With Kamen Rider Zi-O's Power Comes Great Responsibility

Watching this week's episode seems to finally address this moral lesson so straight to the audience's faces. Remember the very quote Ben Parker gave to Peter Parker in Spiderman? The hero Sougo is given a vision of the future where he will become an evil overlord. How that will happen is still left unclear and apparently -- Zi-O's greatest enemy may be his future self. Will Sougo cheat in an achievement test and destroy the future 50 years later? Just right now, I can't watch Kamen Rider Zi-O without thinking about Danny Phantom's two parter called "The Ultimate Enemy" -- where the hero was fated to become the biggest villain in the future -- so why wasn't that kind of plot even put into Kamen Rider Kiva (since he did try to become the next Fangire King even if he was the result of an adulterous affair between the former Fangire Queen Maya and his human father to protect his maternal half-brother Taiga) or Kamen Rider Ghost?

The episode has it where Geiz (And seriously, what were his parents thinking naming him that?!) wants to destroy Sougo. But can the Sougo they see right be the very tyrant or are they from an alternate future? Time travel can complicate matters so much if not done right. It reminded me of why I didn't give too much of a high score for the popular Kamen Rider Den-O series -- all the time travel can over-complicate a show! While Geiz starts off trying to destroy Zi-O -- he ends up becoming his ally in the present. Is Geiz trying to make sure that the future they have never occurs? Hmmm... I'm simply bracing myself for a scene where Sougo misuses his Kamen Rider power to steal an answer key to an achievement test, cheats it and it leads to a series of unfortunate events scenario. Hmmm... I'm even finding myself wiating for someone who'd be like Father Time to appear in this series sooner or later!

So we're getting bit of back to Kamen Rider Build which I assume may be an Alternate Reality Build while both Sento and Ryuga are still played by last year's cast. A monster resembling Build is actually some random civilian turned into a monster. This reminds me of how monsters get defeated in Kamen Rider W or the wacky fun that's Kamen Rider Fourze. Strangely, the hero Sougo is a high school student like Gentaro. Except Gentaro is just a happy-go-lucky guy who has no ambitions whatsoever except to be be friends with as many people as possible! Zi-O uses the power of Kamen Rider Build -- though he gives back said powers to both Sento and Ryuga presumably to make sure time runs right. But as said, I always feel like time-traveling heroes may be causing much damage to their own continuity than the villains.

What was amazing is how Sougo is willing to take that risk -- all the while Woz warns him that with great power comes great responsibility. Wait, does that mean that Sougo's uncle will DIE here like Uncle Ben did in Spiderman? Will Sougo's uncle even discover that he has acquired the powers of Zi-O? I hope the show will start to unravel several important background such as flesh out who Sougo is and how he suddenly has the desire to become a king. Right now, all we know is that Sougo wants to help others but little does he realize absolute power corrupts absolutely!

Next week -- it will be the start of the Kamen Rider EX-AID arc. Cast from EX-AID are returning. Emu who is now a pediatrician gets dragged into the battle. So how will the EX-AID crossover turn out? I may not decide to write an update post next week and perhaps, I'll probably just update on Zi-O whenever I feel like it to avoid biting more than I can chew.