[Village Idiot]

From the looks of the advance previews for the next several episodes:

Spoiler for Ep11-14 Previews:

１１話「鮮血神殿（ブラッド・フォート・アンドロメダ）」
凛は鍛錬を積んできた士郎を見て彼の魔術の本質を知る。
午前中はセイバーと稽古午後からは凛に魔術を教わり戦いに備える日々を送る士郎。
そんな士郎に慎二は電話をかけ「どうしても話しておきたいことがあるから一人で学校へ来い」と 告げる。

Ep 11. The Temple Of Blood (Blood Fort Adromeda)
Shirou spends his days by practising Swords play with Saber in the morning and mastering Magic with Rin in the afternoon. Through Rin's trainings, Shiro learnt the essence of Magic.Then Shinji called, saying he wish to speak with Shirou alone in the school.

１２話「空を裂く」
これ以上慎二に人を傷つけさせたくない士郎はライダーを倒し聖杯戦争から離脱させる決意を固め る。
そして士郎とセイバーは慎二を探し新都へと赴く。

Ep12. Splitting The Sky.
Shirou, who does not want to hurt Shinji, makes the decison to kill Rider to pull shinji out of the Grail War. So he and Saber headed for Shinjuku to search for Shinji.


１３話「冬の城」
ライダーとの激しい戦いで宝具を解放し魔力を使い果たしてしまい倒れるセイバー。
このまま魔力を回復できなければセイバーは消えてしまうと知るが何も出来ない自分に落ち込む士 郎。

Ep 13. Winter's Castle.
Saber manage to defeat Rider after an intense fight by unleasing her Noble Phantasm and exhaust all her mana in the process. Shirou, who does not know how to replenish Saber's mana, gets worried when he knew Saber would disappear if thing carries on.

１４話「無限の剣製（アンリミテッド・ブレイド・ワークス）」
イリヤに捕らわれてしまった士郎を救い出すためアインツベルン城を目指すセイバー達。
イリヤの不在時に城に潜入し士郎を連れ脱出しようとするが…。

Ep 14. Unlimited Blade Works
Shirou's captured by Illya. Saber and the rest, after planning a resue mission, headed for Castle Einzbern when Illya's not around to rescue Shirou.

What do you guys think of the direction the anime is headed to?

Spoiler for Anime speculation, will contain game spoilers:

So far, it's definitely the Fate scenerio, yet Archer's cryptic comment at the end of Ep10 hints that it'll also be heading down the UBW scenerio (or he still lacks his memory and is just providing cryptic advice like he did in the Fate scenerio).

However, they're doing the whole "Shirou gets captured by Ilya" part of the Fate scenerio, and we all know what'll happen there.

Will it be changed so that Archer is merely injured in his fight and regains his memories when Shirou uses his true ability?

Is this also the end of Rider? As from the previews, it mentioned Saber beating her.

But what about Caster? Is she going to be doing what she did in the UBW scenerio with Saber?

My main concern is how rushed the last half will be, since they're devoting three whole episodes to the whole Shinji Arc, and the Ilya Arc will take at least 2-3 Episodes, same with a possible Caster/Archer Arc, and then find enough time to put all the pieces together for the final battle(s).