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But that is a completely different plot to what they were going for. They were painting the Zangyack as irredeemably evil and something you wanted to hate. Joe's quest to save Barizorg turned into wanting to avenge Sid's "death" and get vengeance against the Zangyack, which is something all the characters, except maybe Don because the destruction of his planet isn't touched upon, have on their side. I can understand a character being revealed to have chosen evil if that's what they left open from the start, but the very first episode of the arc had Barizorg have no idea who Sid was and for Warz Gill to explain he was transformed against his will. I can understand complaining that a story went in one direction rather then the other if there was ever a "story crossroads" where it could've gone one way or the other, but there wasn't.

And yeah, a counterpart to Basco for Joe would've been cool but also sort of redundant. Why re-step the exact same story?