{"id":280,"date":"2005-08-16T11:53:07","date_gmt":"2005-08-16T18:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stardel.com\/eg\/?p=280"},"modified":"2005-08-16T11:53:07","modified_gmt":"2005-08-16T18:53:07","slug":"gunslinger-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2005\/08\/gunslinger-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunslinger Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maybe I \u2018m getting jaded, but a show <\/a>about turning prepubescent girls into cybernetic assassins is just a bit over the top. It\u2019s like since they\u2019re a Gunslinger, cyber-enhanced, they aren\u2019t human anymore. And their handlers are a bunch of sociopathic thugs, or they would be except they are government agents so this makes them dedicated civil servants.<\/p>\n

The girls are supposed to be robotic killing machines, and with the brain-washing and conditioning they go through, they mostly turn out that way. Of course, sometimes a little emotion may break through, but that\u2019s a sign for more conditioning (which shortens their life span, not that what they have is much of a life.)<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know if the authors are going out to an extreme limb to make a point, or if this is the only place left for them to go. There have been other girl assassin shows, like Noir<\/a>, but they generally are about the girl\u2019s quest to regain her humanity, not about watching it get drummed out the her.<\/p>\n

So, while this show has very good production values, I don\u2019t think I could take another DVD of this. I will give it a 4 out of 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maybe I \u2018m getting jaded, but a show about turning prepubescent girls into cybernetic assassins is just a bit over the top. It\u2019s like since they\u2019re a Gunslinger, cyber-enhanced, they aren\u2019t human anymore. And their handlers are a bunch of sociopathic thugs, or they would be except they are government agents so this makes them … Continue reading Gunslinger Girl<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NpF-4w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}