{"id":4264,"date":"2008-01-28T10:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T15:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=4264"},"modified":"2021-03-08T14:38:35","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T19:38:35","slug":"ghost-in-the-shell-solid-state-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=4264","title":{"rendered":"Ghost in the Shell: Solid State Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.netflix.com\/Movie\/Ghost_in_the_Shell_Solid_State_Society\/70071919?trkid=189530&amp;strkid=1067663267_0_0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn-9.nflximg.com\/us\/boxshots\/large\/70071919.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"><\/a>And then this one goes and totally redeems the franchise.  Solid State Society is a follow-up movie to the Stand Alone Complex series, and takes place after the 2nd Gig.  It looks like it&#8217;s a buildup, in the time line, for the first movie.<\/p>\n<p>It was packed with action, intrigue, hacking, multiple cyber-bodies being controlled by one cyberbrain (Puppeteer FTW, especially as a precursor for the Puppetmaster), kidnapping and cyberization of wee children (tug those heartstrings!), and the Major kicking all kinds of arse.  It was kind of strange to see Togusa in a leadership position, and my heart went out to his wife, but they did it well.  I really can&#8217;t reveal any more about what I liked without giving away spoilers, so I won&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed this movie so much, I gave it five stars.  If you&#8217;re a fan of Ghost in the Shell, you&#8217;ll dig this.<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And then this one goes and totally redeems the franchise. Solid State Society is a follow-up movie to the Stand Alone Complex series, and takes place after the 2nd Gig. It looks like it&#8217;s a buildup, in the time line, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=4264\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[34,13,44],"class_list":["post-4264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-livejournal","tag-netflix","tag-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paQnES-16M","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7441,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4264\/revisions\/7441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}