|
View Poll Results: Psycho-Pass - Episode 8 Rating | |||
Perfect 10 | 25 | 37.31% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent | 21 | 31.34% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good | 14 | 20.90% | |
7 out of 10 : Good | 4 | 5.97% | |
6 out of 10 : Average | 1 | 1.49% | |
5 out of 10 : Below Average | 1 | 1.49% | |
4 out of 10 : Poor | 0 | 0% | |
3 out of 10 : Bad | 0 | 0% | |
2 out of 10 : Very Bad | 1 | 1.49% | |
1 out of 10 : Painful | 0 | 0% | |
Voters: 67. You may not vote on this poll |
|
Thread Tools |
2012-11-30, 01:30 | Link #22 | |
Hopeless Jean fanboy
|
Quote:
The grotesque way that the Dominator handles it's business may have been done deliberately as a deterrent. Something along the lines of "hey, keep your shit in check or else next time it'll be you getting mopped up off the floor". The psychological trauma of seeing someone get blown to bits may not be a problem since mental care medicine is so prevalent in their society. Maybe its called the Dominator for a reason, not just because thats a badass name for a gun lol. |
|
2012-11-30, 01:59 | Link #23 | |
The Mage of Four Hearts
Author
Join Date: Mar 2010
Age: 33
|
Quote:
In fact it was so conventional it lacked reality. Not that the message isn't valid, but she presented it as if it was complete and objective truth. I don't doubt that some of the parents sent their children there for that purpose, but I'm sure that not all of them did. That theory was a little too cut and dry. That's part of her problem. She's stuck in her own little world, her own way of thinking, that isn't even purely hers, but a degraded copy of her father's ideas. That's not so bad by itself, but the way she does that and cries out for attention, as Kogami noted, is really pretty sad. It's no wonder Kogami noted that the killer has a young mental age. She's a child, a gifted child pretending to be a adult that becomes an average person when they do become an adult. Makishima must have been watching her to see if that was true or if she was better than that, but she failed.
__________________
|
|
2012-11-30, 05:53 | Link #26 |
Awakened One
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Northern Italy
|
This episode was good but there were certain inconsistencies that didn't sit well with me.
1. The existence of a prison for high-PP criminals doesn't make sense in this setting. If these people are judged irredeemable by Sibyl, they should be executed (enforcers are an exception because they are still useful to the society). 2. In an attempt to show Kogami's exceptional detective skills, Gen made the other inspectors/enforcers look too dumb. Not even suspecting that the culprit might be someone living in the school, really? Not to mention that Rikako easily managed to escape the police blockade. 3. The principal trying to stop Kogami because "she is still a minor" was weird. The principal should know that the Dominator's judgment is absolute. I can only chalk it up to the principal being worried about having one of his student "dominated" in school. 4. For the first time we saw Makishima outright killing one of his subordinates because she disappointed him. I hoped he wouldn't fall into such a cartoony villain role. He could have let the police slaughter Rikako instead of helping her escape, only to kill her later. And the Titus Andronicus quotes went on for too long. Despite these flaws, I still voted the episode a 7 out of 10. P-P has been constantly good but never excellent IMHO. I hope that Gen is saving the best for last.
__________________
|
2012-11-30, 06:39 | Link #27 | |
SIBYL salesman
Join Date: Feb 2011
|
Quote:
As for the "minor" thing, traditional values = traditional mindset? 2. Welcome to parallels to real world policing. Once they've got a suspect, ignore all other people. Another reason would be escaping the blockade seems easy enough for those that are prepared. It's a big place and she had 'home advantage'. Also, the fact that the police had to keep a low profile first is probably why they couldn't clamp the place down fast enough. Love the extended ending, especially seeing what looks like a greenhorn Shinya and possibly Sasayama. |
|
2012-11-30, 07:49 | Link #28 | |
miragecoordinator
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Right there
|
Quote:
__________________
|
|
2012-11-30, 08:22 | Link #29 | |||||
Senior Member
Author
|
Quote:
But if we presume that crime once grew wildly out of control, and the Sibyl System (with all its trappings, such as the Dominator) was a response to that, then the Dominator makes perfect sense. Quote:
Quote:
The whole place made me think of a very clean, very high-tech Arkham Asylum (in fact, this is what Arkham Asylum should look like). Quote:
Quote:
In and of itself, I certainly don't think this lessens Makishima as an antagonist, any more than it does The Joker himself. Also, I'd honestly find it a bit boring if the way every criminal goes down is through a Dominator shot. Changing it up a bit from time-to-time makes for good variety, imo.
__________________
|
|||||
2012-11-30, 08:42 | Link #30 |
Hiding Under Your Bed
Join Date: May 2008
|
If the prison held actual criminals, yes, it makes little sense. But, it's more likely it holds mostly ex-Enforcers, who've gone over their limit peacefully. It was, after all, stated that is a place where Enforcers end up.
On another note, would it be a safe bet to make that a future arc will involve those prisoners being released?
__________________
|
2012-11-30, 09:39 | Link #32 |
Sensei, aishite imasu
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Hong Kong Shatterdome
|
lethal force seems to only be authorized in the event that highly dangerous people are caught in the field, when it's potentially dangerous. If you became diagnosed as incurable in a clinical setting, they'd probably confine you.
It DOES make sense. Because ultimately, you WANT incurable individuals to come forth so you can confine them. If they think they'd be killed if they came in willingly, you'd have to have everyone down. Which is chaotic and messy. It's better to keep them imprisoned. It's also not THAT surprising that nobody suspected one of the student body of being the criminal. All these crimes suggest a rather high level of resources and planning...this isn't something you'd normally associate with a high school student. And really. It's not that unusual for the cops to go with a certain suspect model, only for it to be wrong. And Kougami WAS pretty damn close in figuring out the more correct profile of the criminal. It was also good to finally see them going over the school with a comb. That DID take awhile. One thing I do find interesting, is that when they recognized the setup for the murders as art...they didn't try to use any kind of image recognition software to try to correlate it to any artists. That'd be something out of the range of our AI, but you'd think it might be possible in the world of psycho-pass. Or perhaps computers in Psycho-pass just aren't good at evaluating things like art. I wonder if in this future, artists like Giger are remembered at all? Or do they get censored up for being too sick and depraved?
__________________
|
2012-11-30, 09:52 | Link #33 | |
Hiding Under Your Bed
Join Date: May 2008
|
Quote:
For all the discussion that goes on about the good/bad/morality of this social system, I've always thought it was pretty clear the show's intentions are strongly tilted to one perspective.
__________________
Last edited by creb; 2012-11-30 at 10:07. |
|
2012-11-30, 10:10 | Link #34 | |
Awakened One
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Northern Italy
|
Quote:
__________________
|
|
2012-11-30, 10:14 | Link #35 |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2007
Age: 38
|
Like it was stated earlier. They're called Correctional and Rehabilitation Centers.
it used to help rehabilitate people but for those with a Crime Co-efficient of 300 and above get quarantined these are most likely individuals who turn themselves in voluntarily but cannot be cured.
__________________
|
2012-11-30, 10:23 | Link #36 |
Seishu's Ace
Author
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Kobe, Japan
|
This was a flashy episode, full of signature moments and speeches and crescendos of violence. But my favorite moment was a quiet one, when Kougami took Akane to the correctional facility and casually told her, “When you or Gino decides I’m no longer of any use, this is where I’ll be locked up and never allowed to leave.” It was said without a trace of audible rancor or judgment – just matter-of-factly, as if it were the most natural thing in the world. And it was all the more damning of the system at the heart of the series because of that.
__________________
|
2012-11-30, 10:25 | Link #37 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2007
|
I was also thinking the reason maybe only Ko thought about building a criminal profile is perhaps with the Sybil system it might not be that necessary in most cases. The Sybil system probably profiles most criminals by looking at their psycho pass/crime coefficient.
Digging in deep probably only needs to be done in rare cases but it is probably this skill that made Kogami such a strong detective. I guess my main issue with the series is with all the crime still happening I am hard pressed to see how this system made life better in anyway and I don't even need Makishima's poetry to tell me this (as much as I do love to hear Sakurai quote Shakespeare)
__________________
|
2012-11-30, 10:28 | Link #38 | |
Kana Hanazawa ♥
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: France
Age: 37
|
Quote:
__________________
|
|
2012-11-30, 11:16 | Link #39 |
You are Dominated!
Author
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Earth
Age: 35
|
Kick ass episode. The Oryou Rikako case is closed. As expected, Makishima pulled out 'you have failed me card' and has her murdered. After all, she was just a toy to him. I am really looking forward to see what Makishima is up to, besides just being bored. I kinda chuckled at what Rikako said to Makishima's old man partner about being abandoned once useless. Yeah, Makishima probably will end up killing all his accomplices as well.
Kougami continues to impress as a detective and managed to solve the case himself. Now that he is on Makishima's radar, I am looking forward to seeing what he has in store for Kougami. The episode seems to hint about future plotlines, of the prison for those with over 300 criminal coefficient. We probably will see the tattoo guy again, and maybe we will see one of the main characters thrown into the prison once his psycho pass went far over the norm. Overall, nice episode of an awesome series
__________________
|
2012-11-30, 11:27 | Link #40 | |
Sensei, aishite imasu
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Hong Kong Shatterdome
|
Quote:
I think sometime in the future, Akane is going to be able to witness first hand the kind of violence the enforcers are capable of, if Kougami needs to go hand to hand to defend himself or her... The hunter guy having a regular gun is certainly interesting contrast to the police armed with dominators. Dominators are certainly more damaging than a gun, perhaps even have high tech aim assistance...but there's also the fact that it seems that since a gun doesn't have to scan its target like a dominator, he might have a bit of an advantage.
__________________
|
|
Tags |
ep 8, psycho-pass |
|
|