Sword Art Online: Alicization - Episode 11 Discussion (Anime Only)
Episode 11: Central Cathedral
セントラル・カセドラル
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jtipt 66 points · Dec 2018
The walking stance of that 2nd guy seemed like the laughing coffin guy from the OP
amisamiamiam 4 points · Dec 2018 · Dual Blades
They look to me like the two dudes who Eugeo and Kirito just chopped up. I bet they are logging in.
banana12999ee 2 points · Dec 2018
Yooo what the fuck I didn’t think of this at all but I got a feeling your right, guess we’ll see
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Jahgreen 18 points · Dec 2018
Probably LC, the lab owner setup Kirito to get stabbed by the LC. This way Kirito had no choice but to stay throughout the experiment. That is my theory.
Ryuuji_Gremory 17 points · Dec 2018 · Asuna
But Kirito was already onboard with staying throughout the experiment out of his own free will, risking him getting actually killed, arriving brain dead in the hospital, would be kind of far too big a risk for basically no gain.
Nosiege 6 points · Dec 2018
Perhaps their plan was to see if the Medicuboid thing could fix neurological damage.
They've shown to have multiple plans running concurrently, and advancing their med tech with the best possible candidate could be seen as a safe test.
Ryuuji_Gremory 12 points · Dec 2018 · Asuna
That doesn't make much sense though, they could easily just find someone that already has neurological damage, maybe even someone from the army, you know a vet that was wounded, and try to heal him instead of deliberately causing neurological damage on Kirito and risking to kill him when he is a valuable asset.
The whole "we need someone that is accustomed to the virtual world" would be irrelevant to the healing process, it was only necessary to be able to live a natural second live in underworld which is clearly not what is happening to Kirito right now.
Also if they would go over corpses that easily for that little gain, without hesitation it doesn't make sense that Asuna is alive and well and treated as a guest, getting an explanation of the project instead of being locked away or even getting shot on sight for trespassing into a top secret military facility. It would be completely inconsistent.
Nosiege 3 points · Dec 2018
No it's not; it's clear they use the virtual world to stimulate the brain. Especially in a dangerous once they've created for the purpose of war robots.
Ryuuji_Gremory 6 points · Dec 2018 · Asuna
Yes it is irrelevant to the healing, you can be in the virtual world, the same way Kirito is right now, even if you aren't accustomed to it, it wouldn't make a difference.
They wanted Kirito specifically for the purpose of having him live a second childhood there as an inhabitant of Underworld, in that case the sense of discomfort that you might feel if you aren't accustomed might interfere with the experiment.
That experiment and the dive right now are completely different things, in the current dive it wouldn't matter if he wasn't accustomed, just like it didn't matter for the original 4 that spend over 18 years in Underworld raising the first inhabitants.
[deleted] 2 points · Dec 2018
maybe they wanted kirito because of what happened with Alice breaking the taboo index?
Ryuuji_Gremory 3 points · Dec 2018 · Asuna
But why would they risk killing him then ? he was already contracted to test dive for them and he would have had no qualms with doing it again, while he doesn't want to make the STL his future he wants to see what it is about.
Also to consider the whole project is based on the train of though that the lives of every single Japanese citizen, well he specifically said JSDF soldier but assuming that extends to the innocent people the JSDF is supposed to be protecting isn't a stretch, are of outmost importance to him and that they are worth thousands upon thousands of artificial Fluctlights, in other words actual human beings that just don't have a body of flesh and blood.
[deleted] 2 points · Dec 2018
because he could live in the underworld for more then 11 years at a time.
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Jahgreen 2 points · Dec 2018
Except there were parts Kirito had issues with. It alludes to it in the beginning when they were having the hush hush talks between himself and Asuna. Also Kirito might have mentioned the fact he was thinking of moving to America and they didn't want to lose him.
Ryuuji_Gremory 2 points · Dec 2018 · Asuna
Kirito is planning on going to America to study, he has no intention of just suddenly vanishing from japan.
He doesn't want to make the SLT his future, because he can feel Kayaba's influence in it, but he clearly states he does want to see what the whole thing is about, he wouldn't just leave halfway through his job that he already agreed to do.
Jahgreen 2 points · Dec 2018
Not the way I took that scene. I took the scene as he knows what SLT can do and wants to see if America has a viable alternative. I think Kirito senses greater risks when messing with the soul.
Ryuuji_Gremory 2 points · Dec 2018 · Asuna
No he straight up says he wants to see what's the STL is about but he doesn't want to make it his future because he think it's an extension of Kayaba's ambition and making that his life would feel like he was still dancing in his palm. Furthermore he thinks that there is more to the STL then just being a Full Dive interface and that it's years from being anywhere near viable for the average consumer. He also thinks the brain implant chip, that is being developed in America, will be the next gen Full Dive machine and therefore he wants to go and study there.
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BleedingUranium 8 points · Dec 2018 · Argo's Guide
Alice didn't break any taboos intentionally (she never got a seal warning or blew her eye out), therefore she's actually not what Rath is after. The only relevant person we know of is actually Eugeo.
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Crimsonavenger2000 2 points · Dec 2018
That actually is pretty well thought lol
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[deleted] 4 points · Dec 2018
Yes
Link2Sora 3 points · Dec 2018 · Lisbeth
I think it's possible but not likely that one of them is Anime (Ordinal Scale) Spoiler
i_demand_cats 3 points · Dec 2018
my first thought is that they are the 2 researchers who were in those slime monster bodies while asuna was attempting to escape from her yggdrasil prison in ALO
J-Carbonaro 3 points · Dec 2018
that would suck. I don't want to watch another flubby pink blob play with Asuna
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ThulianSlate 2 points · Dec 2018
I’m curious as to how you came to this conclusion
i_demand_cats 3 points · Dec 2018
just a feeling really, the cinematography of the situation made me feel like those two had a specific relationship with asuna in particular, that said they could just be two new characters that will be explained later but somehow i doubt they dont at least have some familiar background
behnow5 2 points · Dec 2018
Didn't one or both of them go down with sugou though?
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