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Anon1409 said: AIDS... Couldn't the author come up with anything better? That pretty much ruined the arc for me Well, technically it's SUPER AIDS. Give the author a little more credit. |
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| If only I wouldn't have been spoiled... Seriously I wish I could have felt anything, but I didn't. Though, at the moment I was spoiled, I was really shocked. I guess I learned my lesson to never go into threads with spoiler tag. |
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guntrix said: Am I the only one that feels like the producers brainstormed a whole bunch of ideas and just threw them together? We've gone from fighting a killer in a gun MMO, to real-life bonding and remembering tragic past lives, to MMO grinding and item searching, to Asuna's story with this party... Seriously feels like there's no continuity. These archs are irrelevant to each other and seem to be episode fillers. Each arc showed the impact VR can have on life. The things that happened in the previous arcs carried to the next. Example would be Kirito feeling guilty for killing people in SAO and it followed and haunted him in GGO. Another great example is the Caliber side story. This showed exactly how far the cardinal system can go and foreshadows how advanced AI can get. |
| Wow, the episodes just kept getting better and better. So many feels. Now we know why they're called the Sleeping Knights T__T This arc definitely hasn't disappointed at all, even with the hype it was getting. Favorite arc of this series. |
| Such a sad thing to have someone you care for be gone in mere months. That's why they're called the Sleeping Knights huh? Basically, Yuuki suffers from AIDS so that's some serious business. I just can't bare the thought that she's one of those who have only months left to live. Asuna just shows how she deeply cares for her. I just hope that she'll spend the last days in VRMMO with the whole gang. Oh and how will they get Yuuki to school? Hmmm. |
| Noooooooooo! My beloved Yuuki :'( Wow, that was unreal. So many feels. "Sleeping Knights," Asuna's determined flight, seeing poor Yuuki so feeble, the AIDS reveal, the Medicuboid being used for terminal care only reveal, wow I don't even... So sad. I love Yuuki :'( |
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| Sleeping Knights Didn't know the name has such a deep meaning. |
salmon3669 said: Compare this exerpt to what you just watched: “Yes. From the moment Yuuki was born, she was forced to fight the virus to survive..... I’ve always felt that the harmful words of the parents and teachers in her previous school was the reason why she became ill.” ALot more impactful. You are totally right, they SHOULD HAVE included this in the episode, instead of just, "And she also suffered from prejudice, I'm told." Ugh. Even still, though. Good episode. Manly tears of manliness were shed by many men. No surprises this season so far, and story unpredictability is a big thing for me, so Barion-Zara said: Can people start rating this season up now. It's ridiculous how low it is compared to S1 even though it's way better <_< This is untrue for me. But also, eien_kiseki said: I really disliked the GGO saga because it felt extremely shallow Is untrue for me. |
| And the feels train continues to roll on through. |
| Seriously, what the hell? This "arc" is so bad I don't even know how to express it anymore. The writing is so extremely convoluted and the entire setting for it has been so beyond horribly written that I can't take it seriously one bit. None of the new characters have had any kind of development together with Asuna. She's known them for like two days as far as I know and suddenly it's like they grew up together and the world is ending. That's just bullshit. Sure it's sad that poor Yuuki has AIDS and has been stuck in a machine for 3 years, but when it was obvious from the first hint that something was up with that guild that she was either a vegetable or in other ways locked to some kind of life support then the entire reveal of this epsiode dropped flat on it's belly and then wriggled around a bit. The biggest point to come across here is: Why should we care? Why should Asuna care? I don't know those characters, Asuna sure as hell don't know those characters. There can be no emotional investment without proper development. Why do they keep pouring so much money into this show only to make the animation look Godly and then take a massive dump on the writing. It just made this episode completely unwatchable. And don't get me wrong, the writing has been shit this entire season, but this episode took the fucking cake. Thank God that there are only two more episodes left of this trainwreck of a series and I can only hope that there won't be a third installment. |
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| holy shit so much bait in this thread. |
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Billzor said: Seriously, what the hell? This "arc" is so bad I don't even know how to express it anymore. The writing is so extremely convoluted and the entire setting for it has been so beyond horribly written that I can't take it seriously one bit. None of the new characters have had any kind of development together with Asuna. She's known them for like two days as far as I know and suddenly it's like they grew up together and the world is ending. That's just bullshit. Sure it's sad that poor Yuuki has AIDS and has been stuck in a machine for 3 years, but when it was obvious from the first hint that something was up with that guild that she was either a vegetable or in other ways locked to some kind of life support then the entire reveal of this epsiode dropped flat on it's belly and then wriggled around a bit. The biggest point to come across here is: Why should we care? Why should Asuna care? I don't know those characters, Asuna sure as hell don't know those characters. There can be no emotional investment without proper development. Why do they keep pouring so much money into this show only to make the animation look Godly and then take a massive dump on the writing. It just made this episode completely unwatchable. And don't get me wrong, the writing has been shit this entire season, but this episode took the fucking cake. Thank God that there are only two more episodes left of this trainwreck of a series and I can only hope that there won't be a third installment. There will be a third season, sadly. And actually +1. |
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CookingPriest said: It's a SAO thread, nothing new.holy shit so much bait in this thread. |
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| Awesome ep. Time just flew by. Really sad ep though, really feel for Yuuki :((. I also thought that yuuki would be Asuna's long lost sister or something like that. Oh well, sad to see this show end soon. Really hope there will be a s3 :) |
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YTk said: But what's depressing about this episode is that Kawahara Reki is implying that they still will not have found a solution for HIV even in 2026? That's some quality black humour there if you ask me, haha. We are nearing 2020 and we still can't even cure common cold. |
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CookingPriest said: YTk said: But what's depressing about this episode is that Kawahara Reki is implying that they still will not have found a solution for HIV even in 2026? That's some quality black humour there if you ask me, haha. We are nearing 2020 and we still can't even cure common cold. And both AIDS and cancer treatments are reaaaaaaally expensive, farmaceautical companies would lose a bunch of money, so it's kinda unlikely. |
| I wonder what Asuna means by "you can still go to school". Only two more episodes left :'(. I want Season 3 please :D A happy cliffhanger ending would make it good so they can make season 3. I don't really like cliffhangers sometimes because they can troll you. |
| Is it bad that I thought of this during the episode? |
y123y said: This would have been a better story for Yuki: Yuki, her parents, and her sister buy that thing for SAO 1 to have fun as a family and enjoy the VR world together. And then all five of them are trapped in the game. Then Yuki sees her family all get taken out, and now she is sad and doesnt want to return to the offline world. A couple of years have passed and Yuki still lives most of the time in the VR world. And then Asuna meets her and saves her. That wouldn't have made sense since she's supposed to be faster than Kirito. She would have gotten dual wielding then. |
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| It's unfortunate that AIDS is made fun of so much in western society that people can't even take it seriously. "Really, AIDS?" What the hell is that supposed to even mean? |
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| this episode really hit when it hurts the most.... no matter how strong a person is, death will always be the final outcome T_T this episode is really well adapted 5/5 |
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| Nice episode. Now I undestood better the ending. |
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| Tad bit sad, since Yuuki has AIDS and all other members of the Silent Knights are gonna die soon. But now I'm somewhat bored of the Rosario arc to be honest. :/ |
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vitaxlilium said: y123y said: This would have been a better story for Yuki: Yuki, her parents, and her sister buy that thing for SAO 1 to have fun as a family and enjoy the VR world together. And then all five of them are trapped in the game. Then Yuki sees her family all get taken out, and now she is sad and doesnt want to return to the offline world. A couple of years have passed and Yuki still lives most of the time in the VR world. And then Asuna meets her and saves her. That wouldn't have made sense since she's supposed to be faster than Kirito. She would have gotten dual wielding then. That doesn't make any sense because she wouldn't want to be in the ONline world, not the OFFline. |
y123y said: Reyxe said: That doesn't make any sense because she wouldn't want to be in the ONline world, not the OFFline. But the thing is that she wouldnt want to return to the offline world since she knows what is awaiting her there. And then Asuna meets her in the offline world, and convinces her to return to the offline world wat. seriously, wat. |
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Anon1409 said: AIDS... Couldn't the author come up with anything better? That pretty much ruined the arc for me What do you even expect from a shit writer anyway? |
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Khpconan said: Leviathonlx said: The thing with the AIDS stuff is that given that this story was written only a few years ago and AID's isn't much of a early death sentence in the Western world any longer (let alone in 2026 when this takes place) I think something else probably would have made more sense disease wise. Regardless it was a good emotional story and adapted well. Actually... it's not that simple. Yes, nowadays the usual person infected with HIV can expect to live a more or less decent live if he follows the drug treatment all his life. We can delay the virus development with a cocktail of RTI (reverse transcriptase inhibitors). But, guess what. HIV has a very fast mutation rate , combine a very intense drug treatment and a fast mutation rate and you have a perfect enviroment for natural selection to work. Drug resistance is a very important trouble, and it will be even more important in the future. So actually, and given the case that in 2026 there's no cure yet, the prognosis of a HIV infected patient may be even worse, just because more strains of the virus will be drug resistant. Of course, this is being a little pessimistic about what we will do with these 12 years until 2026. But trust me, AIDS is not a solved problem. We can't cure AIDS, we just delay the disease onset with drugs. This is not only applicable to AIDS, quite a lot of infective disease are a very serious problem if the bacteria/virus causing it is drug resistant and doesn't react to the treatment (tuberculosis, for example). They also stated that it was a drug resistant variant so medicine can't buy her much time. |
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| Yuuki's situation feels pretty contrived and hard to believe. The chances of someone in Japan contracting HIV from a blood transfusion in 2011 are extremely slim. Add to that she has a twin sister who died and her parents died as well, it feels like its trying way too hard. |
Feaor said: Yuuki's situation feels pretty contrived and hard to believe. The chances of someone in Japan contracting HIV from a blood transfusion in 2011 are extremely slim. Add to that she has a twin sister who died and her parents died as well, it feels like its trying way too hard. Her mother contracted the disease and it spread to the entire family because it was diagnosed only few months latter. And as was said before - getting hiv from blood transfusion is no more rare than getting stuck in a virtual reality game that suddenly turns into a death game or being forced to kill a person in self defense. Statistics do not change the fact that shit happens. |
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ACIMASIZ said: I know how i feel but i dont know how to explain it.. Ohh i know SUCK SUCKS SUCKER EVEN MORE SUCK ... thats covers all SOA II series WTF are you doing GGO not that bad afterall cause i see this fucking filler chapters they cant find anything to screen... My all expectations going to garbage now.. TY for SUCK series.. I just w8ing last episode maybe tiny hope they show someting i want i doubt that but u know how is hope works.. .........whut? |
llcruz said: With all the people saying this will have feels, I was getting pretty hyped to see what all the feels were about. After finishing the episode I'm a bit disappointed. Yeah, it was sad but not really that much or maybe I was just expecting something like Clannad (which is impossible). ^Pretty much how I felt. Or something like Tokyo Magnitude 8.0. That was a real tearjerker. Damn, why did it have to be Terminal? |
| Ah, AIDS, the go-to dramatic disease for appealing to emotions. If you aren't the type to easily get "the feels," this will feel way too forced. |
| Best episode of this season, and maybe in the whole SAO anime adaptation. I loved it, especially the dialogue between the doctor and Asuna. |
| An amazing episode!! T^T |
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| I knew it. I knew what was happening to Yukki. I knew from the very beginning but still i wasn't ready for the feels. I couldn't hold my eyes from tearing and was crying pretty much. Such a sad episode but so good. IMO this was the best episode in the whole SAO series. So many feels! The truth is now revealed not just for Yukki but for Sleeping Knights in general. This was so dramatic. I'm right tp call this mini arc the best arc in the whole SAO. |
| A Story will always come to it's end. The thing is, will you move on after it's over? |
Barion-Zara said: Can people start rating this season up now. It's ridiculous how low it is compared to S1 even though it's way better <_< Well because of one good ar c you can't judge the whole anime. GGO was by far the worst arc for me. If I was to raise it's rating would be an 8.1 you can't just raise it's rating because of frw good episodes when the rest of the season was crappy. |
| A Story will always come to it's end. The thing is, will you move on after it's over? |
| Very good and emotional episode Shit Horizon producers need to learn some lessons from SAO |
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