[ SECRET POST #3119 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3119 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Series that had potential, but...

[ketita]

Wow I hatewatched ALL of SAO for exactly that reason, and every week wrote an angry reaction to the episode. It was SO frustrating, and it ended up such garbage...

Re: Series that had potential, but...

[(Anonymous)]

I only recently watched the second season - err, the fairy video game one, though Netflix tells me that it's still the first season. I had previously given up like two episodes into it because of the dumb, but was lol-watching it with a friend.

Seriously, why does that second part even exist. omg it makes no sense. And they took harem to a whole new level when they had even his sister crumble and fall in love with him. Just gross. Not to mention whatever potential Asuna had (which was there, but rocky) was annihilated when she was literally the quest reward.

It made me even more mad, because there was no reason why the concept of the first part couldn't have been stretched out to one longer season, or even a few seasons. Arghhhh. If it had been me, I would've taken that concept but... changed like every character and everything that happened actually within it.

Re: Series that had potential, but...

[ketita]

Half the reason I survived SAO until the end was because it kept getting worse. Every time I thought it had reached rock-bottom, it GOT WORSE.
I mean, the sister arc. The tentacles. Asuna being in a literal birdcage. The weird apologism for the nutcase who got them all stuck in the game in the first place. The bizarre fact that after all the characters were forced to look like the players irl, apparently all the high-level guild leaders are actual old geezers.

Seriously, I have a rant for every single aspect of that show.
Oh, and fucking godmodded Kirito.

It didn't have to be trash. It could have been reasonable. It was pretty enough. DISAPPOINTMENT.

Re: Series that had potential, but...

[(Anonymous)]

I just... can't think of anything redeemable about the second season. Why would Kirito want to go back into the game? Wouldn't that be terrifying? If they had done it in a way where he can't handle real life and needs to keep being a video game hero, that might've had some potential, but instead they made Asuna into, idk, damsel in distress doesn't even cut it. They took away any personality she may have had, basically had her raped, and tentacle raped, and do nothing.

The first season was not as horrifying but more just constantly disappointing and awkward. The antagonist didn't even get a chance to be developed so the weird apology and nostalgia at the end was really wtf. I think it would've been more interesting to not know what everyone actually looked like, and had their appearances changed to their "real" selves at the end. Would've been awesome to find out one of the tall, strong looking tough guild leader type guys was an eleven-year-old or something.

Kirito was godmodded, but mostly it was like everyone was pretty useless except for him. And sort of Asuna, but anytime the show let her get too tough, she's put back down in her place. Or stuck in a birdhouse.

Re: Series that had potential, but...

[flipthefrog.livejournal.com]

popping in as someone who only read the light novels:

the sister complex was 100% original to the source materials. so was the tentacles and the Kayaba apologism and the birdcage Asuna. As far as I can remember, though, the guildies were not all old dudes.

don't know if this makes it better or worse, but the Gun Gale Online bits were pretty damn fun if you have a high tolerance for "kirito is amazing and can beat up high-level gun users using only lightsabers" which I did. Don't know if that made it into the anime ever.

Re: Series that had potential, but...

[ketita]

Huh, interesting.
The problem is that the anime made me hate Kirito's stupid smug godmodded ass so much that the only thing I'd want to watch him starring in is something where he gets beaten up and fed a big slice of humble pie, and not a single girl even looks his way...

Re: Series that had potential, but...

[(Anonymous)]

Agreed, though mostly I didn't hate Kirito, he didn't have enough personality one way or the other to feel strongly about, imo. It was how every female character crumbled around him and fell madly in love, that was what really destroyed the show for me. Kirito might've better been off experiencing unrequited love himself, to balance things a bit.