[Mesnick]

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Originally Posted by Locke

I am someone who loves a show which respects the time the audience invested into it, rewarding those who pay close attention to all the little details they are fed. I feel like this show spits on exactly that kind of viewer. What starts as a wonderfully rich and ambitious from the ground up story, soon devolves into a mess of constant retcons, gaslighting you into the idea that the narrative isn?t bumbling all over the place, rather each bumble is actually an intentional duking move. ?This is all some sort of cerebral masterwork, we promise!? The show pleads, but I see you for what you really are: an overambitious, overreaching, narrative mess. A show where the writers constantly force themselves into self made corners, and the only way they seem to be able to get out is reversing previously important narrative beats from earlier in the show and pretending that was always the plan. It is like the Lost of Kamen Rider.

I think that Build's story has been orchestrated by its main villain for a long time. Evolt has created a long-term plan that should lead him to his goal, but the problem is that the plan took too long, and he became bored along the way. So, unlike other manipulative characters, he actively engages in combat, even when there's no reason to. And, of course, this ruins the plan, but at first, Evolt doesn't care because he doesn't see enemies as a threat. And, ironically, he created Sento himself. Evolt is like a pagan god who could and should be above mortals, but begins to actively interact with them and, ultimately, loses to them. So I don't think the show is falling apart outright. Although I won't argue with the fact that the writers love to add crazy twists out of nowhere.