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Fate/Zero episode 2

I'm already loving Rider from his book stealing and declaration of why he's not a thief.

Also I was right about what's the OP, woo.

LMAO Waver is scared shitless of Rider and I love it.

I'm really not sure if Waver is actually supposed to be an amazing mage or not, and I'm curious to see if he's actually that good and it is just the Circle Tower people being idiots or if he's just a cocky teen who is way overestimating his strength. My guess is it will be somewhere in the middle tho.

It's very interesting that the show is using Iskandar rather than Alexander for Rider's name. Is that just how he's referred to in Japanese and does the dub change that?

Kiritsugu's kid is not nearly as cute as Rin. I love that he admits to cheating being his only chance of winning tho, because that seems to be a sum of his life philosophy from his backstory we were told.

Ah so we aren't even pretending Saber isn't Arthur, I was under the impression that's a mystery... But I guess that's only in Stay/Night?

Wow I really don't care about Saber's backstory, and why the stories of her portray her as a man.

WHERE ARE THE GODDAMN FIGHTS UFOTABLE. I've seen what you can do in Demon Slayer, give me that, and not this talking :v

Are we just getting introduced to all the masters and servants now...

Oh god it's a crazy serial killer... I wonder if he's the last? second to last? master... I think the demon he's summoning might be one of the last "heroic" spirits. Not sure whoever this dude fights with can really be considered heroic tho.

Also it says a lot about how much the exposition in the first episode stuck for me that I don't even remember if we got the sixth master revealed already or not.

Yep he's another one, so we prolly are just getting introduced to all the servants this episode.

THE FUCK ARE CASTER'S EYES. I hate them.

Okay yeah Caster is by no even remote stretch of the word, heroic. I hope to see both of these two die a horrible death.

... it's fucking Bluebeard are you fucking kidding me, that's the opposite of heroic. I wonder if it's actually Gilles or a fictional person. Gilles would be my guess since everyone else seems to be real people, even if they're modified.

So I don't think we got the seventh, because we didn't get a reminder of who that was... but we also didn't get a reminder of the dude who had worms burrow into him so maybe we did.

I wonder what Archer being one of "the three knight classes" could mean... guessing it's a different kind of specialty? Knight makes me suspect it's related to his fighting skill being better in some way.

Assassin infiltrating the Tohsaka's house was really fucking cool visuals... and thank fuck there's an actual fight... tho it seems Assassin kinda just got destroyed. Gates of Babylon or w/e Archer's special skill is called looked even better than I expected.

Honestly thank fuck this ended on a fight, because I am... not the biggest fan of the pacing thus far. It's still something I'm enjoing, but that was trending downward for most of this episode. I do wonder if the Saber convo worked less for me because I've not seen Stay/Night.

Ah well, hopefully we get more action and less talking in the next episodes.

ED was... fine.
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