Best Animated Series ever!
Pantheon is an animated series, created by Craig Silverstein, based on short stories (The Hidden Girl and Other Stories) written by Ken Liu.
It discusses the greatest technological advancement in recent times, not AI but UI. Uploaded Intelligence. For if we can create intelligence, it should be possible to create infrastructure, to support uploading ourselves to the cloud.
Now, there’s a live action series “Upload”, headlined by Robbie Amell, but it deals with a world where upload is an established viable technology, not with a world dealing with its messy unplanned birth.
Best of all, being animated means we get to explore the full scope of what it would mean, how it would happen.
I, myself, just finished Episode 4 of Season 2. An ending makes half the series, but I want to wait and savor this series. Like chocolate.
These are the series we should be watching out for. They fly under the radar because they spend all their money not on marketing but on story and the animation.
Every character feels like they walk and talk of their own accord, not tied down by the demands of the plot and that makes the story beautifully unpredictable. You don’t know what’s going to happen next, because the characters themselves don’t know, and you enjoy that.
It’s as good as Avatar the Last Airbender. Those who know me know that this is no faint praise.
“Art is inevitably political, as it must reflect the artist’s understanding of the world. However, art also isn’t mere advocacy, or a piece of propaganda.” - Ken Liu