IF you like this you might like PRIMAL. It's not as trippy. But it's an equally good story with even less dialogue. Great visual story telling, Very effective at eliciting emotion also.
The idea of a plant that operates almost like a piece of machinery and grows its own little creature to operate it is such a captivating concept. How it gives the little dude just enough life and just enough intelligence for it to carry out the single task that is required of it and once it serves it's purpose it's life comes to an end and the plants life begins. It lives because of it's creator. Then it dies for for it's creator. Uhg. This show I on another level of creative concepts. I really hope it does well enough to get another season.
The concept isn't new or the real take away... It's the inflections and mannerisms you see from character! Recognizably human traits seen from a non-human creature. Then the perceived acceptance of death. All provoking a reaction from across the whole emotional spectrum. And they never say a word! It's not another level of story telling! It's story showing... Which very few people have ever been exposed too! Fantastic Planet is another example! I find them all fascinating!
I liked this scene a lot. She said herself, it's not pointless. Beautiful little moment, and I love how the little alien guy looks at her multiple times and acknowledges her. They're aware of each other and living their own lives wether it's short or long.
@@Sacrifice117totally and utterly inconsequential? You must have forgot how it feeds into conflict between two main characters RIGHT after. Hahahahhaahahaah
Such a beautiful and melancholic scene. Absolutely got me. Especially when the music picked up and the little being finished its life cycle/gave its message to the protag. Chills.
little thing wakes up, selected a spore, uses it to activate the slots and the rest to head into them for a kind of weird 'polination' at the heart of the wall, then it lies down and dies, expending what little energy it possessed. buried.... yet it is implied that later at some point, at some time, it is revived to perform its task again, and again.
Such a strangely beautiful scene. What was this ritual/pollination? What is the purpose or goal? Why? And does it only do this when a person looks at it? Is this a loop/cycle or a singular event? The creature twice looked up or back at the main character, which makes me wonder what the connection is between 'it', the ritual and whomever is observing it? Ridiculously intriging scene in which seemingly 'nothing' happened or followed on it (yet), no clear cause OR effect, but it still felt poignant and meaningful.
@@wavewithus4081I get the feeling the whole planet is a biological machine. The flora and fauna all slot together in this weirdly synchronised interplay that's more elaborate and precise than the nature of our own world. The recurring theme is that of cycles. Something is born, performs its function then dies. And in death performs a final function. That in some way nourishes the environment around it. Think of the recurring white flower we see on every corpse. Scenes like this make it seem as through there is an engineers hand in all of it. These are the subroutines of the planet. They exist explicitly to perform a function, the uncertainty and chaos of life stripped away. It is born, it enacts its ritual under the gaze of another that it is aware of, then it dies and is reconstituted into the soil. It was purpose built for something. It didn't evolve. Thats what I get anyhow. Also there's a nice symmetry to the pirates here. Where the small humanoid, the Protagonist and the surrounding fauna all synchronise their breathing as the humanoid passes away. They share a connection as they observe the end of the ritual. Much the same way the pirates did for their trapped and dying member.
@@ozymandiasramesses1773 There's always a reason to stay in Samsara. It's not like you're going to feel anything when you blow out that candle - you're just going to be without pain. But understand that I would rather feel an eternity of pain and torment than absolutely nothing at all. Pain and suffering is merely the feeling that accompanies change, and without it, we stagnate. I follow neither the Mahayana who wish to become bodhisattvas, nor the Theravada who wish to become arhats, but Nietzsche, who taught me to live for myself and appreciate every moment of this beautiful existence regardless of its tormenting cycles. To feel and breathe and cling and desire is very much what it means to be alive.
My favorite aspect is that afterwards you’re with her and she’s just at a loss for words on how to describe this transcendental experience that she witnessed. I mean, how do you even begin to give a tl;dr to a guy in a hurry. There are just no words that will encapsulate this experience and we were there with her and even we couldn’t give a tl;dr to anyone who didn’t see it. For a moment we are really just in her shoes, crippled by language, limited on time that you would need to thoroughly explain this 2 minute event that may or may not be something that will happen to anyone else in the universe, ever again. What a powerful storytelling mechanic, worthy of everyone to see for themselves.
I love how the big-eyed creature with a short lifespan re-appears here. (it was also in the original short film, although in a different environment). And the fact that it's a part of a plant lifecycle and has to die in order for the plant to reproduce reminds me of how a certain species of wasp dies inside the fig plant's flower. Then the plant breaks down her carcass into nutrients so it can grow a fruit - yes, figs contain dead wasps. The more you know!
The breaking down of the wasps bodies isn’t required for the fruit to grow. It’s more so just a case of might as well use it if it’s there, opportunism is very much efficient, however it’s not obligatory for a fruit to ripen.
@@plat6164probably good you point out that commercial figs don’t require wasps… when I learned about the wasps I was about 8 years old and refused to eat figs for like 15 years until I somehow was convinced they didn’t have dead wasps in them.
@@jpe1 I read that unripe figs have strong enzymes that digest the wasp and that biting into a rock-hard unripe fig could cause chemical burns from those enzymes.
@@drandana3661There is a chance Netflix will pick up a second season if it sees enough viewers on the platform, so I say everyone who has already seen and loved it should rewatch it on Netflix
One of my favorite alien lifeforms in all of fiction. A microcosm of life itself, from birth to death... And this itself as an act of reproduction. What an honor it would be to witness the small creature fulfilling its purpose, and staying by its side as this cycle of its existence comes to an end. Something that can only ever feel lonely... But just this one time, it knew the comfort of companionship.
I want to express how much i related to this scene. I'm a biologist, and moments like this which seems like the plants reproduction can be a once in a life time opportunity to see. But something like this has happened to me in the forest where i saw two orange backed troupial males fighting it out over a female. It's immensly rare, and watching it felt like i was allowed to witness something rarely ever seen. The moment the little guy turns back to her almost just making sure she's not going to do anything is how i felt with the birds. They were aware of my presence but saw i was doing nothing and continued on with what was an immensly important day for them that i just stumbled upon. Nature is like this in so many ways and sometimes we go by things without even recognizing it so i really liked that they put in a character that took the time to watch something so special to another species.
I can't get over the small detail how she instinctively starts breathing with him. Such a human display of empathy. It's a reflex. For a few seconds, the whole world just breathes in one rhythm... This scene (and the whole show) is really something else...
The amount of detail is mind blowing. I love how you can see her eyes start to water at the last scene. These artist are amazing, same with the composer.
This is the kind of show that has been missing in sci-fi. From the art style to the story-telling, they did a job big budget movies wish they could do, but are too afraid to risk. I signed up for Max just to watch this show and i was not disappointed. Brilliant.
what's so great about it? all i saw was super lazy writing. "oh no another manufactured problem for the characters to solve! wonder how they'll do that! maybe work together and put their brains to the test. oh...they just...picked up a random living creature and it just turned into an airplane...okay then."
I'm into this. The sounds of the first episode made me feel like I was there. The openings and endings ease you into and out of each episode. The spilled-milk night sky was impressive. The density of the biodiversity is reminiscent of Space Dandy's "Plants are Living Things, Too, Baby". To make myself feel worse about the pollination scene, I wanna refer to the little guy as the three-calorie vestan, and I imagine his eyes alone burn through two of them. Every vocalization drove it closer to completing its life cycle. How much of its motion was wasted movement? When it looked at her, did it fear being attacked? Did she wake it too early? Does it have a symbiotic relationship with the structure? During the synchronized breathing, was Ursula having a sympathetic experience, or was she in danger of dying? I wonder if the plant is nourished by the little guy's passing.
For me it was a strange experience, I suddenly realized that unconsciously for a moment I was breathing deeply and in synchrony too, what a great show!
Dudeeeeeee the sounds in the first episode we're mind-blowing. Just so captivating and fit so well with how strange and otherworldly the visuals were. The whole series is amazing but that first episode was a huge stand out for me. Maybe because it was the first taste of what this world had to offer So the effect it had on me was stronger. Idk. Going into the series totally blind I was not prepared for the level of of world building that I was in for.
Ursula breathed with it in the same way the structure around breathed. It's a sympathetic experience because the creation of this life for this sole purpose is a sacred thing. It's a sacred moment, and the entire environment honors it by experiencing the creature's last breaths with it, so it's not alone in it's sacred mission. Ursula just went with the flow of the life around her, but fully.
Started watching this with my mom, and when we got to this scene we both sat in stunned silence. Do I fully understand what’s happening? No. Is it gorgeous anyway? Yes.
wow. what in the holy fuck. I'm watching this completely bereft of context because I've literally never heard of this show until just now, and yet I'm in tears. I need to watch this show immediately.
I freaking love this part. I have watched it several times. My jaw dropped when i saw it for the first time. It came out of nowhere. The music is amazing. Whoever thought this up in their mind must have a crazy imagination.
The part where it's dying. She breathes with it; the entire plant breathes with it; the whole world breathes with it. Then it's over and it is tenderly buried and re-absorbed.
I don’t even know what this show is where it’s from, but just watching this clip has me filled with a determination to keep going, to live my life with purpose, just like that creature did. Rock on little dude.
This isn't Lovecraftian in the slightest, but fundamentally and deeply human. In Hindu and Buddhist traditions, the Lotus flower is highly revered as a divine symbol. In the most septic conditions possible, this perfect, elegant, fragrant flower grows, like order emerging from chaos. The lotus in this scene comes from the heart of twisted brambles, and suspended at its core is the cycle of life and death. There is nothing alien about this scene.
It is obviously preparation for something she will have to do during the series finale. Crack open some floaty magic bean and insert the starfish into the alien device. So obvious. 😂
Not Lovecraftian. And can we stop comparing any piece of sci-fi or horror as Lovecraftian? H.P. Lovecraft has a few very good stories but was an open racist and anti-Semite and honestly doesn’t really deserve the amount of hype he gets.
@@hellocoe Good point but as someone who has made a few popular Lists on Imdb, i can tell you that this will never happen. People will always use some kind of reference. Depending on their age and viewing experience, they will use some reference title. For example, the awful 1996 Hackers movie as a reference for comparisons, even against Mr Robot. Haiiiya!
Such an incredible scene that brings the themes of the show into focus. A small creature is born, chooses something beautiful to succeed it, then dies, nourishing the new world in death. I haven't stopped thinking about it for weeks.
It’s like the plant was waiting for her. Like it needed a witness to bloom… someone who could appreciate the beauty of the process and thereby bring life to it. I wouldn’t have thought that except for when the little creature looks back at her. It’s almost like they’re checking to see if she’s paying attention.
This show is a masterpiece. I wasn't expecting much from it when I began watching it but yea this will be one of the greats. I hope other shows learn from this master class of a show. Bravo.
I think that this is the most amazing scene ever, made more mysterious by a quote earlier in the episode: 'I think we can't help the instinct to give meaning to things we don't understand.' She said that and then immediately witnesses this. Such a cool and wholesome scene. Thank you for sharing it!
I was so captivated by this show that when this scene happened, I just started crying a lot. This scene broke my brain. This is unmitigated creativity.
This is one of the best depictions of a psychedelic experience I've ever seen! It has that awe-inspiring, mind-blowing quality, yet it still makes perfect sense.
I remember when I first watched this scene I couldn't close my mouth It would just there wide open and I couldn't believe the thing i'm watching an unbelievable sense of awe and wonder
I agree with some others here. This is the point where I really sat up and realised how great this show is. Pure Moebius in its weird aesthetic. This scene also conveyed the thought that the planet was trying to talk to the humans but it was just so alien. A Great and satisfying ending too. I really hope they do a season 2 but I suspect it left a lot of critics cold. Film and animation critics generally hate sci fi.
This scene is so powerful to me. The meaning in our seemingly mundane actions and the oneness of all beings with the breathing. So many symbols and metaphors that each time I watch it, something new presents itself. Thanks for posting this✌
The planet feels like the dominant higher life form on it at some point re integrated itself and its tech back into the”natural order”of the planet to save it.
This was the strangest shit in the entire series, not the giant telekinetic frog, not Levi's journey to sentience, and not the weird flower that kept showing up. It was this scene right here, and it was also the most beautiful.
For me this little guy is the enxtension of the plant, like the plant (not just the flower part) tranfer his consciouscness into a physical form, who have the ability, the vision , to select the best egss to "polinise" or revitilise her, maybe to share some equivalent of our genetic code to evolve... after selecting the best eggs , like the way a single sperm can fertilize an egg and the others are eliminated , the other globe return to their bases and then two possibilities are possible ; 1. The little guy die and the counsciescness come back into the plant 2. The little guy is the old plant and he puted the new one in a "larva" form into the receptacle
the fact that i nearly CRIED to this is a testament to how well made it was. i havent cried to a show/movie since like, 2014. and this nearly broke that.
I loved the original animation, love Charles Huettner. You can't know just how happy I am that Charles got a whole show expanding the idea. Finished the series, I thought it was beautiful. Bias or not, if you need something to watch, get a max subscription for this alone. Goddamn
I do think that he IS the plant. Watch as it expands and retracts with his dying breath. He obviously returned to the source and became one once again.
the worldbuilding in this god damn series is so fascinating it gives me genuine goosebumps, paired with the amazing ost, animation, and writing I actually don't think I have seen any other series with worldbuilding as good. Even One Piece heavily regarded as peak worldbuilding in my personal opinion doesn't compare to the amount of detail put into each and every scene environment and interaction. 10/10 show must watch
@@Lazer_puppy you obviously didnt watch very much at all if you thought this meant anything. it had zero impact on the characters after this scene, literally as if the writers forgot about it.
@@Sacrifice117literally no impact? You mean it had no impact on Ursula and Sam trusting each other? Sam clearly had an issue with her stopping and gawking. You mean you don't think this plays into how Ursula views the planet at the end of the show? What's more, are you so stupid as to think shows can't stop for a moment to be ART?
@@Sacrifice117 1) Ursula again realized how real life and death are; it also led to a conflict between 2 main characters - Sam and her; 2) not everything's about the characters. or let me put it another way: there's another main character present in every episode except the humans and Levi, it's the planet itself, Vesta, showing itself in its life forms.
Ursual breathing in unison with the creature, then the whole forest doing so... It was unbelievable, I legit cried, not even knowing why. What if she didn't touch that branch? Did she start the cycle too early or just in time? If so, who was doing it before her? Those birds, who would be attracted by light, bumping into the branch accidentally, thus renewing the cycle? So many question. I wish i had answers, but I also kind of like the feeling of mystery that lingers after you finish watching. I want season 2 so bad. Wish me luck to stay alive and free in putin's Russia
true i need my daily dose of "manufactured problem for our characters to solve by using random living creatures instead of their intellectual capabilities". honestly super hilarious for the writers to do that, make a mostly female cast of "badasses" that end up doing nothing badass at all and are just using the environment that magically caters to them to their advantage.
Manufactured problems. Yes. 12 episodes to showcase an entire planets biology as best they can. Hmmmm. I wonder how one can do that. You're so dense it's astounding. Rofl
@@Elitest2 "you're so dense it's astounding. rofl" that's extremely ironic because you're sitting here making maximum excuses for a garbage TV show and your garbage excuse is "uhhh duh they cant show EVERYTHING in 12 episodes" like what tf are you even talking about? what does that have to do with poor writing?
@Sacrifice117 you keep saying poor writing poor writing. Sadly, you can only come up with ill-conceived complaints about how they interact with the environment. I asked for inconsistencies. You didn't provide any. You complain that they are too quick to adapt, even though the show makes it clear that they have been there for a LONG time. The biology they interact with with menial obstacles seems to irk you.. why? Because you're too dense to realize those menial obstacles aren't necessary for the plot. You complain about poor writing regarding things that aren't even significant plot devices. But wait.. aren't you ignoring the 3 or more times the characters DIDNT have it all figured out? The cloning plant? The mind control seed? The underwater bugs? The storm? You know?? The things they committed whole episodes to them solving their way through? You're such a complete imbecile it shocks me.
Fickin loved this show. The flora and fauna they designed for this alien planet and the various ways they interact with each other are really fun to behold. Would watch a documentary about it ^^
Every life form needs a cycle here. For this gigantic white branches living being, it takes a little alien to be born and die for seconds just to rewind itself to enter another cycle. It dies and reborns inside the same shell.
Imagine the magnitudes of immortality you’d have in comparison to this little fella, could he understand such a thing. Here’s here not even alive for five minutes, but yet the sheer scale of making a human as being nine months- literally unthinkable. What’s an hour? A day? A year to such a short lived thing? By the time you’d explained what our sense of time scale even means to it- it’d already be dead. You, as some unfathomable thing, merely observe the totality of its being with a sense of time and space literally beyond its comprehension. Briefly, you are the cosmic horror dwelling in forces beyond its world, merely watching, but with thoughts, ideas, and plans far beyond its tiny, mere short life.
Ja perdi as contas de quantas vezes eu assiti a está mesma cena.... Fascinante cara, para mim a cena mais fantástica da animação. A ideia do processo de polinização das plantas neste anime é incrível, uma criaturinha cujo o único propósito de vida é ajudar a planta que lhe deu vida a se reproduzir e levar adiante o seu ciclo, uma vez que concluído, ele morre... Cara, não tenho palavras para descrever o que sentir ao ver essa cena pela primeira vez, a reação da personagem resume um pouco de como eu fiquei aqui kkkk
I just finished watching this show & it was amazming. I pretty much binged watched the entire show in a few days bc I was that hooked & it was that good...I really hope we get a second season and by the end of the last episode it seems they were setting it up for that... But dam I do have a lot of questions about the things that happened in this show...so many unexplained things!!
What's particularly noteworthy is that this is a direct reference to the original short Scavengers, where a similar creature performs a task and dies after
Good eye, unlike the short, it's urselas first time seeing something so tragic yet beautiful. In the short animation, the two survivors have seen this done a dozen times and stared at it blankly
Alien:"What is my purpose"
Flower: "You pollinate"
Alien (looks at hands): "oh my good"
Hahah I see what you did there ;) I guess better than passing butter eh
oooh, Regan n'Martin Referedence, favorite anime, I like the where is ma'Ze shian sauce, wubaa luba nutnut
Welcome to the club pal
Regan n martin omg you crack me up @@r.t.8640
This show is on a level of story telling you get one every 10 years
So, a new " The Big Lez Show ". Great I've been waiting so long!
1,000 years
IF you like this you might like PRIMAL.
It's not as trippy.
But it's an equally good story with even less dialogue.
Great visual story telling,
Very effective at eliciting emotion also.
Pantheon was this level too
@@CordellPottsfactsss wellsaid🗣
The idea of a plant that operates almost like a piece of machinery and grows its own little creature to operate it is such a captivating concept. How it gives the little dude just enough life and just enough intelligence for it to carry out the single task that is required of it and once it serves it's purpose it's life comes to an end and the plants life begins. It lives because of it's creator. Then it dies for for it's creator. Uhg. This show I on another level of creative concepts. I really hope it does well enough to get another season.
Really fascinating break down of what’s happening here.
I assumed it was another example of symbiotic evolution, which there seems to be a ton of on this planet.
@@PorusHorusGood hypothesis. Considering during the trailer there was a different plant with a creature inside.
The concept isn't new or the real take away... It's the inflections and mannerisms you see from character! Recognizably human traits seen from a non-human creature. Then the perceived acceptance of death. All provoking a reaction from across the whole emotional spectrum. And they never say a word! It's not another level of story telling! It's story showing... Which very few people have ever been exposed too! Fantastic Planet is another example! I find them all fascinating!
Beautiful description of this! Thank you!
I liked this scene a lot. She said herself, it's not pointless. Beautiful little moment, and I love how the little alien guy looks at her multiple times and acknowledges her. They're aware of each other and living their own lives wether it's short or long.
I love this comment
ironically the moment was totally and utterly inconsequential to the plot.
@@Sacrifice117totally and utterly inconsequential?
You must have forgot how it feeds into conflict between two main characters RIGHT after. Hahahahhaahahaah
@@Elitest2 yes and it has the opposite effect. now the female character doesnt care about slowing down but sam does. ya'll are really on the spectrum.
@@Sacrifice117 not even sure what you're saying here. Shake your head a few times and get back to me
Such a beautiful and melancholic scene. Absolutely got me. Especially when the music picked up and the little being finished its life cycle/gave its message to the protag. Chills.
little thing wakes up, selected a spore, uses it to activate the slots and the rest to head into them for a kind of weird 'polination' at the heart of the wall, then it lies down and dies, expending what little energy it possessed. buried....
yet it is implied that later at some point, at some time, it is revived to perform its task again, and again.
Such a strangely beautiful scene. What was this ritual/pollination? What is the purpose or goal? Why? And does it only do this when a person looks at it? Is this a loop/cycle or a singular event? The creature twice looked up or back at the main character, which makes me wonder what the connection is between 'it', the ritual and whomever is observing it?
Ridiculously intriging scene in which seemingly 'nothing' happened or followed on it (yet), no clear cause OR effect, but it still felt poignant and meaningful.
@@wavewithus4081I get the feeling the whole planet is a biological machine. The flora and fauna all slot together in this weirdly synchronised interplay that's more elaborate and precise than the nature of our own world.
The recurring theme is that of cycles. Something is born, performs its function then dies. And in death performs a final function. That in some way nourishes the environment around it. Think of the recurring white flower we see on every corpse.
Scenes like this make it seem as through there is an engineers hand in all of it. These are the subroutines of the planet. They exist explicitly to perform a function, the uncertainty and chaos of life stripped away. It is born, it enacts its ritual under the gaze of another that it is aware of, then it dies and is reconstituted into the soil.
It was purpose built for something. It didn't evolve.
Thats what I get anyhow.
Also there's a nice symmetry to the pirates here. Where the small humanoid, the Protagonist and the surrounding fauna all synchronise their breathing as the humanoid passes away.
They share a connection as they observe the end of the ritual. Much the same way the pirates did for their trapped and dying member.
Я, если честно, очень боялась, что они используют человека, как ходячий инкубатор для их спор. Но вроде, обошлось.
We actually don't know what he did and does he has died or not. It's an alien world with it's own rules. Maybe he just went to hibernation once again.
The cycle of life and death suspended on a lotus flower found in the depths of chaos.
Well put ❤
Buddism?
@@Opoyu I believe it's actually more Vedic, as it's seen in both Buddhism and Hinduism.
Could she have already reached enlightenment here and instead chose to stay with Sam in debt.
@@ozymandiasramesses1773 There's always a reason to stay in Samsara. It's not like you're going to feel anything when you blow out that candle - you're just going to be without pain. But understand that I would rather feel an eternity of pain and torment than absolutely nothing at all. Pain and suffering is merely the feeling that accompanies change, and without it, we stagnate. I follow neither the Mahayana who wish to become bodhisattvas, nor the Theravada who wish to become arhats, but Nietzsche, who taught me to live for myself and appreciate every moment of this beautiful existence regardless of its tormenting cycles. To feel and breathe and cling and desire is very much what it means to be alive.
My favorite aspect is that afterwards you’re with her and she’s just at a loss for words on how to describe this transcendental experience that she witnessed. I mean, how do you even begin to give a tl;dr to a guy in a hurry. There are just no words that will encapsulate this experience and we were there with her and even we couldn’t give a tl;dr to anyone who didn’t see it. For a moment we are really just in her shoes, crippled by language, limited on time that you would need to thoroughly explain this 2 minute event that may or may not be something that will happen to anyone else in the universe, ever again. What a powerful storytelling mechanic, worthy of everyone to see for themselves.
Tldr: this weird plant made a tiny guy to add some more balls to it and then the little guy died and got buried then the flower closed
@@marcxworld5708this does not make justice to what actually happened or how she felt while witnessing it tho….
That little guy is essentially me getting up in the middle of the night to put on the air conditioning.
I love how the big-eyed creature with a short lifespan re-appears here. (it was also in the original short film, although in a different environment).
And the fact that it's a part of a plant lifecycle and has to die in order for the plant to reproduce reminds me of how a certain species of wasp dies inside the fig plant's flower. Then the plant breaks down her carcass into nutrients so it can grow a fruit - yes, figs contain dead wasps. The more you know!
Important to note that the commercialized figs you eat don't require dead bugs
The breaking down of the wasps bodies isn’t required for the fruit to grow. It’s more so just a case of might as well use it if it’s there, opportunism is very much efficient, however it’s not obligatory for a fruit to ripen.
@@plat6164probably good you point out that commercial figs don’t require wasps… when I learned about the wasps I was about 8 years old and refused to eat figs for like 15 years until I somehow was convinced they didn’t have dead wasps in them.
@@jpe1 I read that unripe figs have strong enzymes that digest the wasp and that biting into a rock-hard unripe fig could cause chemical burns from those enzymes.
@@janbaer3241 wow, I didn’t know that, definitely good advice to avoid unripe figs!
This is when the show just turns into a masterpiece. I hope we get a second season but it’s just perfect as is.
The ending supposed a 2nd season, unless
Spoilerrrrr
Why are they showing us the girl in the space with a weird cult asking for water?
@@ft6840 here for it
I have such sad news for you. I'm very upset about it
@@drandana3661actualy, netflix bought it and if becomes popular they will make a s 2
@@drandana3661There is a chance Netflix will pick up a second season if it sees enough viewers on the platform, so I say everyone who has already seen and loved it should rewatch it on Netflix
One of my favorite alien lifeforms in all of fiction. A microcosm of life itself, from birth to death... And this itself as an act of reproduction. What an honor it would be to witness the small creature fulfilling its purpose, and staying by its side as this cycle of its existence comes to an end. Something that can only ever feel lonely... But just this one time, it knew the comfort of companionship.
I want to express how much i related to this scene. I'm a biologist, and moments like this which seems like the plants reproduction can be a once in a life time opportunity to see. But something like this has happened to me in the forest where i saw two orange backed troupial males fighting it out over a female. It's immensly rare, and watching it felt like i was allowed to witness something rarely ever seen. The moment the little guy turns back to her almost just making sure she's not going to do anything is how i felt with the birds. They were aware of my presence but saw i was doing nothing and continued on with what was an immensly important day for them that i just stumbled upon. Nature is like this in so many ways and sometimes we go by things without even recognizing it so i really liked that they put in a character that took the time to watch something so special to another species.
The details of Ursula's eyes tearing up and lips trembling when lil dude is buried gets me every time.
I love this scene so much
I can't get over the small detail how she instinctively starts breathing with him. Such a human display of empathy. It's a reflex. For a few seconds, the whole world just breathes in one rhythm... This scene (and the whole show) is really something else...
The feeling of "i just witnessed a miracle" is so palpable!
When you feel the same awe and wonder that the character feels, something special happened.
The amount of detail is mind blowing. I love how you can see her eyes start to water at the last scene.
These artist are amazing, same with the composer.
This is the kind of show that has been missing in sci-fi. From the art style to the story-telling, they did a job big budget movies wish they could do, but are too afraid to risk. I signed up for Max just to watch this show and i was not disappointed. Brilliant.
what's so great about it? all i saw was super lazy writing. "oh no another manufactured problem for the characters to solve! wonder how they'll do that! maybe work together and put their brains to the test. oh...they just...picked up a random living creature and it just turned into an airplane...okay then."
@@Sacrifice117
you might be clinically stupid
@@Sacrifice117how old are u?
I'm into this. The sounds of the first episode made me feel like I was there. The openings and endings ease you into and out of each episode. The spilled-milk night sky was impressive. The density of the biodiversity is reminiscent of Space Dandy's "Plants are Living Things, Too, Baby".
To make myself feel worse about the pollination scene, I wanna refer to the little guy as the three-calorie vestan, and I imagine his eyes alone burn through two of them. Every vocalization drove it closer to completing its life cycle. How much of its motion was wasted movement? When it looked at her, did it fear being attacked? Did she wake it too early? Does it have a symbiotic relationship with the structure? During the synchronized breathing, was Ursula having a sympathetic experience, or was she in danger of dying? I wonder if the plant is nourished by the little guy's passing.
I love love love the questions you’re asking here
For me it was a strange experience, I suddenly realized that unconsciously for a moment I was breathing deeply and in synchrony too, what a great show!
Dudeeeeeee the sounds in the first episode we're mind-blowing. Just so captivating and fit so well with how strange and otherworldly the visuals were. The whole series is amazing but that first episode was a huge stand out for me. Maybe because it was the first taste of what this world had to offer So the effect it had on me was stronger. Idk. Going into the series totally blind I was not prepared for the level of of world building that I was in for.
Great Space Dandy episode
Ursula breathed with it in the same way the structure around breathed.
It's a sympathetic experience because the creation of this life for this sole purpose is a sacred thing. It's a sacred moment, and the entire environment honors it by experiencing the creature's last breaths with it, so it's not alone in it's sacred mission. Ursula just went with the flow of the life around her, but fully.
This show is a gem. "Prometheus directed by Moebius". Can't wait for season 2.
Lol nice succinct analogy
if it doesn't get canceled first. It's on HBO so don't get your hopes up...
@@Red-Magic it needs canceled, it's garbage being fed to morons.
@Boulanger948 dude no fucking way! Has it been cancelled ?
Started watching this with my mom, and when we got to this scene we both sat in stunned silence. Do I fully understand what’s happening? No. Is it gorgeous anyway? Yes.
Everyones breathing synchronizing is beautiful
wow. what in the holy fuck. I'm watching this completely bereft of context because I've literally never heard of this show until just now, and yet I'm in tears. I need to watch this show immediately.
SR and The Blue Eyed Samurai in a same year is crazy! Best adult animation in decades.
I freaking love this part. I have watched it several times. My jaw dropped when i saw it for the first time. It came out of nowhere. The music is amazing. Whoever thought this up in their mind must have a crazy imagination.
The part where it's dying. She breathes with it; the entire plant breathes with it; the whole world breathes with it. Then it's over and it is tenderly buried and re-absorbed.
I don’t even know what this show is where it’s from, but just watching this clip has me filled with a determination to keep going, to live my life with purpose, just like that creature did. Rock on little dude.
Called scavenger reign. It’s on HBO and Netflix. HBO canceled it but Netflix picked it up recently
This show was actually amazing. The animation is stunning. The story is great. Top tier sci-fi.
Pantheon is the only thing that comes remotely close
did they just refrenced the Dune in the last scene? the giant spaceship with figures very similar to Dunes Bene Gesserit?
@@-slt i got dune and warhammer 40k vibes
When u can’t describe or even fathom what u just saw lol a true lovecraftian experience ❤️
and it wasn't even hideious or anything. simply strange, and alien.
This isn't Lovecraftian in the slightest, but fundamentally and deeply human. In Hindu and Buddhist traditions, the Lotus flower is highly revered as a divine symbol. In the most septic conditions possible, this perfect, elegant, fragrant flower grows, like order emerging from chaos. The lotus in this scene comes from the heart of twisted brambles, and suspended at its core is the cycle of life and death. There is nothing alien about this scene.
It is obviously preparation for something she will have to do during the series finale. Crack open some floaty magic bean and insert the starfish into the alien device. So obvious. 😂
Not Lovecraftian. And can we stop comparing any piece of sci-fi or horror as Lovecraftian? H.P. Lovecraft has a few very good stories but was an open racist and anti-Semite and honestly doesn’t really deserve the amount of hype he gets.
@@hellocoe Good point but as someone who has made a few popular Lists on Imdb, i can tell you that this will never happen. People will always use some kind of reference. Depending on their age and viewing experience, they will use some reference title. For example, the awful 1996 Hackers movie as a reference for comparisons, even against Mr Robot. Haiiiya!
Such an incredible scene that brings the themes of the show into focus. A small creature is born, chooses something beautiful to succeed it, then dies, nourishing the new world in death. I haven't stopped thinking about it for weeks.
This scene is so beautiful, I couldn't help but breathe with them.
It’s like the plant was waiting for her. Like it needed a witness to bloom… someone who could appreciate the beauty of the process and thereby bring life to it. I wouldn’t have thought that except for when the little creature looks back at her. It’s almost like they’re checking to see if she’s paying attention.
I can’t stop watching. This is artistic perfection
first time in a couple years ive sat there in silence after a clip like this, seriously blew me away absolutely love this
This show is a masterpiece. I wasn't expecting much from it when I began watching it but yea this will be one of the greats. I hope other shows learn from this master class of a show. Bravo.
Absolutely Masterpiece and there is no even a single
decade of a minute when nothing happens to turn your head from screen while watching this show…
The depressing space turtle sent me to the right place🫡
I too am here from the turtle.
The moment that this show changed me forever
Ive seen a lot of good shows, but its rare that a scene leaves me speechless. This show was a masterpiece.
This show is a masterpiece and I hate it's being overlooked, such a deep mix of cosmic & body horror and human psychology.
I think that this is the most amazing scene ever, made more mysterious by a quote earlier in the episode: 'I think we can't help the instinct to give meaning to things we don't understand.' She said that and then immediately witnesses this. Such a cool and wholesome scene. Thank you for sharing it!
thanks space turtle
Love how little dude looks up at her like "Oh! Hello there! .. Now where was I.."
I was high out my mind watching this, one of the coolest things I have seen on TV
So was I.
same and it did nothing for me at all. this was the most boring and lazy writing i've ever experienced. it literally killed my buzz.
@@Sacrifice117 well then I don’t think we watched the same show.
@Boulanger948 i didnt watch this scene again, i just came to make fun of it.
@Boulanger948 that's really ironic because you're here claiming that my comments are "bait" yet you apparently fell for it. have fun being autistic!
Since I first saw this scene, I haven’t been able to get it out of my mind. It’s so beautiful.
I was so captivated by this show that when this scene happened, I just started crying a lot. This scene broke my brain. This is unmitigated creativity.
That was incredible. I can't believe what I just saw.
Such a beautifully put together scene. The whole show is more like an experience than something you just watch.
This is one of the best depictions of a psychedelic experience I've ever seen! It has that awe-inspiring, mind-blowing quality, yet it still makes perfect sense.
*[cries]* Such a beautiful scene!
Me before seeing this show: What the hell am I watching
Me after seeing this scene: I never thought I needed to see it
Seems like Ursulla for the first time in her life looked at local fauna creature not like at a tool, but like at a living creature.
I remember when I first watched this scene I couldn't close my mouth It would just there wide open and I couldn't believe the thing i'm watching an unbelievable sense of awe and wonder
Thos show was perfect and needed it gave me gendys primal vibess⚡️
I agree with some others here. This is the point where I really sat up and realised how great this show is. Pure Moebius in its weird aesthetic. This scene also conveyed the thought that the planet was trying to talk to the humans but it was just so alien. A Great and satisfying ending too. I really hope they do a season 2 but I suspect it left a lot of critics cold. Film and animation critics generally hate sci fi.
This scene alone deserves an award....
This scene is so powerful to me. The meaning in our seemingly mundane actions and the oneness of all beings with the breathing. So many symbols and metaphors that each time I watch it, something new presents itself. Thanks for posting this✌
Every single scene is a crazy lsd trip that im bewildered a human created
The planet feels like the dominant higher life form on it at some point re integrated itself and its tech back into the”natural order”of the planet to save it.
He was born, he worked, he died.
It's like who made this magnificent piece of art can't be a human!!
This was the strangest shit in the entire series, not the giant telekinetic frog, not Levi's journey to sentience, and not the weird flower that kept showing up.
It was this scene right here, and it was also the most beautiful.
This is life. Your life is as short as this creature is to us as the universe is to us. Do your thing and let the cycle continue.
My most memorable scene from the show
For me this little guy is the enxtension of the plant, like the plant (not just the flower part) tranfer his consciouscness into a physical form, who have the ability, the vision , to select the best egss to "polinise" or revitilise her, maybe to share some equivalent of our genetic code to evolve... after selecting the best eggs , like the way a single sperm can fertilize an egg and the others are eliminated , the other globe return to their bases and then two possibilities are possible ;
1. The little guy die and the counsciescness come back into the plant
2. The little guy is the old plant and he puted the new one in a "larva" form into the receptacle
From the source comes form, into the source the form disperses
the fact that i nearly CRIED to this is a testament to how well made it was. i havent cried to a show/movie since like, 2014. and this nearly broke that.
Beautiful scene
My eyes watered a bit when I saw this, I had to rewatch it again right away
What a Masterpiece, I'm still waiting for a trailer to a second season
I loved the original animation, love Charles Huettner. You can't know just how happy I am that Charles got a whole show expanding the idea. Finished the series, I thought it was beautiful. Bias or not, if you need something to watch, get a max subscription for this alone. Goddamn
The feel of this series is reminiscent of the Heavy Metal film of the early 80s to me. This is like what I always wanted it to be. It's that good.
Some of the visuals remind me of Nausicaa
Incredibly beautiful and sad at the same time...
Wow based on this alone im going to go watch it now
When the wall is breathing with her .. wild
“What is my purpose?”
“You put the red thing in the hole and die”
“Oh my God”
I do think that he IS the plant. Watch as it expands and retracts with his dying breath. He obviously returned to the source and became one once again.
the worldbuilding in this god damn series is so fascinating it gives me genuine goosebumps, paired with the amazing ost, animation, and writing I actually don't think I have seen any other series with worldbuilding as good. Even One Piece heavily regarded as peak worldbuilding in my personal opinion doesn't compare to the amount of detail put into each and every scene environment and interaction. 10/10 show must watch
ill never question why things become successful. consumers are just really dumb.
@@Sacrifice117
You're clearly an idiot.
Don't think about what it means. Just think about how it makes you feel.
it makes me feel like the writers had to fill 10 minutes of time with a meaningless scene
@@Sacrifice117 🤣🤣🤣🤣 If you think this scene is meaningless you probably weren't paying attention
@@Lazer_puppy you obviously didnt watch very much at all if you thought this meant anything. it had zero impact on the characters after this scene, literally as if the writers forgot about it.
@@Sacrifice117literally no impact?
You mean it had no impact on Ursula and Sam trusting each other? Sam clearly had an issue with her stopping and gawking.
You mean you don't think this plays into how Ursula views the planet at the end of the show?
What's more, are you so stupid as to think shows can't stop for a moment to be ART?
@@Sacrifice117 1) Ursula again realized how real life and death are; it also led to a conflict between 2 main characters - Sam and her; 2) not everything's about the characters. or let me put it another way: there's another main character present in every episode except the humans and Levi, it's the planet itself, Vesta, showing itself in its life forms.
Ursual breathing in unison with the creature, then the whole forest doing so... It was unbelievable, I legit cried, not even knowing why. What if she didn't touch that branch? Did she start the cycle too early or just in time? If so, who was doing it before her? Those birds, who would be attracted by light, bumping into the branch accidentally, thus renewing the cycle? So many question. I wish i had answers, but I also kind of like the feeling of mystery that lingers after you finish watching. I want season 2 so bad. Wish me luck to stay alive and free in putin's Russia
Damn, good luck. I hope you’re doing good, you and every other regular person involved in that war.
The US need more Adult Animation like this
The world does
true i need my daily dose of "manufactured problem for our characters to solve by using random living creatures instead of their intellectual capabilities". honestly super hilarious for the writers to do that, make a mostly female cast of "badasses" that end up doing nothing badass at all and are just using the environment that magically caters to them to their advantage.
Manufactured problems.
Yes. 12 episodes to showcase an entire planets biology as best they can. Hmmmm. I wonder how one can do that.
You're so dense it's astounding. Rofl
@@Elitest2 "you're so dense it's astounding. rofl" that's extremely ironic because you're sitting here making maximum excuses for a garbage TV show and your garbage excuse is "uhhh duh they cant show EVERYTHING in 12 episodes" like what tf are you even talking about? what does that have to do with poor writing?
@Sacrifice117 you keep saying poor writing poor writing.
Sadly, you can only come up with ill-conceived complaints about how they interact with the environment.
I asked for inconsistencies. You didn't provide any.
You complain that they are too quick to adapt, even though the show makes it clear that they have been there for a LONG time.
The biology they interact with with menial obstacles seems to irk you.. why? Because you're too dense to realize those menial obstacles aren't necessary for the plot. You complain about poor writing regarding things that aren't even significant plot devices.
But wait.. aren't you ignoring the 3 or more times the characters DIDNT have it all figured out?
The cloning plant? The mind control seed? The underwater bugs? The storm?
You know?? The things they committed whole episodes to them solving their way through?
You're such a complete imbecile it shocks me.
Fickin loved this show. The flora and fauna they designed for this alien planet and the various ways they interact with each other are really fun to behold. Would watch a documentary about it ^^
Favorite scene of the season.👏🏻
That little noise the pollinator makes @1:18 is so cute. It's like " whaaaa I've never encountered your kind before".
Ursula just watched the saddest Pixar short in real time.
Every life form needs a cycle here. For this gigantic white branches living being, it takes a little alien to be born and die for seconds just to rewind itself to enter another cycle. It dies and reborns inside the same shell.
amazing scene, and the soundtrack really sends it.
Imagine the magnitudes of immortality you’d have in comparison to this little fella, could he understand such a thing. Here’s here not even alive for five minutes, but yet the sheer scale of making a human as being nine months- literally unthinkable. What’s an hour? A day? A year to such a short lived thing? By the time you’d explained what our sense of time scale even means to it- it’d already be dead. You, as some unfathomable thing, merely observe the totality of its being with a sense of time and space literally beyond its comprehension. Briefly, you are the cosmic horror dwelling in forces beyond its world, merely watching, but with thoughts, ideas, and plans far beyond its tiny, mere short life.
Did anyone else cry when seeing this?
Such a beautiful scene...
When you can't stop watching, you know you got a keeper. Its so mesmerizing.
Why can’t I stop watching this
This is so amazing.
Ja perdi as contas de quantas vezes eu assiti a está mesma cena.... Fascinante cara, para mim a cena mais fantástica da animação. A ideia do processo de polinização das plantas neste anime é incrível, uma criaturinha cujo o único propósito de vida é ajudar a planta que lhe deu vida a se reproduzir e levar adiante o seu ciclo, uma vez que concluído, ele morre... Cara, não tenho palavras para descrever o que sentir ao ver essa cena pela primeira vez, a reação da personagem resume um pouco de como eu fiquei aqui kkkk
crazy if this asa something as a "simply" Pollination & nothing more but because this planet is SOO alien we put meaning into it
I just finished watching this show & it was amazming. I pretty much binged watched the entire show in a few days bc I was that hooked & it was that good...I really hope we get a second season and by the end of the last episode it seems they were setting it up for that... But dam I do have a lot of questions about the things that happened in this show...so many unexplained things!!
It's so insanely beautiful
pumpkin potion cat snake
The show was just mesmerizing.
The circle of life.
What's particularly noteworthy is that this is a direct reference to the original short Scavengers, where a similar creature performs a task and dies after
Good eye, unlike the short, it's urselas first time seeing something so tragic yet beautiful. In the short animation, the two survivors have seen this done a dozen times and stared at it blankly
ah yes the great beauty of the cycle of life and death
Reminds me of a short film i saw a while ago calles the maker