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View Poll Results: Sword Art Online - Episode 12 Rating | |||
10 out of 10 : Near Perfect.... | 44 | 29.93% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent... | 31 | 21.09% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good... | 29 | 19.73% | |
7 out of 10 : Good... | 20 | 13.61% | |
6 out of 10 : Average... | 12 | 8.16% | |
5 out of 10 : Below Average... | 3 | 2.04% | |
4 out of 10 : Poor... | 3 | 2.04% | |
3 out of 10 : Bad... | 3 | 2.04% | |
2 out of 10 : Very Bad... | 1 | 0.68% | |
1 out of 10 : Torturous... | 1 | 0.68% | |
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2012-09-24, 22:10 | Link #241 |
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I'm now just going to assume that's what Kirito does. Has to do something extreme for their first child. Either making a server for her to live in or making a robot daughter so she can live in the real world. Either way not bad .
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2012-09-24, 22:38 | Link #242 | |
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Considering she knows that she's an AI, and in end, didnt seem to be troubled by it, I dont think she'd have a hard time dealing with living in a device. I can see her jumping back and forth between "mommy and daddy's" devices all day long. |
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2012-09-25, 00:43 | Link #243 | |
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My idea of parenthood is not a super-Tamagocchi.
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This is a geek wish fulfillment story. Nothing more or less. In essense, it's not any different from multitude of "little sis who loves her oniichan" anime, just in a different theme. This is not meant to be critique, there's nothing wrong with one. I find watching or reading "wet dreams come true" quite entertaining, in fact. Hell, otherwise why would I play eroge.
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2012-09-25, 00:49 | Link #244 | |
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2012-09-25, 02:18 | Link #246 |
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These last two episodes were a missed opportunity. Sad lonely lolis are always a potential for emotionally compelling stories in fantasy especially when you have a couple like Kirito and Asuna that just got into a major relationship. If done well it can help strengthen the relationship. And if there was a strong aspect of it, it would definitely be the Kirito-Asuna relationship.
Unfortunately it was just going way too fast and I wasn't really given any time to really feel for Yui and them and it just came across as a bit emotionally manipulative. And being a Key fan, I don't mind a story being manipulative to force a few feelings of sadness and joy out of me. But it was still too much and it flew over my head. I was presented with a concept I should really like and I frequently too, but they honestly dropped the ball here and the chain of events was just not really credible to me-- the last part sorta reminded me of AnoHana in its final turns, and that unfortunately is not a compliment. 5/10
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2012-09-26, 18:46 | Link #250 |
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I don't know why but I like this ep, for me, one of best ep ever. I guess I watched it when I was in right mood for it.
Though at first I thought that Yui will stay with them, with them leaving her later when returning to real world again (or not) that would be also a great dilemma. |
2012-09-26, 23:06 | Link #251 |
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This episode made me think of Zegapain. If you've seen that show, you know what I mean.
I'm guessing that the typing on the keyboard is just the visual representation of what is actually happening to someone watching. SAO is a VRMMO, so Kirito was probably just thinking of what he wanted to do and having admin access for just a moment was enough to make it happen. It's still too convenient, like how The Matrix had an Explainer to Explain to Neo what was happening just when he needed things Explained. But I guess virtual worlds don't need to obey the laws of sensible plot moments, amirite? Lucky for Asuna, she doesn't even have to experience the nine months of carrying a bowling ball strapped to her stomach and then the agonizing pain of childbirth to have a perfectly formed AI child! Spoiler for Comparison to Dusk Maiden of Amnesia ending:
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2012-09-27, 02:30 | Link #252 |
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As far as I can tell, SAO actually -isn't- thought operated. You control your character by physically moving your limbs. The pulse that actually makes your real body's limbs move never reaches the limbs itself, it's like, "intercepted" by the nerve gear. But the bottom line is, moving around in-game is exactly the same as moving around irl. Menus and stuff seem to be summoned by making certain hand gestures, rather than "thinking about them".
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2012-09-27, 03:02 | Link #253 | |
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2012-09-27, 06:32 | Link #254 | |
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2012-09-27, 20:25 | Link #256 | |
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Let's assume--no, let's not even assume, let's acknowledge the canonical fact that Kirito is something of a prodigy who has extensively studied not just programming in general, but the APIs and previous applications written for the NerveGear hardware and the books written by the person who designed SAO. Now he's been given elevated privileges at a GM console with an interface that it's entirely possible he's either studied from Kayaba's books or actually used before. So let's say Kirito types something like this: Code:
> show -f system.entities|grep yui 1 line(s) matched: //sys/ents/admin/yui.entdata > copy -r -s //sys/ents/admin/yui.entdata -t //self/local/yuibackup 1 folder(s) copied recursively to local storage. > gm.spawnGameObjectAtPlayer -u -n "Yui's Heart" -t player.Kirito -a //res/items/appearance/bluecrystalheart.pak -i //self/local/yuibackup Usable item [Yui's Heart] spawned successfully at player.Kirito - linked to //self/local/yuibackup Problem solved. Note: I pulled all of that out of the nether in about 5 minutes based on 20+ years working with command line systems. I would have so much respect for anime/movie producers if they'd just call up one of their hacker/geek friends and ask them to make up some convincing-looking actual commands for what they're trying to portray rather than this lazy Matrix stuff. Last edited by Catsy; 2012-09-27 at 20:32. Reason: footnote |
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2012-09-28, 00:45 | Link #257 | ||
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2012-09-28, 01:17 | Link #258 | |
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The author quote you provided is very interesting, and confirms my suspicions. I really should pay more attention to Twitter. (I can't believe I just wrote that sentence.) |
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2012-09-28, 01:49 | Link #259 |
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SAO is so frustrating. I can see what it was trying to do and I appreciate it. I mean Yui's character could've been handled so much better. She could've had more episodes so that this episode would work. This as me going back to the side stories in the first few episodes. You never really need it in the first place SAO did you. You could've gave more time for Kirito and Asuna to actually develop their romance rather than "oh hey let's get married" and two episodes later poof our first child died. I kinda get that this is gonna be used later on as Kirito and Asuna's motivation to beat SAO but uggggh.
The characters of SAO. . . now I understand. . . this isn't a "what if people went to a game where their lives are at stake?"and this is really more of a "what if anime stereotypes went to a game where their lives are at stake?". This episode is just . . . arrg.
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2012-09-28, 02:19 | Link #260 | |
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You are gonna love MuvLuv's VN adaptation. /offtopic I don't think SAO fails to do what it tries to do as a story. The problem is that the trailers teased something different to what we got, and the fans hyped it above the heavens as something it was not. Of all the possibilities there are to work with such a good premise, SAO took the easy road. But can you blame an author that wrote this on his late teens?* I can't, on the contrary, it's quite impressive. It's been 12 episodes already, people should have lowered their expectations a bit by now. *This is a very likely rumor. The author is rumored to be in his late 20s and SAO was written 10 years ago |
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