Eaglet wrote:
Hope the movie is better.
I watched the movie today: is a pretty action flick if you overcome the narm english dialogues (so bad it feels like some sort of a dubbing parody of an Hollywod action movie made by asians) and the usual small talk that resolve problems at the end ("Bad system, bad! You don't create a nation runned by crazy soldiers without the consense of people!").
BryanM wrote:
* That the utterly incompetent girl learns a little from her colossal fuck ups to be slightly less incompetent. Letting the serial killer run away without even taking a shot at him is actually a regression from how she behaved in season one.
I don't think it was needed to shot or pursue the pitch-black killer: it was severly wounded and there were the rest of the division, it was already done.
Beside, even in season one the final shot at the killer wasn't given by her, but by the comprimary (at least she did something there).
BryanM wrote:
* The world is a utopian dystopia. The police there make people explode just for the crime of being a little perturbed. That's why someone malformed as much as Incompetron isn't unbelievable. Her growth away from having absolute faith and reliance in the system was supposed to be her point, or at least I thought it was from my westernized brain. Maybe she was always meant to remain infantilized forever? It's a little hard to believe, considered Gen was self conscious enough to be worried people were going to call him out over the often-disempowering trope of Smelly Face liking a boy in Madoka.
I didn't watch Gen's other works, so I'm not aware of his "style". I think the protagonist was written to be lawful good till to the bones, so the least someone can expect from her growth is to use her own head and will to stand up against the souless bureaucrats in order to protect the law, without destroying it (unless those small talks had another meaning).
BryanM wrote:
* That there's not a damn thing you can do to overthrow the system. The most you can hope for is to deny them the zombie parts that they desire.
Although, the people outside the system and the system itself can find many ways to bend it around its flaws, so there's to wonder how many ways are out there before Gen runs out of ideas.
I mean, all of those warnings and hint about "the time where the system will be tested, or else will be terminated or something" must have some sort of meaning other than convince the viewers to keep watching (Case Closed do the same damn trick).
BryanM wrote:
But of course I didn't think season 1 was that great toward the end either. The myth arc was more of a distraction to me than anything else. The monster of week stuff kind of reminded me of X-Files and was way more interesting imo.
I do not mind the monster of week trope, but in genre like crime it always bored me to death (is fine with action or adventure, though). With the exceptions of some nasty and powerful criminals or different outcomes, most of the time I feel like I'm watching prisoners being eaten alive by lions inside a roman coliseum: they'll be eaten, no matter what. How boring (it works for a safe entertaiment, but I do not care).
My point is that I didn't mind the 2nd part of the first season, as I find much more interesting the big; nastier; harder to catch antagonist than small fishes, especially if the other crime anime I watched other than Psycho-Pass was Case Closed till I dropped it when I entered high school. What a refresher.
also most of my local reviews are negative despite to the story and presentation.
