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Kamen Rider Zi-O Episode 27- "The Beginning Of Everything 2009!" Discussion
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Hey everyone, guess what time it is!
Time for Geiz to stop with the sweet one-liners before I fall more in love with him than I already am. Sure, on its own that's a pretty generic quip, but when the person saying it is a guy from the future living in the present talking about his past, which is also the future, I think it adds a certain depth to the joke.
Look, just let me have my fun, alright? I was gonna do an imitation Woz speech to celebrate the real deal finally claiming his rightful place from his lame counterpart for the intro, but it turned out Kento Shimoyama and I are kinda on the same wavelength with these things.
I mean that too. The quickest way to find out what I loved about this episode is probably just to watch it, because I honestly was watching every second with a smile on my face. So let's just start at the start, with what I'm calling the Super Cold Open. Mostly because of its behemoth length of barely under 5 minutes, but it's far more super than even that. Opening on Zi-O and Geiz fighting before Woz starts his usual narration was a extremely effective way to make it feel like this is a particularly special episode, and it only gets cooler when he stops right before making his actual entrance in the scene, blurring the fourth wall rather amusingly.
We also find out before the theme song that Geiz Revive is, perhaps ironically, given its name, slowly killing Geiz. Which is awesome. I will never get enough of Kamen Rider powerups that have this kind of impact on the stakes of the story. Even if it ends up being a Sclash Driver thing where it doesn't serve to keep older toys in play, it still ups the drama factor considerably, and that's something Zi-O has been very, very good at these past few weeks. There's so much going on in this episode alone Geiz transformed 3 times!
It's pure excitement the entire 23 or so minutes. Woz working his plans behind the scenes. The Time Jackers
FINALLY
doing something that could be considered interesting. Tsukasa doing... Tsukasa things. You name it, this episode has it. There's even a really great scene between Sougo and his uncle, adding that human touch that makes all the crazy time travel stuff that much easier to care about.
Every time Zi-O has an episode that knocks it out of the park like this, part of me thinks it's destined to become one of my favorite Rider shows. I realized as I was watching this episode that I'm enjoying the current stretch of Zi-O at least as much as I enjoyed Build around this time last year (and if you've seen that show you know why this is a big deal), and while I'm not at all interested in debating which show is better, thinking about why I'd feel that way did remind me all over again how much I appreciate the variety of goals the characters in this show have. None of the Riders are actually on each other's side yet. The Time Jackers are starting to fall apart at the seams, and even Tsukuyomi and Geiz's desires don't quite line up anymore. This kind of soap opera stuff is an easy sell for me. It's actually the same reason I loved Lupinranger VS Patranger so much, too. More layers to the conflicts = more fun.
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