Review of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

Lawrence Person writes "Given how the series itself touches on so many topics near and dear to the hearts of Slashdotters everywhere, I thought my review of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (first season) at Locus Online would be of interest. It is longer and more in-depth than the average review, and touches on GitS:SAC's relationship to obvious cyberpunk and postcyberpunk source material, the elements that make it unique among anime science fiction, the role of P2P networks in popularizing anime, and how GitS:SAC compares to the other great science fiction TV show currently on the air right now, Battlestar Galactica."

Comments

Table Width (OT)

[FlynnMP3]

Pardon me for going completely off-topic, but this is a pet peeve of mine.

Why do people continually insist on trying to control the viewing experience of the visitor to their website? A lot of these bother me, but the most egredious one is people who hard code pixel widths in their table tags. http://webtips.dan.info/tables.html (that's just one page, there are many others) It's annoying. Why should I be punished for having a lot of screen real estate? If you must use a table, and until support for CSS3 tables are supported widely we'll be using them a lot, ignore the width setting, or set it to 100%. Only if your design is multi-column should you use defined widths for the tables. All added together they should equal 100%. Heck you shouldn't be using tables anyway. Use CSS instead. http://www.meyerweb.com/ is a good site for learning CSS. But for those lazy web programmers that insist on using tables to control the width of the content rendering,

javascript:(function (){t=document.getElementsByTagName(%22table%22);fo r(x=0;t[x];x++){if(t[x].width.indexOf(%22%%22)==-1 )t[x].removeAttribute(%22width%22);}t=document.get ElementsByTagName(%22td%22);for(x=0;t[x];x++){if(t [x].width.indexOf(%22%%22)==-1)t[x].removeAttribut e(%22width%22);}t=document.getElementsByTagName(%2 2th%22);for(x=0;t[x];x++){if(t[x].width.indexOf(%2 2%%22)==-1)t[x].removeAttribute(%22width%22);}t=do cument.getElementsByTagName(%22col%22);for(x=0;t[x ];x++){if(t[x].width.indexOf(%22%%22)==-1)t[x].rem oveAttribute(%22width%22);}})();

will set the table widths to 100%. This javascript function doesn't work to well on multi table design or CSS width controlling madness, but every little bit helps. Remove the /. embedded spaces in the javascript function and paste it into a new Firefox bookmark. Then click on that bookmark whenever a site is controlling the viewing experience oh so helpfully. /sarcasm (last part).

-FlynnMP3

I cannot help but wonder...

[Ravenscall]

Overall this is a decent review, but it is a review of a series that has been available in one form or another for well over a year now. Not only that, but I feel it really does not bring anything new to the discussion of the series.

Now, added to all of this, it was submitted by the author. In light of the recent discussion on submits and greenlights, I would like to point this out as a perfec texample of what NOT to put on the front page. Maybe put it on anime.slashdot.org, but not the main page, I want better quality stuff there.