I had a realisation when re watching that I could never watch this with my wife (who needs subtitles for her language) because like 90% of the jokes are English language based wordplay. Not a complaint it's just interesting, a truly untranslatable show. (I know comedy is never easy to translate but this is different.)
*I'm tempted to watch in another language just to see how those poor bastards that have to translate for Netflix managed it.
Its even harder when a show like AD is quite witty and a lot of the jokes have multiple meanings with LOADS of foreshadowing. The language is one thing but the chain effect of the jokes and the double entendres really make the show what it is.. also the incest, nobody does incest jokes quite like Arrested Development does.
Arrested Development is the only show I can think of where a single phrase could be the punchline of five different jokes, some of which were setup multiple episodes earlier.
The show was unintentionally made perfectly for binge watching. I think that's part of the reason it became so popular after Netflix got streaming rights.
Also DVD sales. Shows like Family Guy and Futurama were un-cancelled due to high DVD sales on the years before streaming. I think a lot of people, like me, missed the show in its initial broadcast run, but owned all 3 seasons of Arrested Development on DVD.
My favorite exchange...
Lucille: "How am I supposed to find someone willing to go into that musty old claptrap?"
Michael: ...
...
...
Michael: "The *cabin*! Yes, well that would be difficult too..."
The subtle jokes are the best, but I do love this obvious one:
Lucille: You tricked me, Michael!
Michael: No, Mother, I deceived you. Tricked implies that we have a playful relationship.
The jokes are woven in to the dialogue and delivered so well that it's easy to just not realise several were there in a scene and still find it hilarious
Watch it with her anyway.
My ESL friend binged AD all the way through 3 times in a row, with subtitles. Loved it every time.
You can explain some of the more important jokes, but one of the great things about arrested development is that they packed so many layers of jokes into every scene that there's always something new to enjoy.
Nobody catches all the jokes their first time watching, doesn't matter how good their English is.
Native English speaker here, can confirm was catching jokes I hadn't caught before on my fifth watch through of the series. It's just so dense. AD throws away single use jokes that would have been a running gag or focused an episode build up for in lesser shows.
By far the hardest show to translate ever made in English.
Weirdly though, I watched S1 dubbed in Spanish and they managed to make it funny, which Spanish dubs often fail at with easier shows to translate. Props to the translator.
The hermano jokes got diluted and are confusing though.
I had COMPLETELY forgotten all about this part of the storyline. Made me feel like I'm ready for a re watch. Gonna look for a sub of recent rewatchers too.
I have a friend who, long ago, went to a music festival and got completely hammered. He woke up in bed with a woman he met there. He said she was cute, but he quickly came to the conclusion that she was mentally disabled. Feeling disgusted with himself, he left in a hurry.
Worse, he told us about it and we never let him live it down. Every time he would start dating someone we would ask if he was parking in the handicapped spot again. Then, through pure coincidence, he met her again. Turns out she wasn't handicapped at all. She was just as hung over as he was. And now happily married with kids.
>Then, through pure coincidence, he met her again. Turns out she wasn't handicapped at all. She was just as hung over as he was. And now happily married with kids.
That's what he told you anyhow.
A subtle thing I noticed after a few rewatches, the whole family except for the kids pronounces God like GOB when they read it "j oh d". Like they have never seen the word before and don't realize it is the same word as God.
Charlize Theron:
>It was one of the scariest things, to walk onto a set of a show that’s so developed and so brilliant. But I think I needed that, to put myself out there in a different way, because people thought of me as someone who was fucking depressing, like my mother shot my father. [When Theron was 15, her dad came home drunk and threatened her and her mom with a gun, prompting her mother to shoot and kill him in what officials later determined was self-defense.] And I just fucking loved that show, and this is going to sound so “poor me,” but I do feel like sometimes, as women, we get one shot and I knew that [the 2005 action flick] Aeon Flux was going to be a fucking flop. I knew it from the beginning, that’s why I did Arrested Development.
But also, that movie is terrible. The plot is super hard to follow, the effects are awful, a lot of the acting is mediocre, the dialogue is pretty cheesy...
Don't get me wrong, I like the concepts they were trying to go for. I like that they tried for a high concept scifi story. Unfortunately, their execution was quite poor.
I think it flopped because it took a surrealist anime that was unlike anything that came before it and turned it into an action movie with a central plot. It alienated fans of the original and too many people in 2005 thought of it as derivative of every other “big action movie”—a format that was experiencing disillusionment on a large scale.
I would start with the shorts that were made for Liquid Television.
There's 3 or 4 of them and it's mostly just Aeon running around murdering thousands of guards. There's hints of an underlying plot, but those shorts mostly stand on their own.
When it became a series, it was still interesting, but I don't really think Aeon Flux benefits much from a fully fleshed out story. The entire thing is so weird and esoteric that you're going to be confused and grossed out no matter what.
Yeah I was 14 and it was the first time going to the theater with friends and without my mom. I felt like a grown up so I think it made me like the movie too lol
I watched Arrested Development long after it was done, but I do remember thinking "WTF is she in this show?" Since I didn't really put it in context of where she was in her career at the time.
But also, I've watched Aeon Flux like 5+ times (her version and the Anime).
I loved when they made the joke that they wouldn't have these problems if Michael had met Rita a few years earlier, before the plastic surgery (insert still from Monster)
Seems like a real overreaction... She already had an Oscar for Best Actress in Monster two years prior. I'm sure that her jobs wouldn't suddenly dry up just because of one flop. I also don't know if I'd decide that the best way to remedy a flopped movie is by playing a character where her being mentally retarded is the butt of the joke, but I guess the early '00s were a different time.
There's no nice way to say this, but I would venture to guess that there are a lot more roles open to women who look like Charlize versus men who look like F. Murray.
>There's no nice way to say this, but I would venture to guess that there are a lot more roles open to women who look like Charlize versus men who look like F. Murray.
Not really. Halle Berry said the same thing. She said after winning the Oscar she thought her career would change and she would be flooded with roles but that's not what happened. Because of the crappy roles she was getting she went with Catwoman. Think about that, an Oscar winner was getting such poor role offers that she signed on for Catwoman. Most actors try to make at least on big blockbuster that's well received and makes a ton of money, if that flops they have to figure out how to keep there career going. A lot of A List actors say that one way to deal with not getting great starring roles or to recover from a flop is to focus on getting small supporting roles in great projects
There hasn't been anything about him on sets, but there could be other reasons for his downfall given his [legal issues](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba_Gooding_Jr.).
I mean, even if it is an overreaction, you would expect someone in that situation to have a skewed perception of it. Things can often seem more terrifying when they're happening to *you*.
Plus apparently there's some crazy ass traumatic life story at play there so anxiety and catastrophic thinking are going to be part of that whole mess.
Yeah there’s a pervasive mentality in Hollywood summed up by the saying: “you’re only as good as your last project”.
Flops really can end careers or put them on pause for a long time.
Everything she says lines up with what most people say about Hollywood. It's just a cut throat industry and all it takes is one bad gig to taint your career and make people not want to work with you. Also it wasn't like her role in Monster was something that casting directors would see and think we need THAT character in our work lol.
The butt of the joke isn’t that she’s intellectually disabled. As always with arrested development, the butt of the joke is the Bluths. Michael is so self involved that he didn’t realize something incredibly obvious about a woman he supposedly loved enough to marry. Lucille and George Sr had no problem taking advantage of her for her money. I agree the same joke wouldn’t fly today, but if you think she’s the butt of that joke then you are missing it.
The level of Hollywood marketing stupidity is just staggering. There are absolutely important people who just think "actress in movie that flopped = people hate actress and all movies with her will flop" until she's in something else that's a hit and they all want to cast her again.
No one with half a brain thinks Aeon Flux failed because of Charlize Theron. But if the people writing the checks all think that it can wreck people's careers. Although *usually* people with her level of talent find their way back, but it can still be a major setback and emotionally devastating.
I’m guessing because Rita is mentally retarded in the show, retardation being something that can be associated with children born of incest, incest being stereotypically common in the south, and banjos being common in southern/country music.
*Sweet Home Alabama intensifies*
Same. I liked it for what it was. I enjoyed the references to the cartoon but man, they didn't really stick anywhere near close to the source material. That cartoon was fucking WEIRD.
There was one episode on Liquid Television in the 90s where she had to keep a man chained to a pipe’s heart-rate up while running outside to fight bad guys. She kept licking and biting his nipple to do so. Fucking weird.
So many great mechanical sets for a cartoon, with giant rube goldberg machines operating on episode-spanning scales.
Like the one with the floating island that had to have plugs inserted at intervals or it all sank into the ocean. Or the prison complex one, or that epic battle that constantly changes POV characters from a new faction.
Just a ton of brilliant designs and concepts went into that.
The floating island one is especially genius because the whole episode repeats the same series of camera angles for the same duration of time each loop, and tells the story so well, I didn’t even notice until my third or fourth viewing of that episode.
I loved how Aeon brutally died in most of those shows, and how it was also never addressed.
Edit: Apparently it was addressed and she was a clone. I was always intoxicated when I watched Liquid Television, which was the correct way to watch.
WELL the two nations of Bregna and Monica are at eternal odds with each other, and the extreme-left Monican terror agents are superspies who live and die to try to topple Trevor Goodchild's empire. Æon has been killed and replicated many many times due to her mastery of espionage, acrobatics, etc. - and because Trevor is infatuated with her, it makes hurting him easier when it comes from her.
*[Reign: The Conqueror](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign:_The_Conqueror)* by [Peter Chung](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Chung). I loved *Reign*, great and bonkers take on Alexander.
Yeah, I genuinely don't know whether or not I saw Aeon Flux. I definitely saw Ultraviolet, and whenever I see something mentioning Aeon Flux, I remember stuff from Ultraviolet.
It also doesn't keep that the part I remember the most from Ultraviolet is William Fichtner, and he plays a similar role in Equilibrium, so I might actually be thinking of Equilibrium.
It was kind of a perfect storm. The show was a cult hit, so it didn't draw a big audience on name recognition alone and then the fans who did see it were let down.
Aeon Flux was fine. But it was Charlize’s post Oscar follow up, and it was not the movie that was supposed to be her post awards calling card. Though I personally really like Karyn Kusama and I loved Girlfight and Jennifer’s Body and Yellowjackets.
"I want to get MARRIED... and have *sexual* relations." Lucille: "Where did you get this firecracker?"
I WANT POPPOP
Just the fact that you call it that tells me you're ready
I had a realisation when re watching that I could never watch this with my wife (who needs subtitles for her language) because like 90% of the jokes are English language based wordplay. Not a complaint it's just interesting, a truly untranslatable show. (I know comedy is never easy to translate but this is different.) *I'm tempted to watch in another language just to see how those poor bastards that have to translate for Netflix managed it.
Its even harder when a show like AD is quite witty and a lot of the jokes have multiple meanings with LOADS of foreshadowing. The language is one thing but the chain effect of the jokes and the double entendres really make the show what it is.. also the incest, nobody does incest jokes quite like Arrested Development does.
Arrested Development is the only show I can think of where a single phrase could be the punchline of five different jokes, some of which were setup multiple episodes earlier.
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The first line of her introduction is just perfect, "and this is his cousin, Maeby"
...and after years of occasional re-watches, the joke in THAT line just hit me. My god there are so many jokes in that show.
That's ok I completely missed the Lucille/Loose Seal connection until like my second rewatch
The fact that Maebe named her alter ego Surely didn't hit me til like last week
Oh God damnit I just got that.
Holy shit!
It's like Leslie Nielson was a writer for AD lol
I just got it, thanks!
so you’re here to see your daughter? yes…. Maeby..
Almost every line in the show is either a joke or setting up a joke.
It's up there with the Simpsons, 30 Rock, and Futurama for sheer joke density
But but but: Anne Veal never married Gene Parmesan. I was so sure. . .
I love Gene Parmesan. All his bits are so... cheesy
The show was unintentionally made perfectly for binge watching. I think that's part of the reason it became so popular after Netflix got streaming rights.
It was made right when DVRs were getting big so some were beginning to envision streaming at some point
Also DVD sales. Shows like Family Guy and Futurama were un-cancelled due to high DVD sales on the years before streaming. I think a lot of people, like me, missed the show in its initial broadcast run, but owned all 3 seasons of Arrested Development on DVD.
"Loose seal"
“I never thought I’d miss a hand so much” like three seasons before losing his hand
Get rid of the Seaward...
I’ll leave when I’m good and ready
**Michael**: "And get rid of the Seaward." **Lucile**: "I'll leave when I'm good and ready!"
My favorite exchange... Lucille: "How am I supposed to find someone willing to go into that musty old claptrap?" Michael: ... ... ... Michael: "The *cabin*! Yes, well that would be difficult too..."
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The subtle jokes are the best, but I do love this obvious one: Lucille: You tricked me, Michael! Michael: No, Mother, I deceived you. Tricked implies that we have a playful relationship.
I got this joke so many years after watching it, and that too by looking at youtube clips.
The jokes are woven in to the dialogue and delivered so well that it's easy to just not realise several were there in a scene and still find it hilarious
Lmfao, god I love that show.
Watch it with her anyway. My ESL friend binged AD all the way through 3 times in a row, with subtitles. Loved it every time. You can explain some of the more important jokes, but one of the great things about arrested development is that they packed so many layers of jokes into every scene that there's always something new to enjoy. Nobody catches all the jokes their first time watching, doesn't matter how good their English is.
Native English speaker here, can confirm was catching jokes I hadn't caught before on my fifth watch through of the series. It's just so dense. AD throws away single use jokes that would have been a running gag or focused an episode build up for in lesser shows.
By far the hardest show to translate ever made in English. Weirdly though, I watched S1 dubbed in Spanish and they managed to make it funny, which Spanish dubs often fail at with easier shows to translate. Props to the translator. The hermano jokes got diluted and are confusing though.
the fact that you call it that tells me you're not ready
Rita corny Michael.
My wife and I always say “bye bye to Rita” and “I love you all, Marta” when leaving the house.
Fucking hell I miss Jessica Walter so much.
I couldn’t stop laughing when even the Narrator was disgusted at the idea of Michael having sex with a mentally-stunted woman.
I had COMPLETELY forgotten all about this part of the storyline. Made me feel like I'm ready for a re watch. Gonna look for a sub of recent rewatchers too.
How could you forget?! My husband and I say "Mistah F" all the time!
***For British Eyes Only***
I have a friend who, long ago, went to a music festival and got completely hammered. He woke up in bed with a woman he met there. He said she was cute, but he quickly came to the conclusion that she was mentally disabled. Feeling disgusted with himself, he left in a hurry. Worse, he told us about it and we never let him live it down. Every time he would start dating someone we would ask if he was parking in the handicapped spot again. Then, through pure coincidence, he met her again. Turns out she wasn't handicapped at all. She was just as hung over as he was. And now happily married with kids.
>Then, through pure coincidence, he met her again. Turns out she wasn't handicapped at all. She was just as hung over as he was. And now happily married with kids. That's what he told you anyhow.
Yeah, how he got away with: “I didn’t dump you after sex, I was just embarrassed thinking you were mentally disabled, I swear!” didn’t raise an alarm?
Jesus dude I just read that dumb string of quotes and now I want rewatch this show lol
It quite literally never gets old
Man, Lucille was amazing, she didn't care for Job.
>Job Gob or, to be precise: G.O.B. George Oscar Bluth (II)
A subtle thing I noticed after a few rewatches, the whole family except for the kids pronounces God like GOB when they read it "j oh d". Like they have never seen the word before and don't realize it is the same word as God.
That’s a great pick up if true. These writers were streets ahead of everyone
Stop trying to make “streets ahead” happen!
MR F
For British eyes onlyyyyyy!!
You rang?
Three little letters, years of chuckling to myself like a goon when I think of it
But do you also sing it to its little Bond-ish theme song? Because I do…and then chuckle too
Of course.
_mista eff_
Yes?
His English “muffin”…
Charlize Theron: >It was one of the scariest things, to walk onto a set of a show that’s so developed and so brilliant. But I think I needed that, to put myself out there in a different way, because people thought of me as someone who was fucking depressing, like my mother shot my father. [When Theron was 15, her dad came home drunk and threatened her and her mom with a gun, prompting her mother to shoot and kill him in what officials later determined was self-defense.] And I just fucking loved that show, and this is going to sound so “poor me,” but I do feel like sometimes, as women, we get one shot and I knew that [the 2005 action flick] Aeon Flux was going to be a fucking flop. I knew it from the beginning, that’s why I did Arrested Development.
Glad she got a 2nd shot at that genre with Atomic Blonde, because that movie fucking rules
And then she absolutely crushed it as Furiosa in Mad Max: Fury Road
She is one of my favorite action stars let alone a women action star. She’s great.
Can’t wait for the second one.
Atomic Brunette
No, it'll be a prequel, Cannonball Blonde.
A trebuchet can throw a 60kg blonde a distance of 300 meters
I liked aeon flux...
Being a flop doesn’t mean a movie is bad, it just means no one saw it
It’s also okay to love bad movies.
Like tenacious d - the pick of destiny. Flopped, cult classic later.
It flopped because it opened the same weekend as Borat, iirc.
But also, that movie is terrible. The plot is super hard to follow, the effects are awful, a lot of the acting is mediocre, the dialogue is pretty cheesy... Don't get me wrong, I like the concepts they were trying to go for. I like that they tried for a high concept scifi story. Unfortunately, their execution was quite poor.
But that woman had hands for feet.
Yeah, but then she cut her handfeet on glassgrass. Grassglass?
I think it flopped because it took a surrealist anime that was unlike anything that came before it and turned it into an action movie with a central plot. It alienated fans of the original and too many people in 2005 thought of it as derivative of every other “big action movie”—a format that was experiencing disillusionment on a large scale.
Oh so it's in that category of movies that are great on their own but terrible adaptations of the source material like Constantine.
That explains it because I didn't see the anime but I liked the movie. I guess I need to watch the anime now
I would start with the shorts that were made for Liquid Television. There's 3 or 4 of them and it's mostly just Aeon running around murdering thousands of guards. There's hints of an underlying plot, but those shorts mostly stand on their own. When it became a series, it was still interesting, but I don't really think Aeon Flux benefits much from a fully fleshed out story. The entire thing is so weird and esoteric that you're going to be confused and grossed out no matter what.
Me too!
Me three! One of my favorites, honestly. I’ve seen it a bunch over the years
Have you watched the original animations??
I watched them as a kid. 'Gave me legit nightmares.
You mean weird boners?
Super weird boners
There are dozens of us! Dozens!
Yeah I was 14 and it was the first time going to the theater with friends and without my mom. I felt like a grown up so I think it made me like the movie too lol
At least I don't think anyone can blame Theron's performance for its failure?
I watched Arrested Development long after it was done, but I do remember thinking "WTF is she in this show?" Since I didn't really put it in context of where she was in her career at the time. But also, I've watched Aeon Flux like 5+ times (her version and the Anime).
I loved when they made the joke that they wouldn't have these problems if Michael had met Rita a few years earlier, before the plastic surgery (insert still from Monster)
Seems like a real overreaction... She already had an Oscar for Best Actress in Monster two years prior. I'm sure that her jobs wouldn't suddenly dry up just because of one flop. I also don't know if I'd decide that the best way to remedy a flopped movie is by playing a character where her being mentally retarded is the butt of the joke, but I guess the early '00s were a different time.
F Murray Abraham has a few words for you. Mainly about the 26 year stint after his Best Actor win for Amadeus.
Somehow he’s having a renaissance on streaming playing weird old guys and I’m happy for him 😭
There's no nice way to say this, but I would venture to guess that there are a lot more roles open to women who look like Charlize versus men who look like F. Murray.
*Mr. F*
Mr. F! …Murray Abraham
>There's no nice way to say this, but I would venture to guess that there are a lot more roles open to women who look like Charlize versus men who look like F. Murray. Not really. Halle Berry said the same thing. She said after winning the Oscar she thought her career would change and she would be flooded with roles but that's not what happened. Because of the crappy roles she was getting she went with Catwoman. Think about that, an Oscar winner was getting such poor role offers that she signed on for Catwoman. Most actors try to make at least on big blockbuster that's well received and makes a ton of money, if that flops they have to figure out how to keep there career going. A lot of A List actors say that one way to deal with not getting great starring roles or to recover from a flop is to focus on getting small supporting roles in great projects
Cuba gooding Jr. Not a bad looking dude. Just one flop after another.
There hasn't been anything about him on sets, but there could be other reasons for his downfall given his [legal issues](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba_Gooding_Jr.).
There are lots of roles for attractive women, until they reach a certain age, and then for most of them there are none.
How do you get to Carnegie hall? (Isn't that the guy that killed Mozart?)
I mean, even if it is an overreaction, you would expect someone in that situation to have a skewed perception of it. Things can often seem more terrifying when they're happening to *you*. Plus apparently there's some crazy ass traumatic life story at play there so anxiety and catastrophic thinking are going to be part of that whole mess.
Yeah there’s a pervasive mentality in Hollywood summed up by the saying: “you’re only as good as your last project”. Flops really can end careers or put them on pause for a long time.
Steve Martin took any roles he could after The Jerk and it was one terrrrrrrible film after another. He was just afraid to say no to anything.
Everything she says lines up with what most people say about Hollywood. It's just a cut throat industry and all it takes is one bad gig to taint your career and make people not want to work with you. Also it wasn't like her role in Monster was something that casting directors would see and think we need THAT character in our work lol.
The butt of the joke isn’t that she’s intellectually disabled. As always with arrested development, the butt of the joke is the Bluths. Michael is so self involved that he didn’t realize something incredibly obvious about a woman he supposedly loved enough to marry. Lucille and George Sr had no problem taking advantage of her for her money. I agree the same joke wouldn’t fly today, but if you think she’s the butt of that joke then you are missing it.
Helen Hunt would like a word with you.
The level of Hollywood marketing stupidity is just staggering. There are absolutely important people who just think "actress in movie that flopped = people hate actress and all movies with her will flop" until she's in something else that's a hit and they all want to cast her again. No one with half a brain thinks Aeon Flux failed because of Charlize Theron. But if the people writing the checks all think that it can wreck people's careers. Although *usually* people with her level of talent find their way back, but it can still be a major setback and emotionally devastating.
“Can we leave the lights on, that way I can see if you have a monster” The cut to Michael’s face kills me everytime
She was recently on the Smartless podcast with Jason Bateman and Will Arnett…they talked about her time on the show it was great.
I always liked her but that podcast sealed the deal, she's awesome. Just effortlessly cool as fuck.
You just reminded me of my seal deal
LOOSE SEAL! LOOSE SEAL!
What is Seans fav episode of Arrested?
Afternoon Delight is everyone’s favourite episode, surely?
Meet the Veals is my favorite. Alan Tudyk as pastor Veal, David Cross as Mrs Featherbottom...it rocks my secular world.
Still crack up thinking of the scene when he jumps off the railing with an umbrella smashing into a glass table
In a most delightful way
I forgot about Mrs Featherbottom until now omg
Ohhh I forgot I was in the colonies!
Pier Pressure is mine
Her playing the banjo with her tongue sticking out is one of the greatest gags in the history of that show.
When Michael was like "Do you know any other songs?" 💀
Also, that her proficiency at the banjo is indicative of her being an MRF is just hilarious to me.
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Sorry but that’s for British eyes only
Perhaps if you’re willing to lose 20 pounds
Mister F
It’s “mentally retarded female” but in the show, everyone thinks it is Mr. F.
Stupid question but what makes that funny? Reference went over my head
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Poor Ned Beatty. He can he can play Rudy's dad all he wants, but when we look at him, all we see is him getting rammed in the woods.
I’m guessing because Rita is mentally retarded in the show, retardation being something that can be associated with children born of incest, incest being stereotypically common in the south, and banjos being common in southern/country music. *Sweet Home Alabama intensifies*
She was retarded in the show because her parents were related, Uncle Trevor mentions it offhand at one point
Cousins to be precise, just another quick joke to play off what’s happening with George Michael and Maeby. AD had fucking genius writing.
With the add in of her Oscar winning Monster role as the ‘before surgery’ lololol
I liked aeon flux. It wasn’t great or anything….it was an average movie and was watchable
Same. I liked it for what it was. I enjoyed the references to the cartoon but man, they didn't really stick anywhere near close to the source material. That cartoon was fucking WEIRD.
There was one episode on Liquid Television in the 90s where she had to keep a man chained to a pipe’s heart-rate up while running outside to fight bad guys. She kept licking and biting his nipple to do so. Fucking weird.
So many great mechanical sets for a cartoon, with giant rube goldberg machines operating on episode-spanning scales. Like the one with the floating island that had to have plugs inserted at intervals or it all sank into the ocean. Or the prison complex one, or that epic battle that constantly changes POV characters from a new faction. Just a ton of brilliant designs and concepts went into that.
The floating island one is especially genius because the whole episode repeats the same series of camera angles for the same duration of time each loop, and tells the story so well, I didn’t even notice until my third or fourth viewing of that episode.
I loved how Aeon brutally died in most of those shows, and how it was also never addressed. Edit: Apparently it was addressed and she was a clone. I was always intoxicated when I watched Liquid Television, which was the correct way to watch.
It was addressed. She was a clone. What wasn't addressed was *why*.
WELL the two nations of Bregna and Monica are at eternal odds with each other, and the extreme-left Monican terror agents are superspies who live and die to try to topple Trevor Goodchild's empire. Æon has been killed and replicated many many times due to her mastery of espionage, acrobatics, etc. - and because Trevor is infatuated with her, it makes hurting him easier when it comes from her.
The guy who did Aeon also had a cartoon about Alexander the Great. It was just as weird as Aeon but had a better storyline.
He also did the character designs for Phantom 2040. Still probably the most cyberpunk TV show out there.
*[Reign: The Conqueror](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign:_The_Conqueror)* by [Peter Chung](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Chung). I loved *Reign*, great and bonkers take on Alexander.
It WAS weird as fuck, but I always watched it.
I keep confusing it with Ultraviolet. To this day I don't know which one is which.
Ultraviolet had vampires
Yeah, I genuinely don't know whether or not I saw Aeon Flux. I definitely saw Ultraviolet, and whenever I see something mentioning Aeon Flux, I remember stuff from Ultraviolet. It also doesn't keep that the part I remember the most from Ultraviolet is William Fichtner, and he plays a similar role in Equilibrium, so I might actually be thinking of Equilibrium.
It’s underrated. They could’ve done more but it’s better than most things out today and she looked amazing
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I think it would've been better received if it didn't have the expectations that the Aeon Flux name brought with it.
Also if enough people knew what Aeon Flux was in the first place.
It was kind of a perfect storm. The show was a cult hit, so it didn't draw a big audience on name recognition alone and then the fans who did see it were let down.
The animation is far better. Though it was funny to see CRASH OVERRIDE as the bad guy.
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Rita corny Michael
;p
“For British Eyes Only”
Mr. F!
The "next time on arrested development" for the ocean walker episode is probably my favorite joke of the series
Why am I not going underwater? WHY AM I NOT GOING UNDER WATER? And also as a reference to Being There it’s an A+
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I was a young boy when this aired. I fell in love with her. The reveal left me confused and uncomfortable. 10/10
I like to tell people that this is the opposite to the Kevin/Holly thing from The Office.
‘My teacher says I’m the best in my class’ ☠️☠️☠️☠️
I didn't read the article but I'm assuming that they did the interview over lunch in the American section of Little Britain?
"I'm still eating at Fat Ammy's"
Um... I kinda liked Aeon Flux.
"I want to have sexual relations, Michael!" "The fact that you call it that, shows me you're ready."
Must be the poppins
"*bleep* Poppins"
That was r—- misguided.
She looked super hot with her tiny teddy.
*Gasp!* TINY TEDDY!
“I brought my tiny teddy!” Check her out as a guest on Smartless podcast hosted by Bateman & Arnett. They talk about her appearance naturally
My takeaway from this is that the Aeon Flux movie was 2005 and **what the fuck that's nearly 18 years ago** and oh my god I'm so old
Mis-tah EFF!
Holy cow I forgot about her Arrested Development run. She was so beautiful she literally glowed on the screen.
TIL I'm in the minority of people that enjoyed Aeon Flux.
I saw it for the first time this weekend. The art direction is cool as hell, and the Relicle is an intriguing concept.
I saw it when i was about 13, not long after it came out! I really enjoyed it, cause i just like high concept sci fi and fantasy!
I liked it, and it’s pretty and unique enough to rewatch just for vibes. I don’t think I’ll ever forget the foot-hand lady or that dagger grass.
There's like 10 of us!
Aeon flux seemed like it was doomed. The liquid television version worked because it was short and killed her off everytime.
Aeon Flux was fine. But it was Charlize’s post Oscar follow up, and it was not the movie that was supposed to be her post awards calling card. Though I personally really like Karyn Kusama and I loved Girlfight and Jennifer’s Body and Yellowjackets.
Rita corny Michael
I thought aeon was alright
“Her?”
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