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simplechild	Oct 9 2014, 10:48 PM Post #641
My only feel is murder Posts: 12,119 Group: Fori Member #115 Joined: October 30, 2006 Gender: Burning Blog: What's All This, Then? Country: 'Nam. True Name: simplechild	Heathcliff is Kirito's BFF4lyfe so he doesn't count.



Jackal	Oct 10 2014, 04:12 PM Post #642
Come and Take It - Temple Tsundere Posts: 8,106 Group: Jupiter Clan Member #201 Joined: June 11, 2007 Gender: Male Blog: The Pharaoh's Tomb Country: #226# True Name: Jackal	So Simple, having seen SAO's Heathcliff, would you say he's bad news?



simplechild	Oct 10 2014, 04:49 PM Post #643
My only feel is murder Posts: 12,119 Group: Fori Member #115 Joined: October 30, 2006 Gender: Burning Blog: What's All This, Then? Country: 'Nam. True Name: simplechild	In what manner?



Jackal	Oct 14 2014, 08:26 PM Post #644
Come and Take It - Temple Tsundere Posts: 8,106 Group: Jupiter Clan Member #201 Joined: June 11, 2007 Gender: Male Blog: The Pharaoh's Tomb Country: #226# True Name: Jackal	In this manner, of course.



Phoenix7	Oct 16 2014, 02:28 AM Post #645
Odyssey, ya see~ Odyssey, ya see~ Posts: 30,101 Group: Merc-Yuri Clan Member #196 Joined: May 29, 2007 Gender: #225# Blog: #225# Country: #225# True Name: Peo!~	I just caught up on the last update. That ending. pls EDIT: Also Iunno, while the fighting choreography itself seems great from the stills/occasional gifs, things like the lack of a health bar hurt the scenes for me because it removes a sense of tension. Kind of like all style with no substance. also you know derp faces



simplechild	Oct 18 2014, 12:55 PM Post #646
My only feel is murder Posts: 12,119 Group: Fori Member #115 Joined: October 30, 2006 Gender: Burning Blog: What's All This, Then? Country: 'Nam. True Name: simplechild	Well Schmittles, now you know what Tonkii looks like. And wow. This episode. Why.



ShmittlesThePoe	Oct 18 2014, 02:03 PM Post #647
Pirate Wavemaster Posts: 10,690 Group: Clanless Member #375 Joined: September 18, 2008 Gender: XY Country: #226#	yaaaaaaaaay~ He's EVERYTHING I'd hoped he would be. Completely absurd. I'm thinking this show works better in a just-for-fun setting than the usual serious one.



simplechild	Jan 8 2015, 03:07 AM Post #648
My only feel is murder Posts: 12,119 Group: Fori Member #115 Joined: October 30, 2006 Gender: Burning Blog: What's All This, Then? Country: 'Nam. True Name: simplechild	Episode 14: One Little Step



Saturos	Jan 8 2015, 04:24 AM Post #649
heart-under-blade Posts: 36,354 Group: Iris Member #2 Joined: March 20, 2005 Gender: Male Country: #0# True Name: Saturos Theme Song: https://youtu.be/mh5vyvMGhqE	Excellent commentary as always, Simple. You do a great job of mixing the comedic reactions with thoughtful contextualization and critique of the themes, tying it to handling in different texts and addressing what the underlying issue is. Especially in this post's analysis of trauma, I get the same feeling as from scholarly articles, where even if I don't know the source material, the analysis is engaging and informative, feels tied to experience and real-world issues, and I can walk away feeling as if I learned something. I actually cringed at Kirito's "intervention" and gagged out an "oh my god" in a pained kind of way. Especially the "�It may hurt you, but I couldn�t just ignore you.�" line. Because again, it seems to be all about Kirito's egotism and Messiah complex rather than Sinon as an autonomous person. Incidentally, I actually found Penguindrum's handling of trauma to be also distasteful and heavy-handed, but not having seen SAO first-hand I can't speak to them comparatively so. I'm sure SAO was worse, but that was one of my main problems with Penguindrum as well.



Gilgamesh	Jan 8 2015, 05:34 AM Post #650
solbowz Aurarius Posts: 33,599 Group: Venus Clan Member #380 Joined: October 3, 2008 Gender: King of Heroes Blog: Shattered Symbosis Country: #226# True Name: Space Boyd Theme Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h6lFNXzC1g	Kirito going and telling people Sinon doesn't even know all about her past is [radio edit]ing creepy



Necare	Jan 8 2015, 05:40 AM Post #651
Fallen Angel Posts: 11,553 Group: Waffle Wizard Member #344 Joined: June 11, 2008 Gender: Sexist Blog: The Asylum Country: 404 True Name: Necare	Everything about this show is such utter garbage, holy shit.



UltaFlame	Jan 8 2015, 11:32 AM Post #652
Thanks Poui. Posts: 28,951 Group: Venus Clan Member #516 Joined: September 3, 2009 True Name: UltaFlame / V. Terennia	So many people are going to be struggling with a friend who has had a traumatic experience and are going to be inspired by this show to take action. And it will be horrible and backfire in 90% of the cases, or more. Rip.



Phoenix7	Jan 10 2015, 02:05 PM Post #653
Odyssey, ya see~ Odyssey, ya see~ Posts: 30,101 Group: Merc-Yuri Clan Member #196 Joined: May 29, 2007 Gender: #225# Blog: #225# Country: #225# True Name: Peo!~	I agree with Satty in that your assessment and analysis of trauma and how it should be displayed was very well written. The scary thing is that like Kirito, there was a time where I figured I could have fixed things for people and it's a shame the show doesn't try to make the audience realise how flawed this is, especially as it's an audience that could definitely benefit from some insight into handling mental illnesses and past traumas. Was the arc essentially trying to make me care for Kirito by showing how helpful he is to Shinon? Because I'm still not a fan of him.



Kiki	Jan 10 2015, 06:10 PM Post #654
Kiki Martius Chantico Posts: 16,455 Group: Mars Clan (wololo!) Member #101 Joined: September 23, 2006 Blog: error# Country: #226#	also that motorcycle is ridiculous.



simplechild	Feb 11 2015, 02:24 PM Post #655
My only feel is murder Posts: 12,119 Group: Fori Member #115 Joined: October 30, 2006 Gender: Burning Blog: What's All This, Then? Country: 'Nam. True Name: simplechild	Episodes 15-17: Caliburn This is more of my overall thoughts on the arc. Episode 18 will return to the regular format and should be up within an hour. EDIT: Episode 18: Forest House



Saturos	Feb 11 2015, 05:35 PM Post #656
heart-under-blade Posts: 36,354 Group: Iris Member #2 Joined: March 20, 2005 Gender: Male Country: #0# True Name: Saturos Theme Song: https://youtu.be/mh5vyvMGhqE	inb4SAO gits gud



simplechild	Feb 11 2015, 05:53 PM Post #657
My only feel is murder Posts: 12,119 Group: Fori Member #115 Joined: October 30, 2006 Gender: Burning Blog: What's All This, Then? Country: 'Nam. True Name: simplechild	pls no



ShmittlesThePoe	Feb 11 2015, 05:59 PM Post #658
Pirate Wavemaster Posts: 10,690 Group: Clanless Member #375 Joined: September 18, 2008 Gender: XY Country: #226#	on Caliburn... Yeah, it was pointless, but I honestly think I enjoyed it the most of any of the anime arcs. The way that the anime represents the source material just seems to lend itself better to this kind of care-free story imo. And besides, Tonki was even better than I ever imagined. ^_^ Though, there's a couple points I'd like to address as to why some things were the way they were (LN & next story "spoilers" I guess? whatever) -There was, in fact, a significant amount of set up for this Arc in the LN's version of the ALO arc. Kirito and Liefa got dragged down there on their way to the big tree and all that stuff that obligatory "flashback" stuff happened. -One "important" thing from this arc did carry on. Excalibur. It's used at least once more. Unfortunately, the chronological approach has, once again, undone a certain perception (or in this case, anticipation) that the light novels created, making this Calibur arc even more pointless than it already is. The upcoming Arc, Mother's Rosario came out before this Calibur arc. And in it, Kirito "first revealed" his Excalibur. It was an ultimately inconsequential detail, but was something of interest nonetheless. This, of course, built a kind of anticipation to seeing how it was acquired, and thus we have this Calibur arc that was created later. So in that sense, it did originally have more meaning. But yes, since the "foreshadowing" was completely skipped in the anime, and the "backshadowing" didn't happen due to the chronological approach, it was certainly pointless for the anime. on Ep 18... I rofl'd at "could only use 100% of his skill rather than 200%!"



Gilgamesh	Feb 11 2015, 08:46 PM Post #659
solbowz Aurarius Posts: 33,599 Group: Venus Clan Member #380 Joined: October 3, 2008 Gender: King of Heroes Blog: Shattered Symbosis Country: #226# True Name: Space Boyd Theme Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h6lFNXzC1g	I for one am perfectly okay with Excalibur not being relevant ever again also Kirito has to be quiet about sword guy to preserve his ~mysteriousness~



Kiki	Feb 11 2015, 08:51 PM Post #660
Kiki Martius Chantico Posts: 16,455 Group: Mars Clan (wololo!) Member #101 Joined: September 23, 2006 Blog: error# Country: #226#	I want to look at this but I am in public and don't want to get judged for having SAO on my screen... okay I don't care about anyone sitting behind me. yes.

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