Reviews

The opening sequence was bad. Forced and foggy, like chaos should surely be. Yet there was no real build up to it. People getting shot and maimed as the first thing you see. It's of poor taste and lack of visible causation.

Beyond that things got... smarter. Time passes, characters begin to appear. An ignorant and arrogant leader in the first car and a people fighting to survive in the last car. Fine. Fools have led and been led since the beginning of intelligent life. The cars, they keep everyone alive. Somehow the main engineer of the Snowpiercer project has created a train that could move and keep the occupants alive and moving around the globe for a very long time. Yet no man nor woman could calculate every detail into such a gargantuan plan, so this is what could happen. Among a people so afraid and roasted by the fear of the world outside and inside the train, drama will ensue.

It's a good show. Alas with some problems, like the original movie. The movie was better than these two episodes, though. Still, the acting holds up well enough to not take away from the experience. Maybe it's just a personal thing for me as a fan of Frostpunk and many other apocalyptic settings, but the first sight of the frozen wasteland was somehow more breathtaking than anything I had seen in maybe a decade.

I hope this show will get better, just like I wish everything was getting better, yet not everyone in the film business knows what they're actually doing. Hope is uncertainty and like the characters of this show we can only wait and see what their future really holds. The only reasons I currently watch it are the apocalyptic scenarios, not much the plainly written characters straight from some B-movie writing school's cook book. This series has the roots of something masterclass but the execution of an ignorant or forced writer.

Would certainly love more extreme movies like this however. Humanity is getting spoiled by the hour.

I feel like this was made for an entirely different audience than what GitS really used to be for. Maximize fan service, damned be realism and immersion.

Just so you know, I only watched maybe 10 minutes of the first episode. Maybe it gets better. Likely it won't. I don't take chances with my time so my hopes were ruined.

I liked the first GitS movie that came like 25 years ago or something. That movie instantly generated a gritty atmosphere with immersive details that could become reality in the future. This here, however, has androids talking out loud to themselves in the middle of a desert while on her car's back seat there's a brightly colored spiderlike robot.

First off, you don't make your main heroine, the Major, talk to herself out loud like that. Silence is an option, especially when they're alone and enjoying that very silence in the middle of a desert. Then a truck drives by, she comes up to it and everybody starts talking in a casual japanese manner I presume. It's weird as with usual japanese anime. So sure, whatever. Maybe it has something to do with the culture.

Then some enemy cannon fodder guys come around to chase them, shoot their guns in the air insted of the truck and not really using their weapons almost at all to try to take out the very truck or people they're chasing. They had no plan besides maybe just drive, scream and die. It's the opposite of anything that could be called intense.

All the while the good guy team is just talking about how "cool" they are while making fun of each other. Then the damn spiderbots they had in the truck start talking about everyone's personalities sounding like little girls while waving their mechanical hands around like they were trying to communicate really badly. Also when they eventually start shooting their guns they make these excited japanese schoolgirl noises.

There are just too many faults here for me to enjoy it or even care to talk about it in more detail. Sure if you're into that kind of stuff then all power to you. I wish I were too, but I really can't stomach the cringe and lack of sense this has for me. And the music wasn't for me either at any point.