MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz The hollywood “adaptation” shits all over GitS
I hate that one as well.
It’s not for you. But its hardly offensive to the franchise.
That depends on what you define as “the franchise”. If you define it as “the manga”, this might well be true. But if you see the franchise as “the old anime movie and series”, then it’s a different discussion. The themes in GitS exist in a lot of works that aren’t GitS. What defines the franchise is not its themes alone but a combination of all the aspects it’s made of. The underlying themes are just one of those. And I would argue that the tone and art style are a lot more defining in this particular series than some esoteric plot points. The art style and tone of the 1995 GitS movie, as well as Bladerunner, have been a defining feature of the entire cyberpunk genre. So, from my point of view, this is definitely offensive to the franchise. It’s like turning John Wick into a pastel colored show about a petting zoo and saying that it’s still the same because the theme of him liking dogs is still intact.
Also, just to reiterate, even if it weren’t GitS I wouldn’t like it. It’s not “uhh, it doesn’t look like the movie, so I don’t like it”. It’s “I don’t like it because everything about it is shit AND on top of that, it doesn’t even share the aesthetics of the movie”. I honestly can’t understand how someone could like this first episode. Exposition, plot, pacing, narration, animation, score, cinematography, editing. It was all over the place. It’s just not a good episode. And it’s an even worse GitS episode.
anonymous_in_atl@ani.social 4 days ago
For what its worth, I think they nailed the production design in that one. That’s about it.
It looks and sounds great.
But it turns Motoko, who is just a common full conversion cyborg, if a hypercompetent military grade one, into a just another generic chosen one. Yet another “first” and “only” one. GitS is about what happens when posthuman science has gone so far that the kinds of things it enables are “normal”.
The movie completely misses that and is left with literally nothing narratively worthwile. It mashes together a bunch GitS moments with no respect for the original message, while simultanously butchering Motokos characterization and also glorifying her into literally the most important person in the history of cyberization.
FFS the originals make a point of Togusa being the “special” one because he’s the only actual “human” on the team!