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I actually plan on reviewing Sword Art Online soon. So when I write up my review I'll let you know. It will definitely change your mind on the series.
As far as Ghost in the Shell, Idk. It looks pretty interesting but what makes it great? Give me a good reason and I'll try to get a review out

ah, so you mean her MWPSB training before her first day on the job should have already shaped her opinion of enforcers? hmm, fair enough.

like i said, i get where you're coming from; i guess i just slot that under "bad writing" rather than "bad characterisation". if akane had inconsistent characterisation/was a human plot device without any sense of character, then i'd consider that "bad characterisation".

heh, i think psycho-pass so prided itself upon being grimdark that it didn't want to show a very changed society, just a society with some small hope for change. but i dislike the whole 'grimdark' shtick anyway, so.

yeah, good point about characters needing to fit their world. i agree that akane's views are out-of-touch with those of the MWPSB, but that's easily explained: she's an outsider to that culture, so she hasn't had time to form an impression of enforcers as mere police dogs. as for whether her views are out of place for the society in psycho-pass... well, said society is so poorly-written that i can't judge either way.

i think the main difference is that for you, the uses to which akane is put (kougami v2, plot device, establishing familiarity, etc.) exclude the possibility that she can still be a well-written character, whereas i wouldn't go that far.

i actually find akane's decision not to destroy sybil fairly convincing, and one sign of how she might have been shaped by the society in which she exists: a society that prizes order and stability over higher ideals. "an unjust peace is better than a just war" and all that.

hm, that's an interesting point: if a character "acts in a way that would seem natural to the viewer" but may be out of place for their setting, and is wielded like a plot device, does that make them a poorly-written character? i think i'd be inclined to consider them a well-written character in a poorly-written show.

also, just to clarify: you say akane serves no meaningful purpose, but from a storytelling point of view, isn't her purpose precisely what you said? to be "a newbie through whose eyes we could see how messed up their sorry excuse for a society is." a touchpoint of moral familiarity (for the viewer) in a morally unfamiliar world, or something.

i actually did get a sense of akane's character: i read her as someone driven by a sense of innate moral justice, but still committed to the law. lawful good, if you will. and i think it would have been less realistic if she had shot makishima, precisely because of that.

my biggest issue with akane was her convenient mental resilience re: psycho-pass hues, but the entire psycho-pass hue system was so stupid and under-explained anyway...

i agree that akane is a plot device. but i guess i disagree that she's bland; to me she's a plot device that also happens to be a convincing character. she is there so the viewers can have their opinions voiced, to an extent, and yet she retains a kind of internal consistency. (also, i wouldn't say she's entirely a viewer surrogate -- i had the impression viewers would have preferred a direct attempt to take down the sybil system rather than the path akane took at the end, after all.)

that's fair enough. i agree that the characters in psycho-pass get development only in order to advance the 'plot'. but in akane's case, i think it's believable within the context of the show (despite being a heavy-handed move from a writing perspective).

guess it also helps that akane never reaches the ludicrous levels of able-to-deduce-everything-at-a-glance kougami, and there's a certain underlying consistency to her character.

idk, if you can point out how akane is a shallow/poorly-written character, i'll reconsider the tag. but despite raging about psycho-pass being a really poorly-written show, i still ended up thinking that akane managed to be a decent character. :|

Thanks for that Psycho-Pass review. I was so tired of seeing people praise Psycho-Pass for its 'ideas' and 'writing' -- your review was a breath of fresh air. Such a waste of a promising sci-fi premise.

cuz psycho pass isn't that good ?