# Love, Death, & Robots (Netflix animated series) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted, netflix\ **Created:** [March 16, 2019, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-death-robots-netflix-animated-series/831222 "2019-03-16T10:07:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-death-robots-netflix-animated-series/831222/21 "2019-03-25T15:24:13Z")
I think the only real commonality between the episodes (other than that they’re sci-fi, and that there’s robots) is CATS! Our feline overlords are depicted in a number of the episodes, and, in a twist of irony, are often portrayed as our feline overlords. ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2019, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-death-robots-netflix-animated-series/831222/22 "2019-03-27T06:01:52Z")
I loved _Three Robots_ and _Good Hunting_ and liked many of the others. A cute Easter egg in _Helping Hand_ is that she’s servicing satellite LV-426, which is the planet in _Alien_, and the short demonstrates that movie’s tagline. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2019, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-death-robots-netflix-animated-series/831222/23 "2019-03-27T06:53:23Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > 1. Sonnie’s Edge > 2. Three Robots > 3. The Witness > 4. Suits > 5. Sucker of Souls > 6. When The Yogurt Took Over > 7. Beyond the Aquila Rift > 8. Good Hunting > 9. The Dump > 10. Shape-Shifters > 11. Helping Hand > 12. Fish Night These are the ones I’ve seen so far, in this order. I’m definitely enjoying the series, even if I find some of the story elements problematic. I think _When the Yoghurt Took Over_ is my favourite so far. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2019, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-death-robots-netflix-animated-series/831222/24 "2019-03-27T11:41:34Z")
[Moderating] Huh, hadn’t I already merged these threads? Well, I have now. ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2019, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-death-robots-netflix-animated-series/831222/25 "2019-03-27T16:42:02Z")
I’m surprised no one has mentioned Heavy Metal (the magazine). I finished watching The Dump last night, but the overall themes of over the top violence, sex and sci-fi is exactly the way I remember the magazine being like in the late 80s. I wouldn’t be surprised in the least if RanXerox showed up at some point. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2019, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-death-robots-netflix-animated-series/831222/26 "2019-03-27T18:58:09Z")
> [@iamthewalrus\_3](#): > > I loved _Three Robots_ and _Good Hunting_ and liked many of the others. > > A cute Easter egg in _Helping Hand_ is that she’s servicing satellite LV-426, which is the planet in _Alien_, and the short demonstrates that movie’s tagline. There’s also a scene where she screams, and nobody can hear it. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2019, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-death-robots-netflix-animated-series/831222/27 "2019-03-27T19:55:02Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > Question re Beyond the Aquila Rift - His navigator was shown when he was briefly shown reality to be dead already. So what was the deal with trying to wake her up and integrate her and her revealing that it wasn’t real? My thinking is that they were both alive at first, but she died before him. Maybe she rejected the simulation entirely after a while. We don’t know how many times he’d been looped through the scenario before he woke up. We don’t even know if that was the \*\*first time \*\*she let him wake up. I liked the series overall. Some of it was a little too cliche, yeah, and the gratuitous nudity was pretty eye-rollingly silly. None of the twists made me gasp in shock, but several of them had me nodding in appreciation. For example: The kid getting killed in Fish Night. It’s the kind of thing you can do in short story anthologies because you don’t have to worry about viewer investment. I like that. I hope Netflix does more stuff like this in the future. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2019, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-death-robots-netflix-animated-series/831222/28 "2019-03-27T21:17:28Z")
Seen the rest now. Really liked\* Lucky 13\* a lot, and\* Zima Blue\* felt the most, I don’t know - “sci-fi anthology-y” of the lot. ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2019, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-death-robots-netflix-animated-series/831222/29 "2019-03-27T21:58:19Z")
> [@outlierrn](#): > > There’s also a scene where she screams, and nobody can hear it. That’s what I meant by “demonstrates the movie’s tagline”, but maybe that was a little too oblique. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2019, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-death-robots-netflix-animated-series/831222/30 "2019-03-27T23:05:38Z")
Saw them all and I was very impressed with some of the animation, but none of the episodes were particularly good in my opinion. I guess I should say, none of them were excellent. Some were good, some were pretty good, and a few were kind of bad. I was more impressed with the animation than any script. I won’t remember much about this show in a few months. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2019, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-death-robots-netflix-animated-series/831222/31 "2019-03-28T05:17:09Z")
> [@iamthewalrus\_3](#): > > That’s what I meant by “demonstrates the movie’s tagline”, but maybe that was a little too oblique. On the dope, no one can hear you whoosh. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2019, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-death-robots-netflix-animated-series/831222/32 "2019-03-28T08:12:49Z")
Oh, I forgot to add -\* Fish Night\* went from my absolute favourite (_Anomalocaris_! Trilobites! ) to my least favourite in the last 30 seconds. What a pointless ending (which might have been the writer’s point, but fuck that noise) ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2019, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-death-robots-netflix-animated-series/831222/33 "2019-03-28T08:17:12Z")
Fish Night is the only one I stopped watching. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2019, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-death-robots-netflix-animated-series/831222/34 "2019-03-29T07:38:16Z")
No one is going to love all of them, which is the point. They were all well done. I could do without the bloody bits of Shape Shifter and Witness, but they were still nicely animated. I loved Three Robots. I don’t have an iPhone, so I don’t know what Siri sounds like, but the female voice was a ringer for the computer voice on the Mission Log podcast. And almost none of them went on too long. Fish Night was definitely my least favorite, since the premise was pulled out of their asses, and ghosts around don’t make you a ghost. No one mentioned Sucker of Souls. I liked it because it was set in Hong Kong and had a nice steampunk vibe which none of the other episodes had. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2019, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-death-robots-netflix-animated-series/831222/35 "2019-03-29T07:48:13Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > Fish Night was definitely my least favorite, since the premise was pulled out of their asses, and ghosts around don’t make you a ghost. I guess the salesmen were also supposed to be nearly extinct, not much future in travelling sales, or something. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2019, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-death-robots-netflix-animated-series/831222/36 "2019-03-29T08:22:56Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > No one mentioned Sucker of Souls. I liked it because it was set in Hong Kong and had a nice steampunk vibe which none of the other episodes had. It wasn’t _Sucker of Souls_. It was _Good Hunting_. It was one I was conflicted by: Yay for alternative steampunk/clockpunk world, yay for _jiuweihu_, yay for such an explicitly anti-colonialist story (contrast it with _Suit_’s pro-colonialism jingoism), yay for some beautiful animation. Boo for the repeated sex worker rape aspects of the storyline. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2019, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-death-robots-netflix-animated-series/831222/37 "2019-03-29T08:27:13Z")
> [@DPRK](#): > > I guess the salesmen were also supposed to be nearly extinct, not much future in travelling sales, or something. Good take. I would have _loved_ it if it ended with _both_ the salesmen joining the other extinct creatures, floating naked and liberated through the air. Instead of the shitty ending we got. ---
**Author:** ![YamatoTwinkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/cc9497/32.png) [@YamatoTwinkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YamatoTwinkie)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2019, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-death-robots-netflix-animated-series/831222/38 "2019-03-29T15:57:59Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > It wasn’t _Sucker of Souls_. It was _Good Hunting_. > It was one I was conflicted by: I was also conflicted by this one. Both for the reasons you mentioned, and there wasn’t really much story there, just an exercise in worldbuilding. No character development, no real conflict or story arc (except for the initial set piece), not really much of a twist to save it in the end. Just guy helps a magical fox-turned-girl-turned-robot turn into a fox-robot-assassin. Fin. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2019, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-death-robots-netflix-animated-series/831222/39 "2019-03-30T01:34:42Z")
> [@YamatoTwinkie](#): > > I was also conflicted by this one. Both for the reasons you mentioned, and there wasn’t really much story there, just an exercise in worldbuilding. No character development, no real conflict or story arc (except for the initial set piece), not really much of a twist to save it in the end. > > Just guy helps a magical fox-turned-girl-turned-robot turn into a fox-robot-assassin. Fin. Whoops about the name. There wasn’t a lot of character development in most of these stories. I have a book of short short sf stories, these remind me a lot of them. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2019, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-death-robots-netflix-animated-series/831222/40 "2019-03-30T01:55:52Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Boo for the repeated sex worker rape aspects of the storyline. Yeah…Good Hunting was my favourite other than this aspect. Especially, we didn’t need to see her pussy when she was being mutilated. Similarly, the human sacrifice in The Secret War…which didn’t have enough in the way of good features to make up for it. That POS was the only irredemable episode in the series. As problematic as the sexual aspects of Good Hunting or The Witness were, the episodes would have been great with that problem fixed. Interesting stories, great animation, fascinating settings. Secret War…OK, but not great story, blah animation, boring as hell setting. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-death-robots-netflix-animated-series/831222.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-death-robots-netflix-animated-series/831222.md?page=3)