[S7E9] Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society

Just as a heads up: Connor’s connection was dropping out a bunch, especially at the beginning, and was a bit laggy as well. Niamh wasn’t trying to just talk over him so much!

We start off with a weird digression into looking into Sci-Fi Channel’s Ani-Mondays block and then getting a rant from Niamh about Chrono Cross Remaster. After that we get into topics like the Japanese political dynamics in the film; whatever the fuck Togusa is doing; parallels being drawn between Kusanagi, Kuze, and the Puppet Master with the final reveal of the Puppeteer; the failure of the neo-liberal imagination and the Major’s eternal cop brain; the failure of imagination in the breaking down of family structures in order to simply rebuild them as a reambulated corpse; reproductions of the state; the surveillance state; placing the movies and show in a chronology simply as a thought experiment.

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Brain hacking / possession

Suicide / forced suicide

Child abuse / forced child surgery

Manipulation of parental feelings

Elder abuse / poor quality elder care

Brainwashing / indoctrination

Racism, including ideas of a nationalist “pureblooded” race

Alcohol talk in the post-ED section

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