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Originally Posted by Rising Dragon
To further this, nurses are trained to move the bodies of such victims, of people who are unconscious or incapable of movement on their own to prevent bedsores and muscle atrophy from reaching the point where it permanently disables movement. Naturally, the hospitalized SAO players would also undergo this treatment while in the hospitals, so Kirito would retain some mobility upon awakening from the game.
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That alone is absolutely not sufficient. Nurse care for such kind of patients are, at the very best, effective against bedsores, assuming specific beds are also provided etc, to which is the norm (albeit not almighty effective, especially past the 1-2 months mark).
Even if the muscles are stimulated, muscle atrophy will gradually happen sooner or later, since it will not substitute perfectly normal human activity, not to mention that parenteral nutrition is really not going to supplement indefinitely protein needs for such long period of time, and it will also lead to various complication due to the gastric tract and all.
It is a good thing they have shown Kazuto's apparent loss of weight and muscle, but past the muscle atrophy, he himself didn't move on his own for 2 damn years, which would require rehabilitation of several weeks or even months before he can even walk like that. I would be already impressed if he could CRAWL in such state, so my suspension of disbelief literally shattered with that scene.
Frankly, this episode could deliver a noticeable emotional build up, but it is noticeable how evident it is to cover few things that are brushed off by the writing: like other members, color me absolutely not convinced by Asuna's meat shield scene and Kazuto ability to act despite his HP bar is already depleted.
Really, the game is just a software that use brainwaves as input method, but it is simply similar to what we usually do with a pad. That is to say: I have no reason to believe "will" have any impact in such cold and calculating system (unlike Matrix), and absolutely nothing of such kind has been hinted before. Therefore, having Kayaba surprised by this outcome does absolutely not make that scene any legit: there was absolutely no logical reason or hints for that to happen, save the cliche "sacrifice" you could usually have.
Likewise, I don't really mind the "10 second timegap", which was hinted by the resurrection item, but at least, I would have appreciated if the studio made it consistent, since we have way too often variable "pixel shattering" sequence duration in the whole show. It is just again a convenient way to show "how some characters are more worthy to have their last words, than others", which breaks again the consistency of the show.
Another nitpicking point is that I would have liked a quick comment that how Kirito has no healing items anymore before engaging Kayaba, as if he still had some, it is just silly to see him rushing with barely half his hp.
At least, the animation was above average compared to other episodes, which is a relief considering it is an important turning point in the series.
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