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Loved it so far. Glad to see it starting to fill in gaps more and explaining bits like the saving people stuff.

Also interesting to see how the Faiz phone acts like a time phone to call across the time stream. Also interesting to see how there's more than one. Guessing Sougo will get one later, or the origin of them at some point.

Also curious was the ride watch holder. Have a feeling that'll come back up later as more ride watches are added to it. Really has a kind of battery feel to it, so that makes me curious what'll happen as it's powered up more, or how it's integrated later into a Time Majin maybe.

Liked the 4.5 too and how it explained the A.M./B.M. stuff.

Looks like the explaining the Kaijin drives is there, the victims are indeed tied to them in some manner. Another Build was after athletes, another Ex-aid was after Donors. Loved Wool's Time Majin too, it was very Ryuki, mixed with Wizard, and liked the Pirate Ship motif too, very referential of Gokai but also makes sense with the time jackers in how they act like Time Pirates attempting to steal time.

Overall, really loving how the show is developing out.

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Originally Posted by Damienthathedge

I wouldn't exactly say they retconned it yet, it was implied it still happend somehow. Sougo trying to enter Nascita's lab in 2018 and getting an actual fridge was meant to imply that it was after the merge. It makes no sense but whatever all of Zi-O will be retconned by the end probably.

They didn't retcon anything really. The show itself was erased. Sort of a retcon, but really it's more that in Zi-O's world, Rider histories are changed. The fridge thing was more because Sento's lab is gone now. When his timeline was erased, so was everything associated to it for now. That'll likely come back up later. At some point the riders will need to be restored, because it may have further reaching impacts than they realize yet. But the boundaries of "parallel worlds" isn't an issue with the time travel and is being ignored. So we should likely expect similar for Gaim and Wizard too, same to Faiz and other pre-Decade shows. That's part of the 4th wall break to the show. In Zi-O all rider shows happened in this merged timeline.

So Build's show, and Build's side media is still active to itself. Zi-O is kind of like Decade in that way. It's more 'another world'/parallel world version, but is done through time travel in this united timeline world where all rider shows are connected. So all of what happened in Build still happened, is still part of Build's world/new World. Is still capable of extended specials. But in Zi-O, as of Build's episode, his timeline is erased. To each show is their own continuity, and to each movie goes that as counted towards usually. But it's essentially still rule 3, "Don't overthink it. Enjoy the ride(r)."

So before jumping to conclusions, best to see how the series plays out first. Like this episode explained much of the questions from episode 2 about motivations as well. So later episodes will likely expand the scope, ramifications and push the story forward more as more is revealed, and other issues from their time travel start to show up. Because so far, each rider is losing their rider presence in the year they started. So that means they never defeated their respective big bads either. Though for most, there is the question if their big bad would still be created if their 'show' was erased. So let's wait and see how it plays out. We're only on episode 4 now, lots of twists and turns to come.