One arc focuses on a guy who can manipulate vectors and create dust explosions. They irritated me a bit here in that regard. Also, some of Goro's reactions to things were badly done - he'd still get angry or down over the smallest things, things that he'd already tackled in the series and should've been able to handle without any problems due to his experience and personality. The whole yips thing and such was mostly irritating/boring and I don't feel like the story really went anywhere for the first half of the season. Season 6 wasn't bad, but I felt they should've stopped at 5. At least in later seasons the players were already good/competitive and he just influenced them instead. While I liked season 3, I was starting to get tired of the whole "Goro finds shitty players, makes them awesome" thing. Season 5 was also excellent with a lot of very tense situations. So many fantastic moments in them and they really captured the "burning youth" spirit there. I could definitely see myself going back and watching seasons 1 and 2 again. My ranking of seasons (from best to worst) is as follows: 1 2 5 3 6 4 Overall, it was a great series, but my opinions of the individual seasons vary. Phew, so I finished watching the last season of Major. Once they start showing who they are through their actions and in how they play off of other Masters and Servants with different personalities, then they become more interesting to watch and listen to. I'm sure that's intentional, since we're supposed to see each of them through the lens of the other, and neither of them understand the motivations of the other, but it makes it difficult to get invested in their conflict. I don't feel that Irisviel serves as enough of a humanizing force for Kiritsugu, and certainly Kirei is a cipher. Everything can blend together, and the characterization the episode attempts doesn't have as much of an impact as it should. Kiritsugu, Kirei, and you can throw in Tokiomi as well, all have a relatively flat, emotionless, deliberately paced way of speaking that makes it easy to lose attention when they're just talking at each other for an extended length of time, especially when they start throwing around Grail War terminology that no one not already invested in the franchise cares about. Honestly, I feel that part of the problem with Fate/Zero 1 is the voice acting. There is a lot of atmosphere which uses the medium of film extremely well. As this happens the weather outside also gets increasingly stormy. As he learns more and gets more excited about it, there are faster cuts and more a more kinetic feel in both the direction and his monologue. The scene where Waver learns about the Grail War in the library is another great scene which is much more compelling than any text summary can provide. The combination of the camera framing, the music build up, and the eventual zoom out leading to the white-out with the show logo is definitely a complete audio-visual experience. The opening scene is a good example of something that cannot be conveyed in just a summary. Some esteemed members of this very community are known for using Wikipedia as a replacement for actually watching shows (won't name any names!). Can you get the same information from reading a summary? Sure. These comments do not pay due respect to how subtly powerful the construction of the scenes in the episode are.
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