[Locke]

W episode 12. Although the opening half of this arc kinda sucked, I actually think this was W's best episode so far.

Although I'm really not that impressed with the Dopants visually, I must say I really do appreciate them as a concept. And I like how the show explores and bounces ideas off them, making them more than just mindless monsters for the Rider to kick over. Especially when we learn the true purpose of the Virus memory, this is probably the first truly deadly memory. Plus the little horror touches for Virus this episode were wonderful.

I dunno whether to feel sorry for Nazca, or not, I mean on the one hand he is motivated by utterly selfish goals, but on the other hand he takes a moral, emotional and physical beating to get there, so it isn't like he isn't suffering. And it's like he's been conditioned to suffer with the way he just laps it up.

Although I don't understand the Gia Library at all, the scene where Phillip faces down the victims conciousness in there was really awesome. Love how her conciousness is frozen at the moment of the hit and run impact.

So is Heat Trigger W's strongest form (at this stage)? It was the one he defaulted to in his first fight with Nazca where he 'went wild' - what was the point of that again?

And now when they know they need to finish it with Virus, they jump straight into that and unleash the Maximum Drive. By the way, that has to be one of the coolest finishers he has, since it's literally a flamethrower.