Fast forward to its launch, it was a car crash, people hating it, people trying to understand it, a minority liking it, the score here - and anywhere else really - speaks for themselves, Netflix's Knights of the Zodiac is a complete failure.
I barely remember the first 6 episodes, but remarkable moments were the speaking manhole (talk about comedy relief), the Galactic Tournament on a desert, a front of army fighting a handful of saints able to move above the speed of sound, all that because they wanted to add that general that no one will even bother to remember the name, because 1: it is not lore; 2: we know he will be irrelevant anyway.
So let's talk about those 6 new fresh episodes, the half dozen they had 6 months to rework after the catastrophic release of the first half. It is the same leachate, kudos for at least showing a few moments of the Silver Saints Arc and Aioria's fight against Seiya. And here, once again, they changed the lore, let's start with Gemini Saga and the Pope in the same room when the order to kill Athena comes (if you watched the original you know that Saga killed the original Pope - the one that gave Seiya his Pegasus's cloth, which happened to be Shion a saint from 273 years ago that had direct contact with Athena, so, no, Shion wouldn't order Saori's death - and took his place asking Capricorn Shura to kill Sagittarius Aioros); Shina not wearing her mask (despite being obligatory for female Saints, because after Seiya saw her face on the beginning a female Saint has to either love or kill the man that saw her face, that's why Marin wears a mask, it is not to confuse viewers that she might be Seika. Not only that when OG Shun was training there was a female Saint with him, Chameleon June and she wore a mask too) and her consequent protection of Seiya against Aioria's attack, it wasn't because she became noble out of nowhere, Shina loves Seiya, the anime shows that, the show doesn't (even though they tend to put emphasis in the "romance" between Seiya and Saori); I don't like to repeat myself but the general that no one cares, after 3 episodes with some of the Silver Saints and Leo Aioria, all the rest are developed with the (fake) Black Knights which are general Cassius copies that don't add anything to the story, just to fulfil the idiocy that was implementing a new useless arc to the story, even the Steel Saints from the anime filler had more personality than the Black Knights, besides that they are powered by a gigantic wireless battery powered by "cosmos", how did the general was able to trap an immaterial energy that resides within a person in a material object is beyond me, I guess Netflix thought it made sense, by the way, even after this battery is destroyed, the general is able to enter "Iron Monger Armour" - that was totally an Iron Man rip off - and has energy somehow (even before getting hit by the Bronze Saints's blows (btw he can also absorb cosmo thanks to science).
But the cherry on top of the sundae is the REPRESENTATION that Netflix felt necessary to put: female Shun doesn't do anything, female Shun can't stand on their own whilst the males are fighting, female Shun just doesn't do anything. Congratulations Netflix, you defeated the patriarchy and all it took was to change the gender of an anime character.
They tried to hint a season two with the Gold Saints, when Sagitta Ptolemy hits Saori with an arrow, but how can Ptolemy use the same kind of portal that Mu used (and here it is another lore changing, since only Mu and people from Jamir can teleport)?
Pathetic show, there could have been a better adaptation, they could have added a new saint, someone like Yuna from Omega that doesn't want to follow the mask rule; that general arc was uncalled for, in 12 episodes they could have worked with the Galactic Tournament, Black Saints (the real ones) and Silver Saints; changing Shina (before mentioned) and using Saga as one of the saints that attacked Aioros is another stupidity (btw I even forgot to mention, Aioros was branded as someone that was trying to kill Athena, after his death by Shura the Pope would deny Saori as Athena and say that the real Athena was within the Sanctuary, protected).
