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Originally Posted by Locke

Although I guess it does make Haruto a 'lesser' hero, it was nice for a protagonist to have a genuine moral dilemma fo once and have the Gate stand up for himself instead. The whole 'you can't save everybody' storyline is often surprisingly absent in toku, or given an easy answer or brushed over but I think they handled it really well here. At least as well as you can expect. Especially when Shunpei stood up as well.

Yeah, I liked that, too. It was a moment where Haruto was stuck between a rock and a hard place - possibly find out what's going wrong with Koyomi and find a way to save her or save the Gate. I don't remember the last time a Rider actually faced a quandary like this and it was cool to see. Besides, he made the right call in the end, anyway.

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It's just a shame that by this point I have so little investment in anyone but Haruto, so Koyomi rolling around in a bed trying to act didn't really engage me how I think the episode wanted it to.

The one thing that's really falling flat about the show's wrap-up for me is Koyomi. It's just really hard to invest any drama in a character who hasn't done anything for most of the series. Now to be fair, that's not the show's fault - the actress is a member of a popular idol group and her activities there have clearly taken precedence over being available for Wizard. Obviously it's not the first time an actress's availability has been an issue, but the show hasn't really tried to find a way to work around it like Kabuto or Den-O and have just stuck with leaving the character largely in the background. For someone who's apparently so important, though, that just hasn't worked and it doesn't give the audience much of a reason to care about what happens to her.