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It's cool how the first episode was called Start and now this one after the plot twist is called Get Started, as Seven is assigning his own missions rather than waiting for them.

Play Back doesn't give me the agent genre feeling like Visions, so I kind of want it to get the You Be One Winner treatment. In hindsight though, I think You Be One Winner was a great OP while it lasted and I'm glad it stuck around as an insert like Busters Ready Go. Well, if it's here to stay, then I hope Visions at least gets the Busters Ready Go treatment and plays for all the climactic moments.

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Originally Posted by Frontier

Couldn't Zero have at least left the bike though?

Zero cannot get out and stay at the same time.

I'm worried that Baku may have played his hand too early though. He had the opportunity to become a double agent and find out the true meaning of the darkness inside CODE.

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Originally Posted by Frontier

Guess we're just speedrunning stuff like Nem finding out about her mom and Baku not wasting any time fighting the Bomb Nightmare this go-around. The only thing more explosive than a bomb? Zeztz Catastrom.

We're totally watching Ethan Hunt and Edge of Tomorrow in the same show!

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Originally Posted by Frontier

Is NOX going to be nicer and less vague this go-around?

Being vague is less fun when you realize the new guy's more informed than you. Yep, Nox will need to find a new hobby now.

Oh, speaking of Nox, turns out his defenders' conclusion that he was only pretending to murder Five and Six and children are pretty much debunked, as even though the real world he tried to destroy wasn't actually real, he believed it was.

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Originally Posted by DreamSword

I'm almost positive that I'm in the minority on this, and I wish anyone who has feelings opposite to mine to continue having a great time with the show going forward.

I hope you only have good dreams from now on as well.

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

Upfront, I do have to commend the commitment to actually going through with using "the entire first half of the show was a dream" as a plot point. Even when you "decide" on something like that from the start, I would not have been surprised to see that concept end up as nothing more than a lot of foreshadowing that was ultimately repurposed or outright left hanging entirely, just a neat anecdote the creators will explain in interviews where they discuss how they decided to back out of doing something that might've been a little too crazy.

You mean like how Houtarou's father was actually Evil Ikki all along and while adventuring in Granute world, he took out the mafia before they could assassinate the Stomachs?

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Originally Posted by JusticeMagnum

Also (forgive the machine translation) but turns out the crew was very careful to not film the moon at any point in the "real world" during the first 24 episodes of Zeztz as it would've given the twist away immediately, which implies this that this was always the direction the show was building towards right from the start, so that's neat.

That explains why nobody in the show has ever talked about it until now, with the revelation that Baku hasn't been dreaming lucidly since the Gun Nightmare incident. He's been looking at the same red moonscoop as everybody else, thinking it's totally normal, only remembering what the moon actually looks like when he wakes up.

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Originally Posted by JusticeMagnum

Just got done reading the full interview that excerpt came from and there's a very interesting new piece of info about Dawn in there that I'm really curious to see how it plays out.

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