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Re: Psycho-pass

Post by Emong » Fri Mar 22, 2013 8:27 pm

Spoiler :
The last ep left enough hints for a second season :up:

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).

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Re: Psycho-pass

Post by ibabrak » Sat Mar 23, 2013 6:49 am

This anime was good :awesome:
If they ever make season 2 they will have to do a really good job if they want it to be good. Makishima was just that good of a villian.
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Re: Psycho-pass

Post by AimoAio » Sat Mar 23, 2013 10:05 am

Emong wrote:
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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.
It's this that makes it hard to really hate Makishima. ALSO IT'S KOGAMI NOT KOGANE! D<

But hmm...I don't really know how I feel about the ending. It wasn't bad per se, and it was pretty good for a closure episode...I think the problem might be because I was expecting too much from it? I was actually prepared to be in for a sob-fest for this episode so not having accomplished that left me somewhat emotionally unsatisfied. :|
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Killing Kogami ontop of Makishima might just have triggered the waterworks.
Though I'm not sure I would have wanted that sort of ending afterall. At least this way, there's hints for a second season, except finding a replacement for Makishima will be difficult since he was pretty darn epic. BUT DAMN, AWESOME SHOW WAS AWESOME AFTERALL. :up: It's these kind of shows that have me all excited and anticipating the next episode every week. <3 It'll be going in my fav list for a long time. :up:

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Re: Psycho-pass

Post by Emong » Sat Mar 23, 2013 2:14 pm

AimoAio wrote:ALSO IT'S KOGAMI NOT KOGANE! D<
I'm so bad with Japanese names :down:

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Post by Jasta85 » Sun Mar 24, 2013 11:12 pm

I really liked this series because it was very realistic in its approach to society. So many series these days go for the "good guys win, bad guys lose" idea and everything turns out well in the end. Psycho Pass goes more with the fact that there are many necessary evils in society. They aren't the morally right ways to do things but if they aren't done then society as a whole may not survive.

Kind of sad this series ended on such a mellow note. Would definitely enjoy a continuation that actually involved the sybl system being dismantled.

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Post by EkaCoralian » Mon Mar 25, 2013 10:04 am

Overall a pretty cool series! There were a few moments I was a little iffy on (it's probably just me, but when they were specifically naming authors of books or famous philosophers, it felt like they were kind of jamming it down our throats. I would've been fine if they just stuck with saying maybe a name once or twice, and leaving the rest of the communicated philosophies intermingled cleverly into the dialogue, or seeing a shot of a book title. I think its more fun to discover that stuff rather than have it handed to the audience) but generally I liked it. The last 2 episodes especially were fantastic, imo. :up:
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Re: Psycho-pass

Post by ZephyrStar » Mon Mar 25, 2013 10:09 am

Ehhh... a solid series overall I guess, but not really exceptional.
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I was pretty disappointed at the ending, I mean I really like what Kogami and Akane had to go through as characters, but I was really hoping Akane would blow some shit up at the end. I also found myself not really liking the confrontation between Kogami and his nemesis at the very end, for the guy to be as clever as he was and not have some other kind of plan? He spent how many years not getting caught?
Overall I did enjoy it.

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Post by Flame-X » Fri Mar 29, 2013 1:01 am

Utterly predictable plot progression and cliche'd characters. As for Makishima, it's absolutely disappointing how underwhelming his demise came to be. For a sinister, cunning, and interesting villain like him who was haunting this show throughout, you'd expect something more grand for a final battle but all he gets is a standard criminal chase-down that ends with a bullet to his head and nothing changes afterwards. Sibyl system is still there, so is the chief, and pretty much all we end up is a rinse and repeat.

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Re: Psycho-pass

Post by ZephyrStar » Fri Mar 29, 2013 12:43 pm

Yep. I was super disappointed that the whole hyper-oats plot was
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actually the real plot. :/ I was hoping that there would be some crazy twist and maybe Makishima really intended to like, I dunno bomb the Sybil system or something way over the top like that.

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Re: Psycho-pass

Post by AimoAio » Sun Mar 31, 2013 10:17 am

ZephyrStar wrote:
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I was hoping that there would be some crazy twist and maybe Makishima really intended to like, I dunno bomb the Sybil system or something way over the top like that.
x2. It was sorta disappointing the way he left the picture. :| I had high hopes for him.

Though it has been mentioned by the director there might be a second season if there's enough support, so maybe:
Spoiler :
Sibyl's downfall will be covered in this.

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