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I think SAC's Motoko is a really nice compromise between the two, so is SAC itself really. It can tackle serious concepts but it doesn't forget how to have fun, and ranks among my favourite TV anime for its approach. Not that I don't still love the first Oshii film to pieces, and if I could only take one piece of GitS media to a desert island I'd be taking that (but then I seem to particularly enjoy films that take the source material and rip it to shreds and reconstruct it in the director's own image - GitS, Blade Runner, The Shining). Movie Motoko might not have the most developed character, but I feel like she's there in a large part more as an audience avatar so you can reflect on and consider along with her the concepts and questions the film asks and deals with. Oshii is certainly more interested in concepts than he is in characters though, he's explicitly said as such, and I appreciate that's not for everyone.

<blockquote data-quote="ayase" data-source="post: 541438" data-attributes="member: 183">I think SAC's Motoko is a really nice compromise between the two, so is SAC itself really. It can tackle serious concepts but it doesn't forget how to have fun, and ranks among my favourite TV anime for its approach. Not that I don't still love the first Oshii film to pieces, and if I could only take one piece of GitS media to a desert island I'd be taking that (but then I seem to particularly enjoy films that take the source material and rip it to shreds and reconstruct it in the director's own image - GitS, Blade Runner, The Shining). Movie Motoko might not have the most developed character, but I feel like she's there in a large part more as an audience avatar so you can reflect on and consider along with her the concepts and questions the film asks and deals with. Oshii is certainly more interested in concepts than he is in characters though, he's explicitly said as such, and I appreciate that's not for everyone.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ayase, post: 541438, member: 183"] I think SAC's Motoko is a really nice compromise between the two, so is SAC itself really. It can tackle serious concepts but it doesn't forget how to have fun, and ranks among my favourite TV anime for its approach. Not that I don't still love the first Oshii film to pieces, and if I could only take one piece of GitS media to a desert island I'd be taking that (but then I seem to particularly enjoy films that take the source material and rip it to shreds and reconstruct it in the director's own image - [I]GitS, Blade Runner, The Shining[/I]). Movie Motoko might not have the most developed character, but I feel like she's there in a large part more as an audience avatar so you can reflect on and consider along with her the concepts and questions the film asks and deals with. Oshii is certainly more interested in concepts than he is in characters though, he's explicitly said as such, and I appreciate that's not for everyone. [/QUOTE]