[Frontier]

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Originally Posted by Mesnick

It makes sense if authors don`t want to introduce new characters, even off-screen ones. But the idea that Zero dedicated his son's entire life to becoming the perfect weapon against Nightmares, doesn't speak well of him. Frankly, even last year's rider had a kinder family in comparison.

I guess it speaks to how seriously the Nightmare threat must look to Zero that he felt they needed whatever Zeztz is, even if it meant sacrificing his own son.

[DreamSword]

Baku deducing that Zero is his dad just kinda feels like a leap to me. Maybe I'm way too dense to understand the subtleties, but "by god, he let me ride a motorcycle as kid, ergo he must be my father!" I just like, don't get it?

I also don't get the angle that Zero's' dream has been some big secret for way longer than just like, the scene where it first comes up. Halfway through the episode. Or atleast, the way Baku talks about it, it seems to be framed as such.

I just really couldn't get into this one. Neither the Baku nor the Nem stuff.

[Frontier]

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Originally Posted by DreamSword

Baku deducing that Zero is his dad just kinda feels like a leap to me. Maybe I'm way too dense to understand the subtleties, but "by god, he let me ride a motorcycle as kid, ergo he must be my father!" I just like, don't get it?

I also don't get the angle that Zero's' dream has been some big secret for way longer than just like, the scene where it first comes up. Halfway through the episode. Or atleast, the way Baku talks about it, it seems to be framed as such.

I just really couldn't get into this one. Neither the Baku nor the Nem stuff.

I think when you see how Zero was looking at Baku and how paternalistic it is, how "you've really grown" sounds like something a parent would say to their child (or at least family would), it makes sense Baku would figure it out.

[Locke]

Okay, the detail of him hearing the voice, but not understanding the words at the graveyard and then hearing it again in the dream and now understanding what he was saying is the kind of attention to detail that gets a pop out of me.

They even took something that could feel kinda lazy from a production standpoint in introducing a nightmare Zeztz that is just the base form in greyscale, but then they gave it genuine thematic purpose for looking as it did and it worked great (which is funny, cause in that same episode they have that zoom in on Orderm and it looks like that suit is falling apart already, they better get the sewing kit out if they want that to last 20 more episodes!).

Overall yeah, solid episode, barrelling towards a pretty obvious twist sure, but the episode did some pretty heavy lifting in setting up narrative threads to be followed in future episodes, as it did feel like it was running out of steam a little after the initial bump of adrenaline introduced by Sieg.