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Moses34
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Ignoring the whole "not understanding Catcher in the Rye" bit (and calling a teenager immature, big shocker) which seems to be extremely common,
This is where it lost me. There's nothing more reflective of the society than a bunch of generic places with high-tech stuff right next door to slums with a lot of bootleg-y tech for "the rest". Forget SAC, or even GITS in general, that has been a staple of cyberpunk and dystopian works for... pretty much the entire time the genre's existed. You can look at any third world country in South America (hello) and notice the same divide. It doesn't stop and tell you "wow look there's all this technology but the poor parts of town still exist" because it doesn't need to, when it can just casually show you that and let it speak for itself. The world in SAC isn't falling apart, but it sure as hell is standing on stitches. I thought that was obvious for most people, but I guess not.
No writing was bungled, there's just no need for the show to repeat what the movie did when the manga was filled to the brim with other concepts in the world. Why would you want the TV show to be 12 episodes covering the exact same thing as the movie with worse quality, more filler, and ending the same way without anything else explored? Not just that but SAC's stand alone episodes basically use the manga's chapters as a guide, to the point where going through the franchise again some years back I found myself pulling up chapters more often than not and thinking "hey, there it is". The full guide expands upon it even more. I feel like you wanted one thing from it, again (in worse quality), and rejected everything else presented to you. |
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