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Originally Posted by Mesnick

I think that Build's story has been orchestrated by its main villain for a long time. Evolt has created a long-term plan that should lead him to his goal, but the problem is that the plan took too long, and he became bored along the way. So, unlike other manipulative characters, he actively engages in combat, even when there's no reason to. And, of course, this ruins the plan, but at first, Evolt doesn't care because he doesn't see enemies as a threat. And, ironically, he created Sento himself. Evolt is like a pagan god who could and should be above mortals, but begins to actively interact with them and, ultimately, loses to them. So I don't think the show is falling apart outright. Although I won't argue with the fact that the writers love to add crazy twists out of nowhere.

I wrote a big piece about Evolt and took it out, because I talked about how he is the Aizen problem, but I dunno if kids these days know about Aizen, but I also don't want to talk down to anybody in case you do remember Bleach at the height of its powers.

Effectively TLDR of the point I was trying to make was that Evolt is one of the biggest problems of Build as a whole. Even ignoring how boring it is that they fight him and exclusively him for like 20 straight episodes basically at the end.

The show loses all of its agency when the villain claims he is behind every single event in the show, and it is always just as planned, even if it relies on events he realistically could not have ever had any meaningful control over or relies on him doing stuff that has no fail safes to backfire, and so is he some cerebral mastermind who meticulously plans everything or not? Because the whole he got bored of it all along the way explanation doesn't hold for me, because it flipflops backwards and forwards been "just as planned" and random chaos happening and then he says "just as planned".

Like the best part of the entire show for me is when you discover the truth behind the bottles, and the idea that the very man Evolt is possessing has been trolling him the entire time, absolutely pulling Evolt's trousers down and making him look like a total loser. This probably should dismantle a character like Evolt, but to me, it is actually the only time where Evolt as a character has any actual dimension to them whatsoever. A person who can never lose, and is always a thousand steps ahead, is boring. At least to me.

That begins his downward spiral arc, where it looks like he is gonna crash out high on human emotion and get replaced by a new Aizen villain, and it actually got me really excited for the direction of the show, but then most of this is forgotten about in the final stretch and Evolt is back to saying "just as planned" at every event again and it loses me again.