Pantheon, now on Netflix, lets animation beget pure science fiction possibility

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...