Pyscho-Pass] 12 - Whatever we're on now
Okay so I had a bit of time to kill and I felt like getting duckroll off my back so I decided to catch up on this series.
I think the nicest thing I can say about Pyscho-Pass it's really easy to digest, as long as you're willing to skip through all the boring stuff.
So, I have a number of observations on the series which I know that absolutely no-one is dying to hear. Firstly, the show still looks like ass. I can't compliment any area of the visual design whether it's backgrounds, character designs, colour or animation: it all looks bad. I really don't know what Production I.G. are playing at because this is an unusually unattractive looking work.
Secondly, if this was the place the story was going to go (and we all knew it was going to go here eventually) why bother with all the foreplay? Imagine if, to pick another Gen work, Madoka had been 24 or 26 episodes long? Do you think it would have benefited the storyline in any way? The characters? The overall message? The amount of time wasted at the start of the series is quite staggering when you think about how quickly they could have set up this world and it's character. Three episodes would have been just enough to establish everything. Instead they dragged it out and out for no real benefit - the characters aren't any better developed because they're all flat and boring. The world building was largely carried out by endless villain monologues/dialogues and none of it was strictly necessary.
Did I mention that the writing in this show is seriously questionable? The majority of the dialogue is extremely stale and the only times an exchange is noticeable is because of some horrific philosophy/sci-fi reference. Ugh.
Finally, and this is more of a minor point, but the number of plot points that make no sense at all is really quite staggering. The amount of stupid and unbelievable things that have occurred during this last arc is totally off the charts. Plot problems aren't that important when everything else about a show works - although unfortunately that isn't the case here.
Now, I don't want to confuse anyone here - I don't hate the show. It isn't worthy of my ire, or my attention. It's a thoroughly average and unremarkable work that only achieved notability because it's literally the only show in town for fans of this kind of setting.