|
View Poll Results: Critique of Episode 02 | |||
10 out of 10: Near Perfect... | 36 | 19.78% | |
9 out of 10: Excellent... | 49 | 26.92% | |
8 out of 10: Very Good... | 43 | 23.63% | |
7 out of 10: Good... | 32 | 17.58% | |
6 out of 10: Average... | 16 | 8.79% | |
5 out of 10: Below Average... | 1 | 0.55% | |
4 out of 10: Poor... | 2 | 1.10% | |
3 out of 10: Bad... | 1 | 0.55% | |
2 out of 10: Very Bad... | 0 | 0% | |
1 out of 10: Torturous... | 2 | 1.10% | |
Voters: 182. You may not vote on this poll |
|
Thread Tools |
2012-07-14, 12:31 | Link #21 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2011
|
They did a fair job of compressing everything into a single episode, though I wish we'd gotten more of Kirito and Asuna before the battle.
My big complaint is how badly the fight was handled -- not just in terms of animation, though they really cheaped out with the number of still shots, but that once Diabel died it seemed to become a melee with people charging in without a strategy. Still loved the ending. Being Kirito is pain, but at least he's bad-ass in doing it. |
2012-07-14, 12:35 | Link #22 | |
→ Wandering Bard
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Grancel City, Liberl Kingdom
|
Quote:
But yeah, I'm starting to like the color black cuz of him. xD
__________________
|
|
2012-07-14, 12:43 | Link #23 |
Garnet
Join Date: Dec 2011
Age: 29
|
That was a pretty enjoyable watch. A good bit of content was cut, but I'm completely fine with that. It was a fairly good choice to do so, if anything.
Honestly, I thought the pacing was good; I think it'll only be rushed for those who've read the L/Ns and know how long this arc was. I'm looking forward to see what other people think of it. The action scenes were good (all the still shots didn't help) albeit not very impressive due to the fact that a lot of them have already been shown in the PVs and CMs. Kirito and Asuna's combo attack on the boss was still awesome, though. It was a damn shame Diabel had to die; I like charismatic characters like him. The ending was great, though. Kirito pulled off being evil and badass at the same time quite well. Oh, and he looks great in black. I have to say, I'm not too impressed with the ED; I love the song, but the animation was.. disappointing. I was hoping for something cute akin to the last few seconds of the OP. Ah well; there's always OP and ED 2. Well.. |
2012-07-14, 12:59 | Link #25 |
WHERE'S...MY...COW????
Join Date: Dec 2007
Age: 33
|
Hmm, haven't seen it yet, but the comments on rushing are worrying. Perhaps it would have been best for the whole show to simply be Sword Art Online so as to get everything animated and have the characters developed fully. Then if it was successful we could have possibly seen the next story arc and further on.
But I'll see it for myself. Perhaps its these side stories that will be rushed while the main material will be largely intact.
__________________
|
2012-07-14, 13:04 | Link #26 |
Crazy Devout Fanboy
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: 1st Ra Cailum-class battleship Ra Cailum, port-side officer's bunks
|
Wow, that......was rather disappointing after last week's exceptional premier.
Spoiler for comparison to the novels:
And to top it off, the ED did not have any actual shred of KiriAsu in it and came off as bland and generic. Disappointment abounds on all ends. *sigh* It wasn't a trainwreck episode, but the most I can get out of this rushing is that we'll get to the main story faster. I certainly hope so.
__________________
Last edited by relentlessflame; 2012-07-14 at 23:04. Reason: novel comparisons require spoiler tags |
2012-07-14, 13:13 | Link #27 |
WHERE'S...MY...COW????
Join Date: Dec 2007
Age: 33
|
It's disappointing either way though as some of those stories show contributions to the characters development. Quite worried about next episode and it being rushed as well.
Odd, they seemed to be taking a bit slower pace last episode just to ramp it up to get through this story fast.
__________________
|
2012-07-14, 13:13 | Link #28 | |
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2005
|
I don't know if quoting post from other forum is allowed here ? If it isn't I will remove it
But I love this comment from /a/ Quote:
__________________
|
|
2012-07-14, 13:40 | Link #29 |
Garnet
Join Date: Dec 2011
Age: 29
|
Sigh. Can we please keep /a/ comments away from ASuki? If I want to know what /a/ think or see the comments they make, I'll just go there (unlikely).
Yeah, I hope so too. They're going to have to make up for going so quickly at some point in the story; better sooner than later, though. |
2012-07-14, 14:46 | Link #39 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: In my room
|
But the problem is they did a great job at first episode so why they didn't expand this arc into at least 2 episode? they cut a lot of story development and specially the first impression of Kirito on Asuna's swordsmanship was but shafted.
__________________
|
Tags |
weekly episode discussion |
|
|