WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.399 Baku's death, or apparent death, is not the most 00:00:03.399 --> 00:00:05.500 important thing that happens in episode 24 of 00:00:05.500 --> 00:00:08.460 Kamen Rider Zetsu. It's the fact that he leaves 00:00:08.460 --> 00:00:10.980 an injured person, whether he was a civilian 00:00:10.980 --> 00:00:14.759 or a code employee, lying on the floor, dying, 00:00:14.939 --> 00:00:17.699 and he does nothing to help him. He has the recovery 00:00:17.699 --> 00:00:19.879 capsum. He could have saved this man's life, 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:24.219 but he chose to walk away and do what? I'm not 00:00:24.219 --> 00:00:27.160 100 % sure. His mission is to destroy the nightmares. 00:00:28.290 --> 00:00:30.550 or Annihilate the Nightmares, whatever 3 told 00:00:30.550 --> 00:00:36.149 him to do. And he stayed focused on that mission, 00:00:36.329 --> 00:00:39.429 possibly, despite the fact that he said that 00:00:39.429 --> 00:00:41.090 he was going to do the mission that he chose, 00:00:41.250 --> 00:00:45.289 which was to save Nem. The episode is so complex. 00:00:45.369 --> 00:00:47.549 There's so many things going on. And I watched 00:00:47.549 --> 00:00:49.070 the full episode a while ago, and then I just 00:00:49.070 --> 00:00:51.929 rewatched it at double speed shortly before doing 00:00:51.929 --> 00:00:57.359 this analysis. I don't know at that point if 00:00:57.359 --> 00:00:59.119 he knows that Nem is supposed to be at that building 00:00:59.119 --> 00:01:02.780 or not. I know Zero and Three know that, but 00:01:02.780 --> 00:01:05.599 does Baku know that? I have no idea. I cannot 00:01:05.599 --> 00:01:09.219 remember. He's also supposed to be in the real 00:01:09.219 --> 00:01:11.180 world as opposed to the dream world, so that 00:01:11.180 --> 00:01:14.939 kind of changes things up a little bit. And he 00:01:14.939 --> 00:01:22.579 is accused of going rogue and failing at his 00:01:22.579 --> 00:01:25.969 mission. to annihilate the nightmares even though 00:01:25.969 --> 00:01:30.450 he's annihilating nightmare after nightmare after 00:01:30.450 --> 00:01:34.189 nightmare as the lady is using her gauntlet i 00:01:34.189 --> 00:01:36.629 think it's called the lady gauntlet as she's 00:01:36.629 --> 00:01:39.769 using that to release all these nightmares and 00:01:39.769 --> 00:01:42.310 he's just destroying them all in the process 00:01:42.310 --> 00:01:44.989 he's destroying the building which i could see 00:01:44.989 --> 00:01:47.230 as being irritating but it's not really defying 00:01:47.230 --> 00:01:50.730 the mission it's collateral damage um code who 00:01:50.730 --> 00:01:52.390 apparently is willing to throw away the life 00:01:52.859 --> 00:01:55.340 or the lives of its agents should know all about 00:01:55.340 --> 00:01:57.040 collateral damage and should be accepting of 00:01:57.040 --> 00:02:03.579 that. And yet they are seeing him as defying 00:02:03.579 --> 00:02:05.319 the mission, despite the fact that he's literally 00:02:05.319 --> 00:02:08.039 annihilating shadows or nightmares, I should 00:02:08.039 --> 00:02:13.599 say. So that's a confusing thing that really 00:02:13.599 --> 00:02:15.580 distracts me. And I think maybe it's distracting 00:02:15.580 --> 00:02:18.099 everybody from what's really going on here, which 00:02:18.099 --> 00:02:21.680 is that it's horrible. And it's an evidence that 00:02:22.170 --> 00:02:26.710 Essentially, Baku's already dead. Even though 00:02:26.710 --> 00:02:30.430 he's operating as code number seven, as Zets 00:02:30.430 --> 00:02:33.909 with Catastrum, he has lost his soul. He's lost 00:02:33.909 --> 00:02:36.550 his heart. He's lost who he is. And he's no longer 00:02:36.550 --> 00:02:39.849 the good, noble guy that we saw previously. I 00:02:39.849 --> 00:02:45.169 believe in real life, he used impact to put himself 00:02:45.169 --> 00:02:48.650 in front of a truck to save a kid's life. And 00:02:48.650 --> 00:02:53.800 that's a big deal. We've seen him save other 00:02:53.800 --> 00:02:57.259 people at critical times when he could have been 00:02:57.259 --> 00:02:59.699 fighting instead. And that established a pattern 00:02:59.699 --> 00:03:02.439 of what he's like. And now we see the pattern 00:03:02.439 --> 00:03:06.159 is broken because all he's focusing on is destroying 00:03:06.159 --> 00:03:09.759 the nightmares slash finding them. He's trying 00:03:09.759 --> 00:03:11.620 to find them. The nightmares are in his way. 00:03:11.759 --> 00:03:15.800 Therefore, he's destroying them. And you could 00:03:15.800 --> 00:03:18.120 argue that that's him being focused on his mission 00:03:18.120 --> 00:03:22.860 of finding them. if his mission is to save people 00:03:22.860 --> 00:03:27.060 and she's a person he's trying to save, is he 00:03:27.060 --> 00:03:29.879 justified in ignoring the lives of other people 00:03:29.879 --> 00:03:33.419 in order to save her? Is that what Nem would 00:03:33.419 --> 00:03:37.979 want? Is that what he really wants? I guess I'm 00:03:37.979 --> 00:03:40.400 essentially asking, has he lost his soul? Has 00:03:40.400 --> 00:03:42.680 he lost his heart? Has he lost his way in working 00:03:42.680 --> 00:03:46.500 for code? And is that part of the terror or the 00:03:46.500 --> 00:03:50.789 horror of code that knocks? odaka spoke about 00:03:50.789 --> 00:03:53.849 and that the lady has spoken about the lady we 00:03:53.849 --> 00:03:56.550 have context now was uh code number two so she 00:03:56.550 --> 00:03:59.469 was an agent and she had this uh immaculate nightmare 00:03:59.469 --> 00:04:02.349 conception and that's where nem came from um 00:04:02.349 --> 00:04:05.210 that's kind of a distraction from my main point 00:04:05.210 --> 00:04:08.909 though uh we don't really know where code came 00:04:08.909 --> 00:04:11.930 from i think the wiki says that or sorry where 00:04:11.930 --> 00:04:15.229 nem came from it kind of seems like code created 00:04:15.229 --> 00:04:16.850 her somehow but i don't think that's what happened 00:04:16.850 --> 00:04:20.750 i know Since she's this replica of a human made 00:04:20.750 --> 00:04:23.990 of nightmare, Code wants her. They want to examine 00:04:23.990 --> 00:04:25.790 her, test her, use her, observe her, whatever, 00:04:25.970 --> 00:04:28.250 which is fairly reasonable because she could 00:04:28.250 --> 00:04:30.829 be dangerous. But it sends the lady off on this. 00:04:32.769 --> 00:04:35.930 She goes crazy to save this baby, which makes 00:04:35.930 --> 00:04:38.949 sense. But then she tells Nim that she hasn't 00:04:38.949 --> 00:04:43.189 slept for 20 years. And that's the kind of extreme 00:04:43.189 --> 00:04:47.149 measure. that first of all, it's impossible, 00:04:47.269 --> 00:04:50.329 but it's also impossible for, uh, you know, Baku 00:04:50.329 --> 00:04:51.689 to do what he's doing with forming catastrophe. 00:04:52.050 --> 00:04:55.310 And also the lady somehow created the subliminal 00:04:55.310 --> 00:04:58.269 space, uh, with her garden and whatnot, where 00:04:58.269 --> 00:05:03.889 she can operate from in order to stop. Uh, she's 00:05:03.889 --> 00:05:05.230 like, she's somehow harvesting the nightmares 00:05:05.230 --> 00:05:08.850 in order to hide them and ultimately reunite 00:05:08.850 --> 00:05:11.670 them. Again, these things are all kind of crazy 00:05:11.670 --> 00:05:15.170 and all, uh, you know, it's a confusing. mess 00:05:15.170 --> 00:05:17.230 i feel like there is solid logic there but i 00:05:17.230 --> 00:05:19.129 don't quite know what it is and i don't quite 00:05:19.129 --> 00:05:22.649 know what it's saying but the point is that all 00:05:22.649 --> 00:05:27.269 of these things exist as a stage to have baku 00:05:27.269 --> 00:05:31.269 on to have him face this struggle and i don't 00:05:31.269 --> 00:05:34.810 know what takashi's saying about this um i find 00:05:34.810 --> 00:05:38.490 his character work very interesting um i'm thinking 00:05:38.490 --> 00:05:40.290 about laser i can't remember his name from x 00:05:40.290 --> 00:05:42.110 -aid his uh his human name i'm thinking about 00:05:42.110 --> 00:05:44.519 him though right now and what he did And I'm 00:05:44.519 --> 00:05:47.459 thinking about Aruto a little bit and his, you 00:05:47.459 --> 00:05:50.100 know, love for the AI and how he protected the, 00:05:50.180 --> 00:05:55.959 oh gosh, what are they called? Whatever they're 00:05:55.959 --> 00:05:58.800 called. Humagear, something? Anyway, Humagear, 00:05:58.819 --> 00:06:01.860 how he was protecting them and like, you know, 00:06:01.860 --> 00:06:03.959 what exactly he was saying. I feel like he was 00:06:03.959 --> 00:06:05.480 saying that even these artificial life forms 00:06:05.480 --> 00:06:09.360 are deserving of life and are deserving of protection. 00:06:09.660 --> 00:06:12.100 And he's kind of saying something similar with 00:06:12.100 --> 00:06:18.399 NEM. but then Baku's willing to sacrifice a non 00:06:18.399 --> 00:06:23.500 -artificial life in order to save Nem, that being 00:06:23.500 --> 00:06:26.160 the guy that got hurt by the collapse of the 00:06:26.160 --> 00:06:28.519 building, part of the building. But then that 00:06:28.519 --> 00:06:32.740 goes back to my question about, is it okay to 00:06:32.740 --> 00:06:35.000 ignore one person to save another person? And 00:06:35.000 --> 00:06:38.259 I don't know if there's an actual ethical answer 00:06:38.259 --> 00:06:41.449 to that question, or if that's just a... a challenging 00:06:41.449 --> 00:06:44.209 question, a challenging idea that Takahashi is 00:06:44.209 --> 00:06:46.629 putting forward and kind of proposing to the 00:06:46.629 --> 00:06:50.069 audience of the show by having this here, because 00:06:50.069 --> 00:06:53.790 obviously something is, you know, the question 00:06:53.790 --> 00:06:55.970 is being demonstrated to us. It's not being spelled 00:06:55.970 --> 00:06:57.850 out, but it's being shown to us that there's 00:06:57.850 --> 00:07:00.850 this issue, this idea, this conflict that Baku's 00:07:00.850 --> 00:07:03.490 in and that we can see going on. And I'm just 00:07:03.490 --> 00:07:05.670 wondering, what is he trying to say and what 00:07:05.670 --> 00:07:09.910 is the point of all this? And I think. I wonder 00:07:09.910 --> 00:07:12.170 if most people are going to miss this idea because 00:07:12.170 --> 00:07:14.589 there's a lot going on. But I really felt like 00:07:14.589 --> 00:07:17.889 that little scene of him seeing the guy and then 00:07:17.889 --> 00:07:19.529 turning away from him is just like its core. 00:07:19.709 --> 00:07:23.370 Like it is what the episode is about. And I don't 00:07:23.370 --> 00:07:24.629 know if that means that's what the show is about. 00:07:24.750 --> 00:07:27.550 And generally, I don't really know what the show 00:07:27.550 --> 00:07:29.649 is all about. But I do find it interesting and 00:07:29.649 --> 00:07:32.790 it's riveting. It's exciting to watch. And I 00:07:32.790 --> 00:07:34.470 absolutely love this episode. And I'm so much 00:07:34.470 --> 00:07:37.930 looking forward to the next episode. discourse 00:07:37.930 --> 00:07:39.709 I've seen about Zets is kind of all over the 00:07:39.709 --> 00:07:43.550 place, and I'm mostly ignoring it because my 00:07:43.550 --> 00:07:45.769 opinion matters most to me, not other people's 00:07:45.769 --> 00:07:48.709 opinions. But if you'd like to, I'd love to hear 00:07:48.709 --> 00:07:50.490 what you have to say about this. Leave me a comment. 00:07:50.610 --> 00:07:52.370 I'd love to talk about this, get your perspective 00:07:52.370 --> 00:07:55.290 on this. Check out the pinned comment for more. 00:07:55.350 --> 00:07:57.269 I'm going to have some bonus content there, as 00:07:57.269 --> 00:07:58.629 well as the playlist for Zets and everything 00:07:58.629 --> 00:08:01.889 else that I'm doing. But while you're checking 00:08:01.889 --> 00:08:04.610 out the pinned comment, and if you want to make 00:08:04.610 --> 00:08:06.990 a comment of your own, I wonder, what was the 00:08:07.389 --> 00:08:09.689 thing that stood out to you most from this episode 00:08:09.689 --> 00:08:13.750 before watching this analysis? And do you see 00:08:13.750 --> 00:08:16.870 what I'm getting at with me focusing so much 00:08:16.870 --> 00:08:18.689 on this one little bit of the episode, just a 00:08:18.689 --> 00:08:21.329 few seconds? And what do you think it means? 00:08:21.370 --> 00:08:23.430 And what do you think this episode was about? 00:08:23.490 --> 00:08:24.629 And what do you think the show is about as a 00:08:24.629 --> 00:08:28.129 whole? I'd be really curious to understand, get 00:08:28.129 --> 00:08:30.290 an understanding, hopefully from you, of what's 00:08:30.290 --> 00:08:31.790 going on here and what exactly is being said. 00:08:32.879 --> 00:08:36.419 Until next time, folks, this is MJ with Henshin 00:08:36.419 --> 00:08:41.500 Inspection and Rider Tears signing out. Say hello, 00:08:41.559 --> 00:08:48.240 kitty. Meow. Meow. Meow. There you go. Yep, there 00:08:48.240 --> 00:08:51.879 you are. You're a cat. You're a cat. Are you 00:08:51.879 --> 00:08:52.399 a code cat?