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Originally Posted by Frontier

I guess it's worth comparing to the patients of the week or the Humagear of the week from Takahashi's last shows.

The funny thing is, back when Ex-Aid was airing -- and I feel pretty differently about it now -- I remember having very different but still broadly similar problems throughout its run with the guest characters. I'd come out of episodes feeling like they were footnotes in terms of focus, and believing that sort of contradicted the way Emu cared so much about his patients.

So because of that, I *would* have been prepared to lower my expectations for how this show will handle that stuff, but I actually love the way Zero-One handled a ton of its smaller stories about guest Humagears and whatever guest humans they'd be bouncing off of. I didn't at all think Takahashi would ever excel at that aspect of a Rider show based on his first go, but if I were going to pick a series to basically use as ammunition against Zeztz, it'd probably be the first one I'd jump to. Partly to hide the bias I might be bringing into this as another Wizard fan by illuststrating how that isn't the one specific mold I need every show to fit, but also partly so that I'd be pointing out that I don't think the guy making the scripts for this show is somebody lacking in the required talent.

I will also say though, part of the theory I'm slowly forming each week about Zeztz is that the specific complaints I have about it probably aren't the actual problems it has, exactly? The word "cohesion" seems like the closest I've gotten so far, because that's the connective tissue between my whining about the guest characters and my whining about Capsems. Perhaps it even ties together other people's specific complaints. I feel like there's a larger singular truth none of us are quite seeing yet that all these smaller gripes are pointing at -- a mystery that's subliminal in nature, which, admittedly, would be a very thematically revelant way for this show to have problems!