But searching amidst the images for an answer to my long-burning query what the hell is this all about, I discovered I had no better idea now, fourteen years after its initial appearance, than I did when the pretty pictures themselves were enough to satiate me. In the former capacity, I was satisfied thoroughly: the original shorts are beautifully rendered, violent adventures in which plot and character are never as important as the visual poetry created in its innovative directing and unconventional editing. As a devoted fan of almost all of Liquid Television and the original Aeon Flux shorts in particular, I was excited to go back and revisit Peter Chung's creation for both a bit of nostalgic reflection and, perhaps, an explanation or two for its mysterious pleasures. But even validated in three dimensions by actress Theron and her Girlfight director Kusama, does the series necessarily survive beyond the decades-old hype, much less make enough sense for common-denominator audiences to decipher the show's cryptic secrets? Evidenced by the dearth of revelatory details on The Complete Animated Collection DVD, I'm not so sure. Themes of tragic/forbidden love run through out the series as Trevor has everything but what he truly wants, Æon, and Æon can accomplish anything she wants except killing Trevor.Subsequently, Aeon Flux enjoyed a brief season unto itself on MTV that earned it critical accolades but little commercial attention - save for the ultimate inevitability of a big-screen remake. The names of their respective characters reflect this: Flux as the self-directed agent from Monica and Goodchild as the self-appointed leader of Bregna. The two cities engage in a futile never ending war for ideological supremacy while Monica represents a dynamic nihilistic anarchist society where rules do not exist, Bregna embodies a centralized scientific planned Orwellian police state. Her mission is to infiltrate and destroy the strongholds of the city of Bregna / ˈ b r ɛ n j ə/, which is led by her sworn enemy, and sometimes lover, Trevor Goodchild, the technocratic dictator of Bregna, whose citizens are called Breens. The title character is a tall, sexy, dominatrix scantily-clad secret agent from the city of Monica, skilled in espionage, assassination and acrobatics. The setting comprises a bizarre dystopia populated by mutant creatures, clones, and robots set within the two separated border wall cities of Monica and Bregna. Æon Flux is set in a surreal German Expressionist style futuristic universe. Each Episode plots have elements of social science fiction, biopunk, allegory, dystopian fiction, spy fiction, psychological drama, postmodern visual, psychedelic imagery and Gnostic symbolism. Æon Flux was created by American animator Peter Chung. In 1995, a season of ten half-hour episodes aired as a stand-alone series. It premiered on MTV's Liquid Television experimental animation show, as a six-part serial of short films, followed in 1992 by five individual short episodes. Æon Flux / ˌ iː ɒ n ˈ f l ʌ k s/ is an American avant-garde science fiction adventure animated television series that aired on MTV from November 30, 1991, until October 10, 1995, with film, comic book, and video game adaptations following thereafter.
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