![]() Characters from the main series like Kirito, Asuna, and Shino are nowhere to be found in this series and aren't even mentioned beyond the effects the SAO Incident had on the world. Regardless of one's personal opinions or beliefs regarding the intentions behind this show, GGO Alternative was created to be wholly new entry-point into the SAO universe. Granted, I might just not see the parody this show was trying to pull off because I don't get the thing it was trying to parody in the first place. Interesting as that second notion might be, I'm not wholly convinced of it since that just sounds like little more than an excuse to make up for an inherently flawed idea. In other words, this argument believes that the author intentionally made a terrible story built around a nonsense game and premise just to lampoon the first series at its own expense. The second camp, however, essentially argues that GGO is a masterful work of parody. Full-to-bursting with plot armor, contrivances, and batshit insane game design, this show gave way to the same lazy writing that put the main franchise in the ground for so many people. The first and one that I more connect with is the feeling that this show is no better than the original. Rather than being the "savior of the SAO franchise," I've noticed that GGO has mainly gotten two kinds of responses from its audience. By all rights, GGO should have been something of a fresh start or a hook to pull a new audience into the original SAO if things went well with this series. Half the initial appeal of this show, for me and many others, was that it was written by the author of Kino's Journey, thus removing the worry that this show would fall to the same, awful writing the main series has suffered for years now. One in which I can't even get a spin-off series that is only loosely connected to the main franchise and is meant to be perfectly ingestible on its own. So, what we end up with is a show with lazy writing and no actual thought put into making the setting to make it engaging or something we, ourselves, might want to escape to.įocusing in on the actual show I'm reviewing today, though, I find myself in a similar situation. As a series about games, however, it's generally well-known that everything on that level is absolute nonsense full of convenient contrivances and, as I understand it, literal deus ex machinas that make the impossible possible for Kirito. With the series as a whole, I've been lead to understand that the main push of the franchise is watching Kirito be a badass and have all the chicks crush on him because he's meant to serve as wish fulfillment for the audience. Put bluntly, I don't know if it's me or the series itself, but I just don't get SAO as a franchise. That was my opinion before watching this spin-off series and that opinion has still not changed. it’s interesting to look into.Review: While I'm fairly certain that I haven't been keeping this fact a secret from anyone, I'll just outright state, here and now, that I have never watched the main SAO franchise and have no intention of ever doing so. one could make the connection that in new alo, asuna can relax with her husband, child and friends without as much need for aggression and less danger. blue is (like stated above) used to represent more calm, serene emotions. red may be used to symbolise passion, anger and aggression as well as danger and adventure. it could also be interesting to note asuna’s switch from her typical red attire (sao, original alo) to a blue avatar (new alo). Just something i noticed rewatching the fairy dance arc. he may also be attempting to somewhat rebel from his family, given that he feels so detached from them (rebellion and authority). kazuto now feels like he doesn’t know who he is or who his family are (mystery), has found out his biological parents died (death and mourning), and now has to be stronger emotionally to cope with the news (strength). however, black is also associated with power, fear, mystery, strength, authority, elegance, formality, death, evil, and aggression, authority, rebellion, and sophistication. ![]() therefore, it has strong associations with death. this is when we (chronologically) first see kirito is a dark outfit.īlack is a colour traditionally worn when one is in mourning. everything in his room has taken on a grayscale hue, with the only colours coming from the images on his monitor (screenshots and/or streams of sword art online). this time, he’s wearing a gray hoodie and black pants, and his blue bedset is now a dark gray colour, as are his previously blue curtains. In these shots, we see kazuto again, a few years older.
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