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SAO Alicization going in a bit of a weird direction with the two most recent episodes. It's not really that it's done anything bad yet, but more like it's raising a ton of red flags. Don't think I'm totally on board as of now.

In particular, I don't think that an insane AI who has given themself admin privileges makes for a particularly compelling villain, at least as a kneejerk reaction. Seems like we're moving a bit too far into the sci-fi aspects and away from the fantasy ones. I'm also not sure this totally works with the themes of AI's refusing to break the rules or whatever, but we'll see I guess. Also the fact that they introduced this crazy AI in nearly the same episode as they introduced robotic bodies to house AI's in the real world is a bit...suggestive that the plot is going in a direction I won't care for. Hopefully I'm either wrong or the execution is better than I'm anticipating though.

Also on a (hopefully) unrelated note, I already know I'm going to hate whoever those shady looking guys are that Asuna ran into.

Also I'm really going to miss the two cute kouhai who have most likely been written out of the story :(

Edit: Though, I guess SAO has never had really compelling villains and has still sometimes been good anyway. Maybe I'm overreacting here.
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Oh woops. Putting Advokaiser in my sig like this until I think of something more clever