I’ve still got two episodes to go, and while it won’t be topping any lists, I don’t regret watching it. It was different.
I found the intentional lean into a more retro style to be fun, but my biggest gripe is also related to that - because they didn’t commit to it hard enough.
The show may look visually somewhat retro, but it felt crazily fast-paced like it was designed for the attention span of a tiktok addict. In that sense it was a thoroughly modern show (in the worst sort of way) and failed to embrace what was supposed to be its selling point.
It would have been a much better show in my opinion if it had simply slowed down a bit.
It’s quite hard to pin point my exact disappointment - but I think I either wanted something new, or something with greater depth. Preferably both.
I personally feel like there was not the level of character development I wanted. In the second gig, when the guy at the end had his brief soliloquy, “I’ll go on ahead.” It was great. I was connected. And the music in that show, amazing, the whole plot of international deceit with “terroristic immigrant populations.” It was amazing.
Dunno. I know that we are in “rerun territory” but, I expect better.
I’m ok with people disagreeing with me though. Maybe this one isn’t in my style or something.
I think the main complaints from most people are that the pacing is a bit hard to watch. I know the original manga was fast paced and a little goofy, I read quite a bit of it back when I got super into gits years ago, a far cry from the slow and cerebral movie adaptations, but I think I had hoped this more direct and true adaptation would find the middle ground.
I’m enjoying it, but it’s hard to watch, i’m nearly 40 and have always preferred “slower” media, and some shows can be either fast or slow paced and an episode is over in what feels like 5 minutes, regardless of how much or how little has actually happened, but this one is often a bit of a slog, never quite getting me into that flow state in a lot of episodes.
I doubt it’s the last GITS adaptation we get though, I love when we get different interpretations of a source material whether every one is better than the last is irrelevant.
What aspects disappointed you, personally?
I’ve still got two episodes to go, and while it won’t be topping any lists, I don’t regret watching it. It was different.
I found the intentional lean into a more retro style to be fun, but my biggest gripe is also related to that - because they didn’t commit to it hard enough.
The show may look visually somewhat retro, but it felt crazily fast-paced like it was designed for the attention span of a tiktok addict. In that sense it was a thoroughly modern show (in the worst sort of way) and failed to embrace what was supposed to be its selling point.
It would have been a much better show in my opinion if it had simply slowed down a bit.
It’s quite hard to pin point my exact disappointment - but I think I either wanted something new, or something with greater depth. Preferably both.
I personally feel like there was not the level of character development I wanted. In the second gig, when the guy at the end had his brief soliloquy, “I’ll go on ahead.” It was great. I was connected. And the music in that show, amazing, the whole plot of international deceit with “terroristic immigrant populations.” It was amazing.
Dunno. I know that we are in “rerun territory” but, I expect better.
I’m ok with people disagreeing with me though. Maybe this one isn’t in my style or something.
I think the main complaints from most people are that the pacing is a bit hard to watch. I know the original manga was fast paced and a little goofy, I read quite a bit of it back when I got super into gits years ago, a far cry from the slow and cerebral movie adaptations, but I think I had hoped this more direct and true adaptation would find the middle ground.
I’m enjoying it, but it’s hard to watch, i’m nearly 40 and have always preferred “slower” media, and some shows can be either fast or slow paced and an episode is over in what feels like 5 minutes, regardless of how much or how little has actually happened, but this one is often a bit of a slog, never quite getting me into that flow state in a lot of episodes.
I doubt it’s the last GITS adaptation we get though, I love when we get different interpretations of a source material whether every one is better than the last is irrelevant.
Seconded on the short attention span, fast paced design. My partner hadn’t watched the original movie and couldn’t follow the plot at all.