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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

That's funny you should mention that here, since this episode specifically used the insert theme at the start to free itself up to do the twist on the fight at the end.

The thing about having a status quo that strong is that it becomes more notable when it does get mixed up, and these shows did that with the music in some clever ways. There were quite a few episodes of Agito that used the insert songs to deliberately lull you into that complacency only to have the music cut out abruptly after the heroes start losing, for example.

But, like, the fact that using the fight song in the beginning would free them up to not use it at the end is maybe a problem? I feel like the switch up in the music in this episode of Faiz wasn't so much a subversion of expectations as it was that they wanted to do the classical guitar piece at the end, so the fight song got placed in the fight at the beginning. It's like it had to go somewhere in the episode, which is maybe proving my point a little bit? Maybe? A tiny bit?

But you're right that there's a power to playing with the audience through musical cues, and letting them make assumptions that you can subvert. Good point!

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

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