Alexander the Great? More like 'Alexander the AWESOME'!
Reign: The Conqueror is an animated, futuristic retelling of the story of Alexander the Great by bomb-ass dood Peter Chung of Aeon Flux fame.
Thanks to way, way too much drugs, I now end each evening of AdultSwim with some seriously trippy mythologised history. Wondering what it is like? Take Aeon Flux's appearance and animation and crack-smoking storylines and string them together along the lines of a messianic narrative story about an ancient Macedonian conqueror and his man-eating horse.
Particularly? Particularly I like the bizarre assassin cult from south Italy, the Pythagoreans. Who knew mathematics could be so dangerously seductive? "Knowledge is power!"
Particularly I also like the weird freakin' setting. It's fun, almost theatre-like, to put the story with cavalry, swords and horses as its cutting edge and its "universal truths" expressed in Platonic aphorisms about the five elements and the mystic 'Platohedron' in the, um, S&M-like harnesses Chung made Aeon's people wear. There are futuristic towers with python-oracles and slaves in them; it's a compelling mixture so long as you aren't such a na�f/ve as to inquire what the hell is going on.
A smart woman watches this show sober. Otherwise you'll be so off balance you'll get seasick. In fact, you might be high afterwards if you aren't careful.
Thanks to way, way too much drugs, I now end each evening of AdultSwim with some seriously trippy mythologised history. Wondering what it is like? Take Aeon Flux's appearance and animation and crack-smoking storylines and string them together along the lines of a messianic narrative story about an ancient Macedonian conqueror and his man-eating horse.
Particularly? Particularly I like the bizarre assassin cult from south Italy, the Pythagoreans. Who knew mathematics could be so dangerously seductive? "Knowledge is power!"
Particularly I also like the weird freakin' setting. It's fun, almost theatre-like, to put the story with cavalry, swords and horses as its cutting edge and its "universal truths" expressed in Platonic aphorisms about the five elements and the mystic 'Platohedron' in the, um, S&M-like harnesses Chung made Aeon's people wear. There are futuristic towers with python-oracles and slaves in them; it's a compelling mixture so long as you aren't such a na�f/ve as to inquire what the hell is going on.
A smart woman watches this show sober. Otherwise you'll be so off balance you'll get seasick. In fact, you might be high afterwards if you aren't careful.
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