Back at it again with more Zi-O love, just to spite the haters.
ATTENTION EVERYONE!
Due to unavoidable changes in my personal life, this will be the last series I'll be posting episode discussions for. I am currently looking for someone else to take up the mantle in my stead.
Consider this my two weeks notice, or one week depending on how you look it at it. I am about to become a lot less active here. For now, I'll finish posting episode discussions for Zi-O, and I might post a discussion for the last Zi-O movie, but that's it. I'll try to find time to post my thoughts on all the remaining episodes, but after that, I'll be stepping down to focus on what's really important in my life. Just wanted to make sure everyone is updated. Now that I’ve got that out of the way...
You’re a Kamen Rider! You’re a Kamen Rider! Everybody’s a Kamen Rider!
Heh, when else am I going to get a chance to use that meme?
I love this episode. I can’t wait to see Kamen Rider Tsukuyomi put her bother in his place.
Interesting trivia note: Anyone notice that Another Decade’s pink is not magenta like the original Decade? Now that I’ve seen them back-to-back, it’s clear that Another Decade’s pink is actually the same shade as Zi-O’s. Nice touch, really.
Finally, we got Kamen Rider Tsukuyomi. She is somehow the key to saving the space and time? How and Why did she get to be a Rider? I don't expect the last episode to even address everything. As Japaneseseriesfan said in the Zi-O thread, it doesn't make sense.
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It's a separate multiverse. Decade's story in 2009 still happened in it's own universe and Zi-O's universe had its own mutiverse for the Heisei Riders. There is an A.R. world for every Rider in existence, past or future. Some with different outcomes as explained in Zi-O episode 45-46?
I can at least agree with you that it is odd that Sougo had a blank watch that became just what Tsukuyomi needed. Would have been more accurate for Tsukuyomi herself to make the watch and summon her own timeline-saving powers. Despite how other people have accused this show of lazy writing, I disagree. Where I stand, it's unnecessarily complex and a little convoluted, but I wouldn't say lazy. They saved some things for the finale that should have been built upon sooner, and now they are rapid-firing some things since the show is ending. Really, Zi-O needed about two more episodes to make everything work better.
But I quoted you to help answer bakura23...
so somethings been getting me thinking, tsukasa said that the riders were originaly in separate world's but because of the powers sough got in 2009 (the year decade came on tv) the world's slowly combined. does this mean those wern't A.R.world's but all this time the riders were originally in there own world's until 2009 and that's why we started seeing crossovers after 2009?
If I had to make sense of it, I'd say that you can have both. As raden238 was trying to point out, the multiverse is unlimited. There are more parallels than what's actually on screen. You can have an Earth Prime where nearly all Kamen Riders share the same Earth, and a multiverse where each Kamen Rider is the only hero of that parallel Earth. You can even have A.R. exclusive Riders like Decade, or Kabuto apparently. The TV show is confusing now because it's trying to do both at the same time. It's trying to say there is an endless multiverse with countless parallels near the finale, while the beginning of the show reinforced that almost all these Kamen Riders were from Earth Prime. Multiverse and Time Travel can sometimes be synonymous with each other, depending on the circumstances, but this still too much.
This is one time where you really can't have it both ways. Like I said, I won't call it lazy story writing, but it's getting pretty bad. Especially when you consider that this episode is implying that maybe Sougo is not from Earth Prime, but rather from a parallel Earth. In other words, he might be an A.R. exclusive Rider that is living out a fate similar to what Decade went through. That really changes the narrative of the first few episodes of this show. It's not completely out of the question, but for once I'll admit, it's extremely inconsistent with what the show has been going for all this time. I'm racking my brain just trying to make sense of it. So if you're confused, don't worry, you're not the only one.