Really good pod. I was actually thinking the Berserk armour would activate and we would get a more insane fight between Guts and Griffith with the armour activated, its literally Griffith standing right there, its true it just makes no sense for it not to activate, unless for some reason they wanted to have Guts's face visible. With the armour activated i think Griffith would still be unable to be hit etc, and the scenario would be similar but what if he snapped out of the armour once he saw casca was in danger as the sword was coming down, i also like Griffith stopping the blow too because of the boys interference. i was also thinking it would be more impactful for me if Griffith would have transformed into Femto during a pivotal moment in the fight, imagine the image of Femto picking up Casca not his human form and Guts seeing it, imagine how Guts would feel after all this time, what has changed since the eclipse? he still cannot protect her from him, it would be overwhelming for Guts, that's still here but i think it would be cooler if it was femto. then the ground could fall and stuff. Guts's facial expressions are lacking in my opinion too, I remember at the hill of swords how interesting and varied his facial expressions where, for example when Griffith saved Casca his face was filled with different emotions, but so far the expressions feel flat, it almost makes me question if this moment is really that big of a deal to Guts which is not good at all.
Also with the Guts and Zodd fight they could have just had one more page of the fight after cutting from Danan and have Zodd charge Guts, Guts's at the corner of his eye see's Griffith walking towards Casca... Guts knows he has to act so Guts dodges Zodds charge and makes him get his horn stuck in a tree, then Guts runs towards Casca and Farnese and Sheirke, and he is shouting get back! But Griffith actually puts his arms around all of them including Casca, and it shows Guts as the aggressor trying to attack his friends and Casca, and then maybe Serpico and the others would see this, but then Griffith picks up Casca alone and the episode ends.