This is normally the part where I mention that all’s well that ends well but then you must remember that this was written by Gen Urobuchi. So that means mountains of tears, Pyrrhic victories, and broken bodies and dreams at the end of the journey. Anyone who has played Fate/Stay Night knows that it could not have ended on a positive note or there would be no story to tell later on. But that does not make the ashes taste any better in your mouth. Still there is some hope at the end. A few golden glimmers that there still can be a better tomorrow.

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This is about nine-tenths of the climax of Fate/Zero. I was wondering if that was the case and it indeed was what happened. That did mean that at least one major battle and its aftermath looks like it has been cut down to the bare bones to fit within the episode. But we get the nitty-gritty on the showdown between the main protagonist and antagonist (hero and villain is stretching it quite a bit.) This is the episode where one pure dream dies and another horrible dream springs up in its place. You can’t always get what you want but if you try sometimes you just might find you get a twisted mockery of what you want instead.

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Anyone who has experienced Fate/Stay Night will know that certain people just have to die. Their destiny is written in stone. As I mentioned in a previous article this makes fights for people who played the original story a way of finding out what was only hinted at in the past. But for people who never saw any of that this might seem more like a race anyone could win. That said I felt like the battle in this episode had a certain gravity that could not be escaped. I also felt that conclusion was equally set in stone.

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