[ SECRET POST #2808 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #2808 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Daria]


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03.
[Hannibal]


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04.
[Breaking Bad]


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05.
[Pride and Prejudice]


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06.
[James May from Top Gear]


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07.
[GentleWhispering]


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08.
[Little Women]


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09.
[Psycho-Pass]


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10.
[johnny's entertainment / j&a]










Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 023 secrets from Secret Submission Post #401.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

09. http://i.imgur.com/9rpoxc3.png
[Psycho-Pass]

[iggy]

Akane is one of the best written female protagonists in recent anime history, imo. It's a shame to see hate for her.

Anyway, I find that there are far, far more people in fandom who side with Makashima to a disturbing degree (and thus woobify him) than there are people who think the society depicted is a good idea (I've... actually never come across anyone who thinks this?).

[gabzillaz]

We must be hanguing in different parts of the fandom, I've seen more people siding with the villain than with the system.

Wy did you hate Akane? I'm curious. Personally I loved how she was developed.

OP--spoilery

[(Anonymous)]

It's not that I hate how she was written or anything. She was perfectly written. She's absolutely devoted to her own conception of justice and order, and she's thrown into situation after situation that would shake a normal person, and she keeps to her rules, because that's the point--she's not a normal person, she's the kind of person who can keep a perpetually low Psycho-Pass. She's Makishima's counterpart in emotional steadiness, as Kougami is his counterpart in chaotic behavior.

But I can sympathize with Kougami, because he feels like a normal, sane person in an essentially insane society, and I can at least feel some comradery with Makishima as one of the few people who understands there's something wrong. (He reminds me of V from V for Vendetta, another dangerous nutcase who kills good people for being in his way and still comes out rosy compared to what he's up against.) Akane's so alien to me that I can't even sympathize with her, and her decision not to do anything about Sibyl is, by my admittedly bizarre moral standards, one of the most evil things I've ever seen on television. (Way to combine "It's worse for me to make folks suffer and die than for them to suffer and die because I did nothing" with "Organized sacrifice of innocent people is totally okay if it saves more lives." Not to mention "I know these people aren't really inferior, but society depends too much on this system to free them," which should have gone out of style along with slavery.)

Re: OP--spoilery

[(Anonymous)]

She didn't decide to do nothing. She decided that destroying the system with no safety net was a bad idea, and is going to work to try and change it from the inside and make something better. If she just blew it up there'd be a power vacuum and chaos.

Re: OP--spoilery

[gabzillaz]

Mh... I get what you mean, but I disagree? I think Akane knows the system is wrong but that trying to bring it down by force will just get her killed and change nothing. She can do more damage to the system from the inside, I guess we'll see how she deals with it in the next season.

[ariakas]

*checks Wiki*

Holy shit, the protagonist is technically an adult. Damn, I might actually watch this.

[ill_omened]

Don't worry, one of the arcs is set in an all gir highschool with yuri elements with the sempai everyone loves.

Which turns out to be one of the better ones, and does some incredibly interesting and subversive things in its criticisms of the treatment of lesbian relationships in Japan.

And for a dystopian tv show it a number of really irritating flaws in the genre. It's by no means perfect, but it's easily been my favourite anime in the last last couple years.

[(Anonymous)]

No joke, this secret got me interested in watching it.

[thistlechaser]

Same. It sounds really interesting.

[ill_omened]

Do it.

Anime of the year 2012/2013.

[(Anonymous)]

You wish, Psycho-Pass was a 6/10 at best. It was incredibly poorly written.

The problem with psycho-pass is that the story presented a bunch of ideas and they never explore it The exposition and infodumps are painfully clunky, the characterization of most of the characters were non-existent or pointless. And so much political and build-up commentary for nothing. It doesn't matter that the Sybil system wasn't shut down, I even expected that. The problem is that all the focus went to a generic criminal case and not an actual story about order vs freedom that the show was proposing, even though the main characters represented different sides and in-betweens of the conflict.

At the end it was just mediocre.