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| I like where this is all going. There are dark knights who want peace with the Human Empire, which adds another conflict into the story. Higa seemed to consider the possibility of the intruders logging in to Underworld using accounts from the dark territory. I wonder why he didn't bring that up. Intruders logging into Underworld as superusers and want to invade the Human Empire. The downside with this plan is that they have to extract Alice's fluctlight safely, and since they don't know the identity of Alice they will likely run into a problem is she's in any sort of danger. |
Seygneur said: Typical setup episode and as always with SAO it is filled with logic holes and plot convenience. Also, everything as black and white as can be. Next I do wonder though what Asuna will be gropped by this time? It will be tough to beat the season with her as a coma patient, tentacle monster interns and Kirito's side quest of implicated wincest By no one. Nothing that happened on Fairy Dance ever happens again. Asuna's situation on Alicization will be much more battle related than anything. Stop thinking about Alicization as if it's fairy dance or older arcs because it isn't. Btw, loving the fact that you clearly hate the franchise and you still are here watching it for over 60 episodes at this point. The anime community is fantastic. |
FaffywaffleJLA said: Stupid comment. Saber may have been inspired from Agrias since FFT was 1998 and FSN was 2004, but every other clone after that have all been Saber clones. Nobody in the 2000s is gonna give a shit about some 1998 character, everybody by this point knows who Saber is and is one of the most popular characters in anime and in Japan. So every blonde haired, sword wielding girl knight these days is a mother fucking saber clone. Violet evergarden is also a saber clone, you gonna tell me she was also inspired by Agrias? I fucking doubt it. Alice was created as a character at the same time as Saber, so yes, it's much more likely for her to be inspired by Agria than by a character from a visual novel which Kawahara never has been a fan of the genre and at the same time, he created her on the same time period. |
| really excited about next episode. |
“You can always die. It's living that takes real courage." - Himura Kenshin” . |
| Seems i guessed right in the previous episode discussion :P Hylianticipated said: deg said: nah im not complaining lol i just find it funny that SAO a fiction is trying to be add real life events personally im fine with USA being the world police much better than Russia or even China for sure That's fair. The USA is generally a net benefit when it's involved, but Ironically I'm more on the side of just pulling out and letting everyone fend for themselves; but unfortunately the moment the US decides to act isolationist the world goes to hell and then events like 9/11 happen and we have to suit up again. Also if we pulled out of places like South Korea, then NK would just swoop in and kill everyone and the US would be blamed for that. World affairs personal feelings aside, the new villains in this episode were just so poorly written. Why does SAO always have to make the antagonists pure psychotic evil instead of just some opposing force with compelling views? It's always like this, and it's getting dull. Newsflash - 9/11 was an inside job. So, stop being a brainwashed "patriot" and start questioning your rulers for a change. |
https://swordartonline.fandom.com/wiki/Bullet_of_Bullets 4th Bullet of Bullets 1 Subtilizer 2 Sinon |
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CYCLOPSCORE said: Seygneur said: Typical setup episode and as always with SAO it is filled with logic holes and plot convenience. Also, everything as black and white as can be. Next I do wonder though what Asuna will be gropped by this time? It will be tough to beat the season with her as a coma patient, tentacle monster interns and Kirito's side quest of implicated wincest No. One. No “rape” this time. At least by what you idiots see it. Lol, he IS an idiot....spelling "groped" as "gropped". xD As for people criticizing the villains....I agree, most of them are not...great. But nobody watches SAO for them anyway...so who cares? Lol |
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| The episode continues where it left off, this time to the invaders perspective. Nice that we seen the GGO scene with Sinon, I hope the backstory of Gabriel that they skipped is coming back. Bcuz to add to his character and his motivations. Asuna to dive in underworld, but we will see it at the end of this cour. Overall build up episode |
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| So the main story has started in this episode after the two introductory episodes. The logic that connects the virtual/game system and real world seems smooth and persuasive. Although AI weapons today would be only targeting systems using shape recognition, the Soul Translation Technology enables machines to have ego/self-images like human. STS works as a self-image incubator with accelerated time. Although the audience understand the importance of STS like this, why Alice, only a sample of synthetic individual, is so important wasn't explained reasonably in this episode, I think. It may come from that I had been watching SAO:Alicization series as a battle entertainment avoiding to hear bothersome explanation to date. |
| Mission fix Kirito's fluctlight begins, and his nakamas are on standby too. It was really nice to see them again, and also that they'll join up too. Should be an interesting journey ahead. |
How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb --- Dr Strangelove  |
| Finally Asuna is getting in on the action. Can't wait for her to run the world. |
When someone asks me why I like anime, I'd say Just Because. |
| Looks like we meet the main villains of this season and they look very strong :// |
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| It's nice seeing Sinon's butt again |
| I find it hard to believe a bunch of gamers were able to beat out a group of guards that protect a top secret project. I mean the shows been okay so far, but I guess SAO's gotta be SAO with those weird moments that sometimes defy extend past the spectrum of what's believable or not. Also I find it hard to believe those guys didn't set a password for some of the most broken character logins allowing the bad dudes the log in. Just some plot conveniences to advance the story I guess. |
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| Who ever Asuna's phone service is - I need that in my life lol. That girl was texting through public channels in the middle of know where and underneath waters. |
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| I've found this episode to be pretty interesting. It's still pretty nice to see what the American group attack the Ocean Turtle were doing before and how they were asked to do this mission in the first place. The only thing that does peek my curiosity is how the bad guys were able to gain access to the far stronger accounts for their dark territory plan while Asuna's group only had superuser accounts that were well below level. I do wonder if that will ever get explained. I thought for a second that Sinon was dreaming, but it doesn't look like it. It was nice to see her back in action in GGO, but that guy was far too strong for Sinon to handle. Damn... The last scene with one of the dark territory lords with his female assistant was nice. He's looking for peace and his love confession and marriage proposal was sudden but sweet, but that short blissful moment was stop in its tracks by the arrival of the American antagonists taking the dark territory throne themselves. So yeah, aside from some plot inconveniences, I still liked this episode. =) |
| This episode felt like the SAO that I was familiar with, the one that I didn't care at all about. |
Zodizark said: Wow, Did anyone notice that for Super Account which just level 30 with mediocre job has Super Password, while The EMPEROR and Dark Knight account which have lvl ??? an lvl 70 is not Password Protected ? I think it just kinda DUMB ;) Yeah, I thought the same. Pretty weak point to advance the story, there were better ways to solve that. |
 ~Mirror, tell me something~ |
lazypigz said: I find it hard to believe a bunch of gamers were able to beat out a group of guards that protect a top secret project. I mean the shows been okay so far, but I guess SAO's gotta be SAO with those weird moments that sometimes defy extend past the spectrum of what's believable or not. Also I find it hard to believe those guys didn't set a password for some of the most broken character logins allowing the bad dudes the log in. Just some plot conveniences to advance the story I guess. They aren't just a bunch of gamers. They're all militar people and just play VRMMORPG on GGO. |
lelelejandro said: Hmmmh. I'm not really pumped by the idea of the actual main cast to finally invade the Underworld. I mean, the reason why I like Alicization so much is the lack of previous cast, ha. Still wish someone will just make a NonNon Biyori kind of anime with Alice, Kirito and Eugeo tbh lol. Honestly, SAO is really amazing in a way that it's literally the only franchise that can manage to make me hate the whole original cast and favoring 3 kids who only appear for like, 3 eps in the whole series Ah well. I just hope they won't ruin the whole thing with some overpower bs. And I hope the Underworld cast will still be the main lead. Like, the season in named The War of the Underworld. It'd be a bummer if they end up leaving everything to people who aren't part of the world itself. Anyway to all the people who insist that there's no 'rape' ever happen in the franchise, you guys know that rape doesn't have to include penetration, right? The definition on the damn thing is unwanted sexual assault, dude. You don't even need a second to google that. Rape and sexual assault are two different things and yes, rape only means penetration, the rest are abuse or sexual assault. I'm a lawyer kiddo, I work with it. > It'd be a bummer if they end up leaving everything to people who aren't part of the world itself. Like Kirito himself. lmao dude, I wish I could spoil everything to you, but maybe you should already see that the situation is in need for people to enter on the underworld with the antagonists entering to pick up alice, kirito in that state, alice being targeted, the own underworld about to be destroyed and somehow Asuna can't enter it for you. lol it wouldn't make any sense for her to not enter. |
FaffywaffleJLA said: Stupid comment. Saber may have been inspired from Agrias since FFT was 1998 and FSN was 2004, but every other clone after that have all been Saber clones. Nobody in the 2000s is gonna give a shit about some 1998 character, everybody by this point knows who Saber is and is one of the most popular characters in anime and in Japan. So every blonde haired, sword wielding girl knight these days is a mother fucking saber clone. Violet evergarden is also a saber clone, you gonna tell me she was also inspired by Agrias? I fucking doubt it. Stupid reply. Where did I mention about the other characters? I specifically said about Alice who was written around the same time as FSN. And Kawahara was a gamer in the 90s which is why SAO is so inspired by stuff like PSO, Ultima Online and other RPGs from the 90s. |
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| I'm not a diehard SAO fan but even I can tell some of the haters here are really grasping for straws and refusing to move on from previous story arcs. Why the hell people even watch shows they clearly don't like still evades me. |
| Asuna Yuuki logging on... |
Finally Asuna and two rapists dive into underworld. |
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| Has the only non rapist villain in SAO been Kayaba? |
| Umerica strikes again. I wonder why they usually put them on the bad side. Brain and Brawl headed banter is just fun to watch Never thought, violently choking someone is rape. "There's no way they're gonna login with password protected super accounts in human empire..." ...Unprotected password accounts in Dark side logins xD SuperAccounts/Gods descended in the under world. I wonder how's the citizens' reactions. |
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| oh come on! the events that happened this episode was asuna and the 2 special military gamer ops logged to the game...i mean dive-in! lolz 3/5. |
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| Man, Sinon's still got some violent PTSD going on there. She really needs to play a different game so she'll stop dreaming of getting strangled by every guy that beats her in a gunfight. And am I the only one seeing Vixur and Lipia as literally the Dark Territory versions of Bercouli and Fanatio? |
| Everybody complaining bout other things but the one thing that pisses me off more then anything is the fact that they did the Sao team part waaaayy too early. This part wasn't in this arc until the third book.................at the very end of that novel. |
| The user that said Sinon got "raped" here had me rush the shit just to watch it and yet.. WHERE THE FUCK WAS IT!? I wanted to see some Sinon action! but the blonde dude strangling her moment was pretty hot. |
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| That was a good episode and the plot thickens |
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| I smell tragedy coming from the two new characters at the end. |
caio_brb said: That's where I gotta call bs on that one. There was a line from the programmer dude in the episode where he said the only gun they ever held were polygons, implying that they haven't shot anything real outside of GGO.lazypigz said: I find it hard to believe a bunch of gamers were able to beat out a group of guards that protect a top secret project. I mean the shows been okay so far, but I guess SAO's gotta be SAO with those weird moments that sometimes defy extend past the spectrum of what's believable or not. Also I find it hard to believe those guys didn't set a password for some of the most broken character logins allowing the bad dudes the log in. Just some plot conveniences to advance the story I guess. They aren't just a bunch of gamers. They're all militar people and just play VRMMORPG on GGO. |
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| Not gonna lie, the pacing has been a little too slow these first 3 episodes. Especially for a 12 episode season. This episode was just an info dump and the only exciting thing was Asuna and the military dudes logging in. Hope it picks up from next week. |
| This was actually a nice episode. It was only a matter of time before this becomes a battle in the Underworld from the real world lol. Looks like Computer nerd in the base, what was his name again, has his own secrets, that he doesn't want others to know. Now the enemies are going to be able to log in using an Emperor and a Dark Knight from the other side. I just hope that Asuna dives in with a High Ranking position. It is also good to see from the Dark Territory's perspective, especially the Humans residing there. That guy in the end was actually a sensible person even if he's from the dark territory, vying for peace and all. But his plan for peace is about to get foiled. Anyway, good episode. 5/5 |
| “What do you do when there is an evil you cannot defeat by just means? Do you stain your hands with evil to destroy evil? Or do you remain steadfastly just and righteous even if it means surrendering to evil?” ― Lelouch Vi Britannia |
| So tell me why the heck all the high level accounts of human side is locked but then the highest rank of dark territory accounts not locked too? So it's ok for random people to log into the highest dark side rank account to mess around huh? What a stupid and convenient writing as usual from SAO. The first and second episode of "villagers are all bad guys/ massive dick because reasons" and "Alice can't use her power because reason, opps, she can use all her power all along, she just wants to roleplay as a bullied girl" scenario is dumb as hell too. Seriously SAO try to be sooo serious in its setting and characters, but the presentation, the logic, the writing, the character, the portray of villains are just so insultingly dumb.. I'm not trying to be overly critical, but when a serie trying to take itself too seriously yet its presentation fail to live up to all the seriousness, I find that my IQ got insulted and it's hard for me to rate it any higher than 6. This has been true for almost every SAO series, including the movie. |
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| I personally thought this eps is just above decent. We meet Gabriel Miller and his crew, whose objective is to take over "STL Technology" without displaying the appearance of the States (i do not know what I'm talking about here xD) But, we've got Asuna on her way logging into Underworld to wake Kirito up, which is gonna be something in the next eps. And, i'm really looking forward to seeing some "drama" with her and Alice :)) Let's find it out next week. |
| Okay the plan for everyone to dive in on super accounts was cool especially going to the dark side and seeing that they arent just goblins and what not. Perhaps we already knew they werent all goblins there though. Wish they did english for the america invaders, Also, still dont understand why Asuna's communication capabilities weren't blocked on the turtle, perhaps thats why the NSA found the turtle's location in the first place, lol. |
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27CansOfTuna said: Okay the plan for everyone to dive in on super accounts was cool especially going to the dark side and seeing that they arent just goblins and what not. Perhaps we already knew they werent all goblins there though. Wish they did english for the america invaders, Also, still dont understand why Asuna's communication capabilities weren't blocked on the turtle, perhaps thats why the NSA found the turtle's location in the first place, lol. In the LNs (light novels) they confiscated both her atmusphere and cellphone, the anime just continues to make dumb decisions that creates unnecessary plot holes LN>>>>>anime adaptation I feel bad for people that haven't read the novels. It is so unfair :/ |
| Based SAO with ryona now wew |
lazypigz said: caio_brb said: That's where I gotta call bs on that one. There was a line from the programmer dude in the episode where he said the only gun they ever held were polygons, implying that they haven't shot anything real outside of GGO.They aren't just a bunch of gamers. They're all militar people and just play VRMMORPG on GGO. .... Critter was talking about Vasago as he was discussing with him on this very episode and talking down on him, which Vasago is a beginner soldier and was a VRMMORPG player in the past. Also, Gabriel is literally a CEO of a company which is military and who does those kind of services. I'm not saying those things to you based on speculation, I'm saying this because I read the original and this was literally on today's episode. |
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