"Aeon Flux" (1991) TV series

User Rating:

8.2/10   

Creator:

Peter Chung
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Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3

Release Date:

12 September 1996 (Denmark)

Genre:

Adventure | Animation | Sci-Fi | Action

Plot:

Aeon Flux is a mysterious and amoral secret agent from the country of Monica. Her motives or background are left unexplained...

Plot Keywords:

Agent | Secret Agent | Immorality | Surrealism | Innuendo

Cast

Denise Poirier	...	Æon Flux (3 episodes, 1995)
John Rafter Lee	...	Trevor Goodchild (3 episodes, 1995)

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Series Directed by
Peter Chung		(1 episode, 1995)
Howard E. Baker		(unknown episodes)

Series Writing credits
John D. Brancato		(1 episode, 1995)
Steve De Jarnatt		(1 episode, 1995)
Michael Ferris		(1 episode, 1995)
Eric Singer		(1 episode, 1995)
Japhet Asher		(unknown episodes)
Peter Chung		(unknown episodes)
Peter Gaffney		(unknown episodes)
Mark Mars		(unknown episodes)

Series Produced by
John Andrews	....	supervising producer (unknown episodes)
Japhet Asher	....	executive producer (unknown episodes)
Abby Terkuhle	....	executive producer (unknown episodes)
Catherine Winder	....	producer (unknown episodes)

Series Original Music by
Drew Neumann		(unknown episodes)

Series Art Department
Tim Brock	....	color stylist (10 episodes, 1995)
Mike Jackson	....	storyboard artist (unknown episodes)

Series Sound Department
Matt Thorne	....	sound effects editor (15 episodes, 1992-1995)
Deb Adair	....	sound supervisor (unknown episodes)
Elliot Anders	....	dialogue editor (unknown episodes)
Peter Stone	....	sound effects editor (unknown episodes)

Series Animation Department
Travis Cowsill	....	storyboard artist (1 episode, 1992)
Peter Chung	....	animator (unknown episodes)

Series Other crew
Peter Gaffney	....	story editor (unknown episodes)
Kim Giancaterino	....	electronic graphic artist / title designer: end credits (unknown episodes)

Production Companies

• CCHTV
• Colossal Pictures
• MTV Animation
• MTV Networks
• Monte Carlo Productions

Distributors

• Music Television (MTV) (1991-1995) (USA) (TV)
• CCHTV
• Il Dreamo
• KBS Productions
• MuchMusic
• NHK
• Paramount Home Entertainment (1996) (Netherlands) (VHS)
• Paramount Home Entertainment (1998) (Netherlands) (VHS) ("Mission Infinite")
• Paramount Home Entertainment (1999) (Netherlands) (VHS) ("Operative Terminius")
• Paramount Home Entertainment (2006) (Netherlands) (DVD) (complete series)
• Rhapsody Video
• Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) (video)
• Steward
• YTV

Also Known As:

"Æon Flux" (USA) (alternative spelling)
"MTV's Æon Flux" (USA)

Runtime:

30 min (including commercials)

Country:

Hong Kong | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Canada:13+ (Quebec) (DVD) | Canada:14A (Manitoba) (DVD) | Australia:M (some episodes) | UK:15 (some epiosodes) | Germany:16 (DVD rating) | Singapore:NC-16 | Netherlands:16 | Argentina:13 | Australia:MA | Japan:R-18 | USA:TV-MA

Company:

CCHTV

Trivia:

Began as a series of short films for MTV. Each of these films, plus a couple of full episodes, ended with Aeon Flux being killed, with continuity being "rebooted" in the following episode. This angle was phased out over time. Plans for a second season were discussed, but as of 2005 have yet to be fulfilled.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Trevor Goodchild: The unobserved state is a fog of probabilities, a window of and for error. The watcher observes, the fog collapses, an event resolves. A theory becomes a fact... What is the truth? Tell me, if you know. And I will not believe you. Things are never what they seem. Clean gloves hide dirty hands - and mine are dirtier than most... Without truth, there can be no justice. Justice will be done!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Troldspejlet: (#35.7)" (2006)

A Twist On A Reality Not Often Seen....

It's a futuristic "White Rabbit" that comes to mind whenever I recall any episode of this "Liquid TV" born legend. The style wasn't bubbly or cute like 75% of the Anime you witness, it's lines were crude, bodies were awkward but it's feel was seductive.

I personally feel that the creators wanted to give the audience a constant view into the side of what we don't see all that often. Such movies as "Total Recall" and "Blade Runner" danced just outside of those unseen elements using them as sight-gags, AF exploited them in an incredible way....if you didn't understand what you were watching, it was only a matter of a partial storyline before you understood it.

When it was originally created, Aeon herself was silent, an occassional moan, groan or sigh - the TV series added new elements giving that much needed dialog and shedding evil light onto an already unimaginable world.

The action is intense, the storylines are fluid and entrancing, the voice acting is top-notch and it's lifespan was cut short to make way for the new generation clot with teenie-boppers, hip-hoppers and wannabes. If AF proved anything, aside from it's jaded stance on a futuristic world that puts "Mad Max" to shame - it's that MTV DID INDEED SELL-OUT....for those of us who spent countless hours trying to get the station to even rekindle just ONE MARATHON of "Liquid TV", know the heartache.