After 2 years of waiting, the second season of "Love, Death, Robots" was finally launched.
But since the show aired, the Douban rating has been visibly brushed down, until I wrote the article, it stabilized at 6.9 points.
So, today, we're going to talk about this much-anticipated series.
After brushing up on "Castlevania Season 4", I took a time to get up early and lie in bed to brush up all 8 episodes of the second season of "Love Death Machine" in one breath.
It actually took about 1 hour to brush it in one breath, after all, each episode is between 10-18 minutes, and the overall length is not long.
It may also be that I have heard too many rumors about the sharp decline in word-of-mouth in the second season, and the expectations are very low, which makes me feel that it is not much different from the first season when watching the show.
Yes, it's not much different from the first season.
But the problem is that the total length of the second season is too short. It's very deadly.
You know, in the eyes of most men and women around the world: short, just can't!
Among them, the episode of "The Whole House", the progress bar is a total of 7 minutes, the head is chopped off, the real content is only more than 5 minutes, and it is strange that the audience can be satisfied.
I always emphasize that the film and television ratings have a very, very big relationship with the expectations of watching the movie, and the second season of "Love Death Machine" perfectly confirms this.
When the first season first came out, it was an experimental product, but the audience rarely saw this form of animated series before, coupled with elements such as violence and love action, the natural score was high.
But what about the second season, which took two years to produce and has more experience than the first season, and you showed me this?
The old eight had been eating Ollie for longer than this. High scores are sorry for my squatting ass on the toilet seat.
In fact, if the second season of "Love Death Machine" is regarded as a supplementary small theater of the first season, it is estimated that the rating will not be so crotched.
Because in terms of quality, the level of the second season did not decline.
The 18 episodes of the first season are not very impressive, and counting and counting, there are actually only a few that we can remember.
The second season has a total of 8 episodes, and one or two brilliant ones can basically be regarded as the same level as the first season. Moreover, there is a lot of room for one or two interpretable films.
Let's talk about it episode by episode.
(The following contains spoilers, please read it carefully for partners who have not yet watched the show)
《1 Virtual Customer Service》
The episode is still full of Hollywood's usual bad taste and distrust of artificial intelligence.
But creatively I like it very much. After all, it is closely related to our lives, and everyone may be destroyed by the so-called "intelligent" voice customer service that answers the questions that are not answered.
Sometimes you even suspect that this is an obstacle specially set up by the after-sales company to avoid you from finding them, and if you collapse, you will not sell after-sales again, and the key thing is that you can't complain!
2 Adventures on Ice
Tell the story of how difficult it is for an ordinary person to live in a group of transformed people.
Aside from the fact that the view is more beautiful when the whales finally appear, I don't think there's much room for interpretation. This episode seems to be about discrimination, but it doesn't really talk about anything.
You are an ordinary person, this time running a little faster, can win the respect of your peers, so what about the next time? What about next time? So, if you have the opportunity, go to the transformation early.
And what is there to make for such a group of people who do not know how to respect the lives of their companions?
3 Kill Squad
The background of this episode is actually incomplete, I have browsed the introduction of the original novel in advance, so it seems effortless, otherwise I am worried that many people do not know why this film is the most unbearable thing for human beings to do.
The key thing is that this matter is still reasonable and legal, and the police are responsible for it, who is to reason with this?
In fact, this episode is about the future world, people through a variety of means to obtain the ability to live forever, in order to prevent the population is too inflated, people are forbidden to have children.
The protagonist is a policeman who specializes in hunting and killing illegally born children, but as more and more children are killed, he finds the meaning of reproduction in it and gradually becomes a defender.
The content of this episode is actually very cheesy, as early as "The End of the Tear" and "Eavesdropping Storm" has been expounded countless times similar bridges, but it is just a new shell.
This episode is also the one I hate the most, mainly because of the Asian woman who is so disgusting that she wants to vomit.
How do I know that's Asian? Because Hollywood is this virtue! They always think that the world should be the kind of bad thing they think it is, and if it is not like that, they will twist the world into that.
I seriously suspect that the Hollywood gang grew up watching "The Gourd Brothers" and have the impression of Asian women as snake spirits.
4 Snow in the Desert
It tells the story of the loneliness of an immortal man whose wife committed suicide a hundred years ago, because she was old, but he was still like that. In this way, he lived alone for a long, long time.
At the end of the film, the girl who slept with him reported to the door of the house, it turned out that this was a peace adult, and he was immortal, and everyone was happy.
But to be honest, I'm not bullish on this pair.
It has been predicted before that if human life expectancy is extended by another 20 years, today's concept of marriage may be completely changed. Being together forever can only be a beautiful lie, and it is the inevitable law of nature that must be divided for a long time, and I agree with this statement.
If you look at this episode with such an attitude, then for the eternal person, loneliness is the best companion.
In other words, single dogs may be the ultimate form of life that humans are struggling to pursue.
"5 Tall Grass"
This episode is my favorite, and it contains very deep philosophies, but it is not obscure and easy to understand.
The train anchored next to a grassy plain, and a man got off the train to smoke.
Curious, he was drawn into the grass by the strange light in the tall grass, and then attacked by a group of monsters, barely able to catch the restarting train.
At the end of the short film, the conductor tells him that the monsters are the ones who get off the bus halfway.
They failed to catch the train and were lost in the grass forever. Such a setting cannot help but make people sigh and sigh.
That large wasteland is a metaphor for the world of flowers and flowers, where countless people are lost, unable to find the value of survival, unable to find the goal when they first came, and finally live like a monster.
6 Christmas Horror
The story of this episode is a series of dark fairy tales, which portrays the traditional Santa Claus as a big monster like an alien.
This sketch-like short film is more like the kind of plot direction that parents use to scare children, good children have gifts, but what about unruly children?
But who has the final say? What are the criteria? This is very difficult to scrutinize.
And that gift box stained with unknown slime was also disgusting.
"7 Survival Hut"
This episode is a bit repetitive with the first episode, not interesting, still about the story of robots killing people out of control, but far less interesting than "Virtual Customer Service".
In fact, I seriously doubt that the anti-intellectualism of these people in North America is getting more and more serious, and they worry about how to be by robots every day.
Since artificial intelligence is so prone to problems, can't we make an emergency shutdown command or button?
8 Drowning Giants
This episode is not so much a story as a prose poem about philosophical thinking, and the drowning giant is only an opportunity for the author to express his emotions.
The lines in Episode 8 are so profound that many people think the film can be compared to the first season of "Zima Blue". I can't agree.
"ZimaLan" is about the most holy philosophy of simplicity and original intention; but from "Drowning Giants" I only saw the translation skills of the subtitle group.