Ken Liu, the author of the short story upon which the film is based is generally heralded as one of the founders of silkpunk fiction (steampunk, but for Chinese antiquity) and it shows. The symbolism is obvious, as an icon of tradition in a rapidly modernising country, her powers gradually begin to fade. We meet her when a hunter kills her mother and his son befriends her, saving her life.
The woman is a huli jing, a shapeshifting, nine tailed fox spirit. When she reveals that the cost of living has now extended to her flesh body, we are introduced to the robotic one vagina first, which doesn’t actually seem the best way of communicating the horror of what has happened. She exists, seemingly perpetually, in a state of partial clothedness with the camera readily placed to leer over her body. Of course the lead creative team are yet again entirely men.
#HULI JING LOVE DEATH ROBOTS SERIES#
Chalk that up as another time this series blatantly objectifies it’s women characters. Of course, what is not allowed to exist independently is… Her body. She’s not the one that got away, or the girl to save him from a life of banality, she has a life which exists independently in the narrative to his. He’s never overtly presented as being in love with this girl, they’re just kinda friends, we are invited into a few episodes where their lives cross and they both act fairly chill around each other. I guess what puts it on my side of the cancellation line is how they treat the character of the guy. It’s almost definitely someone on the production team’s very specific fetish, but y’know, it intersects with enough of mine that I’ll allow it. But when the girl’s a furry fox girl sex witch clockwork cyborg who wants to kill colonialist oppressors, I’m on her side. Any story about the stoic man who has to keep rescuing the flighty girl who keeps getting into trouble will kinda be. This episode was directed by Oliver Thomas from a script by Philip Gelatt.Īlright, this one’s pretty cute. Legit just make this on the level of an episode of Legend of Korra or something and it’d be way better. 17.Score one for another count of this anthology shooting itself in the foot with it’s insatiable desire to be grown.
18.) Lucky 13Īfter the drop-ship Lucky 13 lost two crews, no pilot would fly her… but rookies don’t get a choice. Now check out my list and tell me how wrong I am. Your feedback and been amazing and I greatly appreciate all of it. And lastly, to those that have been reading my little series since I started writing it, thank you. Also, if you’re interested in reading what I thought of each episode, every article is just a click away by either clicking on the name of the episode or its picture. While I’m still trying to process that though, I’ve made a list that I hope everyone enjoys. While I have decided to rank every episode, I think it’s important to state that I love this show and I think every story was excellent… except for Lucky 13… also I’m still trying to figure out if The Dump is bad or a brilliant metaphorical piece of art. I laughed, I cried, and I was amazed at the unbelievable talent that came together to create this incredible series. Over the course of several weeks, I had the absolute pleasure of watching every episode of Love, Death, and Robots.
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