[Locke]

W 47. NOW THIS IS MORE LIKE IT! Although it does kinda feel like another ending has just been stuck on with masking tape, this has so far proved to be a considerably more interesting climax.

As I'm not allowed to say the word, the DICTATOR like appearance of Utopia, the name of the Memory and also the comments about 'purity' - and the irony of the fact that he still doesn't have full sync of his memory - plus the fact that it's meant to 'grant wishes' when in reality it just steals your power and uses it against you. I mean SUBTLE.

Utopia is actually a Dopant who puts up a fight, which pretty much none of the Sonozaki's did and I never really truly understood what Terror's plan or motivations actually were. At least with Utopia I know what he is doing and I know it's BAD. Plus that final storm on the Foundation X facility, with Sho taking it all on untransformed. Now THAT was epic. I don't get why he doesn't just use Skull's Driver though?

Also Utopia looked fantastic, I guess it proves Dopants don't have to look cheap and shitty when they actually try, they just don't really want to try often. And of course he's the one with no SHF.

Other aspects of the climax were...weird. It was so weird to see everyone give up, so easily. Phillip has been unintentionally selfish a lot in his innocence so I wasn't that surprised by how easily he gave up, but Aki and Ryu too?! At least Sho still had his head on, it was an incredible moment seeing him pushed to all out desperation, screaming for Shroud, desperate to clutch to anything to save his friend. I love him.

Were Foundation X in OOO? I know that sounds stupid because I've watched the show, but there seems to be a lot of building up for Foundation X to be the big bad for all of Neo-Heisei but I don't remember them at all from outside of this, other than in some of the crossover films. It's a shame, because it's a pretty fantastic concept.

So are they ever going to explain Fang? Given that Phillip was never alive, he could never have been the body for W, which explains a lot. But at the same time, he was able to be the body when it came to Fang, so what makes that memory unique?