Lifyre wrote:
Back on GITS (I just realized thats the plural of git... I'm over sexed at the moment don't mind me.) a moment. Is it jut me or does SSS kinda suck and not fit with the rest of the series/show? From the 45 minutes or so I watched so far (I'll finish it later) it seems like the only people who are remotely the same characters in more than appearence are Chief and Kusanagi? Yeah she doesn't work for S9 anymore but she was always a bit on her own fucking program you know?
I mean shit. Togusa is fucking using a 9mm! I mean fuck... also time to go look for the manga
Personally, I really liked that they started it out with Section 9 having gone through major changes since 2nd Gig ended. My main gripe about it is in fact that they worked so hard near the end to get everything
back to fucking status quo, even reversing the major change at the end of the second season. The rest of this is pretty much all spoilers:
[spoiler]I don't mind the Major coming back, but Togusa should have stayed team leader. You don't just leave an outfit like Section 9 and pop right back to your old spot whenever you feel like it. Even the extra team members seem to have mysteriously disappeared by the end. And don't get me started on the Tachikomas. I like them as much as anybody, but if they make another season are the tanks going to valiantly sacrifice themselves a
third time? I wouldn't have minded them remaining helper-AI's even, but no, they had to be brought back in physical form, thus erasing any poignancy their death in Season 2 had. Things like Togusa maturing and a subtle rivalry between him and Kusanagi (the former having once been the rookie on the team and now leading it over his former leader and mentor), having to work with and train the new Fuchikomas, the relationship between Batou and Kusanagi being colder, and a greatly expanded team size with perhaps each of the original members essentially taking on their own squad, would have made an excellent jumping-off point for 3rd season of SAC or further OVA's. Instead we're back to square 1. I still enjoyed Solid State Society, but it does speak of a certain cowardice on the part of the writers. I've always liked the relative emotional coldness of the GITS universe, and part of that would seem to be acknowledging that things aren't going to stay the exact same forever. I wish they'd take more of their lead from Shirow on this- look at what he did in the second volume of the manga, for instace. The changes don’t have to be that drastic, but even something as relatively non-character based as SAC needs a shakeup every now and then or it becomes stale.
I
was scared they were actually going to kill off Togusa at one point, and am really glad they didn't, but even that would have been an actual change, and would have been a reasonable explanation for why the Major could reclaim her old job.
Also, I found the Major stealing Batou's car hilarious for some reason. And the Major is in a remote body at the beginning. If you thought she hadn't changed much then, her real one is exactly like the old one.[/spoiler]
Lifyre wrote:
I can find them in japanese but not translated. of course I have no idea where to look but...
What are you talking about, Amazon has plenty of... oh right, "find". Gotcha. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge, knowwhatimean, I bet you do, eh? Nudge, nudge? Eh? NUDGE BLEEDIN' NUDGE?
(My apologies, I just got my Monthy Python megaset in.)
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