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I also watched the new season of SAO and it was pretty much just what I expected it would be. There were however some decent fight scenes, particularly one near the start with Bercoli, the art work for it was incredible compared to anything else in the season (or any of the others for that matter). I think there was another fight scene later that had similar treatment but it wasn't as cool. They did announce that they're rebooting the SAO anime though which is pretty cool, I'm pretty sure I left a post on here a few months back hoping that they would.
The first half of Alicization is so good and the last half is so bad. Everything after defeating the Administrator is so overworked and goofy. By the end, they aren't even using system calls or anything within a "game" framework they just "feel things." I was really turned off by the heavy weird fan service with for some reason yet again more rape. There is a lot of things I like in SAO and I enjoy the series most of the time but the last 1/3rd of every season tries to incorporate the B & C side casts by shoving the female characters into dubious situations and often with the threat of rape. It's lazy and disrespectful given that they constantly try to have strong female characters in the show. Which it could have been avoided if we did have to magic everyone from every season into the final showdown.