Spoiler :
The last ep left enough hints for a second season
That was a great show! I loved it how it messed up the good/evil opposition and you could never quite tell who are the good and who are the bad guys. I found myself being on Makishima's side all the time, as did Kogane and later Akane as well. Of course they all disagreed on the methods but the opposition against Sibyl was shared by all.
The conceptual stuff was very interesting and much better dealt with than most series are capable of. The show was quite contemporary even, in a sense, even if it took place in a techno-futuristic setting, as technocracy is very much a contemporary phenomenon. And the show did a really nice job depicting all sorts of positions one can take on it. I was anticipating Makishima's problems with Sibyl (How exactly does the system judge people? By which criteria?) from episode 1 and it's always great when the show you're watching already thought of the same stuff you did and is already ahead of you. One could see what's wrong with Sibyl as it didn't really understand why it couldn't read Makishima's psycho-pass. I think the correct way to understand it would be that people like Makishima are the product of the system, not something external to it that the system just failed to cover. Although this wasn't actually said by anyone in the show, it follows from Sibyl's arbitrary criteria of judgement. You can even say that it was because of Sibyl that Makishima turned out to be a psychotic mess as Sibyl's malfunctioning isolated and alienated him in his childhood (like it was speculated in the show).
That was a great show! I loved it how it messed up the good/evil opposition and you could never quite tell who are the good and who are the bad guys. I found myself being on Makishima's side all the time, as did Kogane and later Akane as well. Of course they all disagreed on the methods but the opposition against Sibyl was shared by all.
The conceptual stuff was very interesting and much better dealt with than most series are capable of. The show was quite contemporary even, in a sense, even if it took place in a techno-futuristic setting, as technocracy is very much a contemporary phenomenon. And the show did a really nice job depicting all sorts of positions one can take on it. I was anticipating Makishima's problems with Sibyl (How exactly does the system judge people? By which criteria?) from episode 1 and it's always great when the show you're watching already thought of the same stuff you did and is already ahead of you. One could see what's wrong with Sibyl as it didn't really understand why it couldn't read Makishima's psycho-pass. I think the correct way to understand it would be that people like Makishima are the product of the system, not something external to it that the system just failed to cover. Although this wasn't actually said by anyone in the show, it follows from Sibyl's arbitrary criteria of judgement. You can even say that it was because of Sibyl that Makishima turned out to be a psychotic mess as Sibyl's malfunctioning isolated and alienated him in his childhood (like it was speculated in the show).