Sword Art Online Alicization Episode 20 Review
Kirito and Alice are finally back inside the tower after far too many episodes hanging off the edge. Amazingly enough they didn’t even make us watch the final stretch we got to actually just be at the top with Alice realising that Kirito had carried her the rest of the way. But, no time to rest because they need to track down Eugeo.
Through a bit of magic they track down the sword and find the leader of the knights but no Eugeo. I think the bit with the knight turning into stone was meant to be emotional but honestly we barely knew the guy and he didn’t leave much impact other than yet another obstacle so this was mostly just an on the way to the actual final act.
They then go to the senate and act all shocked by the horror of how people are treated by the administrator, bit late now really to be worried about that. Then Alice and Kirito find the clown guy, they all babble a bit, the clown explodes, only doesn’t, and runs away leading them to… Well, we found Eugeo.
I’m just going to point out, I really like Eugeo’s new look. It is definitely working for him. Now, do I think he has a chance of beating Kirito in this fight? Not really. Do I really get why Eugeo wants to fight Kirito other than generic brainwashing motivation? Nope. And why isn’t Alice getting involved if they really want to stop the Administrator because surely it would make more sense to dump Eugeo on his backside and go actually do the thing they need to do and then deal with it later, but hey, I’m pretty sure we’ve all wanted to see a serious Eugeo vs Kirito moment so logic be gone because we’re getting that fight. Also a tease about Kirito dual wielding again before that got snatched away from us.
Honestly, this episode progresses things along. I’m not really sold on Alicization and how this story is rolling out or its pacing, but this episode was fairly competent and had enough interesting moments in it. Plus, did I mention they set up a fight between Eugeo and Kirito? That on its own might be worth the price of admission (watching twenty episodes to get here) if they don’t exposition us to death mid-fight, have some silly interruption before they get serious, or unless Kirito just beats Eugeo down in one swing. In which case it would all be a fairly pointless build up to nothing.
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If you never read the light novels, Karandi, then trust me: it’s going to get better. I’m talking “Game of Thrones” level wars in the future
The ‘it’s going to get better’ argument which has been thrown around Alicization since the beginning is starting to seem a little weak given we’re now 20 episodes in. Very little has been achieved and the number of really interesting moments have been few and far between in 20 episodes. If it wasn’t for a general nostalgia toward SAO and Kirito at this point I doubt I’d still be watching. Even if it does ‘get better’ in future episodes I doubt I’ll recommend this when I review it given I’m not sure this many episodes of lead in can really be justified when they just aren’t that interesting on their own.
“Also a tease about Kirito dual wielding again before that got snatched away from us.”
Literally snatched! 🙂
It was a cool moment for Eugeo (though reminded me heavily of Star Wars with a Jedi grabbing his light saber), but it kind of took away any hope of Kirito dual wielding any time soon.
I missed ONE episode due to our cable/net being this “new better” crud and I’m lost. Oi!