[Fish Sandwich]

Man, I'm getting some serious deja vu here!

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

Wrapping up Build as a series, man, it's hard. It's a very hard thing for them to do. I'm going to go ahead and say that I liked this ending, but I didn't love it.

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

Build's finally over, and I... er... well, I kind of have some mixed feelings

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

Thematically, I feel like the idea of Build building a new world for his friends, a world where everyone's back and everyone's happy, Love & Peace, that's a fitting end to Build as a series.

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

this ending, wild though it may be, is actually super thematically appropriate

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

But the way the mechanics of the resolution don't 100% make sense (Do the people of Earth B not get a vote in this?)

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

There's all these questions being raised that aren't important to the story, but still manage to detract from it.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

None of that was really what the finale was about, though. I mean, it couldn't be. The show wasn't about any of that. It was about Sento and Banjou.

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

Likewise, one thing I'll say upfront is that ending the show on Sento and Ryuuga is the way to do it. This series was always about them at its heart and anything else just wouldn't have felt right.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

they ride off to start recording the intros to the Kamen Rider Build TV show, it's perfect. It's perfect.

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

Sento pulling out a script and doing the narration at the end was beyond adorable

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

It's a very good series, and I've had a fun time watching it and thinking about it.

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

This show was great, and if Zi-O is even half this good, we're in for another fun year.

Granted, I don't think anything either of us is saying there is something you wouldn't hear from most people who watched Build, but still, for a second there I thought I traveled back in time or something.

Oh, and before I forget, my misgivings toward the final arc were why I wrote this about a month ago:

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

I mean, taking parallel worlds and smashing them together is some devious s***. You'd have to be a real jerk to wanna do something like that.

That didn't elicit an "oh no!" from you, so I guess I did an okay job playing coy.