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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

Those recap episodes actually are on Crunchyroll (marked as ".5" episodes). To be fair to Z, new footage of him standing in a void talking puts it at least one step ahead of X's recaps, which were, as I recall, nothing but narration over old clips.

Those clip shows seriously annoyed me in X and were a blot on an otherwise nigh-perfect show. I can love a good clip show if it's got a half-decent framing device! Orb's having SSP clean up their base and reminiscing as they do so; or Geed's being a lesson about responsibility and time-and-place; or this one where it just goes out of its way to have some fun with the idea of the clips being used in the first place and fly all around the franchise! All of these use a very small budget to give nice character moments or construct a loose narrative or just kind of be a fun time.

X's were just... recapping in the most boring, dull way possible and then spoiling some stuff that happens later. And there were three of them. It's so frustrating it happened to a show as top-tier as X