[DreadBringer]

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

Ha ha, YES. YES, ONE HUNDRED PERCENT. Master Logos is exactly the sort of late-stage adversary this show needed, and all of his scenes so far have been a delight. He's maybe the first non-Kento villain I've really looked forward to seeing?

This is the result of what Kamijo seeks in the beginning, series-wise for you.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

KAMEN RIDER SABER EPISODE 34 - “AWAKEN ONCE MORE, SWORDSMAN OF IMMORTALITY”

Like: the Durandal/Blades fight. What in the world is Ryoga even doing there? Master Logos was just like Concentrate On Touma, which is exactly what Reika’s doing. Why is Ryoga skulking around an underpass, hoping he’ll get to challenge Rintaro to another fight? Why not just have Falchion wander in and find Rintaro, and skip to the chase? Why introduce Durandal into the fight in such a bizarre way, when he doesn’t really have any impact on the story being told?

As a fighter, perhaps he'd provide some extra stuff with time-based powers to Sabela's smokescreen. But with Ryoga doing the same stuff as Reika here, kinda questions why Ryoga is introduced in the series which just reduces Reika into fawning over him. He's just a male Reika that is made by diminishing said female's role as if this is something to show that only men can take charge (I'm not someone who fawns over her 'toughness' previously before this but still).

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

Even Falchion’s rampage through this episode, despite a new backstory that has echoes of the dissolution of Touma and Kento’s partnership (Yuri’s version even did the same Three Musketeers thing!), just had this weird shrug of I Don’t Know Why Not. We’re in a shit-stirring phase of Master Logos’s stratagem, where he’s just throwing antagonists against the wall to see what detonates. Falchion’s here to be a new guy to fight, and that's the extent of Logos's decision-making here.

This shows Falchion's abilities where as a phoenix, he can simply revive himself, and is instead sealed within the Book of Ruin and placed in the Southern Base's forbidden library by Master Logos, who can release him later.

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I did like that the episode crafted a parallel Friendship storyline for Yuri, Falchion, and I’m gonna go ahead and say Desast. (Wild guess! He’s hunched in a real Desast way in the flashback!) They were friends, everything went sideways, and Falchion gave himself over to nihilism in the name of cosmic truth. It’s all very Kento, which isn’t lost on anyone, especially Kento himself. For a dude who’s obsessed with an unavoidable future, it’s nice to have the thing that maybe jars him out of his isolation be something that happened centuries ago. Falchion’s a guy who destroyed his friendships because he thought he was doing the only thing that made sense, but from the outside it was pure insanity. There’s a part of Kento that starts to realize that maybe he’s gotten too wrapped up in his own fatalism, rather than ignoring his fears and trusting in Touma.

Yeah, Bacht is released as a parallel to Kento, where they're "allies" but also nuisances to their respective factions, Northern Base for Kento and Southern Base for Bacht. Both are enemies to swordsmen but Kento only does that as he believes that sealing away their Seiken will prevent the doomed future, while Bahato won't stop until he's killed every last one. Bacht also pulls everyone is the same as me stuff here against Touma, which is some villain's move to justify their deeper imperfections or even convincing the hero to spare him due to breaking their moral code or something when they 'cross the line' by killing him.