05-03-2017, 02:21 PM
Yeah, if only the French made more animated scifi. It's so damned weird\interesting when they do. I'm also cautiously hopeful about the upcoming Valerian movie, but there's still a lot that could go wrong with it.
As an aside, if you're interested in works exploring what it might be like to become gestalt entities, you should check out the "kids show" Steven Universe. I put "kids show" in quotes because it's legitimately better written, plotted, and characterized than the vast majority of adult shows. (It also gets rather intense at points.) As it goes on, one of the key plot devices is that the characters in the show can fuse together, becoming new independent entities which are more than the sum of their constituents. Beyond the plot applications, fusing is also used as a metaphor for a variety of things relating to relationships, including dating, sex, and even self-discovery.
Its handling of the concept overall is incredibly smart, and it even feels at points like a decent approximation of what being part of a (small) S/M/C might be like.
As an aside, if you're interested in works exploring what it might be like to become gestalt entities, you should check out the "kids show" Steven Universe. I put "kids show" in quotes because it's legitimately better written, plotted, and characterized than the vast majority of adult shows. (It also gets rather intense at points.) As it goes on, one of the key plot devices is that the characters in the show can fuse together, becoming new independent entities which are more than the sum of their constituents. Beyond the plot applications, fusing is also used as a metaphor for a variety of things relating to relationships, including dating, sex, and even self-discovery.
Its handling of the concept overall is incredibly smart, and it even feels at points like a decent approximation of what being part of a (small) S/M/C might be like.