dragoongfa said:
Calm down and repeat after me:
SAO should not be taken seriously because SAO is terribly written from start to finish. SAO gets so much attention only because it was the first breakaway of the new 'gamer world' trope.
.Hack would like to have a word with you. He just spent the day with Grandpa
Tron.
Sword Art Online is... not intelligent. And if that were all, it'd be instantly forgotten and there wouldn't be much to discuss. But it goes far beyond just being stupid and pretentious. It's downright revolting.
Why is it that when one villain has murdered 4,000 people, unlawfully imprisoned 10,000, and left countless more scarred for life, the show tries to pretend that this guy is some great hero and the main character idolizes him? But when we have an idiot goofball of a villain who's most hated for touching a girl inappropriately in a
VIRTUAL SIMULATION with the settings deactivating her sense of touch, the show and the main character consider this guy to be the worst scum in the universe. Something's not right here. And indeed, a lot of people have fallen for this propaganda. You wouldn't believe how many times I've seen people who honestly believe that Kayaba (who's pretty much the animé equivalent of Osama Bin Laden) is a great and heroic man, yet believe Sugou is the greater evil? At least he went out of his way to prevent trauma from his (tremendously less) prisioners by keeping them unconscious and didn't kill anyone. That doesn't make him a good person at all. But when someone's trying to say that the mass murderer is heroic, while this guy is far more evil, there's something seriously wrong with them.
I remember someone screaming their head off at me for daring to say that Kayaba was the greater evil. He even went on to say that "at least Kayaba didn't try to kill Kirito." Why, you're absolutely right! Kayaba didn't try to kill Kirito. He
DID kill Kirito, who then miraculously came back to life with no explanation whatsoever. His waifu, too.
Speaking of which, this Asuna brat is disgusting. People call her a tsundere, but that isn't true at all. A tsundere starts out hating someone, but then grows to admire them completely later. Asuna just darts back and forth with a multi-personality disorder. She actually switches personalities at the drop of a hat. Actually, a lot of characters do that. But what makes her so much worse are three things...
One... She explains that she maxed out her cooking skill, and that's something virtually no one has been able to accomplish, meaning she's been neglecting her life or death duties constantly to make pixelated goodies for her own amusement. If she's so much more focused on making fake food than people who
DON'T actually have the duties of protecting people's lives every day, she's already a horrible enough person as it is. But it gets worse.
Two... With no provocation whatsoever, she
strips right in front of Kirito... and a bunch of large open windows. The multiple giant implications of this are just horrifying and suggests a lot of creepy things about the life choices of her past.
Three... When Kirito says that he doesn't want to have sex with someone he doesn't know that well and isn't married to, how does she respond? Why, with domestic abuse, of course! Yep! She actually does this several times. She'll beat him up for no reason, even when she's the one at fault here. She will actually use physical violence against someone who has not wronged her in any way. She's a psychopath.
But Kirito's also a psychopath. After all, he did torture Sugou. Oh... oh, some of you don't remember that? Well, then, allow me to refresh your memory... First, he somehow logged into an admin account on ALO, which makes one wonder why he didn't just do that a long time ago, where he got it from, and how logging in under Kayaba's username should have any effect on a game he had nothing to do with (it's like logging in as Shigeru Miyamoto on
Dota 2 and expecting to have administion rights), which he then uses to turn the pain sensor to zero, so every strike deals the exact kind of pain it would in real life (even though we were already told these helmets were recalled because they had the capacity to cause pain and kill people). And what does he do with this? Why, he chops the dude's hand off, slices him in half, throws what's left of him in the air, and then proceeds to stab him straight through his head while triumphant and heroic music plays in the background. Sugou was a bad person... but he did
NOT deserve to endure something this horrific. And when the story goes back to the real world, you actually get to see just how messed up his real body is after Kirito tortured him like that. You know what we call these types of characters? Characters that lose all humanity and do what Kirito just did? We call them "yangires"... we call them "sadists"... we call them "psychopaths"... we call them "barbarians"... we call them "evil". What Kirito did to that guy makes him lose all sympathy. He could've just knocked him away with his Kirito powers, but no... he had to toy with the guy... play with him... cut him to shreds. Meanwhile, Kirito goes on about what an amazing person the guy who murdered 4,000 people (including Kirito himself, before resurrecting for no reason) is. What a despicable scumbag. I have more respect for Light Yagami and Makoto Itou; two protagonists who are
supposed to be despicable and unlikable!
There's also the fact that Kirito is so lazy, doing nothing and getting all kinds of rewards and being praised for doing absolutely nothing. That whole "duel-wielding" scenario is a prime example of this. And let's not forget the "fight" scene where seven guys try to attack him all at once and he just stands there because he somehow got
regenerating health that's so good that it recharges faster than they can cut it down. (And this never comes up again, nor was it even important to the sub-plot at hand.) This is the same guy who destroyed a blacksmith's weapon and then demanded that he forge him an extra sword that he doesn't need. And then she gets a crush on him in about eight hours because (and I quote) "the warmth of his hand is so real!" This is the same guy who was faced with accusations about withholding information about the game's beta build and leaving someone to die, even though the beta build was different at it wasn't his fault, he still actively went out of his way to make everyone believe he was the one responsible for the poor player's death... and then everyone loves him. This is also the same guy who already had a girlfriend, but told his own
cousin that he is actually considering a romantic relationship with her.
Kirito is a much more vile than Sugou could ever be.