[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Androzani84

As for the compare and contrast, Whereas Takumi?s creed was ?I don?t have a dream, but maybe I can protect them?, Sakuma was sacrificing schoolgirls to preserve his girlfriend?s life, essentially destroying other people?s dreams to keep his own alive. And whereas the Ryusei students he killed would likely have trusted Sakuma due to him looking normal, the ones Takumi tried to save as the Wolf Orphnoch ran away from him because he looked like a monster. Design-wise, he has a rib cage that looks like an Orphnoch.

And as someone pointed out, besides tying in with this episode?s plot, the stereo also serves as a parallel to what everyone?s trying to do with Sougo? they?re also replacing the parts (ie changing the details of history) to create a new timeline to their liking (also the radio appeared in Faiz all those years ago).

A lot of that stuff just feels real thin to me, though? I appreciate your ability to draw out parallels, but none of it feels like anything the show is commenting on or highlighting. Like a lot of the problems with this episode's inability to cohere its themes, we're really getting into some Fourze's Middle Syllable Is Coincidentally "King" territory. Even that Stereo speech is weirdly belabored, and not exactly emotionally relevant to Team Zi-O.

I don't think you're wrong to find those parallels (I think it's neat!), but I don't think it's something that the episode is leveraging at all.

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Originally Posted by Layton13

But now we are actually entering the part of the show I legitimately like and there is only one arc in the entire show left I dread revisiting. I gotta judge a bit how much of what really drew me to Sougo I'll lay out in the next arc or if I should wait a bit longer. We'll see.

That's great! I'm psyched to see how this show evolves its storytelling.

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Originally Posted by GrandComplete

But this right here is why I fell in love with ZI-O on the spot this scene to me speaks so much about Sougo and Geiz. Two different individuals across two different timelines declaring the same desires to stop a tragedy 15 years in the making. It speaks how at the end of the day these aren't so different but at the same time there not there to hear it from each other. And all of it was possible with Sougo giving the Faiz Ridewatch to Geiz so he can go to 2003 for this to all begin. And in this moment of great action, use of music (Over Quartzer is very hype song to me) and how badass Faiz Armor and it (accurate) finisher from Geiz all makes for scene that made me go 100% on board from ZI-O till the very end.

It's a really great climax to the episode, for sure. I love the idea of Zi-O and Geiz fighting separately for one goal. I, uh, would've loved it better in a story that better supported it thematically, like maybe Ex-Aid's?