, or who knows what.
MyNameCannotBeSpoken@reddit
PestoPastaLover@reddit
I just thought it was me... also... why the fuck is everyone whispering all the time?
LordHammercyWeCooked@reddit
Vignette storytelling of a cyberpunk futurist apartheid hellscape featuring tales of espionage, war, extraordinary violence, nihilism and all manner of kink fetishes as people fight against their fascist leadership. At least 30% of the show is the showrunner asking "how far can I push this before the censors stop me?"
And the main character always dies. Are they canonically the same person? Are they clones? Doesn't matter. Every episode is treated like its own fully encapsulated story, as if they were all stories from parallel dimensions with the same set pieces and characters.
scaryclown148@reddit
Absolutely not
jayne-eerie@reddit
That poster has always freaked me out. It’s the idea of a fly right up in your eye like that.
I watched a little bit but it wasn’t for me.
UnrealizedLosses@reddit
That was the artistry of the show. You always felt like you were missing something…
Responsible-Tap-3748@reddit
Wow, I'm just watching the first short and the music is atrocious. Everything else is so on point.
Responsible-Tap-3748@reddit
Okay, it got a little better. But goddamn, that first scene, with the horns? Yikes.
deathcabscutie@reddit
No clue, but I was seated for every single episode of Liquid Television
Rags2Rickius@reddit
Not a fkn thing
But skimpy clothes chick combined w violence?
Teenage brain went brrrrrr
neuralzen@reddit
In addition to the East/West Berlin spy inspiration, one of the main themes was Aeon remaining true to herself, regardless of what was a better choice. This often lead to her demise.
MithranArkanere@reddit
I stopped processing when someone hurt their hand-feet on the aggressively anti-homeless grass.
lamancha@reddit
It depends. The original series was mostly surreal scenarios with little connection (I mean she died in every episode). There was an assumed war ongoing between two countries and you see Aeon try and fail miserably to have an effect on it.
The final season wasn't really that confusing. It was about Aeon who was a spy for a libertarian country part time dominatrix who was trying to sabotage Trevor's reign in another country under a oppressive, 1984 like regime. They also wanted to get into each other pants, but relationships in the work place never work.
In the meantime they meet angels, giant babies that cause hallucinations when they scream, can walk into bodies by vibrating at a certain frequency and some guy licks Aeon's feet in one episode. You know, German expressionism at its finest.
gachamyte@reddit
When you mix philosophy student and animation student you can get Aeon Flux.
pearmaster@reddit
Æon Flux was the first movie I watched that I considered to be a waste of time.
DevilGuy@reddit
Depends on which bit you're talking about, the early shorts are pretty self explanatory as well as being self contained, the later episodes were more narrative and easier to understand. Understanding the shorts required a level of media literacy and awareness but not really an uncommon one at the time. They were mostly cold war allegories mixed with absurdist and ironic humor. A lot of the confusion comes from assuming there's some deeper philosophical point to them, there isn't it's just social commentary with a very extreme aesthetic that has more to do with Peter Chung being a freak than anything else.
BurantX40@reddit
Nope (when I was a kid at least).
Didn't help that she died every episode. Too young for that kind of existentialism
USAF_Retired2017@reddit
No, but I was awake and had to watch something.
eggs_erroneous@reddit
not even a little. I just kinda assumed it was the artists' way of showcasing their cool animation and shit. IDK. I never did see all of them in order though, but I doubt it would have mattered.
accountforcatsonly@reddit
I was obsessed with this show when I was 16
milky_nem@reddit
I didn’t understand Aeon Flux or The Maxx
milky_nem@reddit
No
DrMonkeyLove@reddit
No, but it was fucking wild just the same.
Tripindipular@reddit
I loved this show so much. I’d end up watching when I had insomnia as a young teenager. Got hooked and eventually bought the dvd box set. I think I understood what was going on. She was a double agent who did what best benefitted her. Trevor was infatuated with her, but also so mad he couldn’t control her. It was awesome.
BodhingJay@reddit
I didnt get how she kept coming back after dying every episode
cellshock7@reddit
It kinda didn't matter what was going on, it had edgy ideas wrapped in a unique animation style for a day and time before the internet and western pop culture's exposure to anime.
carneviva@reddit
No but to an 11 almost 12 year old me it was hot.
Camulius73@reddit
I loved the episode where she cloned herself, fell in love with her arch nemesis, then had her clone kill her to fuck over said nemesis. We were high as balls and were all blown away.
Realistic-Western242@reddit
First cartoon I had a crush on..
electriclux@reddit
I have never understood anything that happened in this
molach_83@reddit
I loved “the oddities” that came on before this on liquid television
wmnoe@reddit
i have it in dvd. its pretty straightforward once youve seen it enough times
Ap-snack@reddit
I was like 10 and fucking mad they played this on Adult Swim instead of my shows.
zumiezumez@reddit
Love this series. Always have and always will.
SlackerDS5@reddit
My otaku brain understood it. But really, did you need to really understand it to enjoy it? No.
primerush@reddit
Nope, but my twelve year libido didn't need to, either.
Lord_Puppy1445@reddit
No. But thats kind of the point.
bargle0@reddit
Does it matter if we understood it or not?
Kweller3117@reddit
Nah. It didn’t matter.
Mysterious_Ayytee@reddit
I didn't care because I was busy masturbating. No joke, Aeon Flux is still my dream wife.
victor4700@reddit
That licking ears and teeth of your partner is fucking hot
artbystorms@reddit
Aeons were fluxing obviously.
NonCaringPolarBear@reddit
I usually watched it with the sound off to hear if anyone was coming.
shutyourbutt69@reddit
The point was that it was all vibes and there wasn’t really a story. They had to basically make one up from scratch when they did the live action movie.
TaleFormal6362@reddit
I have an old DVD of liquid television i picked up at a garage sale years ago with this show and others on it. This particular show intrigued me for some reason.
karaloveskate@reddit
Nope not a clue.
MilkSlow6880@reddit
No. But each episode, I held hope that I might.
BeneficialTrash6@reddit
"Dear ChatGPT, can you please summarize the plot of Aeon Flux for me?"
"Fuck no."
guyako@reddit
I rewatched the whole series last year. First time I ever actually saw the episodes in order.
It’s weird, but interesting, and contained some themes about authoritarianism, the brutality of the state, and the corruption of power, but also how the lines are often blurred: Aeon was one of Trevor’s biggest opponents, but they were also fucking.
guiltyas-sin@reddit
Peter Chung! I loved Aeon Flux!
stevebobeeve@reddit
I didn’t at the time, but that’s mostly because I was like 12. A big help for me actually was the commentary from Peter Chung and the producer on the DVD set. It was really interesting having Peter discuss the meaning and themes he was trying to explore and talk about the ideas he had originally for the episodes that were actually way more obtuse than what finally got made and I think a lot of that is owed to the great producer they had who was able to reign Peter Chung in just enough while still giving him room to express his vision.
But yeah, when he explains it, it’s actually a lot more straight forward than it seems on the first watch
Total-Jerk@reddit
I did. A lot of information in the herodotus files, prequel comic and commentary tracks.
Peter chung is also active on Instagram and answers questions.
TheVenetianMask@reddit
It's just Ghost in the Shell + Space Dandy. The answer was probably pyonium.
Sewerpudding@reddit
Ive had “cold meat, mutton pies, tell me when your mother dies, ill be there to bury her” stuck in my head for 30 years.
Own-Economy6208@reddit
No
peloquindmidian@reddit
I did not, but I remember being made to feel very stupid for this fact by several people.
Looking back, maybe I didn't understand it because I was always out doing stuff at that time and rarely saw it.
Now, I see that those original people just sucked, like I thought back then.
Large-Ad7436@reddit
Ad a kid watching Liquid TV, it was the only show that made me worried my mom was gonna come it.
elektrik_noise@reddit
Omg loved Aeon Flux, and Reign the Conquerer was wildly weird as well. I'd love to have a 5 min chat with Peter Chung so I could figure out what's up with him lol
martin-silenus@reddit
Be also did a story for The Animatrix that is almost comprehendible.
cptsears@reddit
Where they all die after trying to teach a machine human values. One of the few redeeming ideas of Matrix 4 was that some machines joined humanity, and I like to think it was connected to that short.
MeowKat85@reddit
No. But I watched it every time I had the chance. I hungered for the oddity.
Historical_Rub_5500@reddit
yes you
cyberdude419@reddit
Fucking bad ass is what I understood
JustSkimmin@reddit
I had a gnat fly into my eye just a few days ago, and it unlocked a memory of this exact picture that I probably haven't even remembered I knew for over 20 years. I didn't bother to look it up at the time, but this completes that little trip for me. Thanks!
I_aim_to_sneeze@reddit
The movie had a more coherent plot that did explain a decent amount, mainly the fact that they’re all clones, which is why aeon dies so often and it doesn’t affect anything.
Whether you want to consider the movie canon is up to you
Cassandrae_Gemini@reddit
No.
But I loved it anyway.
RooIsHome@reddit
My view was that she was infiltrating some facility where people were bad guys, and she was the good guy. And every once in a few episodes, we'd see her kill that one dude... and it was so freaking cool.
Greenglass214@reddit
Some kinda reds vs. the blues?? Like one government disliking the other?? Spies and whatnot?? 🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
Eephusblue@reddit
Nope but it was hella cool looking on Liquid Television and equally disturbing
lukasbradley@reddit
Yes. The Maxx? Less so. Loved them both.
arcadia_fire@reddit
French Kissing spies and acrobatics.
citrus_sugar@reddit
Watched and loved it but didn’t know what was going on until the Charlize Theron flop that was still super hot.
CensoredbytheGOP@reddit
I think aeons are fluxing. Idk haven't seen it.
FoppyRETURNS@reddit
FBISurveillanceAcct@reddit
No
imjusta_bill@reddit
No
DengarLives66@reddit
No.
Cardiff-Giant11@reddit
Yes..i mean no
Worldly-Fishing-880@reddit
A+ reference
ixnine@reddit
Well, we hit a little snag when the universe sort of collapsed in on itself. But Dad seemed cautiously optimistic!
rl9899@reddit
Craaaaaaaappp!
buppiejc@reddit
Things that we should not have been watching as kids. 😄
riomx@reddit
I watched it late at night when my parents would leave me home alone while they went clubbing. I remember being unbelievably confused, yet intrigued. I feel like it heightened my awareness of sexuality and kink even before I fully understood it.
Also, I'll never be able the scene where the woman kept sucking on a guy's nipple when he was tied up is forever burnt into my mind.
Pale_Leek2994@reddit
HeckTheCat@reddit
Kinda sorta in a bleak dystopian kind of way. The episode Thanatophobia (the one with the couple trying to escape through the gap in the wall) has haunted me since i first saw it, when i was like, 7.
sejenx@reddit
Nope. But I was cool as hell for watching it 😎
I also liked The Head
Casterly_Tarth@reddit
A+ reference for mentioning "The Head" in the wild! Loved this show and Aeon Flux, I binged both of them back in the day. I'd love to rewatch The Head, it was a really compelling story.
Punk_Luv@reddit
It had a weird art style that I had never seen before and I liked it
foxhagen@reddit
Not at all but I loved it.
Boomer70770@reddit
NoLobster7957@reddit
The movie was dope but similarly had no idea what was going on, aside from really cool visuals and people with hand feet
hatfarm@reddit
I enjoyed it, but I had no fucking clue what was going on.
GM_Jedi7@reddit
No but the animation and art style was incredible and was worth watching just for that. It was kinda like our generations Heavy Metal and Bakshi stuff. So good!
GO_rillaLogic@reddit
Lots of making out with tongues.
TAGSlays@reddit
I am pretty sure copious amounts of drugs by the writers. And I was there for it.
Vargrstrike@reddit
Did not care cuz very pretty to look at. I'm a simple person.
CountDoppelbock@reddit
not really, but the mystery was a big part of the hook.
creator peter chung is a smart guy and relatively active on instagram, mostly providing analysis of visual storytelling (of which he is obvs well-versed).
Addamall@reddit
A “make it up as we go” type of movie.
6ynnad@reddit
Nope. The strange time baby reality warp episode stuck with me for years. This needs a re-watch and so does does “The Maxx” they got it damn near perfect in the art direction compared to the comic.
Comfortable_Horse277@reddit
I rewatch it every now and then on DVD and I'm still not totally sure.
palvaran@reddit
I loved this show and the best episode had the Neo Tokyo race where the racer drives his car so hard on the track he becomes a ghost.
scottnebula@reddit
No but I freaking loved it!
TheBr0fessor@reddit
Bruh. This show and Dead At 21 had me in a stranglehold
Runningwithbeards@reddit
Aeon Flux didn’t understand what was going on in Aeon Flux.
Emannuelle-in-space@reddit
Barely. Even when I re-watched in college, I couldn’t really figure out what was going on. Except for that scene where he gives the woman an orgasm by manipulating her spinal cords.
trash-juice@reddit
I wasn’t there to understand it, only to experience it and that I did
Also the animators follow-up “Reign” … visually administered psychedelics
tiddayes@reddit
there was a movie made about it, and it somewhat even explains the multiple deaths.
thelanai@reddit
Nope
GuitarNerd_@reddit
I loved it without ever totally understanding it. Each episode felt like we were being dropped into a random moment within an overall larger ongoing storyline. It wasn’t in chronological order at all, but it didn’t need to be. Viewers are far better now at putting together an overarching narrative by only seeing short clips than we were in the 90s.
Luxpara4@reddit
Supposedly the people that created this were never sure if they were going to play another episode, so they basically killed her off in every one.
pressedbread@reddit
The live action movie explains it all very simply and clearly. But the show is just the entire concept playing out without being explained. Its brilliant.
Prestigious_Ad6247@reddit
They were the middle parts of cool stories. We never got to see the beginning or the real ending. My theory
howrunowgoodnyou@reddit
Nope. It had boobs tho
tobi319@reddit
I just watched for the sex.
Dragon_Emulsified@reddit
Drugs? Lots of drugs in the writers room?
Ecthelion-O-Fountain@reddit
Really skinny people killing and tongue kissing
CautiousBag1424@reddit
In the Liquid TV shorts, it was definitely like 95% style, 5% story. In works like this, style is the substance.
As for the show, I think they did a disservice to the shorts by trying to create a throughline by serializing an overarching narrative. I don't think there's much depth to the show's writing. It's a relatively low-budget cartoon, after all. It's sophomoric. A little more art-talk nonsense than good writing. I don't know what to think about the show. I kind of just wish there were more shorts.
Harkonnen_Dog@reddit
Yeah.
Guttermitts@reddit
Na. It was so rad though.
Ricobrew@reddit
The same creator and animator of Aeon Flux animated Reign: The Conqueror. I liked that better than Aeon Flux. The story was easier to follow.
AntiqueCandidate7995@reddit
Aeon Flux was way too intellectually presumptive in how it was wirtten, produced, edited, and aired. The stories are interspersed throughout different time periods in the same universebut aren't interconnected much outside of that. The stories are all allegorical lessons about philosophical and sociological themes from acros the academic spectrum of those disciplines. The artistic style was edgy, the characters hypersexualized, the violence over the top, but the themes were all about basic concepts.
There's a long thread in here about a particularly distrubing episode where a girl is dismembered by robots while trying to cross the border and leave her city. And the lead up to that is a story about a resident of the same city who works in the factory that builds the robots that dismembered her. But his job is just mindless lever pulling, it's never clear that he actually knows what he's building, but he's building the literal cage that he's also trapped in but so lost in the apathy of day to day life that he's unaware. Or is he? That's the kind of mind fuck that's in every episode.
Lesbian_Skeletons@reddit
You mostly got it right, except the machines only remove her legs, and she's the resident. She built the machines that cut her legs off when trying to escape.
AntiqueCandidate7995@reddit
Yeah some fuzziness in the memories may occur lol. I loved Liquid Television in general but Aeon Flux I never missed.
JBean85@reddit
No. Same with The Egg and any of those other shows. But I was like 9 and it was super weird so I just enjoyed the ride
avindictiveprinter@reddit
That's one of the shows my brother would watch with me and then give me a look, like I was the one who made this weird show about espionage.
jaw4ever@reddit
Not one god damn thing.
HeightExtra320@reddit
I think it gave me my first boner 🤷♂️
TemperatureTime1617@reddit
I’ll never forget the episode where a couple try to escape through a blind spot in the security system. The man succeeds but the woman is captured. We see her in prison and slaving away in the prison factory making “widgets”. After a while she escapes and tries to make it through the same blind spot. Only this time there’s a laser security system that slices her to pieces. The system is built using the “widgets” she made in prison.
skalix@reddit
It was pure art
Outrageous_Picture39@reddit
The live-action movie might be the worst movie I’ve ever seen. And it wasn’t even “so-bad-it’s-good” territory.
I stuck it out for about fifty minutes thinking it would finally get better, but I finally shut it off.
johntwilker@reddit
Not even a little.
Velvet_Samurai@reddit
I understood the Charlize Theron movie. The show not even a little bit.
More-read-than-eddit@reddit
I loved it but no. Didn't help that I presumably watched them extremely out of order even if a coherent story existed.
4EVERINDARKNESS@reddit
Not a clue.
toomanyusesforaname@reddit
Nope. I always thought that there must have been episodes that explained the plot, but I just missed them. Looking back, I'm pretty sure there were no such episodes and I saw everything, but it made no sense.
Dmbeeson85@reddit
Every episode she died... I think there were comics, not sure
pyrowipe@reddit
Definitely not when it aired. Even watching it in order its hard to follow and confusing, but having recently watched it... I decided its more about a series of shorts set in the same environment with same characters, dealing with totalitarian tech overlords in a dystopian future. Illustrating the complexity of human emotions and the dangers of technology and unbridled power.
Cuts4th@reddit
Sometimes I think I kind of understood what was happening. All I know for sure is that it was cool.
_shaftpunk@reddit
Yeah, boys cries wolf, has a few laughs…I forget how it ends.
maringue@reddit
Was anyone not stoned enough while watching that to even keep up with the plot?
dirtydragondan@reddit
hey all
I loved this show - big part of teen life and getting me into quirky animation.
and i see the common love and nostalgia for it, and mentions of various versions to find online/youtube
I have uploaded good quality of all liquid TV and all Aeon flux episodes, it also has a couple of extras, and aeon flux has commentary audio track also.
Its been put just now into an upload site, and you can grab a copy and download it from the link - it will be up for 2 weeks maximum.
Each full show list is in a zip file, about 7Gb each
https://gofile.io/d/LotUmn
Happy to share with other fans, for stuff that is really hard to find and not in circulation anymore
If ppl really wanted The Head and the Maxx , I also have those :) Can tee something up. The link is active but files currently uploading, will be ready within 40min of this being posted
blessthefreaks1980@reddit
But how many of you recall Idiot Box with Alex Winter?
anxiousnl@reddit
Ready for the action now danger boy. Can't believe they made a live action movie
Minute-Yogurt-2021@reddit
Were we supposed to understand it?
brianthebuilder@reddit
It made French kissing seem kind of gross.
AeonFluxIncapacitaor@reddit
If you have to ask ... You didn't watch the boxed set special features.
I bugged Mark Mars on Facebook and gushed about how much I loved the series. He was fun to talk to and appreciated my geekin' out on him.
Peter Chung's artwork was so uniquely his own, blew my little mind sideways. I think I was the only person I knew who tried to give a shit about Phantom 2040, because he was doing the art.
Symbol_Eyes@reddit
The original shorts made little sense and were just to be cool. The show, I never got into because it was super lore involved and I never gave it the time. I liked the feeling on the shorts more than the series. Show was wordy, shorts were visual storytelling
Lawnlady1980@reddit
My husband did. Ask me how I know. Lol
OneRub3234@reddit
I was far too young to understand what was going on but the animation was cool and I had a huge crush on her
TheDancingRobot@reddit
It's been 30+ years and I'm glad someone finally asked this.
ShrewSkellyton@reddit
I thought everyone else did
digitalgraffiti-ca@reddit
The film, yes. Never watched the animated series
Useful_Tomato_409@reddit
This show twisted my child mind in so many ways.
American_Greed@reddit
Which service has the show now?
Level_Physics8620@reddit
Not a fucking moment of it. I sure tried though.
usernames_suck_ok@reddit
I still don't even get the name.
Corben11@reddit
Flux = continuous change, instability, or a state of constant movement
Aeon = Eon = an immeasurably long, indefinite period of time or the largest division of geologic time
Its 2 warring countries that span centuries and theyre cloned along that time. The ending epsiode pretty sure the evolved humans (aliens) that came to goodchild was aeon from the future.
Fillmore80@reddit
It was the female spy's name.
eishethel@reddit
Its stories about Aeon flux and trevor goodchild, who aeon is in love with, and wishes to kill. possibly at the same time.
It doesn't need to make sense, and has a narrator sometimes! I'm not entirely sure you were supposed to be sober watching it either.
DjCyric@reddit
Kinda, loosely, a bit. It was a lot for my young mind to understand.
bascule@reddit
I knew what was going on, but I was probably one of the only people who read the Herodatus File which helps fill in a lot of the gaps the show itself doesn’t explain.
But the core idea isn’t hard to grasp: anarchy (Monicans, Aeon) vs fascism (Bregna, Trevor).
GargantuanCake@reddit
Aeon Flux represented a more anarchistic view of humanity. Trevor Goodchild was more authoritarian. One was no rules; one was strict rules that governed. Both sides were pushing for an extreme that actually doesn't work while finding out that human life fundamentally exists in the middle. This is why there is sexual tension between the two and why they can't separate from each other. She hated order and wanted to tear it down but was ultimately never able to as she was too chaotic. He had a pathological need to control everything around him but couldn't ever control her. She was one of the few things that was always permanently outside of his control. Meanwhile while the world was dystopian life was at least tolerable for most people living in the orderly areas.
However a lot of just like...everything was made ambiguous. Aeon Flux was a lone assassin thinking she could topple the entire order by herself. Trever Goodchild was an autocrat that thought he could perfectly structure the world by himself. They were both incorrect.
trifecta000@reddit
The show seemed purely to showcase it's visuals, rather than to tell a compelling story. Or at least that's how I interpreted it at the time, The Maxx and the Head were more my thing from Liquid TV.
Less_Likely@reddit
No. But I do know I had never seen it before, then caught a late night marathon in Fall 1998 while on the back end of a trip, and it made a lot of sense to me that night.
singleguy79@reddit
I mean did any of us really watch it for the plot?
TrailerParkFrench@reddit
No but every frame was beautiful.
Biddy_Impeccadillo@reddit
Wasn’t there a sexy one where they switched eyeballs? I loved this show
SeaChallenge4843@reddit
How you heard the Rugrats Theory?
2nd2lastdragon@reddit
kinky spy/assassin/operative in a futuristic dystopian cyber-bio-punk world
HighSeasArchivist@reddit
I always felt like it was a joke that I wasn't part of, and everyone just pretended to like and/or understand it.
Clergy-Viper@reddit
You weren’t really supposed to… I mean, if at the end of the episode you were asking yourself ‘wtf?!’ You pretty much got what it was about.
Fun-Preparation-4253@reddit
Considering each episode felt like it was giving me 5 minutes of possible story and I never saw them in order.... I had no idea what was happening.
PlagueDrWily@reddit
No idea; I did watch it but I only the remember the eyelash flycatcher in the intro. The Maxx was also confusing as hell, at least both were beautifully animated.
Brock_Savage@reddit
No one does.
sbernardjr@reddit
I liked the first (?) Liquid TV season where she died at the end of every segment.
CosmicMamaBear@reddit
I watched it for the animation and audio while making out. Have no clue what it is about.
StaunchVictorianTV@reddit
Æon Flux didn’t even understand what was going on in Æon Flux.
Megadum@reddit
Not once
Food_Library333@reddit
I had no clue what the hell was happening but was glued to my screen anyway.
Phyzzx@reddit
I mean I thought I did
https://i.redd.it/phlz68xmzdug1.gif
ThePuduInsideYou@reddit
No idea but I dug it and didn’t even understand why I dig it. Still is there in the back of my mind.
bactchan@reddit
The main thing I remember from that show was the episode where she broke into the closed bioengineered ecosystem lab and her presence disrupts the established order of things and leads ultimately to a disaster domino sequence involving an alien kid going hungry because she ate his portion of shrimp from a family order, a lizard that died trying to lay an egg, and some weird chemical interactions that I think caused everything to dissolve like acid? The third act got away from me, it was hella late.
LastEconPoet@reddit
I got the dvd full series. With the extras, it makes it much more understandable. Clones, dystopian future, all that. And one of the best adult cartoons ever.
Expensive_Banana3002@reddit
Not at all. It was just the hornee teenager that kept me watching.
Islandcrafter@reddit
I definitely did not.....
WingmanZer0@reddit
My buddy (mixed race: black and white) and I were watching the movie with Charlize Theron back in the day, and there's a black character with like...monkey feet? My dude was pissed "fuck this racist ass movie" 😂
HilariousButTrue@reddit
We weren't ever meant to understand what was going on in that show. Every episode started in the middle of a ploy with a loose focus and animation with cool characters was more important for a 15 minute short.
ChickenArise@reddit
It's an across-the-border-wall love/hate story. I even like the movie and I maintain that it ties everything together.
PuzzleheadedMud6028@reddit
No but it was nice to look at.
autochthonous@reddit
Spy shit.
Agreeable_Peak_6100@reddit
Most of us just appreciated her ridiculous proportions.
AlwaysTheIntrovert@reddit
I had no fucking clue, and I loved it.
fizztothegig@reddit
Surely Trevor putting ear wax on a cracker and eating it meant something…
bactchan@reddit
Genetically engineered superhumans probably made it taste like brie or something. Fucking weird tech in that show.
PenBeautiful@reddit
This is literally the only scene I remember from the series.
gonzagylot00@reddit
I was a kid when that show was on, and I just remember thinking it was cool and not getting it.
ExtraDistressrial@reddit
Never. But it didn’t matter. It was so cool to me at the time that I was enthralled. Felt like it was beamed to us from the future.
DestroyerTame@reddit
No
Nacho_Sideboob@reddit
Not one gat dam thing
PoisonMind@reddit
First season, she's infiltrating a military base. She fails and dies at the end. Second season onward has no continuity at all.
Diligent_Entropy@reddit
I understood what was going on in my pants.
DerbGentler@reddit
I have a theory, please tell me what you think: The whole scenario is located in cyberspace, and Æon Flux and Trevor Goodchild are lovers who repeatedly play-out their kinks in this world. – This would explain the many deaths and different outcomes of basically the same situation.
2099AD@reddit
Star-crossed lovers that can never be, from warring countries, involved in espionage.
And continuity resets in every episode.
BrittaUnfiltered67@reddit
It was kind of like Road Runner and Coyote.
philouza_stein@reddit
Nope but anything on LQTV was badass and I was watching
BlackestHerring@reddit
No. Not at all. But I loved it
Aeon_acid-re_Flux@reddit
The entire series was a collection of various dopamine and adrenaline triggers. Peak 90s.
Shoulda_Ben_Aborted@reddit
Too busy with my confused erection
Anynamehere14@reddit
Yes… and let’s not forget “the maxx”
peregrine-l@reddit
No but I loved the love/hate relationship between Aeon Flux et Trevor Goodchild and the Gnostic references.
ParticularBed6338@reddit
I understood that it made me like anime in a sort of pubescent way.
lvsnowden@reddit
I watched the movie and still don't understand.
DuckTalesOohOoh@reddit
The movie was a great vibe. Didn't really understand it. My mom had surgery and was in the hospital with serious painkillers and it was on her television in the room. She still talks about "that movie at the hospital" to this day.
black_flag_4ever@reddit
Nope.
MacellumMycelium@reddit
I'm fairly sure no one including the makes have clue one.
blazedgeek@reddit
No clue what the show was about at the time while watching on liquid television but 100 percent know this is the source of most if not all of my fetishes.
austinmadethis@reddit
They would play the same episode over and over and over again
GreedyComedian1377@reddit
Nope
bassman314@reddit
Attractive woman in leather doing badass things. Is that not enough for you?
DuckTalesOohOoh@reddit
Drawn women?
_Im_at_work@reddit
No idea but it was the first time that I was scared and aroused.
Fillmore80@reddit
Scarousal
floodums@reddit
Yes, it's generally very easy to follow over you understand the premise.
TheDarkNightwing@reddit
I could never tell if it was the same episode or not.
RevolutionaryEgg1312@reddit
I watched it on acid a bunch... Still not sure what was going on but I liked it!
Aestryx47@reddit
Nobody understood Aeon Flux. We all just nodded along pretending to get it because the girl had cool hair and killed people with her ankles. Watched it again last year. Still don't get it. Something about a wall and a guy who's maybe a fly? I don't know. But those thumb creatures live in my head rent free.
Acceptable_Class_576@reddit
No, but it looked good.
Clear_Tangerine5110@reddit
It had no point. So much so that when the movie came out you could tell they had to make up a point.
Thenadamgoes@reddit
I watched this again a few years ago and I think I understood it better than when I was kid.
I think.
Spectre_08@reddit
#ÆURA FLEX
Fair_Blood3176@reddit
I couldn't get past the creepy eye dealio in the intro, ever.
that1tech@reddit
I understand it got kids curious of fetish wear
Hntrbdnshog@reddit
I think the movie did more to explain it but I’m not sure if they retconned it. I always assumed it was based on comics that I hadn’t read because my parents didn’t but them for me.
Ultimatesims@reddit
Spy vs. spy on acid. A sci-fi parody of the cold war with cyberpunk elements and surrealism.
Or just I thought it looked cool so I went for it art.
poop-money@reddit
No. But I preferred the shorts from Liquid Television anyway.
charcarod0n@reddit
No but I still trying catch flys with my eyelashes.
Mangos_in_Tahiti@reddit
Every episode was a fever dream.
TaskmasterOfPuppets@reddit
Yes
SkarlyComics@reddit
Didn’t. Still don’t, but I didn’t, too.
CaptianBrasiliano@reddit
For me it was that shows that was on before or after other shows that I liked and then it would come on...
Not_So_Bad_Andy@reddit
No, nobody ever did. Though maybe people on psychedelics could
LacklusteHero@reddit
I'm a full-on stoner now and have since revisited this series. I'm just as lost now.
Dicky_Penisburg@reddit
No, but I was hitting puberty when it was on, so I watched it.
Odd-Device-1348@reddit
Never really understood what it was or why it was happening, just glad anytime I was able to catch it. It was my favorite part of Liquid Television.
Roobix9@reddit
Nope. But it was interesting
RuncibleFoon@reddit
Just picked up the series in the Walmart $5 bin; I'm both stoked and disappointed.
Narfubel@reddit
Nope but it was fun as hell to watch
Aught_To@reddit
Hot chick, it not much of an outfit, sci-fi, spy shit, danger.. no idea really
Somegirls85@reddit
Nah but it was cool as hell 😅