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I was worried that they would bring back the school bully for a later plot point, and I'm glad they didn't.

They really make you want David to win, even though you know he can't.

This is a very multicultural show. The setting was built in America, but the current owners and writers are Polish. The director is Japanese. We're really all over the map, but it works.

They did a wonderful job of making all the characters engaging. The visuals and music were great. The story was well paced.

That's the show.

So, what's my takeaway?

I joked at the beginning that _Ghost in the Shell_ had dropped the ball recently. _Cyberpunk 2020_(/2077/Edgerunners) has always been the pessimist to GITS Optimism, so it shouldn't come as any surprise that this was a tragedy.

The final scene is Lucy on the moon for real. She sees David there with her, as he was when they shared the VR moon experience.

In his last moments of lucidity, David tells Lucy that he wasn't able to fulfill his mother's dream, nor Maine's dream, but she can fulfill her dream.

Falco and Lucy escape, and David faces down Adam, and loses.

Cyberpunks always die or go psycho, so this is the good end.

The crew assault Arasaka headquarters, who are forced to call out their final boogeyman, Adam Smasher.

David knows this is the end before he goes in. He's down to his final shot of stabilizers and there's no coming back.

David kills Faraday. Adam kills Rebecca.

It's too late; the only way out is through.

Only automatic injections of neural stabilizers keep him from going psyco.

But once he's broken through the trap, he rallies his crew to rescue Lucy and get revenge on Faraday.

The whole setup is to get David to install the cyberskeleton and use it to get his team out. Faraday uses Lucy's phone to fake being her and tell David to install it.

Lucy uses her monomolecular filament to escape just long enough to tell him it's a trap.

Arasaka's been working on something called a cyberskeleton. They want David to test it, due to his high compatibility.

Lucky discovered this when she was diving Tanaka's brain. She's been taking out people in the know.

Faraday hires the crew for a job, but it's a trap.

Waiting for the first Secretary of State to mount a sign that says "Caesar's wife must be above suspicion" in their office.