[cosmicrescend0]

Episode 7, please!

- I think this is the first episode where they occasionally start dialing the tribute stuff back in order to focus on what our main cast is doing? And I love Wizard, I really do, but I think this was a good decision for this one?

-Woz! I think the scene with him and Geiz is one of my favorites in the show? It establishes their dynamic and history so well. I think it's funny that he's On Edge about what befriending Tsukuyomi and Geiz could do to Sougo, yet still opened up with "Hey so like the overlord's taken a liking to you, maybe it's time we reconcile, be on the same page?" At least Sougo can't say he didn't try lol!

-Geiz is really raring to go this episode, huh. He's in peak "Not Here to Make Friends" mode! There's definitely a real impatience he has in this episode: Sougo is so Frustratingly Nice and Kind! He's invited them to a fun magic show!........but that's really mucking up the whole "Kill Oma-Zio to bring peace to the future" thing, yknow? It really says a lot about Geiz where his response to Sougo is to get more aggressive and divert his frustration onto something else (beating the shit out of that Another Rider), instead of maybe letting his walls down juuuuuust a bit?

-Oh this might be a reach, but I love we're doing the "Geiz and Sougo have different ideas of how to handle the MOTW" in the Wizard arc? Yknow, Wizard's whole thing being that he protects people and their hopes first and foremost, so that they don't go off the deep end and give birth to a monster? And in contrast, Geiz's actions just push Hayase further down in a spiral of paranoia instead of actually helping? It really makes that "You're not worthy of the power of a Rider" line feel a bit ironic to me, lol.