Quote Originally Posted by Buffalobiian View Post
I'm not in agreement with Ryll here. Episode 2 showed how Kirito made a name for himself as well as the general "frontline beta" category Beater. Episode 3 showed how being Kirito/beater is perceived negatively by the lower ranking players, while episode 4 showed being in such a class reflects positively (accepting requests, helping people get important items when they need them).
Yeah, and none of that translates to knowing anything about Kirito, and in what way or even if he's changed.

Episode 4: After we found out his reason for helping her was different that what he claimed (she was just bait anyway), we honestly don't know if he was giving her saying anything true, or if it was just a complete line of crap, only saying it for the benefit of his true prey to drop their guard a bit.

Episode 3: Like you said, he clearly wasn't too traumatized by all of them getting slaughtered on his watch and the last committing suicide, since he just picked up and carried on. I suppose he was a bit more cautious this time, but on the other hand...all of the guild members had warp crystals too, they just got blocked from using them by the trap. So again, nothing really changed there after all. He's no more or less cautious with his party members than he was before. He's just an even higher level.

Episode 2: All in all, it's really not any different from episode 1. He still runs off to do his own thing. He refused the offer to play along as a team member in favor of bum rushing to the quick leveling spots in the first episode, and he did the same thing here. The only difference is he told people that is what he was going to do, instead of slinking off. You can't really call that any sort of character development.

Name anything that's changed from the first episode about Kirito. He's still selfishly running about, taking pride in the fact that he's stronger/smarter than basically anyone else, using limited-release knowledge for his own ends, and occasionally helping noobs, but refusing to put any trust in them. It's been four episodes, it's still the same information you could glean from the first episode.