The change of themes between SAC and the movies has been accomplished in a unique and inventive manner, with far more focus on poiltical machinations, schemes, plans, plots, second guesses, double jeopardies and outrirght confrontations. With regards to the stories in both Stand Alone and Complex, they are very well scripted. The problem with this though, is that the viewer is far less familiar with the workings of Section 9 or the influence of it's chief, Aramaki Daisuke, within the political, police, military and business sectors of society. The Complex episodes that form the "main" story arc can be watched as a separate entity, as is proven by the release of the compilation movie in 2005. Each member of Section 9 is a survivor after all, and the Stand Alone episodes highlight this fact in a way that the movies never could. Without them, the viewer would remain unaware as to exactly how the members of Section 9 fit into the workins of society and government and, more importantly, how they fit with each other as a team.
Instead, SAC takes a far more societal perspective, and the Stand Alone episodes are actually essential in this respect. The biggest change between SAC and either of the movies is that the focus is not on "individuality". Where the series really shines though is in the complexity of it's story, characters and setting. This has caused a certain amount of confusion for some people who were expecting a series that developed in the manner a "normal" anime would, especially as the Stand Alone and Complex episodes were interspersed with each other. The Stand Alone episodes focus on the work of Section 9 as they investigate various cases, while the Complex episodes focus on the main plot - The Laughing Man. SAC isn't a sequential series, and is actually made up of two completely different plot elements - Stand Alone and Complex. The series however, deviates from the movie's premise in a number of ways, some of which are not obvious at first, partly because of how the series is laid out.
Work of Philip K Dick and William Gibson. The original movie proposed a disturbingly plausible future for mankind that is akin to the Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex is a series that really doesn't need any introduction. managed to put everyone's fears to rest though, just not in the way we all expected (I'll explain in a bit). Many anime fans consider the 1995 movie "Ghost in the Shell" to be a classic of the first order so when the Stand Alone Complex series was released six years later, many were sceptical as to how good it would actually be (and I will admit to being one of those people).
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