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View Poll Results: Psycho-Pass - Episode 9 Rating | |||
Perfect 10 | 18 | 33.33% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent | 20 | 37.04% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good | 12 | 22.22% | |
7 out of 10 : Good | 3 | 5.56% | |
6 out of 10 : Average | 1 | 1.85% | |
5 out of 10 : Below Average | 0 | 0% | |
4 out of 10 : Poor | 0 | 0% | |
3 out of 10 : Bad | 0 | 0% | |
2 out of 10 : Very Bad | 0 | 0% | |
1 out of 10 : Painful | 0 | 0% | |
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2012-12-07, 20:25 | Link #61 | ||
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I dare say it's not exactly fair of anime fans to chastise people for being creepy/sexually inadequate for items they keep around. The same kind of broad generalization could be made of people who have anime merchandise.
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2012-12-07, 23:01 | Link #62 | |
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Quite honestly I am not even sure what we are discussing here.
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2012-12-07, 23:56 | Link #63 | |
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2012-12-08, 00:39 | Link #64 |
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I'd also like to add my appreciation for seeing Akane stand up for herself. Killer performance by Kana Hanazawa there. (I haven't seen a whole lot of her series; has she ever pulled off an angry, hot-blooded argument like that before?) Of course, this made me think that sooner or later her Soul Ge--I mean, Hue will likely grow cloudy, and we all know where that will lead...
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2012-12-08, 03:03 | Link #66 | |
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As for your other question, where does soul reside in a cybernetic brain..... well, Ghost in the Shell delved right into that subject with some very interesting takes. It's a must watch if you haven't already. This show, I think, don't go that far as to suggest a cybernetic brain. This killer's cybernetic parts may have helped only to slow down the degeneration process of the brain while most of the brain is as it is in like any other people, but he still needs to find a way to keep the brain functioning through that prolonged period of his life. The way he sees it, one can only do the same thing so much before one loses interest and life is worth living only when one is doing something interesting (aka stimulation). He thinks when he loses interest and doesn't feel alive anymore, he will be like one of those people in the hospital bed. For this killer, prolonging his life isn't enough. He wants to feel alive along with living a very long life. And he thinks that is the key to immortality. I really wonder how long he has been on into this particular set of stimulation. Btw, if Shinya happens to go against that cyborg bare handed in the upcoming episodes, I'm putting my money on him. He practically destroyed a robot he was going against in an earlier episode at max setting.
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2012-12-08, 05:48 | Link #67 | |
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2012-12-08, 17:08 | Link #70 |
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Akane standing up for herself was a pretty well-done scene.
I love that costume device Akane uses and I love the way they draw her as she's trying on difference clothes. I was like "dang.." when the hunter took out the pipe he made out of the girl's bones lol. Overall though, while the series presents some flaws in the system and there's the guy exploiting the system for his own amusement. Am I the only one that thinks the system is pretty good? I wouldn't mind such a system, no system is perfect and has its own share of flaws and there's always people out there to exploit it.
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2012-12-08, 19:12 | Link #71 |
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I really love this episode Akane crying on Ginoza I loved it up in my esteem then cyborg that my most shocking in this episode is the pipe made with bones Ouryou must have a good collection pipe made with all the criminals I think
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2012-12-09, 02:42 | Link #73 |
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You really should go hunting some time (actual hunting, and not some glorified tourist-trap "hunting" safari-style or some other nonsense). It always amazes me how much people like to 'dis things they have no actual experience with.
I've certainly never seen a dick size correlation to it.
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2012-12-09, 03:32 | Link #74 | |
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soooooo it just has me wondering. I mean yea we need a show so I guess the writers didn't think this one out all the way and will find a convenient plot device to resolve the conflict soon. |
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2012-12-09, 04:01 | Link #75 | |
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The list could go on. The point is that even when things seem blatantly wrong, most people will generally try to live and let live rather than stick their necks out to change a system. It's not necessarily cowardice. More often than not, immediate concerns — such as simply getting by day by day, responsibilities to dependents that cannot be cast aside — mean that most people will not be prepared to make a sacrifice unless there is a reasonable hope of success. That's likely how things unfolded in the Psycho-Pass universe and why no one seems to complain. To be sure, though, I don't think the population is as passive as many critics here make it out to be. There's the news anchor, for example, who asks reasonably insightful questions about the drawbacks of cyberisation. Then there's the retired professor who clearly has his doubts about the system. The key thing to remember is that, for the most part, the Sibyl System has brought a lot of benefits to the majority of citizens. It has its flaws, but the general belief seems to be that these are kinks that can be ironed out. Akane mentioned as much in this episode, during the drive to the professor's home. |
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And if this is the case, the Sibyl System probably accomplished what it was designed for. The first few weeks of the Dominators being the standard issue weapons for the police might have been a bloody month indeed. But once that horrific month was over, there were way, way fewer criminals left. Society re-stablized, with far less crime. The general populace were naturally relieved and thankful. And then the more insidious elements of the Sibyl System came into play. Mind you, that's just speculation on my part. I will admit it's getting a bit harder to imagine the Sibyl System coming into place without a serious crime problem. That being said, consider how the airplane industry in America responded to 9/11. 9/11 was one terrible tragedy, but again, it was one terrible tragedy. Nothing like it has happened since. Yet, from everything I've read, the TSA has put into place ever-increasing high-security measures for people boarding planes at American airports. Some of it I'm amazed that Americans would put up with. Yet, it goes on, and I suspect that lingering fears over 9/11 is a big reason why. It doesn't take a lot to convince people to trade some freedom and practicality for enhanced safety. Quote:
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1) Not everybody agrees that these "wrongs" are actually wrong. 2) These "wrongs" sometimes have highly difficult solutions to find. 3) The "wrongs" are largely out of sight. It's not just that they're easy to ignore, it's that many people never learn of them in the first place. Let's look at your list. Quote:
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2012-12-09, 08:25 | Link #77 | |
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2012-12-09, 09:52 | Link #78 |
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The series make it clear to us (the viewers) that it is a dystopia camouflaged as a utopia, the public at large is unaware that all those wonderful drugs that help them remove those ugly urges the human mind/body can have will eventually (probably by the time they are 40, maybe even sooner) make them into living zombies that no longer react to any external impulses. It is somewhat similar to Logan's Run premise, a society of the young. Also, the public at large is unaware of the prisions full with highly driven and creative persons that happen to have a permanently blurred coeficient, so the revolutionaries that in the past have changed human society are already sentenced to life without parole.
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2012-12-09, 09:59 | Link #79 | |
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2012-12-09, 10:11 | Link #80 |
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If they die out of a heart attack there will never be an appreciable accumulation of living zombies. If there is a common message I have seen in all this many years of watching anime is that the mass media is controlled by he goverment, so I would not be surprised that the statistics of people going zombie are kept secret as a national security problem. Also, the older population that managed to get to retirement is probably not affected since they never got into the fad of consuming these treatments to beautify their hue. In a sense that might be a social commentary about the public health in modern japan, that has a lot of people living beyond a hundred years, but at the same time has many younger fellows dying young because of unhealthy habits *cough* karoshi *cough*
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