Sword Art Online

[Reat]

^^Tsundere is a women-only double standard. Men who have the personality of alternating between loving and violent anger are called domestic abusers. Women are psychotic enough as is, I really don't need one that is extra illogical.

[kargarus]

Originally Posted by Reat

Women are psychotic enough as is, I really don't need one that is extra illogical.

I think a tsundere would at least be more predictable. 'Hmm, I wonder what mood she'll be in today...?', an equal chance of either...

[Viduus]

Originally Posted by Nihatclodra

also, why do I feel like the lone Tsundere lover that never gets tired of it; on every website I go on, and in real life?

It really depends on the series for me. Some of them are super annoying, but some are alright.

[vernanonix]

Originally Posted by roriconfan

Since SAO is written by the same guy who wrote Accel World, the in-game speed of time is indeed a strong possibility.

Also, character rewrite once again. Remember when Kirito went to all the trouble to capture and teleport thieves to prison? Now he does shit when he faces murderers.

And I am sure Asuna was not tsundere in the second episode.

Spoilers, mate.

Kirito also flexed his excessive defenses against those other PKers. He knew they wouldn't be able to beat him. Notice how he also bluffed about having 30 reinforcements coming too. Laughing Coffin must be a strong bunch if he didn't want direct confrontation.

And we barely got a chance to know Asuna in the second episode. And either way, they've been in the world for almost 2 years at this point. No doubt her personality could change.

[hoffstyle]

I think it's pretty obvious with Asuna

She developed into more of a stronger/forceful personality from the first time they met until now. She took his advice literally and ran with it.

[Naga]

Originally Posted by vernanonix

Kirito also flexed his excessive defenses against those other PKers. He knew they wouldn't be able to beat him. Notice how he also bluffed about having 30 reinforcements coming too. Laughing Coffin must be a strong bunch if he didn't want direct confrontation.

But they didn´t come... which means that he could be bullshiting. And I have a feeling that he could take them on by himself... without breaking a sweat...

[valondar]

Episode 6

Good episode. Clever and satisfying reveal of that builds naturally on game mechanics. And also:

Originally Posted by hoffstyle

this is the moment Asuna and Kirito solidified their relationship. It's only leading to a more meaningful partnership so far as I can tell.

Yeah. The Kirito/Asuna stuff really clicked here. The show's pairing of Kirito and X girl can be a little mixed in quality - the loli girl was bad, and many have pointed out that Sachiko's arc was very sudden - but this relationship is one of the more natural feeling. Asuna's learned a lot from Kirito's experience in the game, but Kirito still has a fair bit of social ineptitude and plain inability to talk to women (his bumblng, defensive answer about marriage at the end of the episode for example).

I would like to see more of her guild dynamics but don't I say that every week? Ah well. Can't have it all.

Originally Posted by Reat

- Grimlock gets carried off in the sunset while soft music plays and everyone is smiling. WTF? I thought he'd get murdered on the spot.

Yeah fuck that. A few episodes back we had Kirito say that he'd be able to live with the penalty of an orange name because he's largely a solo player, so there clearly was an out here where they could kill the still-green named Grimlock.

Grimlock's creepy posessiveness of his wife was nicely done and it was good to see Asuna call him out on it, but you don't just carry him off into the goddamn sunset as if he'd just had a bad day.

I'm more okay with Kirito letting the PKs go (although since they are PKers they are pretty much the definition of a legitimate target) because I think in this case he was bluffing. If these PKers could instantly paralyze a member of a top raiding guild, no matter how stupid he is, they may have been too much for Kirito to handle alone.

Originally Posted by Aranneas

Visual confirmation that it's spelled 'Yolko'. Like eggs. But the subbers haven't changed their tune yet. >.>

Subbers can be reluctant to do that for a number of reasons - sometimes the use of Latin characters in-show can be an obvious error, for example. Interested me that a MMO made by a Japanese company (in presumably their Japan-focused release as opposed to any subsequent European or American releases) is using the Latin alphabet, though.

Originally Posted by Ryukl

Two new theories. First, what if going to SAO actually has a time difference. What if an entire week in SAO is actually not that long in real life which is why we don't learn about how they're being kept alive in the real world and we're only left to speculate?

We don't learn about it because the show's perspective is solely that of players, who are ignorant of the outside world. I doubt the game has subjective time for the rather simple reason that subjective time doesn't really work (no, Inception, dreams do not work that way).

I think we can just assume there's a ton of gamers hooked up on intravenous tubes and a manhunt for the presumably elusive game creator. I really don't think anything we've seen since the first episode suggests that what he said isn't true.

Originally Posted by Reat

As far as the ghost thing, it may just be the image of the player who died is stored at the gravestone.

Originally Posted by sortitus

It's possible that the GM is playing a more active role in some of the events in the game, especially if they are of significance to the players. He may have a huge god complex, but that doesn't mean that he wouldn't try to make the experience more interesting within his power to do so without altering running code. In fact, the god complex strengthens that kind of theory. The avatar data may not be purged when someone dies (and we know that nothing must happen for at least 8 seconds after their apparent death), so he could probably use their image to create a scene like that.

I'd assume Griselda's appearance was one of the above, and had surmised it was basially sortitus' theory when watching it (which in Multiplayer RPGs terms would be uh, more Neverwinter Nights than World of Warcraft) but Reat also makes sense.

The 8 second resurrection item is probably the strongest argument that something is different from what the GM said, but it's a paper boat at best.

I don't think that contradicts him at all. I'd just assume that the game disconnects you when you're 'killed', and eight seconds later (or slightly longer like say ten seconds) it stops your brain functioning.

[Fargo]

Episode 6

I like how the show informs us of game mechanics without it seeming like info-dumping and how it's pacing Kirito and Asuna's relationship.
But please, get back to some action. We know this show can animate a great fight, let's see more of that!

[sortitus]

To clarify on my statement about Asuna, I don't think she really showed much sign of being tsundere in episode 6. My opinion on her status was mostly formed by the way she's shown in the opening credits and episode 2. She hasn't shown any sign of sticking to the extremes of any one character type though, so I'm still hopeful that she'll have a nuanced, realistic personality. I don't mind personalities being taken to the extreme at times (especially in comedy), but SAO doesn't seem to be setting itself up for the easy path. I'll be disappointed if the careful setup goes down the drain in a paper fan fest.

How is it known that it has been two years? I didn't notice any sort of indication in the episodes I've seen other than a Christmas passing. Well, and the levels keep getting higher, but I don't know the curve there. Is it information from other media?

[Fargo]

Originally Posted by roriconfan

It was very crude infodumping. They talked about things they already know in the previous episode.

I was referring to the marriage thing and that led into Kirito solving the Grimdark case, so that was at least integrated into the episode's plot and not just info to add context and to keep in mind for the rest of the series.

And aside from that, well, it doesn't feel that overwhelming like Accel World's was, so I guess it takes away from the "dumping" part, for me at least.