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Episode 47!

-Chase!! My boy, my friend!!! A last-minute bone to throw for Drive fans who didnt/couldn't see Over Quartzer at that moment, I suppose?

-Glad to see another go "Hey wait isn't this just Decade????" when seeing this episode. Like, the whole vibe of the city reminds me of that one sequence of Natsumikan running in Episode 1, just a lot more clunky? I thought Swartz was gonna pull a Decade(as in the destruction of all will lead to a rebirthed world of sorts that Swartz could be the king of, or something), but like, why would destroying everything else guarantee their world's safety? Is it like freeing up space on a hard drive or something?

-Kaito immediately coming in and firing shots at Swartz, reviving Tsukasa before attacking him.....Nobody's allowed to touch a hair on Tsukasa'a head except him, after all!

-Uh, might as well take a shot at untangling the multiverse mess? Begin by making a hard assumption that we're still in the realm of time, and not any of that space stuff. I think, early on you could conceptalize that the timeline was a single line that people can make alterations to, hence Ridewatches just earsing a Rider(by altering the past) as well as the Future Riders(altering the future) But if we assume, that when a Ridewatch is made, the timeline *actually* splits in twain: the one with Sougo and friends, and one where the powers of that certain Rider disappeared but not the actual person, then Swartz's whole droll makes tiny bit more sense? Maybe? Potenially?

-However, the whole Blade-Den-O plots just like, throw all that all to the side? If you want to continue believing the "splits", then we assume that...um....*squints at notes* (When Time Nonsense gets out of hand, simply smile and say "it's a space-time disortion" to get out of explaining things) space-time disortions are causing timeline splits to become uneven or even straight up not happen, hence leaving elements untouched. That makes sense! (Of course it doesn't!)

(Apologies in advance if your brain melts just a bit reading the above 2 paragraphs, I happen to actually be a bit of a fan of sci-fi stories w/ fun time shenagians and wanted to see if I could make heads or tails of any of this. Everything obviously falls apart when tackling Zi-O's Time Nonsense from any angle because they're changing the rules up every 5 episodes so we can get better fanservice!)

-Anyway, yeah. I thought i was mistaken in my inital memories of the show but the show's plot does kinda fall apart at the seams, if you think about it for a second. Wouldn't be an issue at all for me if we got some good character moments to distract from that, but unfortunately that isnt the case here.