Animation is a natural home for sci-fi. The stories can take many forms, follow all sorts of tones, and give us any kind of robot (if we get a beep-boop at all!). 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, able to instead live in chasing down the possibilities of “what if?” But all too often, animated science fiction still feels limited — if not by a production budget, then by a lack of imagination of what the format could offer the story.
That is not the case with Pantheon. Based on a series of short stories by Ken Liu, the show follows a group of people across the globe brought together by a conspiracy: A tech company is attempting to upload people’s consciousnesses into the cloud as “Uploaded Intelligences”
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