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View Poll Results: Critique of Episode 08 | |||
10 out of 10: Near Perfect... | 56 | 38.62% | |
9 out of 10: Excellent... | 52 | 35.86% | |
8 out of 10: Very Good... | 24 | 16.55% | |
7 out of 10: Good... | 9 | 6.21% | |
6 out of 10: Average... | 1 | 0.69% | |
5 out of 10: Below Average... | 1 | 0.69% | |
4 out of 10: Poor... | 0 | 0% | |
3 out of 10: Bad... | 0 | 0% | |
2 out of 10: Very Bad... | 0 | 0% | |
1 out of 10: Torturous... | 2 | 1.38% | |
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2012-08-26, 05:25 | Link #201 | |||
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2012-08-26, 05:39 | Link #202 | ||
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Though I wonder why is he so poor. She bought a house worth 4kk or was it just 1 room and furniture for it. And he has like only 4kk money saved. Either he can't earn to well, or his drops are worth shit as solo player. I would think that he would be one of the richer people in Sao, save for hardcore pr0 merchants who swim in gold/cor. Quote:
You can see that in normal mmos for example you give your friends mats to make some potions/scrolls and in the end you give him some payment, like 10-20% of produced items or some other benefits. Of course he can do it for free, but we talk about trade agreement here. Making it out into a sexism is funny at best.
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2012-08-26, 06:05 | Link #203 | |
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2012-08-26, 06:06 | Link #204 |
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Hold on. By the way they reacted after eating, they at least seem to feel full after eating the stew. Does this mean that "Wizard needs food badly" is in effect and the players need to eat to survive or is it just psychological?
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2012-08-26, 06:09 | Link #205 | ||
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Nowadays you can't sneeze or fart without it being sexist. Really, since Kirito either doesn't have a cooking skill or it's very low (not saying which to avoid spoilers, from the episode it's obvious that it's one of these two though), him trying to help Asuna with cooking would only ruin the ingredients (Agil said as much). Plus, we have no indication about whether crafting in SAO can be a team activity (normally in most MMOs it is not).
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2012-08-26, 06:17 | Link #206 |
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Ah, thanks for clearing that up Anyway, I just noticed something: Why is Kirito scared of the knife? They were in town, and there was a whole damn episode emphasizing that people couldn't be PKed and duels were accept only when not outside. She couldn't stab him to begin with.
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2012-08-26, 06:22 | Link #207 | |
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2012-08-26, 06:33 | Link #211 |
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The idea that Asuna is 'damsel in distressing' from Kuradell (sp?) is a bit odd as well. In theory he's been following her for a month. She probably doesn't like him, but she's very familiar with having him around... and doesn't like it one bit.
IE - he's everywhere she is, although likely not on the front lines with her. He isn't recognized by Kirito, so he probably isn't involved in boss fights (He also doesn't recognize Kirito). Remember back in the mystery arc Kirito recognized the DDA guy from his name / description. Kirito didn't know this guy at all. It's likely he only comes into play when Asuna is not clearing on the front lines with a KoB party. No need to have a bodyguard in a guild party, and if he's ten levels lower / that weak, he has no business being her guard in a front line party. But when he tells Asuna he's been stalking her house, she asks something like "Our boss didn't tell you to do that, did he?" IE - she doesn't know. Not only is she not aware that he's been doing it, she doesn't know if he's been ordered to do it. I think she's just trying to lose the guy in a way that doesn't subvert her bosses authority, and freaking out that someone was potentially "assigned" to stalk her at night. She's standing up for herself with Kirito multiple times. Knife to the face when he suggests that the front lines are dangerous? She'd wouldn't be useful and just get in his way? My guess is she wouldn't ruin all that work in front of Kirito, and is likely just stressed out by being stalked. I was a fan of Asuna's casual clothes, obviously we have people who make clothes as well as armor / equipment. (And yes, I know as a LN reader that there is a very famous casual clothes crafter that Asuna has on her friends list). |
2012-08-26, 06:36 | Link #212 | |
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BTW, anyone notice that one of the random onlookers called him "Kirita"? Seems he's still rather a mystical figure even on the frontlines.
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2012-08-26, 06:43 | Link #213 | ||
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Apart from that, it was a really nice episode, I enjoyed watching it It was nice adapted with leaving out already explained things and adding some anime-only-things...but on the other side those things are the major complaint point for the people here XD Both the crushing into pillar and the disarming scene doesn't happen in the actual novel, so you can't really blame the LN author but the production team for it. Also for people complaining about the thing that Asuna could disarm Kuradeel, well till now the only time we have seen the protection in towns was in Ep 6 when Kirito wanted to throw some knives after Kains. But we did never see that the protection was the same for actual melee weapons. It doesn't necesseraly mean that the same system is used for melee weapons as for ranged weapons, in fact range weapons need this sort of protection wall or otherwise you could throw a knife from outside the town to somebody inside... |
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2012-08-26, 07:00 | Link #214 | |
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2012-08-26, 07:21 | Link #215 | |||
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Yeah, I'm inclined to agree. I learned some time ago that you'll never satisfy the people who care the most about "gender roles" and "sexism". Well, that's not entirely true - You might satisfy them by doing what Hollywood tends to do: Pretty much any female character of import (and certainly the female lead) is a very high-achieving kickass heroine that's never allowed to be wrong or show weakness, is always ready with a witty comeback, is often the (snarky) voice of reason, is extremely good at multiple disciplines, and often is better than everybody else at virtually everything. Some female characters being like this is fine, but diversity is the spice of life as they say (and anime thankfully recognizes that).
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It would give the story better flow, by not jumping around with seemingly endless time-skips for the first eight episodes. Episode 3 seemed very rushed to many of us, while that would have been much less of an issue if Episode 3 was actually, say, an Episode 11 flashback episode. Look, there's any number of ways that you could segue into a flashback episode by setting it up with just a light touch of anime original content. You don't have to use the two specific ways I suggested - A different flashback trigger could have been used. It could have been brought on by a conversation between Kirito and any other character of note that's still alive - Asuna, Agil, Klein, etc... I'm sure there's ways this could have been done without causing plotholes. Quote:
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2012-08-26, 07:50 | Link #216 | |
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Doubly when you consider Asuna... the one depicted as pushing the clearing effort is starting to second guess that effort and becoming more comfortable in the world. The fact that this episode is the first time we've actually seen the front lines for more than a minute since ep2 might be meaningful as well. Honestly we'll only know moving forwards which direction this anime adaption is going for. We should certainly expect some action and adventure, but it doesn't seem to be the main focus to-date. |
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2012-08-26, 07:59 | Link #217 | |
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And I'd say that Episodes 3-7 may simply point out what the side-stories are like. The actual main story may well constitute an action-adventure type of show. Certainly Episodes 1, 2, and 8 all came across to me as showcasing an action-adventure type of show.
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2012-08-26, 08:32 | Link #219 | |
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He was somewhat incapacitated at the time. |
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