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Originally Posted by Kurona

And there's a fair few instances where the show is very effective at providing commentary on this idea. The courtroom episodes effectively showed Bingo providing something extremely important and relevant to the job that no human could possibly do (finding and examining evidence in real-time while still making the case for your defendant, in such a way that a human would effectively have to be in two places at once). The fire brigade episodes took yet another unique take on the idea -- sure, it showed something Humagears could do that would either be impossible or incredibly difficult for a human to do (extremely heavy-duty lifting and heightened endurance), but it also very much begged the question does it even matter if they can do something different, highlighting how Humagears are just like people and what matters the most isn't just what 119 Nosuke could bring to the job, it was his very human spirit and courage.

Both of these were excellent examples in progressing the themes of the series within the context of its new stakes and questions, and furthered the idea of how thin the line was between robot and human to begin with. But on the other hand, the flower-arranging episodes didn't have much of interest to offer -- which while you may argue is fine for an introduction to the tournament arc, it was not nearly interesting or engaging enough to warrant being a 2-parter and could also easily have had something else going on with other characters in the background. Similarly, I really don't know what positives the real estate 2-parter really did for the tournament arc, very much feeling like an even less interesting repeat of the flower-arranging episodes.

So since you didn’t care for flower or real estate one, what would you replace it with? Just curious