Just A Car Guy: for anyone that digs a good story, a battle story, a bit of sci fi, but mostly an aircraft combat mission story... go to Netflix and watch Love, Death, and Robots episode 13... Lucky 13. Cool 20 minute photorealistic cgi

Thursday, March 21, 2019

for anyone that digs a good story, a battle story, a bit of sci fi, but mostly an aircraft combat mission story... go to Netflix and watch Love, Death, and Robots episode 13... Lucky 13. Cool 20 minute photorealistic cgi

There are a lot of hyper-realistic shorts in the animated anthology Love, Death and Robots, however, only “Lucky 13” embraces and elevates this particular style while telling an emotionally satisfying story in some futuristic space-faring Marine Corps who gets assigned to fly a dropship with the ominous name Lucky 13, and the equally dubious serial number 13-02313, which not only "started and ended in 13, but adds up to 13,"

As the story is quick to point out, Lucky 13 has managed to return to base after losing two crews. It’s basically a cursed spaceship/fighter plane.

But that’s not the relationship Colby has the ship. Between shots from inside Lucky 13’s green camera and seeing these missions from Colby’s perspective, the short slowly blossoms into a story of unlikely respect between a ship AI and its pilot. Anyone who’s ever felt borderline reverence for their favorite inanimate object will understand the deep love at the center of this sci-fi shooter.

The kinship between the pilot and an old ship that's developed a reputation for being unlucky is the story, and because of combat missions 13 becomes one of the most trusted members of the fleet, on a fateful day going above and beyond to protect its passengers.

Pinned down by an oppressive wave of opposing forces, Colby is forced to activate 13's self-destruct mechanism to protect her and the other soldiers. 13 goes one step further, though, waiting beyond the countdown so the advancing threat is right on top of it to explode, thus maximizing damage and ensuring Colby and the rest definitely make it out alive. Sometimes all an Artificial Intelligence needs is the right person behind the wheel.