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View Poll Results: Critique of Episode 14 | |||
10 out of 10: Near Perfect... | 103 | 45.98% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent... | 58 | 25.89% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good... | 19 | 8.48% | |
7 out of 10 : Good... | 16 | 7.14% | |
6 out of 10 : Average... | 10 | 4.46% | |
5 out of 10 : Below Average... | 1 | 0.45% | |
4 out of 10 : Poor... | 5 | 2.23% | |
3 out of 10 : Bad... | 3 | 1.34% | |
2 out of 10 : Very Bad... | 1 | 0.45% | |
1 out of 10 : Tortuous... | 8 | 3.57% | |
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2012-10-22, 22:10 | Link #481 |
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OMG this episode.....
1. Kirito, YOU FIGHT SO BADASS I'm totally in love 2. ASUNA!! YOU ARE NOT DEAD! YOU CAN'T BE DEAD. This is a bad dream, right!? 3. Ending scene....I ALMOST cried. Almost. I don't know how I didn't. Especially when he was crying in Asuna's arms. ;____; "Gomen...gomen, Asuna!" I didn't completely expect that player whatshisface to be Kayaba. That took me by surprise. And while KiriKazuto just walking out the door with his I.V., no doctors to stop him in sight requires a suspension of disbelief....you have to admit, that would have TOTALLY ruined the mood, especially with 'Yume Sekai' playing like that. I mean, can you imagine 'Yume Sekai' starting up as he tries to leave the bed and doctors body-tackle him, yelling "What the hell are you doing, IDIOT?" No, it's just not the same..... that would have been hilarious though
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2012-10-27, 10:27 | Link #482 | |
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2012-10-27, 11:03 | Link #483 | |
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Really, you dissagree?! I'm shocked and outraged! How could you not be convinced by my winning sympathetic presentation of why I don't love kittens? ... As for myself, I found the end of the first arc reveal to be quite shocking. In the previous episode I was feeling the tension and pressure that being trapped in a death game had put upon the young couple, and they were facing a horribly though boss. Even though they beat him the cost was high, and the subtext for me was "how can they possibly go on?" There was no way to last to level 100 without one one of them dying, yet running away to live a fantasy fishing life was out of the question too. I can see many alternate ways to go from there, but I was perfectly satisfied also to end that arc with that boss at that point because we got see a tangible demonstration of Asuna's love for Kirito (in the most heart-breaking and dramatic way possible I might add). Spoiler for future episode:
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2012-10-27, 11:09 | Link #484 | |
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The fact that SAO went against a popular and well-worn trope (and he's right, this is a trope in video games) is a mark in its favor, imo. SAO does things the trope reaffirming-way too much, if anything, so almost any conceivable instance in which it subverts a trope is something that I'll applaud.
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2012-12-06, 20:28 | Link #487 |
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Okay... where do I begin...
It had nice showdown and conclusion but... a) Showdown didn't have any real build up, it just happened out of nowhere. Well there was this tiny hint ages ago but they really could have explored it better. b) Don't get me started on cliched "I've died but no I'll still hang onto some invisible thread of life to finish things off". c) The whole drama at the end barely gives me any feels. Kirito is alive and we still have 11 or so episodes to go so there are 99% of chance that Asuna is alive. If it was an actual final, it would be good. It would make you go "No! You cam't stop here! Is she alive? Please say yes! If no, I'll believe she is!" or something like that. you would care. But here it is just a "meh. d) What are they going to show in the next 11 episodes? Kirito getting trapped in another game? In all honesty after such incident, this kind of games should've been banned and I doubt that anyone in right mind would get anywhere close to them in near future =/ Oh well, need to watch and see. Spoiler for Extra:
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2012-12-22, 14:38 | Link #488 |
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Now that this series is nearing its end -- or it has ended -- I shall now resume from the half-way point. And I'm well aware of people's opinions of the series after this point.
For now, I'm just amused at the episode title -- and the day that was yesterday. LOL Mayans.
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2013-07-19, 02:10 | Link #489 |
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By the way, just to bring a close to an issue from a long time ago... On the Blu-Rays/DVDs, they did correct the infamous Engrish sign that appeared right after Kirito made his promise with Heathcliff. It now says "Changed into Mortal Object", to make it clear that it was referring to the status change of Heathcliff himself. This is basically what a lot of people suspected (that it was only a typo), but good to have it cleared up.
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2014-02-14, 21:31 | Link #490 |
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I'm rewatching this show, and despite its faults, it's still good. Then again, I remember not liking ALO, and the anime should have ended here.
On to this episode. The hospital walk was simply very moving. There's something powerful about seeing a veritable Neo wake up from the dream only to find his real state in shambles. Throughout the show we have reminders of SAO not being real, from murderers laughing off their acts saying there's no proof someone would die, to Kirito and Asuna worrying over the state of their bodies, to the feelings of characters changing for the better or worse, to the power in this world not meaning a thing; everything was authentic but nothing was real. This combined with the world building made this fantasy-land feel so real, but soon enough, this finale reminds us that only emotions are retained from a dream while the faux accomplishments are fleeting. I honestly forgot this show was ever about a video game and just accepted it as an alternate-reality fantasy story. A fantasy grounded in reality with simple but believably charming characters. The time skips stop here, and that's what really grated on me throughout these 14 episodes the most. This is as positive as I'm going to get, though, because I'm really not looking forward to ALO, but I'll do what I must.
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2014-02-16, 03:24 | Link #491 | |
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2014-03-12, 19:16 | Link #492 |
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Personally I think it was a good decision to practically skip the bossfight. Here are my reasons:
1. It would be a cool spectacle, but there already was a great spectacle with Heathcliff vs Kirito, also very emotional Scenes. It would have distracted too much. 2. The fights are not why you look SAO. At least me. They are pretty basic and more a way to show other things. (Kirito saving this smith from the dragon, teamwork to beat the real thought first boss, as well as that the guy uniting all these people and being a great leader still is egoistic/selfaware enought to go for the last attack himself, .....) |
2014-06-06, 15:01 | Link #496 |
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"People die when they're killed"
Ofc they cannot revive, I was just wondering whether they really were killed in real life or not, since the social consequences of what happened seemed pretty meek, at least as portrayed in the anime...
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2014-06-16, 11:51 | Link #498 |
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I always questioned WHY they needed to die. They couldn't escape so even just TELLING them they would die would still have the same effect. They would still think they would die even if they didn't. No one could get in to tell them so either. For his kind of plans I could see why he would need to ensure that the helmets couldn't be taken off so those death became an evil Kayaba needed but frying their brain for dying was unnecessary.
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Perhaps a coma would have been possible upon disconnection, but the only 100% surefire way to avoid people being disconnected from the death game was to kill them if that happened.
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