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If you're feeling conflicted about everything

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that happened in episode 16 of Combinator Zets,

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I don't blame you. I think that's exactly where

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the writers wanted us. And honestly, that's where

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I am. Probably the biggest, there's a lot to

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be conflicted about. There's a lot to discuss.

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There's a lot of things to go back and forth

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on. This could be a long episode, but I want

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to focus in on one thing. Did Baku make the right

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choice trusting Zero? That's the thing that has

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me the most conflicted right now because I haven't

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trusted Zero for a long time. Nox is an enemy,

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Odaka is an enemy, or he's acting in alliance

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with the Nightmares. The Nightmares are actively

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harming people. There's something that feels

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off about the way that Zero is telling Baku to

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operate. He's asking him to be loyal without

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questioning. He's asking him to basically not

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question his orders to kill somebody. And when

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he finds out about this, that Baku has questioned

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him and... hasn't just killed nox killed odaka

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he's upset with him and i think the part of the

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episode where uh baku walks away with him from

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him and then he falls through the sky and ends

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up landing on his bed um you know they say from

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when i was a kid i don't know if this is the

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same in japan they said that if you fell in your

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dream and you hit the ground you would actually

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die and that's why you always wake up before

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hitting the ground well in his dream baku Agent

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7, did not hit the ground. He instead woke up

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and he was on the ground in his bedroom, in his

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jammies. So that's something that raises suspicion.

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It definitely felt like that was something that

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Zero was doing to him, something that Zero was

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using to maybe put him in his place and kind

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of assert his authority over Baku. How dare you

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question me? And that's just one thing. That's

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just one thing from this episode. There are lots

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of other examples of reasons why I don't trust

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Zero. I don't know where you fall on that. Do

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you trust Zero or not? But the idea that this

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superior of his is telling him there's no other

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way to do this than to kill this guy is interesting,

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and it should create conflict. And I feel like

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Baku's answer and his resolve, like, I'm even

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conflicted on this. I don't know that I like

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him accepting the... role as the one and only

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agent. But I like that he's doing it. Even if

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he's mistaken, I like that he's being a man and

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showing growth. And Zero said that he's come

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a long way. And I agree, he has come a long way.

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But I don't know that he's come a long way in

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the way that Zero thinks or if he's come a long

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way in the way that I think. And the neat thing

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is that We're not getting inner monologue from

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Baku on what he's doing, why he's doing it. We're

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seeing moments of him being still and reflecting

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and then choosing to do something. When he put

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down the phone, I don't know if it was last episode

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or the episode before, it was because he was

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upset with Zero and he didn't just want to blindly

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follow his rules. And I was thinking maybe he

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didn't want to be tracked. Maybe he didn't want

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to be heard. Zero found out about it somehow.

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That's another interesting point. How did Zero

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find out about it? We don't know. And that makes

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him more suspicious to me as well. Also, Zero

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didn't show himself during the scene where Nami

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and the detectives were in there. He was just

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a regular bike and they were dealing with him,

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even though we've seen him come out into the

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real world as the Zero robot. And I find that

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suspicious too. He was completely silent, even

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though he's upset with Baku. And uncertain about

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him. And later on, he tells Knox that, like,

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you've lost your license, which I love the 007.

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I don't like 007, but I do like the 007 reference.

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License to kill. You've lost your license to

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transform. You're not allowed to use that driver

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anymore. So he snatches it from him. And then

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boom, Knox pulls out another one. Very cool.

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Very cool moment. But getting back to did Baku

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make the right choice or not? I don't know. There's

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really a lot of evidence to say that. Zero shouldn't

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be trusted. He's saying it's a big national secret

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and he can only share that secret with a trusted

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agent. So therefore, Baku has to earn his trust

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again. Why? If code is in people's dreams, if

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you're in his head, if you're working with him

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and manipulating him in these different ways,

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then don't you have the insight to know that

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he is a trustworthy individual? Or are there

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certain things that he can do that are outside

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of your scope of control that... affect whether

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or not you can trust him? Or are you just lying,

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Zero, to string this guy along and get him to

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do what you want him to do? And it's interesting

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too, because Zero can't do things. He fights

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Nox, who's arguably somebody powerful. He disarms

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him in his old armor, in his knight armor, or

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his knight suit, whatever. He's able to do that.

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So why wouldn't he have been able to just take

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him out on his own? Why didn't he? What's going

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on there? Why isn't he in the field fighting?

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This wasn't a desperate maneuver where the headquarters

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were attacking. He had to fight. He showed up

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there to support him, support Baku, so that Baku

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could go and find the missing idol, find Nam

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in her little red riding hood outfit, and chase

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down that nightmare. And he didn't have to come

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out and... participate in the fight but he chose

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to for a specific reason i probably to recall

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this you know rogue agent and to get the driver

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tech away from him um and then yeah he admits

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that that's not a code item that implies that

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code has some sort of development arm and that

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implies a lot and i don't know it all just makes

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him seem even shadier and i really don't trust

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the guy and uh yeah I don't like them, but I

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like the episode. It was really good. It was

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really enjoyable to watch, and I'm excited about

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what's going on, the mysteries that are being

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set up, and it's just really been an enjoyable

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show. I was going to close out with something

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else, which I will. I'll be real soft about it,

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which is that I think this is a great jumping

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-on point for the show, honestly, if you have

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people who you know who might be interested.

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This is a great place to start them, and you

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can just say, look, this is what happened, basically,

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and now watch this. You get to skip over all

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that stuff. It's not that it wasn't important,

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but just you get it in summary, and now you're

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getting this, and enjoy. So anyway, do you think

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Baku made the right choice in trusting Zero?

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Would you have? Check out the pinned comment

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for more. This is MJ, Pension Inspection, and

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Writer Tears, signing out.