FUCKED. UP.
The entire scene in the church was just extraordinarily heartrending and visceral, and not in the shitty video game PR speak way. I mean, actually stabbing and twisting your guts and just generally punching you in the soul visceral. That was the kind of scene that makes me wish that I was actually capable of crying at the sight of tragic events in movies/television/books/etc. because I wanted to feel what was happening much, much more than I already was. Just brilliant, devastating execution.
I really want to see what Kariya's last stand will be like now that he has nothing left to live for. His whole existence is a horrifying aberration now--his only chance of victory came at the cost of the person he was trying to protect, he was denied revenge against Tokiomi, and the only person that he ever loved is dead by his own hands. Berserker now has an equally rabid dog of a Master with no path to victory, no more capability for rational thought, and no regard for his own life. I wonder if, with the last of his strength, Kariya is going to forsake the Grail War entirely and turn his wrath upon Zouken. Even with his fresh infusion of mana from Sakura's worm, there's no way that he can hope to defeat three other Masters and Servants in his frail state and using Berserker to kill Zouken and free Sakura is really the closest that he's going to get to fulfilling the desires that he wishes to be fulfilled by the Grail.
I share the same problems that others have with the battle between Saber and Rider. Saber simply left without asking Iri's whereabouts, and furthermore, she was given a clear opportunity to defeat Rider and passed for no discernible reason. I wasn't particularly pleased with how the situation was handled. At least the motorcycle scenes generally looked good even if they became a bit too CG-happy between the magical armor plating and the shots of pistons and gears in the motor. How exactly Saber was causing the motorcycle to accelerate was left unclear, however I assume that she was creating some sort of magical airfoil to eliminate friction.
Still, the important thing is fuck Gilgamesh, fuck Kotomine, fuck Tokiomi, and fuck Zouken. These final four episodes are going to be absolutely brutal.