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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

I'm a little confused myself about how you could possibly take that line to instead be the direct opinion of like, either the show's staff or just The Show as some kind of personified entity, rather than taking it as a line of dialogue that merely reflects the perspective of the single character who speaks it.

Because it's directly pointing out a flaw in the narrative.

If we really are meant to see the things established in the first half as still important, then the Power of Ruin was hyped up as basically one of, if not the most important things in the narrative of this universe.

As such, yeah, Dawn is right. Catastrom should by all means be no selling Dawn himself outright. But it's not.

I get that yeah, this is likely leading up to "the next big form" and what have you, but if the script itself is gonna call this "not actually all that impressive" then like, why should I be invested, you know? It's sort of why many Rider/Battle shows just outright don't address it. Or if they do, take a measure to course correct basically immediately.

And incase anyone thinks I'm glazing Catastrom a bit too much, I wasn't much of a fan of the how and why of it replacing Inazuma Plasma either, though atleast there, the show has established why Baku wouldn't just jump to Catastrom immediately with every encounter. So the second half gets a point there.