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View Poll Results: Critique of Episode 23 | |||
10 out of 10 : Near Perfect... | 26 | 23.85% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent... | 21 | 19.27% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good... | 24 | 22.02% | |
7 out of 10 : Good... | 18 | 16.51% | |
6 out of 10 : Average... | 11 | 10.09% | |
5 out of 10 : Below Average... | 0 | 0% | |
4 out of 10 : Poor... | 1 | 0.92% | |
3 out of 10 : Bad... | 3 | 2.75% | |
2 out of 10 : Very Bad... | 2 | 1.83% | |
1 out of 10 : Torturous... | 3 | 2.75% | |
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2012-12-09, 13:25 | Link #101 | |
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That's why I just assumed that her mind is still stuck in "limbo" if you will, and that the whole point is they're also trying to figure out a way to bring her back to the Real World, because simply logging out won't do much good. Part of me just really wants Kayaba to come back and do some good, that's all. edit: Hence, it's not imprisonment by another villain per-se, but rather a way for her and kirito to still be together and interact as they figure out why she wasn't granted the ability to wake up like Kirito.
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2012-12-09, 13:57 | Link #103 | |
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(I remember we had that big debate at the time about how some thought it was unrealistic for SAO/ALO data to be so "compatible". I wonder why I never thought about the captives back then? Actually, I guess maybe I didn't know about it at that point.)
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2012-12-09, 13:59 | Link #105 | |
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That's good to know then, yay for Asuna.
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2012-12-09, 18:27 | Link #106 |
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No doubt that Suguha pretty much had to force herself a bit in order to get things done here. It's not like she wanted to break down last episode anyways. They can play things off as "Kirito hasn't really returned until Asuna wakes up" and leave it at that. Both of them are going to have to adjust to the realities of the situation and they will have time to do that after this is taken care of. For now it's time to get the job done.
But I have to say bringing in the Dragon Riders really is a way to call in the cavalry . Even still the best they could do was get Kirito through the hole. To be fair it was set up to be impossible without appearing that way. Like hell Sugou wants people clearing the game or bothering his science experiment. And Recon.....most fail self-sacrifice I've seen in a while. At least it got him out of the picture.
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2012-12-09, 20:54 | Link #107 |
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Yeah, clarification on the captive status of Asuna and the others came an episode or two later after Kirito had logged in to discover the glitch. Which made bringing up that the game had been specifically designed to transfer players still using the SAO client to it difficult to do without spoiling things. By the time that fully came up in an episode, the argument over compatibility had been mostly settled.
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2012-12-09, 23:35 | Link #111 |
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Well, their intent was to break through. The effort required to get just Kirito through made it pretty obvious that they were unlikely to break through themselves, and more likely to take heavy losses and/or get wiped out if they tried. At that point it makes sense to retreat, rather than get wiped and lose all their shine new expensive gear.
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2012-12-09, 23:38 | Link #112 | |
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(Edit: beaten by a few minutes, but anyway...)
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It just goes to point to the point you said in your previous post about the unfairness of the quest being unbeatable. No matter how many armies they assembled, it could never be beaten. Finding a way to get someone through was the best they could do, and even then the door was locked. So yeah. The "drill-like finishing move" is just clearing the path, but he couldn't do that without everyone else thinning the horde. So it took all of them working together just to get one single person through. That's just how unfair that quest was.
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2012-12-09, 23:56 | Link #113 |
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Ya~ But seeing Kirito managed to grind so many troops with a single drill-like finishing move, he should have just pulled it off from the start (when the troops number are still few), no need to wait for the alliance's help. And the sudden intruding of alliance forces which felt very . . . forced. And is was totally facepalmed seeing how fast Kirito and suguha made peace as if all those tear-jerking drama on the previous ep mean nothing. How should i put it, while watching this eps i got a feeling of playing jigsaw puzzle where several pieces have no places at all.
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2012-12-10, 00:31 | Link #115 | ||
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So, I don't know... I thought it made sense as far as it goes.
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