Well, just finished it.
It has the worst qualities of Index, a scattered nonsensical plot and too many characters to bother with. A lot of movement, but not much actually happening. It had ideas - not great ideas, but still - it just tried to use all of them at once rather than taking one and developing it. It's a shame, I think Index works for a movie format since most story arcs are about that long anyways and they can edit out a lot of the annoying material while spending more money on the action sequences.
The worst part is they wasted a villain which actually had potential, she had a simple and sympathetic motivation and conceivably some depth, but you only get a few minutes with her and most of it is stereotypical villain dialogue. While the other characters they introduced were just bland with predictable conclusions to their... character arcs, I guess.
On the plus side, those Tron/GitS vehicles were kind of cool and Stiyl Magnus gets a better role than he's had in a while. The fanservice wasn't too distracting, it only really bothered me since it served to increased the screen time of said bland characters.
