[DreamSword]

Sogo: Don't get caught up in your past. Live in the present to work toward a bright future.

Also Sogo: *rewrites time itself to serve his own wants specifically*

Great... great moral there, Zi-O.

Man, I don't wanna give my full thoughts yet(and I'm not), but I will say that, for a show that I was really digging at first, with a main character who I was also really digging at first, the endgame makes alot of things feel ultimately hallow for me. Not like, Faiz tier hallow, but it's definitely a sour note on the entire thing.

But, with us at the end, it is also time for the final piece of my bit.

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I think this might be the first time in Rider that my favorite character ended up being a side character. Whether you're talking about Rento/Kikai or Uncle, these were both characters who took me completely by surprise in how much I gelled with them.

Rento is my actual favorite, but if we're counting him as something separate, then in the end, it's definitely Uncle. Similar to my feelings on Shotaro, while his character is relatively simple, he's also never messed up or wasted. He's consistently funny, full of charisma, and alot of the scenes between him and Sogo are genuinely sweet and touching.

And really, that's all I needed. It's all I feel any character "needs" really. Some might say that's shallow, and sure, I can see that, but in the end, the thing I'm looking for most in any story is a good time, and a well done character, basic or not, is a very big key to that

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Oh, and before I forget, the star of this episode to me(other than Uncle), is Oma. So, to quote what I said in a discussion I had with a friend about him after I watched the finale:

He is still a dark future version of Sogo to be sure, but he's very much someone who's been broken and beaten down over time, dulling alot of his emotions(likely due to some version of Schwartz). And I also choose to believe that he purposefully set things up so that Geiz, Tskuyomi, and Woz would go back in time and set things right.

It made for a very interesting outlook on someone who's first scene on screen is blowing up an entire battlefield with the wave of his hand, and while I don't think of him as highly as alot of other viewers do, I do enjoy him.

Man I hope my final thoughts post doesn't end up being incoherent babble later this week.