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I always faulted SAO on pacing issues, resulting in an obviously rushed segment followed by filler.

There's a deeper understanding of the tech behind SAO that is lost on a lot of poeple, but fans of Serial Experiments Lain would probably see it. The whole mind body connection, and the obvious what is real issue presented by SAO's scenario.

ALO arc had even more going for it, since it finally developed the characters some outside the games- but also turns poor Asuna into a cheap plot device instead of the headstrong I don't need to be saved girl she was in the first arc.

GGO arc was interesting, but seemed like it was grasping for content at points and wasn't as easily understood. I kind of lost interest partway through and only barely finished it.

To date I have not yet seen the 4th arc of SAO, because GGO kind of killed it. Sinon was awesome, but that was the only thing the GGO arc really had going for it.

Meanwhile in the not too distant future after SAO, another anime takes place.

Accel World is widely believed to be in the same timeline, probably some 20 or 30 years later. And it takes a different approach to VR, as well as trying to consider how VR would have made its way into everyday life.