#kamen rider zi-o
honestly i kinda wish they had stuck to their original plan and kept woz as the final villain. it makes so much sense that swartz was such a nothing bad guy and woz never had any kind of proper redemption/atonement arc, because they weren’t initially setting any of that up
it’d be cool if instead of being pure evil by the end, he had decided he Needed to turn against the team to ensure the future stays on its “correct” course and that sougo becomes oma zi-o. but even during the final battle, after all this talk of woz needing to be stopped no matter what, sougo’s grown too close to him to finish him off. after defeating him, sougo would extend his hand out to woz and tell him that he understands and it’s okay, bc that’s who sougo is, and that would be the moment where woz realizes he’s been fighting for someone who’s never cared for him, when he could’ve been fighting alongside a true friend
and then oma zi-o shows up and gets defeated by the power of friendship or something. i dunno, im just rambling off the top of my head here. the original arc probably still would’ve been some kind of mess because It’s Zi-O, but i still would’ve liked to see it more than swartz’s alternate universe nonsense
