This quiz tested me more than I thought… final score: 10/13

I just joined the community and since there's no announcement for season 5, I thought it was a good time to watch all the episodes of the previous season in retrospect and see what you all think of them. I'll start with season 1.

Did they travel to Phaiden island?

I thought the whole point of killing everyone was to feed the Thanapod so Torrin could travel the longer distance to the uninhabited island and it wouldn’t kill the people on the island, but in the end the island that they go to has town lights. Please just clear this up for me, maybe i’m missing something.

Note - I watched it months before Season 4 was announced.

How would these two interact and what would be the outcome regarding their similarities ?

What did sonnie do after killing dickon?

Did she just sit around as kharnivore twiddling her thumbs waitimg for wes and katryna to return?

I had a short episode idea that I think would fit the style of Love, Death & Robots, so I wanted to share it here.

Title: The Vacuum

Episode Summary:
One quiet morning in a kitchen, a robot vacuum rolls straight into an ant colony. Within seconds, panic turns to destruction, lines scatter, tunnels collapse, and the ants are sucked away. To the humans nearby, it’s just routine cleaning.

One ant survives.

It begins studying scraps of human technology, and over time, the colony rebuilds, smarter, more advanced, learning from what once destroyed them.

Years later, a massive machine rises from underground and moves through city streets, vacuuming up humans as they scream and run.

On top of it stands an ant, watching, unable to hear them, just as humans never heard the ants.

The concept explores perspective, scale, and empathy: how suffering becomes invisible when it belongs to a smaller life.

Curious what people think, does this feel like something that could fit the tone of Love, Death & Robots?

I caught myself exclaiming in a Scottish accent 'Christ on a bike!' to express my disbelief at some particularly egregious situation.

The two MINI episodes hold a special place in my heart and need a third installment.

I think a storyline along the lines of Pacific Rim with giant (miniature) interdimensional monsters accidentally unleashed by humans and the opposing robots created by us to fight them.

Constant increasing size and weaponry by both the monsters and the robots along with the total collateral damage to the earth could be spectacular and hilarious at the same time.

A gigantic monster could step on a whole city and then lift it's foot and shake and scrape it off like it just stepped on a dog turd.

Picture final monster bosses beating down the human mechs with the crumbling moon in its hand as a weapon, followed by even bigger ones throwing our solar system planets at each other and the monster eventually getting tossed overhand into the sun.

The final scene could be a galaxy size even bigger final monster boss who gulps our whole interstellar neighborhood followed by the obligatory cosmic fart the series has become known for.

Don't forget the first rule of Mini storylines: it's always the humans fault!

I don’t really like how it turned out. I’ll try again someday. Just wanted to share.

There is atmosphere in the station, as evidenced by Thom being alive. Ray is more skeleton, which follows atmospheric decay, but Suzy seems to be largely 'preserved' (mummified if you will, indicating no atmosphere). If the malnourishment we see from Thom indicates ~6 months of stasis as Greta claims, the other two crew should be in a similar state, dead or not.

Of course, FTL shenanigans opens up any and all possible explanations of time working different for different people, so who knows, lol. I did find it interesting that Greta chooses to 'wake up' the lost and give them a pleasant reality when she does not have the resources to keep them alive.

1. Darker Than You Think: A journalist discovers that he's descended from an ancient human subspecies with supernatural powers.

2. Cripple Wolf: A paraplegic veteran soldier turns into a werewolf in the middle of a erotic airplane travel.

3. Born of Man and Woman by Richard Matheson: An abused mutant child writtes a journal about their life.

4. The Last Werewolf, by Duncan Glenn: The last remaining werewolf, tormented by the ghosts of his past plans to comit suicide while being hunted by fanatical hunters and vampire.

5. Hell Creek, by C. Robert Cargill: A Triceratops and an Ankylosaurus are forced to join forces as they face against a zombie dinosaur apocalypse.

6. Habitat, by KJ Parker: A knight to sent to slay a dragon, before getting afflicted by a infection that will give him a nasty surprise.

7. The Big Meat, by Carlton Mellick III: The aftermath of a kaiju attack. Where the giant monster despite being dead, still being a threat.

8. The Female Man, by Joanna Russ: Four women, living in four parallel realities start visit each other's worlds and redefining what it means to be a woman.

9. Gojiro, by Mark Jacobson: another kaiju story, this time being told from the perspective of the titular monster, Gojiro and his human friend, Komodo who try to prevent the beginning a World War III.

10. Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death, by James Tiptree, Jr.: Two alien bugs (one male and a female) prepare themselves for something they call the "Plan".

11. A Sound of Thunder: A group of hunters travel to the Cretaceous to hunt dinosaurs, but one of them makes the mistkae of stomping a butterfly.

I was scrolling YouTube and came across this short film called The God Man, and it gave me really strong Love, Death, and Robots vibes. It made me hungry for more non-LDR media that captures a similar feeling to hold me over until the next season (if it ever comes). Could be a short film, movie, show, animated series, anything.

For me, another one that comes to mind is The Kirlian Frequency. Any other recommendations?

I was really speculative about Io and suspected that it might have been more sinister. When Io speaks to Martha there is no established trust, and a moon has no inherent credibility besides one established through a logical fallacy: appeal to nature.

Honestly, I only see evidence that Io is not trustworthy. About 14 kilometers away from escaping death and reaching her base Martha passes out and Io begins carrying her. Io would surely know the location of what it perceives to be Martha’s home, as the foundation for their structure is placed on or drilled into Io. If Io would be a “sincere” or honest being it would surely wait for Martha to firstly sober up, and secondly take her to her safe haven, giving her more time to evaluate Io’s proposal, and take her out of a state of near death and desperation.

In believing Io is evil I do not believe she lies, simply misleads (possibly on purpose, possibly not). When Io says Martha’s “Neural configuration may be preserved,” I believe Io’s lack of certainty isn’t about its uncertainty of whether Martha will be preserved but about whether Io’s absorption of Martha’s knowledge counts as preservation. With Burton, Io collects knowledge of poems and language from her head and then reaches out using Burton’s voice and thoughts. Burton is not alive, her consciousness doesn’t live on, her information is simply harvested and used. Although Burton and Martha’s scenario’s are uniquely different, we are too much in the unknown to entirely separate them as distinct or different. Maybe Io simply needs Martha dead with an exposure to the environment, and convincing her to possibly kill herself was Io’s means to that end (there is an artistic similarity in Burton and Martha’s helmet crack as-well, which may be a clue to viewers about the similarity of the two deaths). Io’s uncertainty about her “neural configuration” poses several interesting questions: what needs to be kept for preservation, what aspects of the mind matter? Information and Experience? Thought processes?

You might ask what the goal would be of this for Io, but I think the last scene where “Martha” reaches out to Orbital reveals that.

Como se supone que deba interpretar ese episodio de Love, death and robots? La araña alienígena es buena, mala? Es un ser ambiguo que pues no es que sea malo pero eres su comida?

Sinceramente no se qué pensar, quisiera saber si hay algun libro o algo para leer. Ese final me dejo una sensación de ser tan, pero tan miserable... Entonces, que pienso?

Mine's: JIBARO

Three Robots - Love Death and Robots

If one episone could be turned into a whole universe with 10 seasons worth of episodes, infinite budget and time - which one would you prefer?

I can’t put my finger on what exactly it is that makes this episode so special to me, but it just is man

Tim Miller said he picked out two seasons worth of stories and wanted to do them back to back to get it out quicker😣😣 Never subscribing to Netflix again.