Heck, all of pretentiousness can qualify to every Urobuchi work. Great job on showing the truth to the tasteless casuals, even if I didn't watch it!
Right, the moronic "tasteless casual" remark to stroke your own superior ego. Great bait, Anon Troll. Freaking elitists poisoning the anime community with their passive-aggressiveness.
For the record, I liked Urobuchi's other works like Madoka and Fate/Zero. They were entertaining enough for what they are. Psycho-Pass on the other hand just hit me over the head with the pretentious villain preaching about platitudes like your generic edgemaster antagonist. At least the other shows tried to have some semblance of real and relatable motivations (even if you find it sappy, you can't deny the Madoka was relatable for many people). Psycho-Pass just threw out all sense of believability and went for cartoonish characters.
"I will actually like live in the society of Pyscho-Pass."
From the reviewer Digibro.
Watch me destroying my country
And the reviewer is not only supposed to know who that is but why their opinion is relevant to the topic of the review? Seems like you're just posting that to lash out on a person you don't like.
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Mindlessly Pretentious
Psycho Pass is bad. I said it. When I was recommended the show, I was told that it was a brilliant look at a dark future, one that posed meaningful questions about human psychology and moral issues.
What I ended up watching was a show that thinks it's a brilliant look at a dark future that poses meaningful questions about human psychology and morality. In reality, it is, to borrow a phrase, "nothing but plaster beneath the shiny paint." Characters quote a lot of philosophy, and even more great literature—to the point where one suspects that the writers have no ideas of their own—but if you peel away the fancy language, they aren't saying anything. You can't have a dialogue about the ethics of a societal structure, when the society in question is controlled by the most ridiculously evil government this side of Stalin's. The reveal of how deep Sibyl's corruption goes should be a defining moment for the show, but instead it serves only to invalidate half the discussions the characters have had. There's no point in talking about the pros and cons of Sibyl after the reveal. It's pure evil and it has to go.
And that's where the real problems begin, because take away the debate about the society that the show constructs, and there's nothing to it. The protagonists are bland and two dimensional, the villain even more so. I've heard people praise Makashima as the next Johan Liebert, but he's a Villain Sue in the vein of Sosuke Aizen. Worse yet he's not even the true villain of the story. He's a prop used to distract characters and audience alike from the fact that Sibyl is the actual bad guy, and that nobody is doing anything about it.
If Psycho Pass were about people trying to overthrow a dystopian government it could've been interesting. If it were about people trying to capture criminals in a society with dystopian overtones it could've been interesting. Alas it's about people trying to capture criminals in a society that beats you over the head with how evil it is, where the malice of the government renders our "heroes" accomplishments moot. No matter how many murderers they apprehend, they aren't making a whit of difference in anybody's life.
Psycho Pass fails, as a narrative, and a philosophical project. Leave it for the pseudointellectuals and go watch Blade Runner instead.