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AksaraKishou
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Best typo ever. Rabbit Slash. |
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Eddy564
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Bercouli vs. Vecta was everything I had hoped it’d be. I appreciate the change in art style with the animators opting for thicker lines and enhanced detail on facials in order to sell the intensity of the sequences. Bercouli’s sneer as he recognizes his dragon coming to aid was a small but wonderful example of character acting done right in animation.
Two episodes in and this season has started off considerably strong. They aren’t holding any punches and it seems the delayed has done wonders for show’s overall production. |
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Treecko Tempo
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AksaraKishou
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I mean, what other hint do you need aside from Fanatio naked in his bed on the 1st OP? lel |
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FilthyCasual
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[EDIT: Already corrected. - Key] I wonder why Gabriel wasn't able to use his cognition drain during his last fight with Bercouli. Was Bercouli too mobile? Did he get used to it? |
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Treecko Tempo
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I don't even remember what was in that OP. I watched it once through when it came out, too see what it was and never watched that OP again, but looking at it now after your comment, yes they did hint at there relationship in it. But that's also a strange thing to do, why hint to a plot point in a blink and you miss it scene in an opening in the season that that plot point is not relevant at all until you get to this episode. |
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rahzel rose
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I didn't get the sense that Bercouli loved Administrator (past or present) but more that he was simply fond of her despite all of her faults. Taking her with him at the end felt more to me like a knight journeying off with his queen, which. Would make sense since he was actually her knight.
That aside, his fight was fantastic. I'm sad to see him go because he was one of my favorite characters. |
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Gina Szanboti
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The whole idea of recreating someone's personality from other people's perceptions of them is...I don't even know what word to use to describe that. Insane? Wrong? Idiotic? Sure, in this universe they could create a personality from others' pov, but it wouldn't be anything like the Kirito that Kirito sees himself to be. It would just be a new construct labeled Kirito. It makes about as much sense as trying to rebuild a person out of fragments of their parents' DNA and expecting to get the same person again because you're using the same pieces to start from.
I know it's just a show, but given that this was aimed at angsty teenagers who feel that no one really knows them (and they would be right), I gotta wonder how well that idea will fly (or has flown up to now). I dunno, maybe, like Kirito himself, it feeds into the fantasy that other people who know the real you in all your messy, interior detail can actually exist. Ahh, rip Bercouli. I was fond of the old man, but he went out like a champ. |
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Gho5tRUN3R
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You know, when I was watching episodes 13 and 14, I joked with my friend that it would be hilarious if Kirito needed his giant harem to be summoned to him and only then would he wake up.
And then they came up with almost that exact plan. I haven't laughed so hard at this show in a while, but that really got me. I get the writer has himself in a corner, but to be honest, they really don't need Kirito right now. It seems like the good guys have this on lock and have been like this the whole time. There's really no sense of danger other than whenever they decide Asuna isn't fast so she can lose a random arm. Speaking of arms, I want a tally for how many times someone's arm is casually lopped off in this show. Including dragon wings. Feels like a drinking game waiting to be made. |
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DRosencraft
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Gotta say I really loved the Bercoulli fight. I also love the idea that a non-main (so not one of Kirito and Asuna's gang) was able to take down big boss Vecta; foreshadowing wise it sets up well for an "after" future of this world where Asuna isn't a goddess from on high coming down to save the day. It makes for a powerful symbol that a denizen of this world took down the big bad, even if he lost his life in the process.
As for the plan for reviving Kirito... I don't think any other anime has made me vocally chastise it while it was airing. That plan is so full of "nope" I don't even know how to fully explain it all without going into a full rant. I'll just build on what Gina Szanboti said earlier in this thread; a person's vision of themselves which creates their sense of self is different from the view of that person in other's eyes. The very fact that they aren't with you 24/7 in your head defines the fact that they can only know so much about you. I get that they tried to skirt around this by suggesting that the overlap of perceptions from three individuals can cover some of those blind spots, and the apparent suggestion this is meant to be more of a jump start rather than a complete rebuild, but it's still a very, very, tenuous at best. In fact, this is actually a good way of destroying one's sense of self, as it can be traumatic if the way you view yourself is significantly different from the way others view you. |
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Key
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Vassago had already been shown lurking, though, and he's using what's probably a higher-level SAO account. |
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Nate148
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Things are brightest before a fall.
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Piexouar
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That was the work of the photography department, they applied a line filter. https://twitter.com/HiconManiacs/status/1284520306804092930?s=19 |
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Shayru
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For those talking about the plan to revive kirito,
First of all the problem they have right now is time, they might get the electricity down any moment if their ennemies get alice to world end altar and if that happens, then kirito dies. So while the plan indeed isn't sure to work they don't really have an alternative because in a few hours he'll be dead. For the plan itself, I feel like the goal is more to reconnect his vision of himself than recreating it from everyone else, because yes recreating it would have a lot of problems since others doesn't know the reasoning that went behind each of his actions, but right now the goal is more to make him remember who he was (hence why he reacted to his old friends connecting) because the surge made hime disconnect from himself (but his own self his still here, wether it be locked inside himself or inside the machine, I don't think it has been said anytime said everything about himself was dead that's why Higa was still looking for a way to wake him up, it seems like more of a coma than anything) so that's why even if he the memories of the others only have part of kirito's self it's alright because the goal is to find where is the other part of it (kinda like a puzzle where you'd need to find a piece that was already place from a part of it you got) On a side note, I'm really enjoying this season and can't wait to see how it'll wrap up, each sao season had it's up and downs but alicizations only had a few problematics eps personnally so I'm really hoping it keeps what it's been doing since the start of alicization (And see if we get more connection to OS since they seem to try to keep that alice) Also wondering how long is the author planning on continuing, I feel like this year has seen a lot of LN ending so I'm really wondering if Unital Ring will be the last arc because from what I've seen spoiler[All of the seed games getting fused in a single one with a death = account delete (Kinda reminds of Accel Word also might be something there)] it really seems like the plot you'd use when preparing the end of the saga but I guess we'll see, He might also get back to working on Accel world since it's almost been a year without a new novel there |
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Kisuke525
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You pretty much nailed it with your post. I'm really glad to see that some people are paying attention to what is being said and shown instead of half watching and jumping to conclusions like so many watching SAO seem to do. I hope you end up enjoying the rest of the season! |
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