User Reviews

"Maybe I'm gonna live forever, or maybe this is just one last dream before dying."

This one line (intentional or not) summarizes a great deal of metaphysical philosophy, and you'd be completely forgiven for not catching it, or not caring enough to ponder on it.

It's a comment about the absurdity of existence. How could an afterlife be any more absurd or unlikely than our current life? How can I be sure that this isn't the dream, and death just an awakening? Does the arbitrary line between self and other actually mater? Ect.

Again, you'd be completely forgiven for not giving a crap about metaphysical fluff, but don't mistake the lack of story for a lack of message. There is meaning here for anyone who cares to ponder it.

I really enjoyed this short. The art style reminded me Fish Night but out of the 2 I think this one is way better. The psychedelic parts made sense in the story & didn't feel like they did it for the sake of it. I also liked how they didn't tell you right away where this was taking place you can kinda figure it out when the main character starts her journey. And finally I thought the ending was beautiful. The fact that IO was trying to communicate as best as it could by quoting authors & the main character slowly realizing what IO was, beautiful; & then finding out what IO's function was what it wanted I thought was again beautiful. This short won't be for everyone but I think a select few will really appreciate it.

These episodes are why I am a big fan of this show. You don't watch this show for the story (although the stories are awesome imo) but you watch it to appreciate the overall creative process !! The unique art styles that comes with every episode and the vibe are the show makes it an awesome project !

Keep up the great work !

Decent episode with amazing and trippy visuals. Unfortunately, the animation carries the episode . The main "twist" of the episode is that the planet that the protagonist is on is actually a machine. Cool, I guess? I'm sorry, I didn't really care. She then runs out of oxygen and the machine convinces her to "join it" aka kill herself. Since the main character is high the whole episode, we still don't know if any of what she saw was real. I'm assuming it was real, cause her joining Io caused it to explode. Overall, this episode is just like fish night: Only watch it for the visuals. 6/10.

I love this show and it's episodes like this one that really exemplify why. It starts off with a pretty typical sci-fi plot but quickly evolves into something unique, beautiful, and unexpected.

For me, this is a story about the ebb and flow of living and how we are all connected. It's about the possibility of our souls living on-even after our bodies are gone-which is such a lovely thought.

It made me feel an almost indescribable feeling of hope mixed with deep sadness and I welcome those feelings. I'm just so happy this exists and I've had the privilege of watching it and being so moved by it. I've now re-watched twice and it just gets better and more meaningful with each watch.

Side note: I noticed at least one reviewer complaining about how dumb it was for Martha to drag around her dead friend when she was pressed for time and could always come back for her later. I guess they forgot that Martha's oxygen tank was damaged from the crash and she needed her friend's oxygen supply to survive. It wasn't like she could just swap outfits so she had no choice.

The episode tries to go deeper in internal questions, be philosophic, poetic but the only thing that it does is to teach us that If you have an accident in space, please, don't use drugs. If there was anything deeper than this, I didn't get it.

I get it, this anthology is mostly about "the tech" showcase, but would it kill these screenwriters to tell an actual complete story?

First of all, I'd like to ask why the heck was the astronaut dragging the obviously dead person back? Drugs don't explain this action, the still-living protagonist made that choice prior to any drugs.

It's not a battlefield, it's deep space. You are dying of oxygen starvation, you have very limited time, who the heck would make their desperate journey 10x harder by dragging the body with the big hole in it back? Just...pick it up later? It's space, not going anywhere.

To the plot itself, either the protagonist is just imaging everything per drugs, or she's not. We don't know, because they didn't finish the story. Like always in this anthology.

Seems some of the reviews here think this one is only for the 'druggies'. Whatever that's supposed to mean. Do you eat sugar? Like to drink alcohol? Have you ever needed pain meds? Drugs come in many forms.

Meanwhile we patient folk enjoy good story telling where it exists. If you need your food fed to you via spoon then you may not wanna try this one out. It's not only meant just for drug using individuals but I'm sure it wouldn't hurt to have the experience augmented by them.

Life is difficult and drugs, of all kinds, make it more bearable at times. You all take them, get off your judgmental high horse. Toss stones at your own house.

Also, all that music and art you love, made by doped up people finding their muse and enjoying the ride. Get over it.

This episode was just what I needed.

It's an interesting story and the animation is decent enough. Just a shame because the main premise of lugging a corpse 41km so you can connect to their oxygen supply seems pretty bizarre to me.

No method of detaching the o2 unit? If that's not an option then I'd of thought mutilating the body so it's lighter would have made more sense than dragging the whole thing?

It set itself up quite well with the quest for survival and I enjoyed the graphics/style used. It did however then slowly morph into the philosophical/psychological realm. I found it to be a little silly because she had to drag her dead companion for what was to be 41km to survive instead of just being able to take her O2 tank. Then the spirit/machine talked to her, but was it through her dead companion or did it just occur randomly or because she was high on drugs? And why wouldn't it have occurred before then if it was the machine?

Anyway, I liked the premise but it didn't really deliver and I believe it got lost in itself with not being more direct. I'm assuming that it was going for the philosophical, self-reflection story but having the character take drugs makes the viewer wonder if it's just a drug trip! I did like the references though and would been better explored in like a mini-series or something I think. This one off episode would probably have been better sticking to a survivalist narrative.