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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

KAMEN RIDER ZI-O EPISODE 17 - ?HAPPY NEW WOZ 2019?

We get the very fun intro of Kamen Rider Shinobi (he re-uses Ex-Aid?s shoulder pads, so he?s now my favorite suit on this show) in the cold open, which feels like it?s going to be the central mystery for this episode: How is Sougo in 2022? Why is there a brand-new Rider, when Zi-O?s supposed to be the final Rider? What?s this new guy all about? Where are all the floating video screens and rampaging ninjas, now that all of us are in Shinobi?s year?

"New Year 2022" lol so accurate to the actual real life now. Otherwise, Shinobi is about a tragic figure, Rentarou has Kamen Rider sensibility, wants to become a Rider due to protect the helpless, but all of that got ruined by the Time Jackers who turned him into his antithesis instead, the one who misuse their power. This part actually shows the consequence of Sougo returning to fight as Zi-O, that it changed the flow of time.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

There?re a lot of good choices to Hat Woz. (I?m sure he?ll have some other name on the show, but that hat is doing a ton of heavy-lifting as far as He?s A Different Woz is concerned. He?s Hat Woz, probably until summertime episodes start.) Some of it?s in the conception of the character. The idea of him being from a future where Geiz wins is just so goddamn smart. It immediately puts a rift in the Geiz/Sougo partnership, just after they became maybe actual friends in Episode 16. Hat Woz represents a future where Geiz was right. How can Geiz continue to support Sougo?s path to power, when there?s a behatted Geiz fan saying that the world is saved by killing Sougo? Why would Geiz gamble on Sougo?s dream, when Geiz?z dream could come true instead?

There?s also the flip of Hat Woz writing the future, instead of Woz?z chronicling. It?s a fun way to look at history aficionados. Woz was someone who viewed history as a cool story, rather than people?s real lives. Hat Woz takes it one step further, viewing history as actual narrative, a story that he can bend to his uses. It?s sort of saying something about how people bend history to their own purpose (Woz), but sometimes they just rewrite it entirely if it?s more useful (Hat Woz). It?s not an idea that gets 100% fleshed out here, but I like that it exists.

It'd be White Woz (this one's shouldn't be a spoiler) where the current Woz we've known before is Black Woz. White Woz is all about nightmare he caused for the cast now. Even Black Woz doesn't smirk like his usual confident and suave persona!. And White Woz can potentially overwrite Black Woz's existence and becoming an even bigger threat with White Woz's rewriting future powers being absolute. Other than that, White Woz would potentially cause bad outcome to both Sougo and Geiz, as the former could've been killed by Geiz's hands that even when there's a better future possible, that'd be likely preferable as last resort to Sougo (as well as potential Ohma's Day happening in 2019, thus he got 1 year). And for the latter, due to how those 2 become friends, Geiz would want to stop Oma's Day without having to take Sougo's life, just like his partner Tsukuyomi now, of which him killing Sougo would happen now according to Another Woz's history. BTW actually Geiz is visually uncomfortable with being heralded as a savior/messiah for beating Ohma Zi-O, so it's not actually his dream?

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Originally Posted by gashatfreak

The thing is, "Rejoice" means "Iwae".