Æon Flux/The Complete Animated Collection

The Complete Animated Collection Æon Flux
Release Date	November 22, 2005
Format	DVD
Region	1
Distributor	MTV Home Video
Disc Count	3
Episode Count	10 (plus 6 shorts)
Running Time	221 minutes
Retail Price	$39.98
Video	Full Frame (1.33:1)
Audio	Dolby Digital 5.1 Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Subtitles	None
Purchase	Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk

This definitive DVD edition of the mid-1990s cartoon series Æon Flux was released as a director's cut which compiles all of the Æon Flux material (with the exception of the live-action movie) into one box set.

Disc Breakdown

Disc 1

• Episodes: Utopia or Deuteranopia?, Thanatophobia, A Last Time for Everything, Ether Drift Theory, The Purge
• Full Length Audio Commentary on Utopia or Deuteranopia?, Thanatophobia, A Last Time for Everything and The Purge featuring Peter Chung and various members of the crew.
• New CGI short featuring a rendering of the Charlize Theron version of Æon Flux, promoting the Æon Flux video game.
• Trailers for Æon Flux (live-action movie) and Beavis and Butthead.

Disc 2

• Episodes: The Demiurge, Isthmus Crypticus, Reraizure, Chronophasia, End Sinister
• Full Length Audio Commentary on The Demiurge, Isthmus Crypticus and Chronophasia featuring Peter Chung and various members of the crew.

Disc 3

• Episodes: Pilot, War, Gravity, Leisure, Mirror, Tide
• Full Length Audio Commentary on all episodes by creator Peter Chung and sound designer Drew Neumann.
• Investigation: The History of Æon Flux Featurette
• The Deviant Devices of Æon Flux Featurette
• Production Art (Sketches, Model Sheets, Storyboards, Color Stills)
• Pencil Tests for War and Mirror
• Other Works by Peter Chung
  • MTV Loaded Promo
  • Æon Flux CD-ROM Commercial
  • Honda Coupe Mission
• Liquid Television Shorts
• Previews for Jackass, Wildboyz and Viva La Bam.

Special Features

• Investigation: The History of Æon Flux: This 17-minute featurette describes how Æon Flux came about through MTV's desire to move away from its musical roots to focus on a different audience. It tells the story of Liquid Television and how Peter Chung drew inspiration from his frustration with working with the Rugrats pilot. It also explains Chung's motivations for having Æon die in every episode of the shorts and also the life of the full series and the complications that it raised like the issue of creating a voice for the characters in the series, particularly Æon and Trevor. It ends talking about the things that Peter Chung went back to fix and enhance for the 2005 DVD release. That and an insane poem by Mark Mars.

• The Deviant Devices of Æon Flux: This featurette explains the various pieces of technology that Æon uses throughout the series. It is shown in the form of kind of an instructional clip show narrated by Æon herself. It is presumed that this explanation of her motivations on why she uses the described devices is completely canonical. As well as the guns she uses, Æon also describes the border control techniques from Breen and the various things people have tried to kill her with. Eventually it just turns into a big political rant against Trevor.

Easter Eggs

• None known.

Alterations

• Many of the episodes have been restored and enhanced using digital lighting and color correction. There were also several instances where audio was readded into the episode, like the orgasmic scream that appears in Thanatophobia.