That is a question that the penultimate volume of Ergo Proxy does not even attempt to confront, but should. More than once before in the series characters have been put into a weird dream state to convey some message or abstract bit of character development, but here the series does it for two full episodes in a row. Taken individually, both dreams tell worthy stories; Pino's excursion through the blatant Walt Disney/Disneyland rip-off in episode 19 may look fluffy on the surface, but it spins a good and hard tale about AutoReivs and a Proxy designed to make people happy who desperately attempt to maintain their purpose despite encroaching obsolescence, the impending end of humanity, and the artificiality of their efforts. Vincent's dream in episode 20, which finds his perspective trapped in Re-l's body after her return to Romdo but may (or may not) actually be a split personality case, follows the EP tradition of mucking with the viewer's mind and perceptions. Having two dream episodes back-to-back is a little too much, however. Did writer Dai Sato start to run out of ideas, or did he just become so enamored of his own vision that he lost sight of how his story structure might actually play out?
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