Gatchaman Crowds
Well, that was... a thing I watched.
Moment by moment, there's a lot of annoying dialog with a villain who's rambly-mad and a heroine who's constant-positive-chatty. The Gatchamen (is that the plural?), as alien-empowered protectors of Earth, only have a few fights that really seem worthy of that.
But... it's clear on a larger level that the series is examining heroes and empowerment on a broader scale. That's definitely the redeeming part of the series. Even so, however, the message is a little unclear.
Small groups of superheros can be sort of redundant when people really pull together, except when they're not. Giving people power to perform superheroic acts is good, except when it's not.
Galax and the Crowds are shown both in a positive and negative light, capable to both destroying and saving civilization. It's the most awesome and terrifying possibilities of the internet-driven world all in one. At the end of the day, things (of course) work out okay for the most part, but still some of the precise stuff I fear in such a scenario is portrayed.
All in all, it's hard to condemn or praise. It's interesting as an examination of the growing connectivity of society, but it doesn't strike me as having the depth of something like Psycho Pass.
Moment by moment, there's a lot of annoying dialog with a villain who's rambly-mad and a heroine who's constant-positive-chatty. The Gatchamen (is that the plural?), as alien-empowered protectors of Earth, only have a few fights that really seem worthy of that.
But... it's clear on a larger level that the series is examining heroes and empowerment on a broader scale. That's definitely the redeeming part of the series. Even so, however, the message is a little unclear.
Small groups of superheros can be sort of redundant when people really pull together, except when they're not. Giving people power to perform superheroic acts is good, except when it's not.
Galax and the Crowds are shown both in a positive and negative light, capable to both destroying and saving civilization. It's the most awesome and terrifying possibilities of the internet-driven world all in one. At the end of the day, things (of course) work out okay for the most part, but still some of the precise stuff I fear in such a scenario is portrayed.
All in all, it's hard to condemn or praise. It's interesting as an examination of the growing connectivity of society, but it doesn't strike me as having the depth of something like Psycho Pass.
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