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07-02-2016, 01:12 AM | #11 |
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I enjoyed this episode, teaching about conviction is a good lesson. I enjoyed seeing Akari and Alain trying their best to learn their respective moves. I am intrigued with the Makoto vs Makoto angle here, and if our Makoto is actually the real Makoto; this reminds me of Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories with the Riku and Riku Replica storyline. Anything that reminds me of Kingdom Hearts is awesome. Takeru helping Honami's friends realize what they forgot and their conviction to believe in their dreams was great because it's good to remember why you're doing what you're doing. Necrom vs Javert was awesome to see Necrom powered up and get his weapon. I hope Javert finally switches sides soon. The Idol parts were a lot of fun and it was great music too.
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07-02-2016, 08:06 AM | #12 |
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The Sanzo Eyecon being in two places at once was ridiculous. That's incredibly sloppy.
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07-02-2016, 09:48 AM | #13 |
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This was probably one of the worst episodes of Ghost. At least next episode looks interesting. When Makoto's doppelganger asked Makoto if he even was the real Makoto, that got me thinking. What if the real Makoto is still stuck in the Ganma world and our Makoto is another doppelganger?
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07-02-2016, 11:23 AM | #14 |
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The Idol part of the episode didn't seem very interesting. For me it went from "You're annoying, go back to Alain and Makoto" to "Not bad, it fits well into the montage" to "Eeeeeeeehhhhhh..." at the end. All in all, I just see it as part bland, part better, with Onari starting the "Honami" chant being the highlight.
As always, we have a subplot that starts out with all questions and no hint where it's going. Two Makotos in a battle to the death. Not sure what's gonna happen, aside from our Makoto possibly starting to "fade" as the evil Makoto tries to take over. I'm looking forward to it, at least. The Alain Balboa sideplot was cool, though why was Alain's training montage nothing but leaping? At least show him fighting whatever the Sanzo triplets were blowing up off screen. That and I don't understand why they went with the "wild Javel appears" thing. One thing that surprised me is I honestly wasn't expecting the Gan Gun Catcher to say "DaiKaigan". That kinda threw me off. And makes me want to get it even more now... Overall, this episode's on the better side of "Meh" for me. Can't wait to see the battle royale next... episode. Right, it's Saturday...
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07-02-2016, 02:49 PM | #15 |
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Yep, that sure was an episode of Ghost.
Last week I was called out for always being down on this show, so let's start with some positives: the idol plot was executed competently. The telepathy aspect was dealt with a little too abruptly (seriously, no one is alarmed that Mr. Bills' new Fitbit allows people to read minds as an accidental side effect?), but it was an entirely serviceable plot. And Koyomi's actress actually turned up for the majority of the scenes two episodes in a row, which I think is a record. The Makoto doppelganger plot also has me intrigued. I'm hoping this is some weird side effect of Deep Specter. It's always seemed like a form that would have some kind of negative consequences (besides those stupid antlers), and I'm hoping this is a manifestation of that. Onari was relatively unobtrusive this week. Now the negatives: What, exactly, was the point of the idol subplot, again? I know that the evil scientist whose name I can't remember is still in the middle of his "Take over corporation -> ??? -> Profit" scheme, but I honestly have no idea what the hell any of this was supposed to accomplish. Was it just to embarrass Akari by making her wear the world's smallest sequined top hat? I've pretty much lost any ability to take him seriously at this point. Speaking of villains, I get that a Kamen Rider show needs to have a number of action scenes, but dear lord were the Ghost and Necrom scenes shoehorned in this week (Specters' were legit, no complaints here). Both Javert and the Ganmeiser just showed up out of nowhere for no real reason. The Ganmeiser fight wasn't even a good action scene. Necrom's new power-up was disappointing and cheap, but at least it wasn't just a couple punches and then some CGI. Next week: "Hey, remember that guy that showed up about a month ago, looked like a major new villain, and was then never seen or mentioned again? Yeah, he's back." |
07-03-2016, 04:46 AM | #16 |
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I think I've finally pinned down my main complaints with Ghost.....whatever plot happens to be the focal piece of the episode isn't nearly as interesting as the side plots.
The whole idol plot was so predictable because we've seen something similar about a thousand times before in Kamen Rider: group rejects person, group learns the "value of friendship", person is accepted back into the group. There's nothing really new or exciting there. Hell, at this point, Ghost has been running with so many Rider cliches while doing absolutely nothing new that I wouldn't be surprised if this plot happened earlier in the series in a different context. The whole time, I wanted them to go back to the Necrom or Specter subplots because those are about a thousand times more interesting. Why is really important story-related stuff being pushed aside for typical MotW fare this late into the game? And I thought I was the only one that noticed Sanzo just randomly appearing in two different spots at once. And I'm also glad that I'm not the only one bothered by the fact that Javel just appears out of nowhere to give Alain somebody to fight after not appearing for close to 10 episodes. I mean, I know that Kamen Rider has a fair bit of plot convenience across every season, but in Ghost it gets insufferably bad to the point where I can't even begin to suspend my disbelief. I don't outright hate the show like most people do, but it feels so lazily written.
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07-04-2016, 05:44 AM | #17 |
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Makes more sense than in 34 when Makoto was using Nobunaga out in the real world and then Takeru used Grateful in dreamland, anyway. It's Ghost, Ghost doesn't really care about the details tbh. |
07-04-2016, 06:57 AM | #18 |
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I mean, I noticed, it just didn't seem like a terribly important detail to me. The Ghost Eyecons can fly super fast and stuff, that's about all the explanation I need personally.
Makes more sense than in 34 when Makoto was using Nobunaga out in the real world and then Takeru used Grateful in dreamland, anyway. It's Ghost, Ghost doesn't really care about the details tbh.
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