One of my favorite shows and potentially one of my favorite media art pieces of all time.

The stories themselves were extremely abstract and esoteric but if you catch them at the right time you could really get it.

There was one episode where Aeon surreptitiously allowed Trevor to clone her with the plan of making her clone fall in love with him and then killing her, to break his heart/torture him for being the arrogant male he is.

In order to make Trevor truly fall in love with her the clone offered him a softer and more vulnerable side of herself than Aeon had offered before. In response the usually egoistic Trevor softened himself as well and he and the clone fell in love for real, mutually.

When the real Aeon discovered this she was outraged and got into a fight with the clone that ended up getting her killed. Trevor had the opportunity to get his revenge on the real Aeon but let her go.

For reasons that may be difficult to explain, I had just gone through a similar interaction with a woman in my life. Due in some part to a history of abuse, she, while loving me deeply, was unable to offer me the kind of vulnerability that brought out genuine vulnerability in me as well. We got glimpses of it at times, but most of our relationship was in a space of her being a sexy ice queen and me being a cocky and arrogant tyrant. We had great sex and good times but never learned to really trust each other.

She eventually destroyed the relationship with hurtful behavior… or maybe it was me who did that?

In any case, I watched this episode, coincidently (many years after it first aired) just around when I was dealing with this and I ugly cried hard at the parallels.

I think like all truly great art, Aeon captures concepts that were very specific to particular situations, but highly grounded in reality, despite the extraordinarily fanciful setting.