You don’t really have to watch the original fate stay night series to watch UBW or Zero. You can avoid the 2006 series and movies and you’ll be crystal 👌

I understand that, but I’ve been told that the best way to experience Fate/stay night is by playing the visual novel. Normally I’d be more than happy to do that, but I don’t really have 50+ hours to invest in that right now. I also know that the 2006 series gives some background that isn’t in UBW, and also that watching Zero before stay night kind of defeats the purpose of it.

I hope this doesn’t come off as me ignoring your input, because I appreciate it, but I think I’m just gonna go with watching it in release order for now.