Quote Originally Posted by shinta|hikari View Post
I'll just dive right into the heart of the matter.

You're saying Souma made some preparations that allowed him to win. I'm saying that those preparations are nothing special and shouldn't have allowed him to win. But they did. Because of plot armor. If you're saying you're okay with us being unsatisfied about that, then we no longer have an argument.
Yes, that's the heart of the matter in some regards.. in the end, whether the show wants to come out straight and call it that, Souma did a combination of both what Copy Man said opponents did against him to counter his copying. Tricked him with the dish, and did some improv. In addition to that, he had ample time to work through it, some in his head (which is important so that Copy Man doesn't, well, copy it) and some physically (the preparation with the reporter) and then whatever he came up with on a whim in the day of the competition to pull it altogether.

I'm not sure why you don't think that's nothing special in the context that anyone could've done it, because no, not everyone could've.

So yes, that's a legit counter to what Mimasaka does, which is part of what you're arguing.

And yeah, I don't care if you find it satisfying or not, everything is pure bullshit anyways (that's like the premise of the show as it is, so it's a given), but don't bring false comparisons to the table, in particular what Aldini experienced which was completely different.