[Kurona]

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

Totally fair! I'm obviously being a lot more lenient on the show since I thought the Ark stuff (or uh, at least the Ark-One stuff) was a totally smart, fitting conclusion for the story; it's evident the days where I was apparently regularly writing posts about Zero-One you totally agreed with are gone.

It's just... the big discussion point after Zi-O was "why did they reuse Build's ending?". The hot topic after Build itself ended was whether or not Sento's plan to save the world actually counts as saving the world. Maybe this is just my impression of it, but it seemed like mostly surface-level discussion about plot choices and/or holes. If Zero-One is inspiring people to instead discuss the history of artificial intelligence as a storytelling mechanism, and the real world events it's been used to parallel... I just think that's still pretty special, even if it's only coming up so people can say how much better it could've been done?

I’d argue that that’s the same thing that’s going on here though, and that the discussion happening right now is more just... assuring people that no these were the themes, in the same way that if someone tried to say war wasn’t a theme after Build ended. If that had come up we’d sure have been having a discussion about that; and I’ve sure as heck seen the same sort of surface level discussions about Zero-One’s ending until right now!

On the other hand, I constantly see discussion elsewhere on how brilliantly Build’s themes were maintained and used, what that series said about the ideals of heroism and the effects of war, etc. For Zero-One I mostly see people being apologetic about the ending and excusing everything because Covid. It depends entirely on where you go and I’ve found myself in positive thematic discussions about all three of these series. Don’t limit your viewpoint based on one discussion between a couple of people on one website.