History Recap / LoveDeathAndRobotsSnowInTheDesert

* CoitusEnsues: Hirald sleeps with Snow after wearing his ex-wife's dress and learning some backstory.

* AdaptationDyeJob: Snow is a one-handed albino, although he does not look it much. The original story makes sure to describe his paper white skin and bright red eyes as things that make him stand out, but in this short he simply looks like a regular man with greying hair and has both hands to begin with, although one is shot off in the opening act.
* AdaptationExplanationExtrication: Snow and Hirald seem to have sex so abruptly it makes it seem like he's just suddenly turned on by his dead wife's dress. In the short story, the two would already have been romantically involved by that point, and the fact that they have sex for nearly 12 hours straight without any sign of Hirald being worn down is what serves as the FiveSecondForeshadowing for her true nature.

* AlbinosAreFreaks: Aside being an immortal that can easily regenerate lost limbs, Snow is also an albino. It's not made explicit if it's an actual surname or just a nickname. It's also unclear if the albinism relates in any way with his immortality. However, the first bounty hunter who approaches him notes his albinism derisively.

** No, Hirald isn't there as a HoneyPot or a spy or whatever. She's searching for a soul-mate that would be just as [[TheAgeless ageless]] as she is.
* TheCavalry: Hirald saves Snow's life twice during the short, always preventing his execution.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: A futuristic pillory, where convicts are locked in a sealed container and left to the sun. In a resulting heat, all the water in their bodies slowly evaporates, staying inside the container, but not before the convict dies out of dehydration.

* DrivenToSuicide: Snow's last wife killed herself once she became an old woman and he was still at his prime.

* FiveSecondForeshadowing: If you look closely, when Hirald is being shot, her wounds glow, rather than being turn into mince, like in case of every other character. When she shows up in the end to rescue Snow, her synthetic limbs are shown to be made out of some white, glowing substance.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Snow asks Hirald if she has her own sun tent, she says no. Given the planet they are on, it seems like suicidal lack of preparedness... but since she's a cyborg, the heat does nothing to her.

* HealingFactor: Snow isn't just immortal, he can regrown blown-out limbs in a matter of ''days''. The hand he got blown away in a bar is already regenerating few hours later.

* InTheBack: Hirald's favourite way of saving Snow's skin - sneaking up on his assailants and back-stabbing or shooting them.
%%* IronicName: Assuming Snow is his actual name and not a nickname.

* NighInvulnerability: Hirald. She sustains a short burst of machine fire that was shown capable of shredding flesh into pink mist. But since she's a cyborg, all damage it does is removing the outer, cosmetic layer of human skin.
* OutlawCouple: The duo of mercenaries with face tattoos are a married couple.

* ReplacementGoldfish: It originally seems like that Snow is looking for one for his deceased wife. Turns out he couldn't care any less.
* RoboticReveal: Hirald is an ageless cyborg, also looking for a soul-mate.

* StatingTheSimpleSolution: Hirald approaches Snow with the proposition to allow himself to be studied by the organization she works for, while also preventing his immortality from being reverse engineered by the wrong people. Snow asks why not just kill him and solve the second part, to which Hirald replies [[ForScience her organization doesn't destroy knowledge]]. By the end of the episode, it becomes clear that even though this may be her assignment, she, like Snow, is also functionally immortal, and looking for a companion to ease her loneliness.

An immortal man is trying to evade mercenaries hunting down for his power, hiding in an inhospitable desert planet.

* AdaptationDyeJob: Snow is a one-handed albino, although he does not look it much. The original story makes sure to describe his paper white skin and bright red eyes as things that make him stand out, but in this short he simply looks like a regular man with greying hair and he has both hands to begin with, although one is shot off in the opening act.
* AdaptationExplanationExtrication: Snow and Hirald seem to have sex so abruptly it makes it seem like he's just suddenly turned on by his dead wife's dress. In the short the two would already have been romantically involved by that point in the story, and the fact that they have sex for nearly 12 hours straight without any sign of Hirald being worn down is what serves as the FiveSecondForeshadowing in the short story.

** Hirald is also the case, since her body is fully synthetic and as such doesn't age.

* {{Cyborg}}: All that's left of Hirald's organic body is a spine column and "mostly" human brain. Everything else is an advanced synthetic body.
* DrivenToSuicide: Snow's latest wife committed one once she became an old woman and he was still at his prime.

* ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty: The nigh-immortal Snow is perpetually stuck in his late 30s.

* InTheBack: Hirald's favourite way of saving Snow's skin - sneaking on his assailants and back-stabbing or shooting them.

* MayflyDecemberRomance: Snow once had a wife, but she killed herself when she grew old and he didn't.

* RoboticReveal: Hirald's is an ageless cyborg, also looking for a soul-mate.

* StatingTheSimpleSolution: Hirald approaches Snow with the proposition to allow himself to be studied by the organization she works for, while also preventing his immortality from being reverse engineered by the wrong people. Snow asks why not just kill him and solve the second part, to which Hirald replies [[ForScience her organization doesn't destroy knowledge]].

* WantedPoster: Snow is seen on one when roaming into the settlement.

* AlbinosAreFreaks: Aside being an immortal that can easily regenerate lost limbs, Snow is also an albino. It's not made explicit if it's an actual surname or just a nickname. It's also unclear if the albinism relates in any way with his immortality.

* CueTheSun: Given the planet they are on, it forces Snow and Hirald to take a stop, because it gets so hot during a day, it requires a ''cryogenic tent'' to survive the heat.

** Earlier on, when Snow asks if she has her own sun tent, she says no. Given the planet they are on, it seems like suicidal lack of preparedness... but since she's a cyborg, the heat does nothing to her.

* ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty: Snow is perpetually stuck in his late 30s.

* IronicName: Assuming Snow is his actual name and not a nickname.

* NotWhatItLooksLike:
** The villain wants Snow's balls. At first it sounds like something a loan shark or a mafioso would want for a CoolAndUnusualPunishment, but then it's revealed Snow testicles produce some sort of hormone responsible for his HealingFactor.
** No, Hirald isn't there as a HoneyPot or a spy or whatever. She's searching for a soul-mate that would be just as [[TheAgeless ageless]] as she is.

* StockPunishment: With lethal intent. Since water is so scarce, "water theft" is considered punishable by death - the thieves are hauled into a tiny, reinforced greenhouses into the desert and left there to the sun.

* AdaptationDyeJob: Snow is an albino, although he does not look it much. The original story makes sure to describe his paper white skin and bright red eyes as things that make him stand out, but in this short he simply looks like a regular man with greying hair.

* CoitusEnsues: Hirald is apparently turned on when Snow reveals that his wife killed herself.

* CompressedAdaptation: Several subplots are missing from the original short story, including a plotline where Snow tries to figure out what it is people want from him.

* FiveSecondForeshadowing: If you look closely, when Hirald is being shot, her wounds glow, rather than being turn into mince, like in case of every other character. When she shows up in the end to rescue Snow, her synthetic limbs are shown to be made out of some white, glowing subtance.
** Earlier on, when Snow asks if she has her own sun tent, she says no. Given the planet they are on, it seems like suicidal lack of prepardness... but since she's a cyborg, the heat does nothing to her.

* InTheBack: Hirald's favourite way of saving Snow's skin - sneaking on his assiliants and back-stabbing or shooting them.

** The villain wants Snow's balls. At first it sounds like something a loan shark or a mafioso would want for a CoolAndUnusualPunishment, but then it's revealed Snow testicles produce some sort of hormon responsible for his HealingFactor.

Adapted from a short story by Neal Asher.

* TheReveal: Hirald's is an ageless cyborg, also looking for a soul-mate.

* ReplacementGoldfish: It originally looks like that Snow is looking

* NotWhatItLooksLike: The villain wants Snow's balls. At first it sounds like something a loan shark or a mafioso would want for a CoolAndUnusualPunishment, but then it's revealed Snow testicles produce some sort of hormon responsible for his HealingFactor.