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Kamen Rider Zero-One Episode 41- "Thou, Take Thine Neighbors' Hand!" Discussion
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Super solid episode! Horobi has always been one of my favorite characters in the show, and
easily
my favorite villain, to the point I think even saying "but his personality is kinda flat" is unnecessary. He's always felt very, very particularly constructed to have the ultimate one-track mind, to essentially be the personification of his own ideal of what HumaGears can be. "All according to the will of the Ark" is his sole defining purpose because having anything besides that glorious mission is nothing more than a pointless distraction.
But what if it was never really the Ark's will he cared about? Changing the why of his goal without changing the what was a smart choice to develop his character that I'm very happy to see, even this late in the game. Again, Horobi has always come off to me as a guy with a pretty thoroughly thought out and consistent ideology behind the whole terrorism thing, so having him betray the Ark because the Ark betrays those ideals is *perfect*. It's very organic, as is him acknowledging to an extent that Aruto's existence can benefit HumaGears without backing down on the "humans need to go" rhetoric. It's a great episode for him all around, and the scripts continue to do Takaiwa proud by making Horobi the continued (nearly) undefeated master of still having nothing but a base form. I love Jin too, but man, what was he even thinking, not just running away the second Horboi whipped out the ForceRiser?
It'll be exciting to see where Horobi ends up in these last few episodes, admittedly a little because the Ark is just so darn uninteresting as a character, and I think that means extra coming from someone who considers Horobi's personality to be fleshed out. A huge part of what made Horobi feel defined was his pseudo-religious faith in the Ark, which means the Ark itself has even less than that. There's maybe an angle there with the fact that it was deliberately
taught to hate
by Gai, and is thus arguably loyally serving the mission humanity gave it like any HumaGear would, but it doesn't seem to be something the show is interested in exploring. As a plot device to bring out things in the rest of the cast, it's working a lot better, though, which is why I hope the conclusion of this show ends up having a few more layers than just everybody fighting Ark-One, even if the thought of some epic group shot of all the Riders in the show teaming up for the first time is, *admittedly*, extremely tantalizing.
This is also a pretty great episode for Aruto, even if I'm not sure how he ended up at that warehouse for the climax! It's a very broad sort of development, not really caused by any singularly identifiable moment, but I'm still loving this recent version of Aruto that's clearly grown a lot more confident and mature after a year of crazy adventures becoming the head of company, losing that company, starting a new company, getting that company blown up...
He's been through a lot, is the point, so this doesn't feel out of nowhere to me. Him returning to Hiden Intelligence is yet one more thing that muddles the themes of the show, but I totally see what they're going for. It's about him being finally truly ready for that seat after the time spent away, and I don't hate that idea at all. What's most bothersome about that scene is probably how not-quite-earned it feels for
Gai
, who explicitly told Aruto he's the last person he'd give up control of Hiden to, right before his chat with Ai-chan and subsequent change of heart. I see all the dots, but they didn't come off as connected quite right to me. Like that should be a WAY bigger moment for him than it's played as. Even then, though, it didn't at all take me out of what was otherwise a fairly spotless episode of Zero-One. I mean, discount Ryuuga went into space to blow up a satellite like a macho action flick. I'd slap myself if I couldn't just sit back and enjoy that kind of awesomeness!
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