I just saw the first part of Second Renaissance. Disappointing. Full of cliched ideas sci-fi writers have been using from Asimov onwards but with no style to save it. The "robot murder trial' starting the whole thing off is SUCH a cliche that people like Rob Grant and Doug Naylor (Red Dwarf) have even parodied it.
In fact, frankly, Asimov makes this plot look like a schoolchild's work. I know it is not exactlymeant to be a masterpiece but I was hoping for something less predictable. At least The Terminator made an effort with Skynet.
I shall watch the second part now but at this point humans look so much like the bad guys one wonders why we are rooting for them in the films...
I think you posted in the wrong thread there, crazykat...
Anyway, I would not recommend bothering with Second Renaissance. It's piss-poor really and there is not a thing in it that you could not have imagined yourself. The animation is ok but there is good animation all around.
Humans not only evil but also extremely stupid- and both past the point of credibility.
Ushgarak , i think you are trying to hard to relate the movie with these sort of supplements to the movie(but that I mean these animatrix clips). I saw all 9 of them, and as you would realise each one had a different storyteller and animator, but none the less still as original.
My favorite of all the lot is BEYOND which depicts a flaw in the matrix and the construction workers under a few agents are coming to fix it.
We would have never seen this in any of the movies, though hinted about, but never shown. And is clips like these (which ever animation they used) that fill in the gaps for the story.