Pantheon, an innovative new animated series on Netflix based on Ken Liu's short stories, embraces the limitless nature of science fiction. It delves into the theme of consciousness and technology through a group of global characters linked by a conspiracy involving Uploaded Intelligences (UIs). The narrative follows Maddie, a teenager navigating her father's death while receiving cryptic messages from a mysterious figure. Liu's background in speculative fiction enriches the storyline, and the animation style enhances the surreal, imaginative aspects of its sci-fi themes, offering a fresh perspective in the genre.
The only thing it needs is to be unrestrained; science fiction, as a genre, feels best when it's unbound by the limits of the world we have now.
Pantheon takes that ethos and runs with it. The show seems to revel in pulling away from our world and into the science fiction of its UIs.
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