01-02-2014, 07:46 PM | #276 |
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SAO Extra Edition:
Don't watch it. Seriously. Wasted 100 minutes of my life on this shit. |
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Out of curiosity, George, do/did you plan to watch SAO II?
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01-03-2014, 07:54 AM | #278 | |
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Probably gonna watch SAO II, although I might have to drop it if it follows the same kind of themes the first one did. |
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01-07-2014, 05:25 PM | #279 |
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General disclaimer: spoilers for SAO's first two story arcs follow.
Tried to watch Extra Edition. Got as far as the start of the first bit of recap (the part where Kayaba Akihiko is addressing the players gathered in the circle on the first floor) where I paused the episode. Came back to the episode half an hour later. Decided to skip around and see what all was happening. Glimpsed Kirito's adventure with Silica. Glimpsed his duel with what's-his-name in the colosseum. Glimpsed present-day Kirito being emo. Skipped really far ahead. Glimpsed Klein acting like a fool saying "I'M COMING, MERMAID GIRL!" Saw Kirito talking to an old man under the sea. Glimpsed everybody up in the sky looking at the sunset and/or the backs of each others' heads. Glimpsed the ending credits. Yeaaaaaaaaaah ... I don't think I can stomach watching this. ^^; For one, you have to really love Sword Art Online to want to sit through a 2-hour recap of it. For a second, even the non-recap bits were really bothering me. Hammy dialogue. Hammy fanservice. Lazily transparent fanservice. (Like, they don't even bother to try hiding that that's what the locker room scene is.) And all of this obsessive focus on Shounen Jesus, Kirigaya Kazuto, where this dumb little fourteen or fifteen-year old is treated like he's Merlin living in the modern age and thus a matter of national security that even the Prime Minister wants tabs kept on. Oh come on. This is ridiculous. If I can't stomach Extra Edition, I'm pretty confident I won't be able to stomach SAO II.
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06-20-2014, 02:00 AM | #280 |
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Oh you guys. I enjoyed SAO and Fairy Dance arcs. I could stomach the Special. You do have to like the series to take it :P
I look forward to Gun Gale Online. Comes out near my birthday. oh yeah......today I got something to make you hate me. pulled from a box Spoiler: show
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Only Vanguard card I have is a Circle Magus, so it's not much anyway. Congrats on pulling that out. I'm probably going to watch SAO II, even if it's sort of carppy to many of you. Fanservice why not? *shot* |
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07-05-2014, 01:02 PM | #282 |
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OH SHIT! IT'S FUCKING TIME FOR SAO II! I think this will be worthy of a type-as-I-watch post!
SAO II episode 1 spoilers: Spoiler: show Not that much to really knock on so far. Sadly I had to resort to nitpicking. I'm sure the prime beef will pile in soon though! |
07-12-2014, 01:37 PM | #285 |
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IT'S SATURDAY BITCHES! YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS?! SAO TIME!
SAO II episode 2 spoilers Spoiler: show Eh....not much to poke fun at. This week's episode actually wasn't bad. I mean the whole "GAMES ARE SERIOUS BUSINESS!" was silly as always, but outside of silly nitpicking, no complaints. |
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omg this is back?
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07-27-2014, 09:44 PM | #287 |
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What is wrong with everyone?! WHY ISN'T EVERYONE WORSHIPING THE SEQUEL TO THE BEST ANIME EVER?! I understand everyone's disappointment though. I sure have been disappointed. So far, season 2 hasn't been bad. It has its dumb head-turning moments, but not much to make fun of. Actually season 2 has been kind of entertaining so far.
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08-02-2014, 08:29 PM | #289 |
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SAO II Episode 5 ending :OOO
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I'm going to drop in, state that I didn't see episode five's reveal coming, and leave. Ciao!
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08-23-2014, 12:41 PM | #291 |
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One of the better newer animes I have watched.
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08-23-2014, 05:58 PM | #292 |
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So, you know how nobody picked this up because of how abysmal the original SAO was? Yeah you should've picked it up. This isn't the best show of the new season, but this is the show that I probably look forward to the most when it comes to airing. It might just be because I'm into eSports but for me this is a million times better than SAO ever was. Sure it has its annoying moments with Kirito still pretending to be a fucking girl at times, but I can easily look over that. Honestly, its turned out to be a good show. Its very different to the first series, the only character from the first series properly remaining being Kirito. Thats right lonely spotty weeaboos, no Asuna waifu bait for you guys.
I also feel like the show is a lot more closely tied to what a gamers IRL life would be like. There's a fair bit of focus on psychological problems, especially when it comes to Sinon, the main female lead. There's also (not really spoiling anything) that photo of Zexceed that shows that he has an unhealthy stature and pale skin, yet in the game he can be his arrogant 'best player in GGO' self, although we only get a glimpse of that. Still, its much more believable than it was in SAO. Maybe its due to the switch from a lighthearted MMO to a hardcore eSport level game, but its just way more believable. Tl;Dr: SAO 2 is actually good. Much much better than the original. Watch it! |
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I've still been watching this. I lost most of my enthusiasm for the whole "type as I watch" post. SAO II actually isn't bad, so it's difficult to come up with ways to mock it if there isn't that much to mock. Though that craptastic episode 7 would have been perfect for one.
Also the lost harem focus really helped things. That was the worst parts about SAO and Accel World, so that being removed gives the show a few points. Of course I'm not saying season 2 is great or anything, but I'm still entertained enough to feel like I'm not wasting my time. |
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The 2nd half of episode 13 was painful to watch.
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10-20-2014, 09:08 PM | #295 |
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It seems this arc in SAO II is over. Overall, it was a decent arc. Not really good, but it wasn't as brain-killingly stupid as the first season...atleast not until the last few episodes of the arc and some of the drama episodes. Reki really knows how to write villains, doesn't he? It's like he is intune with the troubles of other twisted people, and can write a touching and well thought out story about them! Totally not sarcasm or anything!
For the first episode in part II...oh dear lord. It's like a 5 year old is trying to write a fantasy story. "The moon has a bleeding crystal that you must obtain to open the door of amazon. That door leads to a labyrinth that is filled with gremlins from the evil cactus of Eldorado. You must kill the evil cactus and restore peace to the world. In doing so, the king's magic goose will shit the sword of ultimate power and you can be the new king!" Some shit like this. |
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02-17-2015, 11:53 PM | #297 |
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So after discussing what to watch, Swift and I have decided we're gonna try to watch this at the same time. At first we were just gonna watch Space Dandy since we knew 100% we'd both enjoy it, but we decided we're just gonna wait until Spring Break / Summer / Whenever we can just marathon through it. We've settled on SAO because I, and probably him too, want to just be able to make my own opinion on it since everything I see ranges from "It's fantastic" to "It's terrible". And secondly, a few people from our school have watched it, and one in particular won't shut up about it. I dunno if Swift'll be interested in posting his thoughts on each episode, but I'm definitely going to try to go over this somewhat critically but not without mentioning if I at least enjoy it without looking into it too much, if that makes any sense.
Episode 1: Spoiler: show
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02-18-2015, 12:06 AM | #298 |
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Will you two be watching Log Horizon as well? It's similar at the basal level (trapped in a 'modern' MMORPG, as opposed to .hack) but has a completely different plot trajectory.
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02-18-2015, 12:13 AM | #299 |
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Yeah I plan on watching it sometime, and I could probably get Swift to watch it with me when I do. Probably gonna be looking forward to it a bit more because I've generally heard more unanimously positive reviews for it, and a guy who's blog/yt I've been following for a while speaks pretty highly of it. It's trajectory probably leans more towards my tastes as well, a bit more so than SAO's.
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We got on Skype and talked through Episode 2 before heading to bed. Since we'll probably use Skype Voice Chatting to watch most of this, I'm probably gonna try to find someway to record it since idk we can be amusing sometimes I guess.
Spoiler: show
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