I started watching the Netflix series Love, Death & Robots. It’s interesting. The episodes are pretty short and so far there’s no over-arching theme, so you can watch them in whatever order, I suppose.
Episode 4, Suits, focuses on a group of technologically advanced settlers who’ve carved out a bunch of land in an area inhabited by a less advanced group. The original inhabitants then fight savagely to try to take the land back from the settlers whose very presence has altered the land to a point of no longer being sustainable for the original inhabitants.
And the settlers are the heroes of the story.
Well, it helps when you replace the Native Americans with horrible faceless alien monsters.
Ok, it’s not a bad episode, and I probably would have gone much easier on the “western settler” allegory if I wasn’t immediately put off by the animation style.
The wife has “3D Disney look”: monkey face + gigantic eyes. I just want to drive a spike into her head to deflate it. I don’t imagine anything bloody or graphic. It would just wheeze the air out when I did it. The other thing that bothers me is the character size disparity. The husband character is easily four times as large as the neighbor’s wife. At the end he puts his hand on her shoulder and it’s easily big enough to engulf her entire head. Unless you’re talking about abnormally large or small people; humans don’t vary that much in size. It’s off-putting.
Remember that picture of Simone Biles and Michael Phelps that went around? There’s a reason we find that so hilariously weird. Only look at it again and imagine Phelps being twice as wide (not like fat, just… bigger). If you’re not thinking “How… how would such a pairing mate?” then you’re obviously more mature than I.
Armchair Screenwriter 