Episode 2: Isthmus Crypticus
Note about the slide which opens each episode:
The opening disclaimer: "Æon Flux is an animated fantasy about good and evil. It contains graphic descriptions of extreme behavior. Viewer discretion is advised." was added by MTV.
Episode 1 - Utopia or Deutoronopia?
Director: Peter Chung
Writers: Shari Goodhartz, Japhet Asher, Peter Gaffney, Mark Mars.
Story: Peter Chung
Storyboards: Norman Cabral, Peter Chung, John Hays
Voice Cast:
Gildemere: Patrick Stretch, Sara Salient: Julia Fletcher.
Animation Services: Mook, Ltd., Japan.
Intro: "Trevor Goodchild has recently seized power in the nation of Bregna. The former leader, Clavius, has vanished under mysterious circumstances. It's none of Æon's business, but..."
Synopsis:
According to the notes on this episode posted by Peter Chung himself on AOL, this was written at the behest of MTV who wanted more back story on Æon and Trevor. The President of Bregna has been missing for six months, and acting leader Trevor blames "terrorists" for the crime. In reality, Trevor has the President in hiding, kept in a parallel but slightly out-of-phase dimension. A Breen soldier, Gildemere, finds out the truth...much to his peril.
Episode 2: Isthmus Crypticus
Director: Howard Baker
Writers: Todd French, Japhet Asher
Story: Todd French, Peter Chung
Storyboards: Romeo Francisco, Paul Gulacy, Robert Valley
Voice Cast:
Una: Andrea Carvajal, Narik: Philip Brotherton.
Animation Services: Gana Animation, Korea.
Intro: "Trevor Goodchild's latest obsession is an exquisite being which he keeps locked away in a secret chamber. It's none of Æon's business, but..."
Synopsis: The exquisite being(s) in question are birdpeople (who are either genetically engineered by Trevor Goodchild or beings from another, "spiritual" dimension...take your pick) called Seraph-Trevs. One is a male, the other a female. Another person is obsessed with the female Seraph-Trev, a shady Breen character named Ilbren.
Ilbren attempts to hire Æon to kidnap the female, but she refuses. Her curiosity piqued, Æon herself goes after the two Seraph-Trevs, enlisting the aid of a friend, a student of extinct languages named Una.
A random chain of events brings Una into awareness of the male creature, which triggers her own obsession.
An action-packed chase, a surprise climax with more twists than Mulholland Drive, and some gorgeous character design make this episode a personal favorite of mine.
Episode 3: Thanatophobia
Director: Peter Chung
Writer: Mark Mars
Story: Peter Chung
Storyboards: Norman Cabral, Peter Chung, Sean Newton
Voice Cast:
Onan: Paul Raci. Additional voices: Mark Mars, Frank Ottiwell, Jack Fletcher, Julia Fletcher.
Animation Services: Mook, Japan
Intro: "A heavily armed border wall separates the nations of Bregna and Monica. Yet many Breens seek to escape the mysterious designs of Trevor Goodchild."
Synopsis: At first glance, it seems as if Æon and Trevor are toying with the feelings of two would-be emigres from Bregna. In reality, though, it is Onan who is the manipulator, a man tired of his lover and wanting to ditch her. Onan's crossing of the border is successful -- like he knew it would be -- and Sybil's is not.
Sybil is back in Bregna, wounded by the cruel Bregnan border defenses. She is left with a missing vertebra which is replaced with a fluid-filled prosthetic. To divulge more here would be a spoiler. Watch this disturbing and engrossing episode for yourself.
Episode 4: A Last Time For Everything
Director: Peter Chung
Writers: Mark Mars, Peter Chung, Japhet Asher, Peter Gaffney.
Story: Peter Chung
Storyboards: Adrian Gonzales, Mike Jackson, J. Garrett Sheldrew
Voice Cast:
Scaphandra: Julia Fletcher, Fat Boy: Steffan Chiraz, Sinnah: Mark Mars, Twikka: Paul Raci.
Animation Services: Mook, Japan
Intro: "Æon has heard about Trevor's new method for creating human duplicates."
Synopsis: In this uncharictaristically romantic episode, Æon takes advantage of Trevor's human duplication technology to spend some 'quality time' with her lover/adversary/soulmate/enemy Trevor. As Æon's involvement with Trevor deepens, she can no longer keep the promise she had made to herself, to die in order to hurt Trevor emotionally. One cool scene is the one where you see Æon's duplicate taking shape...not since the Maria-robot was created in Metropolis has the creation of artificial life looked so spectacular. Oh yeah, and Scaphandra's really cool with her prehensile feet/hands...
Episode 5: The Demiurge
Director: Howard Baker
Writers: Steve De Jarnatt, Peter Chung, Michael Ferris, John Brancaro
Story: Peter Chung
Storyboards: Robert Valley, Howard Baker
Voice Cast:
Nader: Adam Paul, Celia: Shawn Cuddy.
Animation Services: Mook, Japan
Intro: "Æon Flux and the Monican resistance force have captured The Demiurge, a powerful godlike being, and prepare to send it into space to rid the Earth of its influence. The Breens, led by Trevor Goodchild, battle to prevent the launch."
Synopsis: Trevor seeks salvation in a being which could be considered a god...it looks a lot like the androgynous deities of Hindu and Buddhist pantheons. The being is launched aboard the Monican spacecraft, but its presence manifests in other forms. Deities do not die easily.
Episode 6: Reraizure
Director: Howard Baker
Writer: Japhet Asher
Story: Peter Chung
Storyboards: Norman Cabral, Robert Valley
Voice Cast:
Rorty: Morgan Creaves, Muriel: Sue Turner-Cray, Eamon: Alex Fernandez.
Animation Services: Mook, Japan.
Intro: "Trevor's interrogation of a Monican agent leads inevitably to his favorite subject -- Æon Flux."
Synopsis: Narghiles are little aquatic creatures which look like a cross between a hamster and a Shar-Pei dog. They cannot be killed, and have amazing powers of regeneration. A Narghile carries an organ which holds a chemical which causes amnesia as a side-effect of its high. A couple who were once Narghile abusers attempt to collect all the Narghiles on Earth (or whatever planet this all actually takes place on) for eventual launch towards the Sun. And in the grand tradition of the series, Æon and Trevor factor into the picture in very strange ways.
Episode 7: Chronophasia
Director: Howard Baker
Writer: Peter Gaffney
Story: J. Garrett Sheldrew, Peter Gaffney
Storyboards: Howard Baker, Sean Newton, J. Garrett Sheldrew
Voice Cast:
Boy: Taichi Erskine.
Animation Services: Mook, Japan
Intro: "These are the last things Æon remembers -- a baby's photo, a set of coordinates, Trevor's troops approaching..."
Synopsis: Æon and Trevor , the latter with a company of Breen troops, are racing each other to get to a germ-warfare lab in the middle of a jungle. The lab is full of dead bodies, a monstrous baby, a mysterious child, and perhaps a virus that causes insanity. After Æon arrives in the laboratory complex, the episode becomes a non-stop fever dream which forces Æon to look at the consequences of her actions. See the Peter Chung interview for a discussion of some changes which in his opinion irrevocably changed the impact of this episode.
Episode 8: Ether Drift Theory
Director: Robert Valley
Writer: Todd French
Story: Peter Chung
Storyboards: Osamu Tsuruyama, Robert Valley, John Watkiss
Voice Cast:
Lindze: Kelly Gabriel, Bargeld: C.W. Morgan.
Animation Services: Mook, Japan
Intro: "Trevor's experiments in artificial life forms are contained in an ecosystem called the Habitat. An ocean of paralytic fluid protects it from the intrusion of outside influences."
Synopsis: The intro is pretty self-explanatory. Lindze, the girlfriend of Bargeld, a brilliant bioscientist, arrives with Æon Flux at the Habitat. She hopes to spring her genius love from the confines of the science station. The destruction of the submarine which brought the two of them there and the accidental creation of a metal-eating bacteria both conspire to strand them in a paralytic death. And the fact that Bargeld is dying of a recombinant virus he accidentally created and that Trevor is also in the picture only makes matters worse...
Episode 9: The Purge
Director: Peter Chung
Writer: Eric Singer
Story: Peter Chung
Storyboards: Norman Cabral, Eric Canete, Mike Jackson
Voice Cast:
Bambara: Steffan Chirazi, Hostess Judy: Sue Turner-Cray, Principal Lorna: Christianne Hauber, Hostess Lanie/ Benzenhurst: Julia Fletcher
Animation Services: Gana, Korea
Animation supervised by Eui-Goo Lee and Peter Chung
Intro: "Æon is on the trail of the ill-mannered criminal brute, Bambara."
Synopsis: There is no easy way to synopsize this episode -- it's a real puzzle that might even defy repeated viewings. A bio-tech invention of Trevor's, The Custodian, is being used to control unruly Breen citizens. Add to this an all female anti-Custodian guerrila group, the sadistic antics of Bambara, and a bizarre stage show ending, and you have a very surreal viewing experience.
Episode 10: End Sinister
Director: Howard Baker
Writers: Japhet Asher and Peter Gaffney
Storyboards: Romeo Francisco, Robert Valley
Voice cast:
Additional Voice: Steffan Chirazi
Animation Services: Mook, Japan
Intro: "Trevor prepares to shoot a ray which will change the course of human evolution."
Synopsis: Trevor beams a virus into space, which affects a spacefaring race of aliens. Æon steals the remote control for the satellite with the viral disseminator, and looks to hide it. It is there in the woods, where she buries the device, that she finds an alien in an hibernation chamber. The consequences of the contact play themselves out well into the future, where Æon and Trevor are the only two humans as we know it left.
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