[DreamSword]

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Originally Posted by Layton13

It sounds more like you are searching for reasons to justify your feelings for the shift of the show. Those feelings are totally valid, but that is at least how it sounds to me.

I don't have to search for that. The show gives them to me right upfront.

That said, no. I'm mainly trying to focus on Dawn here. But as I noted, he's currently serving as a symbol of this second half, and I'm not the only one who feels as such, as seen in this very thread.

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Because Dawn mocking Catastrom here actually feels like everything before still matters, because that is not a dig against the form itself, it's a dig at Baku's hypocrisy in his mind. He claims all this heroic stuff, but Dawn knows where he got Catastrom, both because he saw that and because he seems to have gotten his powers the same way.

He is mocking that Baku was on a path to become just like him, not the form itself.

It feels like it very much cares what happened before; it just frames it in a different way. What came before is still the foundation of the show.

I personally have no idea how you get all of that out of the line "The power of ruin... is that the best it can do?" But hey, if it speaks to you, great.