#scavengers reign episode 12

[calderawizard]

The conflict coming down to Levi and Hollow is so perfect.

Levi is a creation of humanity altered by Vesta. Hollow is a creature of Vesta altered by humanity.

Levi alters Vesta in turn, giving rise to a new species. Hollow alters Kamen in turn, giving him visions and guiding him.

Levi becomes a part of Vesta's ecosystem through the white lilly fungus, helping it grow. Hollow is torn away from Vesta's ecosystem through Kamen, killing more and growing more than it should be able to.

Hollow destroys Levi, which is the catalyst for Levi's transformation, becoming more than they were before. Levi destroys what Hollow has become, freeing Hollow and Kamen from each other's influence.

Two perfect arcs, coming together beautifully in two perfect confrontations.

[fangirl-nadir]

Ok was no one gonna warn me about that Warhammer ass cult shit at the end of the season?

Catching up on Scavengers Reign and holy shit, I forgot how gorgeous it is. On episode 9 right now; can't wait to finish it

[luxwing]

@ronaaz and I finished Scavenger's Reign this week and even though its been a couple days, remembering that show makes me

[lowcountry-gothic]

Scavengers Reign is my new favorite thing.

[gloomsday]

scavengers reign episode 12 "the reunion" pt 1 | pt 2

[charleshuettner]

SCAVENGERS REIGN STREAMING NOW ON MAX!!!

Episodes 1-3 available now, batches of 3 episodes dropping every thursday. 12 episodes total.

[himbo]

Scavengers Reign | Episode 12

[optionalcausality]

Scavengers Reign just came out on Netflix, and holy crap y'all.

It's packing so much into the "12 episodes, less than 25 minutes per episode" format. I'm on Episode 8 now and will probably finish the series tomorrow.

It follows the various survivors of an interstellar freighter that had to evacuate the ship when things went wrong. But it has such a fascinating take on what a truly alien ecology might look like -- communication, interdependence, unusual styles of predation, a lot of interspecies symbiosis -- that it reminds me of some of the best weird SF that I read when I was younger.

And gosh I love these characters.

[fearless-seagull]

The whole time watching Scavengers Reign I was seeing that white lily and I was like ‘okay cool, this represents death’ (see them growing on corpses in the first few episodes and all the fields of them at the beginning of episode 10). BUT in episode 11 they’re shown alongside Levi’s rebirth. So I was like, ‘okay cool, they’re representing death AND life’ and then in episode 12 they’re like little amniotic sacs for the robot embryos so it’s life AND death AND they’re just a little fucked up and that’s kind of the point of the whole show and that’s incredible

[canmom]

Animation Night 185: Scavengers Reign

So...

In distant 2016, Joseph Bennett and Charles Huettner directed a short film titled Scavengers at Titmouse for the 'Toonami' block on American TV channel Adult Swim. The largely wordless short depicts a pretty classic scifi premise - a spacecraft stranded on a lush alien world, the survivors of the crash surviving by interacting with the strange alien lifeforms - with a spectacular amount of style and imagination.

It's an absolute riot of squishy, surreal spec bio: a montage of scenes of extremely weird bugs and little guys being cut up and stuck together and fed to each other for mysterious but somehow logical-feeling reasons. It all feels terribly French in style to my eye - a style that is realist but with simplified faces, impassive expressions, a psychic trip at the end, a trust that we can follow a surreal and wordless story. We could also think of the work of Busifan. Whatever the comparison, this short had a vibe you rarely encounter Stateside.

You can watch it here:

Nearly a decade later, this show was followed up with a whole series, animated once again by the madlads at Titmouse.

Scavengers Reign drastically expands on the premise of the original short into a 12 episode series, fleshing out the characters and their weird telepathic world as another ship full of crashed survivors attempt to link up with their crewmates, only to be pulled further and further into the strange ecosystem they now inhabit.

Rave reviews on all fronts, so naturally it got cancelled on its original network Max... but was picked up again by Netflix, with the possibility of a second season dangled in front of us if it debuts hard enough. This is exactly the kind of thing I wanna see more of in American animation (or hell, animation in general), so tonight on Animation Night, we'll be taking a a sojourn to the strange planet of Vesta.

For some reason half the gif picker is just hands touching stuff...

Aaand I will have to elaborate more later, since we're already pretty late! If you're interested - whether a first watch or to watch again with friends - come tune in to twitch.tv/canmom !

[lavendertrash39]

I am. moderately afraid that I'm going to get hate on this but. here we go.

Barry is fucking perfect autism representation. I don't know if there's anything confirming that he is autistic but like. Oh my gosh.

He doesn't feel like certain characters where it's just stereotypes and that's the whole character. There's not a single stereotype about him. He doesn't scream "autism" just because he's not that type of character. He's not like extremely smart, or stupid-- he's intelligent, but he's not like. that kind of trope certain shows do where people with autism are just really smart. The way he emotes is perfect. I wish I had my specific examples but like... man.

It's so good. It makes me so happy. It also hurts me because Kris treats him poorly and tries to get him to be different because of his autistic traits. It's just. man...

like that one scene where they're talking about the cargo-- lemme just put in the dialogue and insert images

Kris: This is it. Do you know what this means?

Barry: Yeah. You've told me.

Kris: then why do you still seem not to get it? We did this together, for once you should be proud-- I'm letting you be proud!

Barry: I'm... proud.

[Kris ruffles Barry's hair]

Kris is imposing what she wants Barry to feel on him. She's letting him be proud. She doesn't get why he "doesn't understand". Barry seems to just want to get the conversation over with/he doesn't know why he doesn't understand either (why he doesn't feel the things Kris wants him to feel-- what he "should" feel. Why he doesn't feel the "normal" things). The way he forces himself to say that he's proud is just... perfect voice acting. They got such a perfect voice actor for Barry. But back to this scene-- she ruffles his hair, something that to her means something good, but Barry CLEARLY doesn't like it. He tenses and rubs his head afterwards. She's trying to make him what she wants. Make him feel what she wants him to feel and praise him the way she thinks praise should be received. The only way she considers Barry being different both feelings wise and how he wants praise is her wanting to change those things to what she wants.

there was also this one scene, the scene where Kris and Barry are interacting for the last time, and the shot it relatively simple. just a shot of his face. Zoomed in. In a show like scavengers reign that has so many interesting shots that are so clearly intentional you know that has to be intentional. And what I loved about it is that sometimes autistic people have difficulty emoting or when they do emote it's subtle. And that scene picks on the subtle changes in his expression while he's talking to really show how he's feeling in the moment. That's so cool. Idk how to make a gif and i don't have a link to a video of it but it's in the beginning of episode 12 if anyone wants to see what I'm talking about :)

anyways,, yeah. I hope that this is taken well? I have other thoughts on him as well but this was just something that was right at the front of my mind after finishing

[officialspec]

hi hello who is this azi nareen you mentioned in the tags and where can I see/read about her

listen to me young man, i am talking directly into your ear now. i need you to do me a favor. you will do this for me. i need you to go to max/binge/piracy website of choice, and i need you to type scavengers reign into the search bar and watch all 12 episodes. if you come back empty handed youll be in big trouble mister. you will never see the light of day.

[so-much-for-subtlety]

If you have HBO/Max Scavengers Reign is a really nice 12 episode mini series 😍

[ariadne-mouse]

Scavengers Reign weird little creatures appreciation, episode 12 edition, including:

babyfaced psychic buttnewt (yes, even him. just this time, for this moment. this frame. so cute while sleeping),

two old friends: the baby flying moustache (3D edition) and little tripod buddy again (very shy but willing to make friends),

the triangle-faced leggyboyband, the dragonflybird,

and lastly, LITTLE HOMEGROWN LEVI BUDDIES

[alethianightsong]

Scavengers Reign or "What happens when one man's ego fucks up everyone's day/week/life."

So like, Kamen, right? Like many guys, he wants the promotion cuz the promotion means his fiancee comes back and that means he's winning at the life thing. But he can't get that promotion if the cargo he's in charge of expires. So what's the harm in rerouting the ship when no one's looking? Doing so will only benefit him and no one else. It's just a harmless little shortcut near an unstable star and its planet full of unknown entities. Right?

I like that the show doesn't kill him off. Too many shows kill off the person who royally fucks up, but death is not repentance. It's oblivion and Kamen wanted that desperately. He wanted to forget what he did and just sink into the void. In the epilogue, he appears to be Ursula's assistant, helping her grow some plants and showing care to a little creature he previously would've killed. Instead of killing his ego, he tuned into his superego, his thoughtfulness for others, which would've saved DOZENS of lives if he did that 12 episodes ago but eh, hindsight's a bitch. I don't think the other passengers save Ursula and Azi know he wrecked them all but they don't need to know. Kamen's new conscience is a better punishment than any lynch mob.

[gloomsday]

scavengers reign episode 12 "the reunion" pt 2 | pt. 1