Coven Raider Zed's episode 27 proves that the
goat can be goated. You can gild the lily, and
maybe you should, because if something's great,
if something's good, you can make it great. If
something's great, you can make it excellent.
If something's excellent, you can make it, I
don't even know what, outstanding, beyond belief.
The arrival of Coven Raider Dawn, and the Nightmare
Rider, and the, and Sieg. and all his antics,
is making this good show better. And I like that.
It makes me a little bit uncomfortable. I don't
know how Takahashi is this good of a writer.
But I'm not going to talk about that. I'm going
to talk about specifically how Sieg is making
the show so much better. And agree with me or
disagree with me, let me know. I can tell you
if you're wrong or not. It's okay. Everybody's
been wrong in the past. I liked the first few
episodes of Kamen Rider Gaim, and look how wrong
I turned out to be. So. So there's three things
that I see that are making, or that prove my
claim that Sieg is this great way, Dawn is this
great way to make this great show better. So
first of all, the show was great already. We
know this. If you've been watching it, you know.
If you just started episode like 25 and you got
the recap and everything, you know it's been
great. So we're moving on from that. The biggest
thing, or not the biggest thing, but the first
thing that I noticed is Sieg is in this crazy
other world, whatever Sieg's... realm is. Let's
call it the Sieg warehouse. So Sieg's in his
warehouse with all these nightmares, and he's
got them all caged up, and he shoots them down
from their cages, two of them, Shadow and Darkness,
and has them fight against each other. No, not
Shadow and Darkness. Wolf, Big Bad Wolf, and
Shadow or Darkness, whatever it's called. I don't
know. They don't say the names. This isn't Power
Rangers. There's no looking at the viewing globe
and seeing what these guys are called. Anyway,
also no Ultraman where they have it on the screen.
Anyway, tangent, sorry. But he's in this crazy,
weird place, this nightmare shadow warehouse
thing, a nightmare warehouse, and he has these
shadows fight for his entertainment. He lets
one of them go, and the other one he tortures,
he changes, he modifies, and... We don't really
know what's going on with that until later on
in the episode, which I'll get back to. It ties
into the other great thing he's doing. Besides
just being another enemy threat and a third faction
for Code to worry about, for the Lady to worry
about, and for Baku to worry about, so maybe
a fourth faction, he's just, aside from being
this big threat, that's mixing things up. He's
also just changing things and making it more
interesting, more dynamic. So we have this, you
know, what is Sieg's world? What is going on
there? Two, he's going into, he's infiltrating
somehow Baku's dream. Not Baku. I don't know
whose dream he's infiltrating. Nox is having
a dream or nightmare or whatever. Baku goes into
it. It's the one with him facing his darkness,
the shadow, whatever, that fear. And Baku tries
to infiltrate. Or, Baku successfully infiltrates
that dream, but he tries to confront Nox and
recruit him, but Sieg steps in the way, and somehow
he's able to enter the dream as well, which isn't
that novel, I guess, because we saw that five
and six were able to infiltrate whatever dream,
I guess, was that Baku's dream? I'm not sure.
But Sieg infiltrated, and he's powerful enough,
which this is important, that he was able to
stop Plasma. Somehow he got his sword to be a
lightning rod and pulled... Plasma away from
doing the finishing attack on the Darkness Nightmare.
But then Sieg proceeded to attack and destroy
the Darkness Nightmare with a Kourider kick.
Very Ryuki -like. Which ended in the Iron Maiden
killing the Nightmare and releasing this butterfly.
And then, the third thing... So he can exist
or walk through this nightmare realm. Then he
can infiltrate other people's dreams on his own,
and he can control that however, which is great.
How does anybody else do it? I don't know. They
just do. And then third is he's able to transform
the dream because the nightmare, the wolf nightmare
that had lost in the fight in the cage match,
whatever, the illegal fighting ring thing earlier
in the episode, which is a cool tone too. very
fresh very interesting very different from what
we've seen so far in the show he uh like stabs
him and we see something go on his face and we
don't know what that's about and then he pops
up here at the end of the episode where uh this
is clearly going to be a two -parter where he
says like like let's cut all this subconscious
crap and let's just do a cool gang siege or uh
i don't know like a gang war uh dream or nightmare
and now the big bad wolf uh it has this weird
mask cybernetic thing on his face and he is a
gang leader i guess and now nox or odaka and
nem and baku are in this dream together this
nightmare together that sea is somehow made so
we've seen that the nightmares can touch reality
and alter the dreamscape we've seen that zets
and uh Other people like Knox are able to do
the same thing. I don't remember if we actually
saw, I guess we did see agents five and six doing
it when they're in the premonition, but we've
never seen somebody come in and totally change
the dream like 100%. But Sieg can rewrite the
dreams, which is interesting, or it seems like
he's rewriting the dreams and he's changing the
scenario at will. So he's able to infiltrate
into other people's dreams and then alter them
and change them against their will. which is
super interesting. I guess technically maybe
that could have been done before, but we didn't
know about that. And there's a very interesting
explosion or expansion of the world building
and of the lore going on. And it's all being
delivered in this very entertaining, cool package
with Sieg, Comrade Don doing all his crazy stuff.
So that's it. What do you think? Do you think
that he's making this great show even greater?
And do you agree that these three things are
the ways that he's doing it? Are there more ways
or am I totally wrong on this? Let me know. uh,
comment and, uh, let me know what you think about
this. Uh, and also check the pin comment where
you can, uh, dive deeper or you can see the playlist,
but also more importantly, you can dive deeper
into this episode with the inspector's notes,
where I will be going into other things, bonus
material, extra insights that didn't fit into
this analysis of commoners. That's episode 27.
So until next time, folks take care. This is
MJ with writer tears and henshin inspection signing
out.