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Episode 22 of Kamen Rider Resets proves that

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Yui Takahashi has us all duped. He's got the

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characters duped, he's got the viewers duped,

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and... It's interesting and it's frustrating

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at the same time. What is the trick that he's

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pulled on us? What is the wool that he's pulled

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over our eyes? It's this. Baku asks a very legitimate

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question. He's questioning... What code's true

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purpose is? What code is doing? Is code even

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righteous? And instead of exploring that question,

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which is something that we should explore, something

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that's thematically important to explore, Baku

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buys into, you know, spoilers for 22 of Zets,

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Baku feels guilt over letting Kureha die and

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ultimately over letting number five die. I don't

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remember his name, sorry. The watchdog, the guard

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dog of code. Because of his guilt and because

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of his trauma that was sparked by his inaction,

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he totally buys into the idea that he has to

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use the power of nightmares, this awful power

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of nightmares, in order to become this, to become

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something else, to become someone else. He uses

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the power of Catastrum and he basically, totally

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wrecks Knox. And it's so satisfying to watch

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him wield this much power that it almost made

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me forget that the question was raised about

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what's really going on with code. And it was

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just set aside. I don't think that's bad writing

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for now. I think it's very effective writing.

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Very clever. It's satisfying two different types

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of people. It's satisfying people who are more

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focused on the story. And it's satisfying people

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who are more focused on the spectacle. It's interesting

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because it works on both levels. Raising the

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question makes it legitimate. Setting it aside

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to have a crazy awesome fight where... He nerfs

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Nox's gun. It's super cool. And even the fist

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bump with his darkness, with his evil, with the

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shadow, with this other thing that's the core

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of the power of Zets is interesting. Also, there's

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a question that's raised by Kureha, kind of an

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invisible question, that there's something special

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about Baku which enables him to use the Zets

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driver. Our understanding is that code developed

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the Zets driver, but that does not seem to be

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true. What is it? Where did it come from? Those

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are new questions that are being raised. Those

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are new questions that will affect the story.

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And the answer might be from Baku's dream. And

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also the idea that as an infant, Baku was dreaming

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about this catastrophe of the world is bizarre.

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When did his parents die? We don't know. Could

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that have anything to do with it? We don't know.

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For me, it's simultaneously frustrating and enjoyable,

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engaging, that Yuya Takahashi is able to craft

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these stories, or craft this story, work this

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story in such a way that he avoids giving us

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answers, but we don't really care because of

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the things that are going on in between. are

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impactful and meaningful and entertaining and

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it's something i brought up before and something

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i'm repeating here but it really is shocking

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that catastrophe is this huge deal at least on

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a level of spectacle and it also looks like it

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has deeper roots within the main story in the

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background of the story and that's being focused

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on as opposed to focusing on this very legitimate

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topic that baku is raising and it's very interesting

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it even allows us to not sit with and examine

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the idea of whether or not it's okay to go along

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with a system that is flawed and bad and might

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be evil if in the short term you're able to help

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people Even if they're willing participants of

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the system. And one might be able to argue that

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they're not deserving of help, assistance, salvation.

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Whatever. Code agent number five claims that

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they're saving the world and it's a thankless

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job. But we don't really get to see that. He

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claims that he never lets go of his target until

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he's killed them. Which implies that he's killed

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people before. And we know that he wants to kill

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Odaka, and he tries to. I'm not a Batman shouldn't

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kill people person. I'm a Batman should kill

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people person. I'm a Batman should have killed

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the Joker when he had the chance. And... Yet,

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I am... Feeling myself question this idea that

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code number five is willing to kill people, willing

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to kill his target, and he's also so aggressively

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pursuing them. It's more that he's aggressively

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pursuing targets to kill. It almost makes it

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seem like he enjoys it. But maybe he means that

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when he has a target to pursue, he's assigned

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to them because they are deserving of death.

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They've given up their humanity. They've written

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their own death warrant, whatever. These are

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concepts I'm comfortable with. But I think I'm

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uncomfortable with just accepting it from code

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because code is shady already. We know this.

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And also, there isn't enough information being

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shared. There isn't enough context we have as

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an audience to really understand what's going

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on to know whether or not it's acceptable and

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good and moral. What do you think? Am I off base?

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Am I being ridiculous? Am I being too sensitive?

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Do you think code is to blame for all of this?

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I don't know. I got other questions. Check the

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pinned comment for more. You can see my Zets

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playlist as well as playlists on other Tokusatsu

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weakness. And that's it. This is MJ with Rider

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Tears and Henshin Inspection signing out. Till

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next time.