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Ah yes the episode where I got to use the Red vs. Blue "Wait you can't do that, that's illegal" gif.

Sad that this episode didn't land for you, I personally thought it was a swerve and was entirely captivated by it. That being said, remember when I said they didn't know how many episodes they had? Someone else spoiled it, but basically they weren't aware they were going to have 45 Episodes till pretty late, and Episode 41 was supposed to be a "Finale" of sorts. So basically they had to speedrun most of their idea from the final arc in 36 to 41. So yeah they weren't going under the assumption that they'd have 10 episodes or so left, they were running under the assumption they'd only have like 6 episodes left.

I feel like Horobi trying to do the "same shit" so to speak as Episode 1 was the point though? Like, he's got a dream but he's clearly not putting his all into it because we can see him denying his heart with Izu confronting him and the ensuing scenes. I suppose the shock of seeing everything sorta go to hell in the most unexpected way possible was just, too good for me. Like I don't think anyone could've predicted this?

That being said, this finale arc definitely made me set aside plans I had for a Zero-One MV because the end focal point for my MV was basically Zero-Two beating the crap out of Ark and well uh.... yeah.

Anyway I feel like all the emotional stuff hit me way too much to where I was fine with some things being a bit off. Also Ark-One is clever in the fact that, Zero-Two can't get Final Form Rot in performance if the user itself uses another form instead. So as of right now we've got Zero-Two with a 100% Victory streak which has... it's been a while since we've had that for a Final Form huh?

That being said Ark-One is absolutely retooled from what he was supposed to be and I wouldn't doubt that Williamson was supposed to be Ark-One because of a lot of key details you can notice on the Ark Suit as well as the key itself point towards this being ZAIA related. It feels like originally it was supposed to be Gai but that got scrapped when they realized he was getting the wrong kind of hate and went for the "redemption" route with him. So and this is just me guessing, Williamson was supposed to be like, Jin getting rid of AI Ark so that he could take over as a Human Ark, in a sense. Or at least that's how I feel.