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Kamen Rider Die watches Masked Rider Kuuga
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12-08-2019, 10:38 PM
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Kamen Rider Die
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MASKED RIDER KUUGA EPISODES 23 - 24
Conflicted feelings about this one!
For, like, 90% of it I was going along with its pleasant sense of impending doom, the ways both Sakurako and the Grongi seemed to be waiting for another shoe to drop, the weird-even-for-Kuuga overexplaining of plot points, the standard Pole Pole anti-humor... regular Kuuga stuff. A little transitional, sure, but we're at the (roughly) halfway point of the series, so it's fitting for things to get more...
something
. Dangerous, or darker, or whatever. (I mean, over 1400 people are dead by the end of episode 24, so,
more
dangerous?!) I thought this would be one that didn't
thrill me
, necessarily, but one that was doing the work to progress the story. A workhorse of a story.
But then we hit the end of the story, and I can't believe how mad I got.
Furious
. I was briefly contemplating learning fluent Japanese, flying to Japan, and questioning everyone still alive who was involved in this story
until I got the answers I deserved
.
So, this one's got a Grongi knocking off folks who rode together on a train, while Godai tries to figure out why he's got problems fighting as Purple Kuuga. The show spends, again, a
weird-even-for-Kuuga
amount of time laying out how the Grongi picks its targets. We see every step, then we have to see Ichijou and another cop slowly,
incrementally
, put the sequence of events back together. Which, totally redundant, but, y'know, that's Kuuga's thing. I'm not mad that they spent so long investigating clues that viewers already saw when they could just tell us Ichijou pieced it together, and convey his knowledge via a dialogue scene with Godai, or a TV news bulletin
that they also gave us
. It's only frustrating because of how they
didn't
use the time they spent telling us stuff twice.
Specifically,
they didn't tell us how Kuuga overcame his power shortage
. They didn't tell us how
the hero of the show
became powerful enough to stop a rampaging monster. Godai goes to see Enokida, she sticks him in an electrical room (never explained why she has one), he turns purple and gold (which I guess is better?), defeats the Grongi... then he, Sakurako, and Ichijou just stand around for five seconds until the episode ends.
What?
What?!
WHAT.
They spent the whole episode
double-explaining
a fairly simple The Grongi Is Tracking And Killing People plot, including an entire scene of Ichijou interviewing a shop owner to find out that people were giving out lighters in a train station DESPITE ALREADY SHOWING US THAT SPECIFIC PIECE OF EVIDENCE IN ITS ENTIRETY, but they don't bother putting in
one line
of Godai explaining how and why he's fine now?! They don't spend
ten more seconds
to explain why Enokida has
A LIGHTNING ROOM?!
They don't skip the
pointless
Pole Pole scene, where literally nothing of consequence happens, to have ANYONE explain why Godai is more powerful now?!
Like, I can probably fill in the blanks. They kept referring to a weird lightning prophecy, there's a "joke" mention of the defibrillation having lingering effects, whatever. I'm not completely confused by why a superhero on a Kamen Rider show got more powerful midway through a series. It's just, for a two-parter that stretched out a simple Grongi Spree Killing (which happens basically weekly now, I'm not sure how there's anyone left to kill) to over 40 minutes, and couldn't let one piece of investigative information not get explained in minute detail, it is
infuriating
that
the superhero part of the superhero show
is left to narrative hand-waving and viewer inference. I don't mind a show that feels like it has to spell everything out, but then they have to spell
EVERYTHING
out. You can't double up on one thing to shortchange another.
That ending was...
I did not have a good time with it.
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