r/PantheonShow • u/GloriousAqua Cary Enthusiast • Sep 01 '22
Discussion Pantheon | S1E1 "Pantheon" | Episode Discussion
Season 1, Episode 1: Pantheon
Airdate: September 1, 2022
Directed by: Dwooman
Written for Television by: Craig Silverstein
Synopsis: Maddie, a bullied teen, receives help from a stranger online; Caspian, a teen loner and math genius struggles with his parents’ toxic relationship; Chanda, a computer engineer, secretly meets with a rival tech giant.
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Let us know your thoughts on the episode!
Spoilers ahead!
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u/F00dbAby Sep 04 '22
Will be interesting to see how long it takes for this to blow up.I’m immediately hooked serious animated dramas are so rarely made so I hope it gets more popular
Will never understand how animation isn’t more popular outside Japan and anime
Especially compared to high profile live action tv shows most recently house of the dragons or lord of the rings but even compared to animated movies like minions granted I meant more serious dramas like Soul but even that feels very juvenile at times despite how much I love that movie
All that rambling aside I thought this was great premier. I feel all the characters were really well defined and felt real. Will be curious if the eventual meet up between the two teen leads will be purely platonic
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u/chillwithpurpose Nov 29 '24
Annnnnnd it’s canceled. I hate the state of modern animation…. :(
I’ll just go back to waiting for the next season of Invincible.
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u/iamkindofodd Dec 05 '24
Oh cmon I just finished the first episode and was ready to commit
Wait I just checked it and the second season was released a year ago after getting cancelled the first time. Did it get cancelled yet again or what lol
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u/ToSeeAgainAgainAgain Dec 15 '24
All I know is that it's not the easiest series to find a stream for
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u/iamkindofodd Dec 15 '24
Oh yeah for sure. I kinda had to use a different method if you know what I mean
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u/AI_660 Dec 21 '24
its on netflix now!
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u/Xenosaiyan7 Mar 26 '25
Just started watching it, the first episode was great!
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u/TodayAccomplished741 Apr 01 '25
Just watched the first episode, so good!
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u/AI_660 Dec 21 '24
its on netflix now!
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u/ToSeeAgainAgainAgain Dec 21 '24
I already finished a couple of days ago while sailing the seas haha
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u/Turkey_Rub Jun 26 '25
Vpn. Netflix canada.
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u/ToSeeAgainAgainAgain Jun 26 '25
Ended up finding a stream for it.
Completely worth it, beautiful series
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u/Lostdogdabley Sep 05 '22
It’s the audio mastering more than the voice acting for me. It feels muted and fuzzy which is weird cuz everything else in the show is sharp and crisp
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u/onegiantbooboo Nov 22 '22
I'm watching right now and was just thinking this. It's really cool, but their voices sound like they have a cloth over their mouth. The other sound design seems on point, they must've recorded it in a sub-optimal sound booth or something. Unless that's what they were going for lol.
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u/piexterminator Dec 09 '22
yeah that was so weird in a beginning scene with the mom and daughter. i thought something was wrong with my speakers
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u/anonnoodle88 Sep 05 '22
What's the deal with the hacker kid's fake parents? Are they secretly using him to solve problems for them by pretending he has some engineer dad who subtly challenges him?
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u/CaphalorAlb Sep 05 '22
yeah, that was weird - some strange kind of manipulation going on there
the mother seemed to be part of Logorythm, so maybe he's a 'downloaded' consciousness? or something like that, a lab rat
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u/random-user-name21 Sep 09 '22
I’m pretty sure he some genetically engineered super kid or something they were talking about gene editing earlier on in the show so it would make sense
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u/Kawala_ Dec 02 '23
I'm not reading but be specific about what season spoilers you're talking about. Why would you comment a season 2 spoiler on a season 1 episode 1 post?
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u/JLChamberlain42 Sep 01 '22
The video quality is so poor!
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u/Lostdogdabley Sep 05 '22
Hidive video looks fine on my fhd tv
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u/JLChamberlain42 Sep 05 '22
I pirate the show to watch it & haven’t seen a HiDive release so I can’t speak on that. It will probably be the same quality as Amazon & AMC, I mean even the open sequence for AMC isn’t sharp.
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u/Lostdogdabley Sep 05 '22
That’s insane to me. It’s high quality for me
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u/JLChamberlain42 Sep 05 '22
I’m not the only person who’s reported bad video quality (artifacting), will have to wait until I can get my hands on a HiDive release to see if their video is better.
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u/Phy6Paths Apr 21 '25
The smart teen's parents definitely seem like bad guys. Interesting episode 1. So, the father can only use emojis because they banned words.
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u/Arachnophobic- Mar 14 '26
Spotted the Evangelion reference! (The 'NERD' sticker in the back of Maddie's laptop is a reference to the NERV logo)
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u/Sensitive_Brick_1412 12d ago
Interesting.
Given the title, and the talk of mythology at the start, my guess is that Logorythms have uploaded carefully selected consciousness to be UI Gods.
Like how in Overwatch, there are multiple singularities, i.e. gods of the Omnics.
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u/artur_ditu Sep 02 '22
Wow I'm loving this. Strong Serial experiments lain vibes!