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View Poll Results: Psycho-Pass - Episode 17 Rating | |||
Perfect 10 | 44 | 51.16% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent | 22 | 25.58% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good | 11 | 12.79% | |
7 out of 10 : Good | 6 | 6.98% | |
6 out of 10 : Average | 1 | 1.16% | |
5 out of 10 : Below Average | 1 | 1.16% | |
4 out of 10 : Poor | 1 | 1.16% | |
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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2013-02-14, 17:05 | Link #21 |
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Makishima is too beast mode. I can't remember the last time I've straight up rooted for a villain. I hope he comes out of all this alive. Best anime protagonist in years.
The "truth" of the Sybyl system was kind of predictable though. I'm sure everyone guessed it was some form of "humans".
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2013-02-14, 17:11 | Link #22 | |
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2013-02-14, 17:39 | Link #26 |
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The revelation about the Sibyl System isn't completely surprising but I didn't expect them to reveal it in such a way. Interesting stuff even though some of it has largely been guessed. I'm glad that the story is gaining more momentum again because if it didn't we probably wouldn't have enough build-up to the end.
Still, can't ignore some contrivances like how the aircraft is so easily taken over by Makishima. The supposed advanced cybernetic body lost so easily. Oh well.
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2013-02-14, 17:45 | Link #27 | |
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The cybernetic body lost cause Maki got the jump on it fast. And the current user is not no where near as skilled as maki in combat seeing as how they were caught long before maki. And Touma was exspecting maki to join as I said you don't trust maki. When you are around some one like that you think 20 steps ahead just to so much as breathe because they are truly unpredictable. If only he had a more savage and unpredictable fighting style to match his personality. To put it simple Sibyl can not stop Makishima he is truely unpredictable vs a system that runs on guessing what some one will do.
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2013-02-14, 17:48 | Link #28 |
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I wonder if the Sybil system logarithmically approaches "godhood" -- with each new brain, does the system make the existence of criminally asymptotic individuals (i.e. those who subconsciously "cheat" that system through their social deviance) more and more difficult? To rephrase that, if Makishima were added to the system, would that prevent a hypothetical Makishima clone in society from being criminally asymptotic? If that's the case, it would become harder and harder to "cheat" the system and Sybil's judgment would approach perfection very quickly. Sybil did seem particularly anxious to add Makishima's brain to the system.
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2013-02-14, 17:54 | Link #29 |
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-It's established that Psychopass world has military dedicated drones...quite large ones actually. I'm sure this is going to start all sorts of shenanigans in the discussions over the drones inability to just role in and lethally zap the helmet guys in episode 15. Military drones that couldn't target individuals based on such distinctive features as having helmets like that... wouldn't be very useful for national defense. Infantry anti tank teams could just waltz up to them and shoot them without so much as a response. (Which should be a big deal, cause as we find out later, Japan is the only country to use the Sybl system). -Kougami and and Akane have a heart to heart talk. As someone who had faith in the system, Akane is a bit shook up, perhaps even feeling a little foolish at the moment. -The Judiciary has been abolished eh? That certainly makes you wonder how they deal with white collar crimes...unless psycho pass scanning is really that effective at discerning dudes. -The Sybll system isn't just a hive mind of criminals being used as processors...it's LITERALLY the brain hivemind of these 250 people. I can understand now why keeping this secret would absolutely essential, even more so than if you were just using brains as computers. Because the way the director explains it...the Sybll system is essentially an oligarchy run by 250 extreme sociopaths. ...these guys must be pretty used to getting their way all the time. Cause it doesn't seem like there were ANY precautions on that airplane to Makishima trying to escape aside from this one drone.
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2013-02-14, 18:05 | Link #31 |
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Now then what Maki does with that camera will determine if he is a good or bad guy. Please to the good thing Maki I like you to much to be truely evil do not keep the camera for yourself or use it to mess with the protagonist heads and split them against each other or anything =(. Then again I will still cheer for Maki
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2013-02-14, 18:06 | Link #32 | |||
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I think you're forgetting that Makishima is an amoral sociopath...just like all the Sybil system is at this point is just a country club of Amoral sociopaths like him.
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2013-02-14, 18:17 | Link #33 |
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Yeah, I find it rather hilarious that one guy has the ability to topple a country with just his fists. I could buy it if I was watching Kenshiro.
So they have gigantic Tachikomas with cannons but they cannot assign multiple security drones to a prisoner transport. Suspension of disbelief has a limit and they went past it during this episode multiple times. Oh God, I'm now just wishing that they won't screw up GitS Arise this bad. I'd literally tear my TV in half. |
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I believe Makishima was the only one who actively sought out criminals and helped them by providing all the tools for their crimes. Touma was arrested for that jelly mutilation (I think?), but so far it sounded like Makishima was the deciding factor in motivating Touma to commit crimes. If the other brains are similar to Touma, from his short conversation, they were psychopaths who wanted to be understood, while Makishima tries to understand others motives' etc.
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Now that I think about it, Christopher Dorner could destroy this entire society by himself if you dropped him into the city with a rifle and a map to the HUMAN BRAINS
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2013-02-14, 18:30 | Link #37 | |
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Looks like country is rules by maniacs... that's messed up. Humanity sure won't be happy to find out about it. Though how did they plan to kill Makishima with dominator if it can't read his psycho-pass? 0_o And no, Makishima is evil no matter what he does. He killed way too many innocent people directly and indirectly. Even if his intentions might have been good, his way of dealing wasn't. He overstepped the line.
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2013-02-14, 18:39 | Link #39 | |
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don't forget also the psychopath and hivemind connected to him thought it was a good idea to keep the camera with a video about the most secret room, which only seeing it was enouth to get eliminated, just as souvenir while as the living proof got eliminated would have been more than sensed to eliminate other kind of proofs as well but now, unless that camera gets forgotten in some of the free plot holes avaliable, it'll get used by shouma back on shouma, since the director said himself they were going to assimilate him willing or not, what use was there in leaving shouma unrestrained and free to walk around in the room? since they had already decided to add him, it would have been more safe (and they're psychos themselfes they should know something about what someone like them is able to try to pull off) to just keep shouma totally immobilized with just the use of the head for their little chit-chat i mean, shouma wasn't the first one to get added, did they really were this lax with any other guy who got added and nothing ever happened? the only possible excuse for such an huge fail in assimilating shouma was cause touma was planning himself to let him escape, very unlikely given how happy he looked about his condition all this coming from an author which, maybe got overhyped, is known for being merciless with his characters(and in the previous episode was it), he seems to be twisting the story a bit too much just in the attempt to make shouma look cool the rest of the episode was mostly descriptive, and nothing really important happened the concept of the hivemind as social judge is interesting, and the chief has now a similar status to kyuubey with his multiple bodies :P all the shouma hype, chief/sibyl worfing, and general uncoerence was a turnoff, or maybe the previous episodes were too good and this was the inevitable fall back to averageness rewatch the previous episode, didn't you noticed the chief overriding the sibyl judgment and manually enabling the decomposer mode on kagari? |
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