The cyberpunk is strong in this one
Exquisite visuals and decent animation (mostly for the creatures, less so for the people). I had no idea this was based on a Peter F. Hamilton short story. The voice acting let it down for me, the extreme Essex accents didn't seem quite natural to my ears. The beastie fight made up for it, that was pretty exciting to watch. However, the crude dialogue throughout this short really got in the way of things, too - I think one character swore with every single sentence and that lent a juvenile air to everything.
Just because you can include adult content doesn't mean you have to.
interesting way to start this series
definitely has a intense cyberpunk feel
was kind of like Pokemon on steroids
Creature design is cool. Voice acting is garbage. Also, is it still called a plot twist when you see it coming from the start?
The decors and the beast designs are top notch. The characters not so much. The main point is the fight. The choreography is very good (lots of good twists and comebacks), however the animations is pretty lacking. The two final twists of the story are pretty expected (mostly because where else could the story go ?), but the execution is satisfying.
A bit more background would have been interesting, like how are these beasts made ?
This felt like a cutscene on a video game.
Great premise and animation. The voice acting let it down
What am I watching? are these real peop-- they aren't. Holy crap, they aren't.
The usual reaction all of us get when first seeing this short's opening can't be far from that... and it's far from the only time we think it over the course of the season. Animation at it's finest.
As a first foray into the anthology series, Sonnie's Edge pumps you full of adrenaline, fear, lust and gore all at once with it's biopunk veneer shining down unescapably. The characters are sex and death incarnated and it makes for a titilating all-too-short minutes. And therein lies the hurdle it can't seem to shake off: brevity.
The plot itself has little in the way of novelty or unexpected, but that is far from being a problem. The episode doesn't have much in the way of world building and lore stablishing, but that's ok as well. What really makes it less than it could be is a combination of the tired and overused rape-as-a-plot-device and how forward the characters are about explicitly telling us it took place. It remains as the core of Sonnie's character, and we are repeatedly hit on the head with it -- there isn't enough time for subtlety here, so we get the bizarre scene of her friends telling the man who is trying to strong-arm them about it. The lazy writing it reeks of doesn't diminish the thrills of unadulterated fun it mainlines into us, but it makes for a sour after-taste.
We are here for the gore, we are here for the sex craze. It's a shame that's all we are here for. Yeah, i'm goddamn scared now.
apropos of nothing, I recently found out that there are four different orders in which Netlifx can show you the season's episodes. Can't help wondering about the wildly different experiences this has led to with such genre diverse plots. Personally, it went from Sonnie's to 3 Robots and it took me a good while to understand these weren't connected.
I've got mixed feelings on this episode, but it does give a clear indication of what type of show this will be.
"are you scared now?" haha
I don't how to feel about what I saw, that's my opinion so far. It felt like so much happend in a very short period of time. At first you are force to root for the protagonist due to the lenght of the episode, then she wins the battle and now your in this sexy encounter with the blonde girl, you're all turn up and BOOM, instant shock. Then a pretty cool twist at the end. I just know I liked what a saw, and holy shit, the visual production on this thing is amazing, it looks astonishing.
What a rollercoaster. I was hyped, then I was mad, then I was hype again, then felt like it couldn't possibly be as good as it seemed, then I was mad again, then I was SUPER HYPE. Love the animation style, too, it reminded me a bit of the Dishonored games, and a bit of Bioshock.
Weirdly this episode is listed everywhere as the first one except on Netflix. Don't you love that?
The animation for this episode surely is very impressive, even if it isn't a style I overall tend to enjoy very much.
The story, while not without it's merits and surely with an interesting concept falls flat for me. It is nothing I haven't seen in a similar way before and doesn't do anything interesting with the scenario. The twist is not all that "twisty" unfortunately. The characters fall flat (granted it's not easy to create compelling characters in such a short amount of time but it is possible).
I did not dislike the episode, but it's also not the strongest to sell you on a show.
Probably the strongest ep so far! Cool action scenes
The beast fight choreo was something else...
This was crazy, amazingly done.
Good start for the series, a nice short.
Not bad but could have been better.
More like Sonnie's edgy.
Jesus, that was not a good start to an anthology series I've heard praised to the moon.
Bien déjanté. Rythme rapide... Yes !
Awful. Looks like a cinematic video game where you're not allow to play. Total shit.
This is like a very edgy "Ready Player One", but is short enough to keep interest and makes the story worthwhile, where as a feature length version of this film would've probably been boring.
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Best episode of season so far