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View Poll Results: Critique of Episode 21 | |||
10 out of 10 : Near Perfect... | 12 | 12.50% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent... | 27 | 28.13% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good... | 22 | 22.92% | |
7 out of 10 : Good... | 14 | 14.58% | |
6 out of 10 : Average... | 9 | 9.38% | |
5 out of 10 : Below Average... | 6 | 6.25% | |
4 out of 10 : Poor... | 0 | 0% | |
3 out of 10 : Bad... | 0 | 0% | |
2 out of 10 : Very Bad... | 0 | 0% | |
1 out of 10 : Torturous... | 6 | 6.25% | |
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2012-11-24, 15:58 | Link #41 | |
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Beyond that, it's pretty clear that Sugou and his cohorts suffered from a bit of tunnel vision while programming their research facility. They were thinking in terms of building a real world facility in VR, rather than building a facility in VR. All the possible extra security things they can do in VR simply didn't occur to them because they were thinking of things that the real world does for security. It'd be childs play to bind Asuna like an NPC so that traveling beyond the edge of her cell would merely teleport her back to the center of it, thus removing the need for a filter for the keypad. But they were thinking in terms of how one would imprison someone in a real world cell, and mimicking that. |
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2012-11-24, 16:06 | Link #44 | ||
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(It sort of reminds me in an odd way of "skeuomorphism" -- like when you use the Podcast app on an iOS device and it's designed to look like a tape player, even though they could do whatever they want to make an interface that's way more intuitive and easy-to-use. Some people really like reproducing reality using technology...) Quote:
/is fully-healed
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2012-11-24, 16:37 | Link #45 |
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First thing that came to mind was why Asuna never tried flying/hovering with her wings while she was hold captive? If she knew how to fly, she could have jumped from the world tree, used her wings to slow down her fall near ground and safely land in Aarun. There she could have made a random player contact a GM and have him log her out.
I know there are a few flaws, like you wouldn't be able to get down from the world tree (wall from patch) or her wings are only decoration, but it would have been worth trying (if she could fly/hover in the first place). Wow, those few seconds showing her relieved face would have been more than enough for her to press log out, but the author just had to decide that she was to be the maiden, waiting for her prince riding on a white horse. There was nothing that prevented her from waiting, at least until they were positioned further away, making it more difficult to spot her. I'm betting those scientists chose tentacle monsters, because they offered more arms to feel up NPCs. Another interesting fact is that Asuna biting his tentacle caused considerable pain, while Kirito getting slashed by Eugene simply continued steamrolling. ALO's pain level can be increased to, or at least close to, real life pain. So Suguha knew Asuna's character name, probably because Kirito kept saying it, but she never knew his character name. As a result, when Yui informed him of Asuna, she was rejected (again), without her knowing.
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2012-11-24, 16:39 | Link #46 |
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Asuna, for all her smarts and skills, is being portrayed as the damsel in distress that the hero has to rescue. That can't be denied, but it is just part of this kind of shounen story, so maybe we can not feel too bad about it and simply enjoy it and admire the stuff she does accomplish. And when the climax comes, I hope/suspect everyone will have a role to play: Kirito, Yui, Suguha/Leafa, and Asuna.
Actually, I blamed Asuna for (a) going through the tunnel rather than trying to fly down bit by bit on the outside, (b) choosing to go to the lab, which is the most likely place to meet Mr. Evil. There was a "system" room that might also have held a console. There are some little anomalies in the story, but not bad enough to ruin things, for me. I thought the slug-like scientists were a joke about slimy fat otaku. I've been away from this show for a while and have just caught up with the last ten episodes or so over the past few days. I have to repeat what an excellent show this is. Good animation, good characters, good adventure, good romance. And Matsuoka Yoshitsugu is outstanding as Kirito. Perfect voice. With the abundance of bro-con situations in anime this season, this is the most interesting. Very inventive and high-class way of giving the show a bit of acceptable incestuousness. Girls und Panzer has jumped up to be the most popular show on 2channel right now, with well over a hundred posts an hour right now. But SAO -- the most popular show of the summer season -- is holding its own, with big runs of posts after every new episode. So far, over a bit more than a cour and a half, it has received 257,000+ posts, about twice as many as GuP has right now.
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2012-11-24, 16:42 | Link #47 | |
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Also, apparently there's an invisible wall now so that wouldn't work anyway (not that she'd know that). |
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2012-11-24, 17:04 | Link #48 | |||
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But within ALO, those guys are indestructible, nigh omnipotent gods, and Asuna's just a player. Without even her sword, not that it'd help her. Quote:
And no, they can't do it "with their minds", in so far as manipulating your virtual body isn't doing stuff with your mind. You couldn't manipulate a menu by thought in SAO, and you can't do it in ALO. Quote:
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2012-11-24, 17:50 | Link #51 | |
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By the way, at this point I think Suguha will take off after Kirito and save him when his wings tire. Just a guess, lol.
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2012-11-24, 18:08 | Link #52 | |
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Even Kirito had to ask Yui for the instructions, on how to bring up the controller with a gesture, and don't even mention advanced flight. |
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2012-11-24, 18:28 | Link #55 | |
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2012-11-24, 18:56 | Link #58 |
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Just watched the subbed and damn I'm glad to see Asuna-chan back. Too bad the creepy, perverted slugs took much of the time. Grrr...
So Alfeim seems to be Sugou's virtual storage for his experiments? Creepy. So are the "kidnapped" players actually playing the game or are they keep in stored. Nothing much more explained but what save this episode is the card Asuna has taken and Kirito's desperate face... Thanks Yui-chan!!!! Your Dad is going all out again!!! Can't wait for the next episode....!!! |
2012-11-24, 18:58 | Link #59 |
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If she has no reliable way of knowing if she could fly, would anyone with common sense jump off the branch and into the sky like that? A fall like that would obviously kill her if she couldn't fly and she has no idea if her nerve gear will kill her or not if she dies.
No sane person would take that risk. We in a meta sense might take that risk but for a character in the story it would be suicidal and with good reason. |
2012-11-24, 19:30 | Link #60 |
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Join Date: Dec 2003
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In the end, keep in mind that Asuna isn't trying to get as far away from the World Tree as possible anyway, because that doesn't help her. Even if she got to the opposite end of the game world, all Sugou would have to do is to teleport her back with a press of a button; she can neither run nor hide in Alfheim. What she needed was to try to find a way out and, as a bonus, to see if she can get an more evidence to get Sugou put away. In addition, I assume she would want to ensure that she can get back to her cage if needed if she doesn't have any luck. So, based on that, I think her strategy makes as much sense as any; get into the nearby compound to look for an admin terminal and investigate Sugou's experiments while she figures (knows?) he's away. Running into other admins was obviously a risk, but I suppose it's better than nothing. The only downside is that this was basically her only chance; in the end, the only plus side is her not leaving empty-handed.
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