C&C - Ghost in the Shell SAC 2nd GIG, "Fake Food" (DI) [1-22]

[Djm912]

How will Section 9 counter Gouda's games from last week?

Talk away, my darlings.

[One Radical Dude]

This episode is a TV-MA (V) episode.

[Gatomon41]

Cyberbrian Rapper? NO! Rap still exist in the future
Was that guy getting crucified or something?

Ghodua was quite the handsome one back in the day.

We finally learn what Cyborg food is made of. Sounds tasty.

Neat, the Tachi's can communicate by Projecting.

[Paul_Cousins]

I see bugs on the screen!!!!

[Juu-kuchi]

Tachikoma HOOYAH!

[One Radical Dude]

HOO-YAH!!!

That was kinda cute! :anime:

[tb4000]

^Rap shall never die, baby! Hip-hop 4-ever

Return of the crazy ass Tachikoma catchphrase - "hoo-ha!"

[Duke]

Did anyone else find it hilarious that not only do the Tachikomas now have cyber-link capability, but they have free movement during the transmissions as well (unlike the others where it's just a static image)?

[Paul_Cousins]

Spoiler:

That 'collective thought of the masses' conversation is basically what happened at the end of Vol 2 of GitS Manga: Man Machine Interface.

[Djm912]

That's the most disgusting type of sushi I have ever heard.

In English this discussion is even more gross.

Heh. Fox News in the year 2030.

[Gatomon41]

Kind of interesting that Cyborgs, for all their abilites, still pay a price. They can't eat certain foods.

Interesting discussion of the Vegan food in the future, even more interesting is the news debate.

Ok, what Happened? Why was Batou upset, I thought they got the guy?

[Djm912]

And again, the intelligence fails Public Security.

Gohda is proving himself to be quite the mastermind.

[livingfruitvirus]

This episode is a TV-MA (V) episode.

It's incorrect. This episode is rated TV-14V. Originally Reembody was scheduled to re-air tonight, but it looks like BOC didn't bother to correct the rating. You won't see the TV-MA rating pop in again until at least episode 12.

[tb4000]

Kusanagi's atypical design is back this time around, although I still prefer her look from the first season two ep.



Another cliffhanger ending....they're slowing starting to get closer to what's going on with Gouda and his agenda.

[Paul_Cousins]

So we traded a shortened FMA Opening for a full length GitS Ending.

[One Radical Dude]

It's incorrect. This episode is rated TV-14V. Originally Reembody was scheduled to re-air tonight, but it looks like BOC didn't bother to correct the rating. You won't see the TV-MA rating pop in again until at least episode 12.

Don't blame me, blame the network. It didn't look like a TV-MA episode, so I figured that the rating was a mistake.

[Fresh V]

So we traded a shortened FMA Opening for a full length GitS Ending.

Uh, not really. It was still shortened a bit.

[Gatomon41]

The end confuses me. Why was Batou upset and what with the faulty intel?

[Delthayre]

GitS:SAC is very smart and at least gives the impression of knowing a lot, but like a lot of smart and knowledgeable people, it tends to become interested in its topic, but uninterested to the people it was talking to. Something about Batou and Togusa's exchange in the van felt like a wasted opportunity. The characters can have excellent chemistry together and I would have liked a more poingnant or emotional character moment instead of the dry and fundamentally expositional exchanges we end up hearing.

I do like the story for this season better, however. It seems less abstract and esoteric than the Laughing Man affair, or at least less burdened with adolescent iconoclasm. Or maybe that's just my latent, inner tweedy policy analyst talking.

Gouda is the real highlight to this. The man has rubbed the audience the wrong way since he first showed up and it's starting to look like he's indeed Japan's craftiest, cruelist, and damned ugliest puppet master.

*cue Bella Lugosi chanting, "Pull the strings! Pull the strings!"*

What I do really like about this episode is that I am left wondering what exactly Gouda's plan is. He seems to have some interest in or intent toward the refugee populatin and nuclear material. So... oh my.

[Paul_Cousins]

Uh, not really. It was still shortened a bit.

Not by much. Also, did anyone else notice that signal/animation error that made it look like Motoko has a small mustache when she is show on the cyber-phone screen in one of the later scenes of the episode?