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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% | |
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2012-07-15, 00:39 | Link #182 |
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That orange haired turd was annoying:/ And why exactly did Diabel let himself die? Did he feel bad he was going to kill steal a coat? I'd say leading the group more than made up for it. Hell, he spent like 10 seconds chatting it up with Kirito. Why didn't he just shove the damn potion down his throat?
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2012-07-15, 00:56 | Link #183 |
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For the reason Diabel "let himself die", it's because the GM said in the beginning that "Revival items do not exist". His HP was already at 0 anyway, so a normal healing potion wouldn't do anything. Diabel probably didn't want Kirito to 'waste' his healing potion because of that.
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2012-07-15, 01:01 | Link #184 |
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 32
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Hah.
Am I the like the only one here who thought episode 2 was better than episode 1? I thought episode 1 was a bit slow for much of it and didn't do enough to catch my interest. Here I thought they integrated you well into the story and provided nice drama. Then again I don't read the LN, so I'm not going to be one of the typical people complaining about how they didn't adapt absolutely every detail from the LN.
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2012-07-15, 01:08 | Link #185 | |
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I mean, Klein's an experienced RPGer, but he needed Kirito to show him how to activate Sword Skills, so you have to figure a lot of the first month deaths were caused by players not knowing how to fight in SAO. If the beta testers had stayed behind some of the 2000 deaths might not've occurred. Spoiler for Casualty data from the novels:
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2012-07-15, 01:09 | Link #186 |
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It's an adaptation, not a translation. Some things need to be cut out. At the end of today, most things cut from Aria were things the story could live without. The core. The essential elements of the story were kept, and i think they did a good job.
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2012-07-15, 01:09 | Link #188 | |
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I guess the point I wanted to make is that this shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone, and that people should judge the adaptation on its own merit as a separate entity. Concentrating too much on what's in and what's not probably won't do much to help you enjoy the anime either. |
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2012-07-15, 01:17 | Link #189 | |
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2012-07-15, 01:26 | Link #190 |
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Episode 2 was indeed far better than the first one. I can understand the novel readers complaning about X or Y thing being omitted, but the complaints about a "quality drop" are odd. Episode 1 was not particularly impressive in terms of visuals, action or anything.
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2012-07-15, 01:32 | Link #192 | |
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Spoiler for comparison to the novel:
Last edited by relentlessflame; 2012-07-15 at 09:40. Reason: Added spoiler tag for novel comparison |
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2012-07-15, 01:36 | Link #193 |
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Vancouver, Canada
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As a non-LN reader, it's pretty hard to make a comment regarding what has been omitted or changed, but I would still agree that the second epsiode itself is pretty well done. It has a good vibe right now, that if every episode from here on were just like this, I wouldn't even complain.
The first episode for me was like a tease of what I hoped would come, and I think the second episode delivers as far as actual impressions go. |
2012-07-15, 01:37 | Link #194 |
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Australia
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As an anime-only watcher, I quite enjoyed the episode and SAO continues to impress me. The only problems I have with it are due to the fact that I like "kid show" endings where everything ends up nice and neat so I didn't like how Kirito had to assume the role of the bad guy and the Diabel guy was seen as the good guy in the eyes of the rest of the players.
In terms of developing a story, the two parts that I didn't like are all part and parcel of creating some tension and moving the plot forward. If it wrapped up so neatly then I guess we wouldn't have sucha great show on our hands. As an anime-only watcher, I rate the episode 9/10. The episode was all action with no boring bits. |
2012-07-15, 01:37 | Link #195 |
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I haven't read the novels so I don't know how this episode compares to the source material. However, judging this episode on it's own merits I can say that I definitely enjoyed it. So far SAO is the best anime of the Summer season.
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2012-07-15, 01:38 | Link #196 | |
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I get the feeling that Diabel wanted out. I can't think of any other reason why he charged the boss on his own. This was just the first boss. Endless "Cream" Soul
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2012-07-15, 01:42 | Link #197 | |
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Look at it this way. You HP is around 1000, boss inflicts 1500 in damage, the little potion only restores a small amount say 200. The sad thing is had he been a member of a party he wouldn't have taking all of the damage since it is divided among your party. He wanted to get the rear item that the boss was going to drop. He thought that he could not only get the item but come out looking like a hero. Now don't misjudge he really wanted to help but he messed up when it turned out the boss has different weapon and skill set then he thought.
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2012-07-15, 01:52 | Link #200 | |
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It's just different in that it's Unique, meaning no 2 of the items can be generated. And this episode, while as a LN reader I hated the way the removed the prologue, it is not horrible overall. It actually works well for a second episode, we get right to the chase and have a cool boss fight, as well as introducing some cool characters. Especially Egil, I mean he looks unusually ripped for a real life gamer haha. Kibaou is hilarious also, cause of his accent, fits just right in. Diabel... ehhh I kinda think his character went a 180, but whatever. |
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