Things take a drastic turn when tiny alien creatures begin to swarm the squad and eat them alive, and in the end only two soldiers remain. Despite the acknowledgment that their mission was over, the squad leader demands to head further into the tunnel to find out what happened. Their bodies are picked clean, down to the bone. The hostage is found to be dead, along with their captors. What waited for them inside, however, they never could have predicted. RELATED: 'Love, Death + Robots' Volume 3 Episodes RankedĮpisode 8, titled “In Vaulted Halls Entombed,” starts like you might expect any military story would: a squad of US soldiers is tracking enemies that have a hostage, and they soon follow them to a cave that they believe to be their base. In an interesting surprise, there’s another episode that takes the premise of “US military fighting against terrorism” but it takes a drastically different turn. If they weren’t so focused on finding ways to kill other humans, the ones they saw as their enemies, then perhaps their own lives would have been spared of all the violence and torment.
This continues the theme of self-destruction, as it was the CIA’s disdain for the enemy of their war that led them to create such a creature, and it was through their own creation that they met their grizzly end. While the team does eventually defeat the Barghest with enough bullets and explosions, nobody survives the last battle. This bear turned out to be a secret CIA project codenamed “Barghest” meant to be used to gain an edge in the war, but it started to “behave unpatriotically” and killed everyone around it. What they end up finding, however, is that their other squad was absolutely decimated by a cybernetically enhanced bear. The story follows a group of US Special Forces operatives as they attempt to regroup with another squad. The fifth episode, “Kill Team Kill,” takes place right at the beginning of the Global War on Terrorism. There’s another episode that hits this theme precisely, but one might not see it past all the gore and over-the-top action that it’s spewing at their eyes. In this way, the first episode of the season states primarily that we are the ones who will cause our own destruction. In that world, humans had hunted any animal larger than a cat to extinction, and those with the money to save the planet instead attempted to flee towards Mars and leave everyone else to solve the problem themselves. While it is meant to be humorous, it also blatantly shows that our greed and pride will easily cause our extinction should such an apocalyptic event occur. The story pokes fun at a lot of the tropes we would expect to arise in an apocalypse setting, such as those who would attempt to survive solely on “bullets and venison jerky” or the tech millionaires who relied too heavily on technology to save them. This theme is most blatantly portrayed within Season 3's first episode: “Three Robots: Exit Strategies.” In this episode, which serves as a sequel to Season 1’s “Three Robots,” viewers once again accompany K-VRC (voiced by Josh Brener), XBOT 4000 ( Gary Anthony Williams), and 11-45-G (voiced by a computer program) as they wander a wasteland of skeletons and empty bases in pursuit of knowledge regarding the end times.
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