SirBeowulf said
Eh, I can't really agree now that I've caught up with the show. Of course, I am a simple man. While the clapping might have seemed a bit forced, I thought it suited new girl's character. Even if she is a cunt. Tsunemori really has seemed to grown a lot and isn't the clutzy ditz she was back in episode one. It really felt like this season was less reluctant to go off the rails into fucked up territory, like what happened in episode four... and in this episode apparently. I'm really just reserving my full view until the final episode, but I've enjoyed it so far.MAYBE IT WAS JUST TSUNEMORI'S BUTT IN THIS EPISODE. I DUNNO.
All of the villains have lost true motivations and planning, and are now simply doing shit cuz it's EVVVVVIIIIILLLL! Everything has been ridiculously dumbed down from the first season. The philosophical elements are almost completely gone, and when they are used they rehash the exact same questions that the first season raised AND answered. Akane is supposed to be this ideal citizen Sybil wants, but instead ONE mad scientist brain and her Frankenstein psycho kid are trying to use Dumbass McCuntyPants for their goals. The violence that was meant to be dark and gruesome has been overused to comedic effect. The new writers have completely butchered how Psycho-Passes are measured, and made it to where jump scares are apparently enough to turn you into a latent criminal worthy of execution. Every character is simply a cardboard cut-out of either what they used to be, or what they are supposed to be:
Akane - Female Kogami
Togane - EVIL! We literally were given a flashback of him killing puppies. He is nothing like Kogami, but Akane draws parallels to them because they are both male and both enforcers.
Ginoza - A blank space where tons of character development from going enforcer should be
Mika - Her sole purpose is to give the audience someone to blame for everything in the show. Literally every action she has taken should have gotten her fired.
Yayoi and Shion - Token lesbians because fuck it
Kamui - A wannabe Makishima, who doesn't actually want to judge Sybil: He just wants revenge for what society did to him and his classmates. He's only interested in Akane at all because the script said so.
*Regains composure*
Hopefully the movie (that the originally writer, Gen Urobuchi, and original studio, Production IG are creating) will retcon this season into filler, return to form, and lead into a third legitimate season.
