Posted 23 August 2012 - 01:15 PM
It'd probably end up being better written.
I skimmed again to relive what I found upsetting, because it ends up just making the show look incredibly stupid every now and again, so... Spoilers ahead:
The red haired guy said he lived alone, and two years later, he hasn't starved to death. Maybe they somehow found him, even though all of his friends were in the game, too, but plenty of people must have starved to death, something the GM didn't seem to take into account.
When the blue Knight guy, Biebel or something, dies, he has time to talk, and he's not taking damage, then dies. All the while, he refuses a healing potion. Something that can't possibly be that expensive, and would rather die than eat twenty of someone's gold.
The information broker, with the cat face... had a cat face. It acted like a player, and didn't know about a new event like all other players. But it had a cat face. Right in the beginning, they removed all customization, but somehow got a catface again.
Holy Dragon Alliance is made out as an evil group when first seen, willing to do anything for a rare item. Then they're the good guys of the front line right afterwards.
During the murder exploring, and after the murders were exposed fake, it hit me that they didn't show the teleport effect with the item breaking effect, thus making it so the viewer can't think there was anything strange, as well as pooping on their own lore, since teleporting requires calling out the town's name as well shown earlier.
The main characters somehow saw a ghost in a video game. Couldn't have been a real person, because her husband apparently killed her and would have known by the inventory becoming his.
And the worst part:
In six episodes, it's been two years. Two. Years. By then, authorities would have traced the signal, found the servers, and forced everyone to disconnect by turning off the game. Or unplugged the headset and wait for its battery to die out. Or even just open it up and remove the battery itself, both of which would make it impossible to microwave brain. And the guy in charge could have been forced to release them all as well!
In two years, the outside world did nothing intelligent.
With Dot Hack, at least it's isolated incidents written off as bugs that detached people from their body entirely, not something someone had actually designed and could be stopped in the real world by simply making the helmet unable to microwave.
EJRaven, on 01 April 2013 - 09:12 PM, said: