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The Ghost in the Shell #02 — Garbage Collection

 

Sure we don’t have enough babble?

Impressions:

This was a much duller episode, especially the middle. A veritable wall of technobabble going nowhere and saying nothing. The classification of the virus. Firearm specifications and usage. Interdepartment politics. When it finally, finally ends, it’s time for… three minutes of… filler with the garbage men. Oh, so they must be relevant and the culprits, right? No, not really. And even then, it takes until the last 90 seconds of the episode to get there, whereupon the chase finally begins, with a completely different guy, and the episode ends, chase only actually just begun.

And it’s not like the start was important either. Anything that does a bit of setup and then goes “Anyway, three months later” rarely is. Mostly fanservice and gags. And even the fanservice was people reciting technobabble about nerve clusters or the like. The episode could’ve started five minutes from the end and I’m pretty sure nothing would’ve been lost. About 20 minutes of setup for a little light Spidermanning around.

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