I loved MTV's Liquid Television and MTV's Oddities. It was watching Oddities where I first saw two brilliant series, The Maxx and Aeon Flux. I love Peter Chung's sci-fi series. It was so completely different from anything I had seen before. Aeon Flux started as a series of shorts on Liquid Television and became a longer series with dialogue a little later after that. The characters are quirky to say the least and even though the story lines can be disjointed and a little hard to follow, the sheer brilliance of the artwork and animation more than makes up for it. The series is rife with smoldering sexual tension between the Monican Aeon Flux and her enemy/lover Trevor Goodchild the benign Dictator of Bregna. Their love/hate relationship is a complicated one and contains some very interesting facets indeed. Nothing is ever straight forward in this series and each episode often contains an unexpected twist or a surprise ending. This is western animation at it's best. I have to say on an end not that I was disappointed with the movie as it seemed to miss every point of the series. In an interview with Peter Chung, he did not like the movie either. Aeon Flux is available on DVD
Review of Æon Flux
