Maidens of the Kaleidoscope
~Beyond the Border~ => Sara's Audio-Visual Import-Overflow Retail => Topic started by: commandercool on October 10, 2014, 12:25:52 AM
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So who's watching this? (Warning: Probable spoilers for the first series.)
The ending of the first Psycho Pass was weird in that it was completely open-ended, but it didn't really seem to be asking for a sequel. A lot of stuff was left undone and unsaid, but that was okay because the show didn't need them. At least, I didn't feel like I really needed to see Akane try to change society from the inside, and I still don't really. The first episode of the second season didn't do a great job of convincing me that I want to see more of this story. It's kind of awkward, we've basically seen it before, and I really don't know what the point is.
It's way too early to declare that this season has lost track of the meticulous balance of complicated ideas that the original series was built on, but it doesn't do a great job of showing us otherwise. For now there are clearly-delineated camps of Right People (Akane and Ginoza) who are doing the Right Things, and Wrong People (well, pretty much just Mika) who need to be shown just how Wrong they are and they'll see the light. On paper it's not really that much different than the relationship between Akane and Ginoza in the first series, and it's clearly set up to mirror that, it just feels more clunky and one-sided now. And the new villain, from all we've seen on him so far, doesn't seem terribly interesting yet either. "Anarchist who thinks society is broken so he wants to shake up society" doesn't seem like much to work with. That's unfair though, we haven't had nearly enough time yet to see how everything is going to develop, I just wasn't super amazed by our first glimpse of the new show. It deserves time to set up interesting scenarios that will do justice to the complex, ambiguous world I expect from this series, although I would've hoped that having a foot in the door already by virtue of having an entire season to build on already would have sped that process along a little more.
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And there we are. Didn't take much, but now it's pretty clear what the ties between Akane's save-them attitude, the Public Safety Bureau antagonism and the clear hues are -- and, in what sort of general direction the moral quandaries are going to go. Or at least, what it's intended to look like after two episodes.
i still think it's really funny how everyone besides akane isn't aware of the existence of criminally asymptomatics
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I need to watch the first season of this.
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So at this point the only possible reason for Mika's (actions/character/motivation/everything) is that she's a sinister double agent planted in Akane's company to waste her time, right? Nothing else could explain this. Getting reeeal tired of this. It's not boring, so I guess that's good, but it is dumb on a few levels and that's frustrating. Kind of wish I could stop watching but I know I'm not going to.
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Oh, this episode's definitely getting a mixed reception - I thought it was the worst episode yet. You can't expect me to believe the cops had to wait outside the building like that in this super futuristic world, not when there was clearly a security camera inside and it was clearly taken down by the culprit. At least make sure you know what's going on inside. If you're afraid that civilians will get panicked (so no tearing down the walls), why doesn't the police have X-ray vision or something? It was beyond stupid and Mika's "aww, I'll be responsible if I do something" is really fucking unnecessary. Seriously, I know they're not going to explain any of the animosity between her and Akane too - I mean, they've been working together for a year and a half... has it always been like this or what? Why is Ginoza so worried about Akane's hue when he saw what she withstood in the first season and she's not even doing anything dangerous? Seriously, Akane just looks at some evidence and Ginoza has to warn her about her hue brah. Why isn't he doing anything else, with his experience? What's Mayoi up to? Why was the old guy so awkward and why did he have to strip them and how is he strong enough to trample middle-aged adults and their skulls? I can go on and on and on and on.
Like, okay, let's not go full retard and tone down the nitpicking. This second season isn't a BAD show compared to mainstream but it's just... dumb. This episode was so dumb.
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Ditto the above. This episode was really dumb for so many reasons. Regardless of plot being forwarded or whatever, sitting here after watching it I just feel frustrated. Clearly everyone but a select few would think this operation went well judging by how it was actually handled, and I'm half-expecting the next episode to sweep how horrible it was underneath the rug for the most part.
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Yeah. This ep was good for showing how serious they are about building on what was original plot of the series, but I thought about how I would go about explaining the episode to another person for a bit (a good way to see how well the storytelling is executed regardless of medium) and it was truly difficult to get through it without stirring up some questions about its execution.
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So a couple of weeks ago I theorized that Mika's incompetence could only be explained by her being a double agent saboteur. We now know that double agents in this show have sinister glowing red eyes and serial killer lairs left with the doors left open in public buildings, so that can't be the case. New theory: The real saboteurs are the show's staff. That is the only explanation for... this...
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