Oh yeah the galaxy brains takes about it is abysmal thankfully i only observe anitwitter like a curiosity because holy crap, i still found hilarious the system even has to approve political candidates and even religions, if they are not approved by Sybil they get lazerjammed
Yeah the flaws are more obvious when they were discussing eugenics, one of the new enforcers was tailor made to be kickass but his psycho pass was flagged as latent criminal and his life was ruined even before he could even walk
There's something to be said about Sibyl beginning to judge minority groups and what not, but I think that story is a living fucking nightmare in 2019. You need to use fantasy or sci-fi or aliens for that shit. Or just make up a people. The problem is you need an allegory for it. Insert AI crime statistics meme here.
But yeah, Sibyl basically determines if you'd be a successful bureaucrat which is hilarious because it would always tailor that to people that kept it on power and doing its job.
I mean obviously it's going to be a problem. It's not really explicitly said but implied that the Japs moved to drone warfare because normal soldiers would have their Psychopasses fucked up and unable to return to life. That and the Japan in Psychopass is basically equivalent to North Korea, cutting itself off from the world and being a hermit state. So it'd really only need military drones.
I'm not surprised to hear that season three of Psycho-Pass isn't particularly good considering that season two was complete baboon ass (the plot was all over the place and that new junior inspector mini antagonist was absolutely insufferable) and the movie being bad as well. They should just have ended it after season one, but the possibility of getting to taste more ¥ was probably too much for the studio to resist.
A large part is that the main force responsible for Season 1 has decided he wanted to play with Godzilla and doesn't much care about the IP. I kind of got the feeling he was done after season 1, because he told everything he needed to tell. I mean, there's nothing to go back to. Not everything needs to be a franchise or sequel. It's just this insane fear of risk that has gripped entertainment so if something is successful, can't leave it alone.
The huge problem I mentioned is that, with Season 1, its basically a completed story. There's no hooks for sequels because the entirety of it is resolved. It also presents itself as a closed story loop, meaning we end where we began, which is one of the hallmarks of a good story, a completed journey.
So to basically continue it you have to look for something in season 1 you can break. You can't. There's just nothing there. So for season 2, you have to break apart season 1, which means it will be shit no matter what unless you shift focus.
The mistake was focusing on the same characters. Akane, Ginro and the others all had completed arcs. Even with the focus on different characters, you're sort of boxed in by the plot and setting. The setting isn't as expansive as GitS because you can constantly reinvent Mokoto and we'll always be drawn to her and that world.
Now the problem is they've basically established the cast for seven years and feel like they can soft reboot it when they set up conflicts that they never resolved and just sideline what was keeping the series alive. You can't just fucking do that. People are only still watching this because they're hoping the magic of Season 1 will return. It won't.
Season 1 was a nice lightning in the bottle that captured Neo-Noir, Blade Runner and the violence and animation of 1980s anime along with a solid story. It felt like something from that era. It's weird but I felt like ever since season 1 the atmosphere has been way too clean. It was good in the sense that even when you were in a clean environment in season 1 it felt like it had this atmosphere of darkness over it, representing the omnipotence of Sibyl and the system itself. The way that season 1 and season 2 are lit, colored and shaded are like night and day. It lost something unique there.
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