Description: Aeon Flux, the sexy secret agent extraordinaire that took MTV by storm is back on DVD! Follow the deftly skilled Aeon on her adventures through a futuristic world brimming with chaos and corruption. Experience every gripping episode of this cutting edge animated series like never before, as each episode has been digitally restored and has been bolstered with a 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround Sound audio track. Every aspect in the creation of The Complete Aeon Flux has been overseen and endorsed by original creator Peter Chung making this the definitive Aeon Flux collection.
Utopia or Deuteranopia
Trevor has an obsession with Aeon and tries to create a space in the ambassador's body (whose gone missing) for several days now. A Breen named Gildemere teams up with Aeon and tries to bring down Trevor and his evil ways, but instead Aeon turn on Gildemere as he is charged with the murder of the ambassador.
Thanatophobia
Aeon and Trevor play with two peoples life, Sybil and Onan, who are a couple trying to get to Monica, where it has more freedom. They are currently in Brenga, in which Trevor runs. When they both try to escape Onan is successful but Sybil is not. She breaks one of her spinal column and keeping her from falling apart or upright, she needs a device in which Trevor provides. Sybil decides she had enough of Aeon, Trevor and Onan and decides to try her jump into Monica again. Only to see a new device, that she help make, was planted there, cutting her legs off instead.
A Last Time For Everything
Aeon teams up with a double agent named Scafandra, who has hands on her feet. Trevor manages to create a cloning device and he manages to clone Aeon. Aeon then, we think, switch places with her clone but Trevor knows this. The "real" Aeon falls for Trevor, the "clone" Aeon tries to carry on. In the end things get too complicated to explain to the clone and the real Aeon allows herself to get killed as the "clone" runs away.
Ether Drift Theory
Aeon decides to help someone named Lindze, who is trying to get to Bargeld, the man she loves. Who was working with Trevor in a lab somewhere in the middle of a fluid. The fluid puts you in suspend. Bargeld managed to find a "cure" for the fluid, turning it to water. In the end things get complicated and Aeon gets taken over by the fluid as the lab surroundings decays.
The Purge
Aeon tries to stop a criminal named Bambara. Trevor has a new robot looking thing, called the custodian that gives you a conscience. It enters in though your naval. Aeon teams up with a group of people wanting to stop Trevor as well.
The Demiurge
Aeon is afraid of a thing that Trevor managed to acquire. This things acts as a god with peaceful intentions but Aeon wants to destroy it.
Isthmus Crypticus
Aeon is trying to free two bird like creatures (a male and female). The thing is Trevor feels for the female one but she ends up dying. The male on the other hand ends up with Aeon's friend Una, as they soar into the sky.
Reraizure
There is a creature called Narghile that produces a pellet that erases human memories. Rorty and Muriel vows to get rid of these creatures by launching them into the sun. Muriel ends up dying and Aeon, out of guilt, takes her place as Rorty and her try to finish it out. Rorty finds out (from Aeon) that Muriel was cheating on him with Trevor, which he doesn't believe at first. He gets proof himself and can't deal with it. So, he takes the pellet erasing all of his human memories about Aeon, the pellet and Muriel.
Chronophasia
Aeon is caught in a time loop, in a lab in the jungle somewhere. The reason she was going to the lab was, she was planning to save a test subject but go more than she bargined for. She encounters a little boy, who seems to be the cause of all of this. He wants her, but not in a sexual way, in a motherly figure way. We end the episode, as if they are in another dimesion (in the past) as Aeon drives this little boy (presumbaly her son) to baseball practice.
End Sinister
Trevor encounters a device that could wipe out the entire world but Aeon stops him. They both encounter an alien in which Trevor is very interested in. Trevor decides to go back with the alien to their planet and Aeon decides to wait for him, (Trevor) in the very same pod the alien had travel in. Years, (presumably hundreds) past and Aeon wakes up. She notices that the "aliens" had taken over earth and that Trevor is still alive. She then uses the device, (from the beginning) killing the entire race. What Aeon later finds out is that these alien creatures were actually humans. We end as the final words are spoken by Trevor, "It's the evolution of the revolution... may the best man win.
What the crap? Okay, this series is my first exposure to Aeon Flux. Maybe you have to have seen the movie or something else for it to make sense, but I think that even then I would find the storytelling to be disjointed and confusing. There are bizarre jump cuts that leave one wondering how the hell the characters got where they are and what the blazes they're talking about. One second Trevor is chasing Aeon down the street, the next she's inside the body of the fat guy. How did she get there? I feel like I'm seeing a very badly edited version of the story. Too boot, from the first second of the first episode I felt like I was jumping into the middle of a story. I even stopped it to make sure I had started with the correct episode. But again, maybe there's something in the movie that explains what's going on. This is total crap and I feel robbed. [...].
Edgy, Fun and Somewhat Weird MTV broadcasted this series back in the 1980's, at which time this was totally cutting edge. It's still somewhat edgy, decades later. I'm not a huge anime fan (just a small one), but I do enjoy creative and sophisticated animation. This collection is done very well at an excellent price.
Woot! I knocked off 1 star because 3 of the episodes I wanted commentary on didn't have it. Even though it was targeted at adult males, I watched this as a little girl. It was on TV not only at the peak of MTVs coolness, but the peak of TVs coolness in general; the early & mid 90s. .......................................................................... It had all the episodes, commentary, & even all the Liquid Television episodes; exactly what I wanted ^__^
What started out so excellent became... this. AEon Flux: The Complete Animated Series (Peter Chung, 1996)
I remember, back in the day, seeing the first eight episodes of the first iteration of AEon Flux on MTV, and it was just about the coolest thing imaginable. And then, well, something went horribly, horribly wrong. The end result? AEon Flux: The Complete Animated Series.
The great thing about those initial episodes was their complete lack of context. The viewer was thrust into a world entirely different than ours, but still recognizable. We were given some characters, a plot, and no dialogue whatsoever; we had to figure out what was going on for ourselves. The big mistake, of course, is giving the characters context, giving them dialogue. Suddenly the mystery, the challenge, of the series is gone, and we're left with nothing more than another cartoon-- and not one that's in any way interesting. I gave it my best shot, but I couldn't even manage to finish watching it. (zero)
A Excellent Collection of a Strange, Strange Cartoon I'm sure a lot of us remember Aeon Flux from its days on MTV. I discovered it one day when they were runninga marathon and got hooked. "Aeon Flux - The Complete Animated Collection" is a superb collection of all of the Aeon Flux episodes and shorts, all avant garde and all very, very odd.
In a seemingly post apocalyptic world (is it earth, is it an alien world? We're never really sure), two nations are engaged in a sort of cold war - the authoritatian Bregnia, and the apolitical Monica. the Breen government is led by the treacherous, mad scientist Trevor Goodchild, while the Monicans' champion is the libertine freedom fighter named Aeon Flux, she of the skimpy purple outfit and ram's-horn hairdo. Aeon and Trevor share a complex love (lust)/hate relationship and engage in all manner of mind-games, seeming to manipulate political events just to get a rise out of one another. The result is a strange brew of ribald adventure and high-concept science fiction.
In this set you'll get all of the Aeon Flux episodes, as well as the shorts that featured Aeon and were shown on a late-night show on MTY in the early 1990s (these shorts are interesting because Aeon dies in each and every one, and there is little to no dialogue - pretty avant garde stuff). Fans of more offbeat science fiction will probably enjoy this set. Be warned, however - this is decidedly NOT a cartoon for children.
Anything Goes Trivia
Megaton Man
Tony's Online Tips
Trevor
