What's your story?

I don't mean your actual life's story.  What I mean is a story that you carry on in your mind that you always go back to and try to continue or relive.  Sometimes it appears in dreams and sometimes you think of it as your second life.  It isn't the same as watching a movie and thinking about what you would do in the situations presented by the movie.  It's just different. It's personal.

Well... I have a story, and in all my life, I have never ever told anyone this story, but I have written it everywhere in my journals.  It has no literary value, and maybe not even any entertainment value, just a preoccupation value for myself like the sea is to E.B. White.

Like thoughts it never ends,
Like ghosts it never is,
Like words it has no meaning

• So if you do have a story what is it?  
• or are you unable to tell me the nature of your story?  
• Would telling the story change who you are?
• Who would you tell your story to?
• What do you think it means to have a story?  
• Do you think everyone else has a story?  
• etc. etc.  

GiTS Arise.

• Potential:  some but limited, we already know the future because this story takes place right before SAC therefore we know that Motoko, chief Aramaki, Togusa, and Batou among some others have survived.  

• Logical follow up: Some what not.  Arise takes place in 2027.  3 years later is SAC.  How does Motoko's body change so suddenly from 18 to 30.  Motoko's body in SAC is a 30 year olds from a woman's perspective.  

• Art style: Beautiful, engaging, the only A++.  Doesn't detract from the story, enhances the realism of the story.  

• Character design: Could be better.  When I first saw this poster, I thought it was going to suck.  Sometimes you look at a person when they are younger and know how they will look when they are older.  Production I.G. could have made Motoko look like any one else and still fit the story line so long as its cyber body is still developing, but if you are going to make the character look somewhat similar to the original character design, don't make the eyebrows so goddam different.  

• Other: My overall impression of this up and coming animation is that is will be better than stale Hayashi Miyazaki works with boring stories and similar character designs throughout his career. Normally a movie that builds upon a pre-existing series, kills the franchise at least because it is "unauthentic" and therefore "isn't how it is supposed to be," but I think this movie will be entertaining if you separate the ideas of the movie from the animation series.  Make this movie "stand alone."  Also, the new 009 movie looks even more disappointing, and although Evangelion 1.0 and 2.0 were good, Evangelion 3.0 was a major downer for me.  

In Conclusion:

Lower your expectations, and give this movie a chance.  What do you think about it?