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08-20-2019, 07:08 AM | #81 |
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Someone with good taste, because Ghost's theme song is insanely catchy in the best way.
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08-20-2019, 09:27 AM | #82 |
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(If I'm ranking the shows I've seen for their theme songs, it's: 1. Drive 2. W 3. Everything else) I still think it's a little slow to start, and the singing doesn't really click with me, but that little drum beat in the beginning is fun, and the cadence to the chorus is getting a little earwormy. (I am totally ill-equipped and unqualified to talk about music, so hopefully those signifiers made some sense!)
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08-22-2019, 10:03 PM | #83 |
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KAMEN RIDER GHOST EPISODES 41 - 42
I literally just watched these two episodes five minutes ago, and I am straining to remember what happened in them. And this two-parter is supposed to be kicking off the final stretch of episodes, right?! It's got some exposition, but nothing really worthwhile. Gramps and Eadith are the same person, but I feel like that's the conclusion we all came to a while ago? If anything, a reveal that they were two different people would've been a bigger surprise. We see how Eadith met Takeru's dad, but it's really hard to care about that. It'd be like flashing back to when Onari first came to the temple. It's grounded in character, so it's not totally unwelcome, but how does it add to anything? Why save it 'til now, other than maybe the producers just forgot until they were writing up these scripts? The parallels between Eadith/Takeru's dad and Takeru/Adel just don't make the final sequence of the story more resonant. We don't really learn anything. Takeru's belief in people is well established by this point, and I don't really look at Adel as a redeemable character. He's a million miles from the epically conflicted character that Alain was in the first half, and not someone the audience is begging to see more of. I find Adel incredibly dull and one-note, so that's maybe not helping this story much. It's a lot of time spent with Adel, and him trying to kill Takeru, and it's just not that engaging. The strategy of "show up, try to kill Takeru and the gang, watch them escape, wait, repeat" is boring, and Adel just doesn't have the sort of villain charisma to elevate boring material. He's not bonkers enough, pathetic enough, menacing enough, anything enough to feel like an unstoppable villain. It seems like the show is trying to get us to see him as an unhinged, deluded maniac, but he seems more or less the same pissy tyrant he was 20 episodes ago. This story felt like a show with senioritis. It's got its eyes on the clock, it knows that in just a few more weeks it can leave all of this behind, it's just going to show up, do the bare minimum, keep its head down, not try too hard but also not really piss anyone off. Just run out the days and be gone forever.
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08-23-2019, 09:56 PM | #84 |
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KAMEN RIDER GHOST SUMMER MOVIE: 99 EYECONS AND A DARWIN AIN'T ONE
ALL DADS ARE DEAD When you boil it down to its basics, this is a pretty solid story. Ganma villains show up, steal the Heroic Eyecons, our cast pursues, Takeru teams up with the physical embodiments of a few of the Heroic Eyecons to thwart the main villain's plan to turn everyone in the universe into ghosts, everyone goes back to Earth and Takeru's a hero. For an hour, that's a reasonable story. Throw in some fun actors, a few new suits, and the first appearance of (my first ever Rider) Kamen Rider Ex-Aid, and there shouldn't be much to complain about. Right? So, here's how they screw it up: every single time they need to explain something, or connect one scene to the next, they manage to pick the most convoluted, insane way to do it. 1. Ganma villains show up - Oh, their boss is Alain's brother who we just were told about two weeks earlier. He's been dead for some amount of time? He was supposed to be an early version of Takeru? I guess? He got real mad for some reason? Now he's all about that Ghost Life? "Villain wants to end all life in the universe" doesn't need to be this complicated! 2. Steal the Heroic Eyecons - Of which they already have another 85 or so? That they got somehow, somewhere, at sometime? Without anyone knowing about it? Oh, and they're letting all of the Eyecons have fun in a village until they suddenly decide to just murder them all? 3. Our cast pursues - To an Eyecon shaped planet? That's around where the moon is? That has an entire Ganma army up there? That the Sage/Eadith knew about all this time and didn't do anything about? 4. Takeru teams up with the physical embodiments of a few of the Heroic Eyecons to thwart the main villain's plan to turn everyone in the universe into ghosts - Oh he also teams up with MAKOTO AND KANON'S DAD, who has been living in a cave with the spirit of Charles Darwin for ten years! Of all the insane choices the writers of this film made, this is the most frustrating. This should be a huge deal! Why did this guy abandon his family without any explanation ten years ago? What in the hell has he been doing for the last ten years that would keep him from his family? The answers to those questions, when angrily posed by Makoto, amount to Shut Up and I Thought I Told You To Shut Up. There's a vague "I went to fight the Ganma and wanted you to be safe" thing he tries to sell as he dies (ALL DADS ARE DEAD), but come on. It's completely unclear why he left, since the only flashback is him standing around while Eadith tells Argos to go get Eyecons. He doesn't do anything! And then when that dumb scheme goes predictably sideways (hard to believe forcing someone to go get you trinkets so they can get their body back doesn't win you their trust and loyalty) he's just, hiding? Forever? And when his son comes back, he's just Whatever? Why was no thought put into something with so much importance to Makoto?! Why even bother bringing his dad in if you have no idea what to do with him?! 5. Everyone goes back to Earth and Takeru's a hero - And I almost wasn't mad at the end! The fight between Ghost and Dark Ghost was neat, the fact that Takeru beat him by getting all of the Eyecons to remember food being great was unique, things were looking good. But no. Takeru gets killed, again, for a minute, Akari mourns, but then Darwin's like, "Nah, we cool," and they bring him back as a Ghost, AGAIN, presumably with only a couple weeks left on his clock because they're all assholes. Thanks, Darwin! Just a frustrating experience. I did not like this movie very much, you guys!
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08-24-2019, 01:04 AM | #85 |
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Hey, don't hold your breath, Takeru dies almost EVERYTIME in movies, Takeru dying is a meme at that point.
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08-24-2019, 06:26 AM | #86 |
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I recall Ghost's summer movie being a much more solid experience than the series itself; doing a good job at really getting its morals and themes.
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08-24-2019, 06:52 AM | #87 |
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I would say the movie is technically best judged as a standalone piece separated from the series, buuuut there's a lot of elements in it that try to connect it to the series, and every single one actively hurts both the movie and the show.
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08-24-2019, 10:28 AM | #88 |
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08-24-2019, 09:28 PM | #89 |
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KAMEN RIDER GHOST EPISODES 43 - 46
I feel like I'm in the home stretch now. Everything feels appropriately apocalyptic. Adel's plan is underway, the Ganmeisers are indefatigable, everyone's working together to stop the end of the world. One of the things I kept thinking about watching these episodes was, "I thought these were supposed to be super awful?" People kept referring to the last stretch of Ghost as some soul-crushing, miserable slog, and that's just not my experience? It's a little dull, sure. Adel's plan is grandiose but also somewhat benign. It's not "monsters rampage through the street"-apocalypse, like Gaim. It's "everyone dies in their sleep"-apocalypse. I mean, still bad! Still killing everyone in the world! There's no such thing as a nice genocide! But it's a difficult thing to punch into submission, so it's hard to see it as an imminent, horrifying threat. And, Jesus, the Ganmeisers are actually worse than the stumbling shock troops for entertainment value. They're bland machines, and I wish more than anything that the show would stop regenerating them. Even the fights against them suck due to how limited the suit movement is. The villain situation is not nearly as good as the better Kamen Rider series, that's for sure. But there's still a lot of good in these last few episodes! The "Onari possesses Alain's body" plot is comedy gold. It even enhances Onari's character, allowing him a bit of humanity to express his dissatisfaction with being so massively, massively useless. Mostly, though, it's just a joy to see Onari-as-Alain. Hayato Isomura is a goddamn treasure, and can elevate anything this show gives him. There's a moment where the possessed Alain's in the background, and he's straightening the eyebrows on Onari's body. It's a hysterical gag, and it's just this cute bit of business in the background. If they'd've built this show around Alain's character and Isomura's performance, I don't believe people would be so down on Ghost. Not that I think the show's treatment of Takeru is some blight or anything. I like Takeru in these last few stories. I really appreciate the way the show decided to make "human connections" both the thing the villain is weaponizing, and the way the hero might achieve victory. It's a solid thematic conclusion to everything Ghost has done right with Takeru's character. I don't know if they'll stick the landing, but I'm not currently seeing the show everyone seems to hate. I mean, they remembered Cubi and Music Note exist. Hard to hate on that!
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08-24-2019, 09:51 PM | #90 |
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I can't believe I forgot about Cubi, the best. I'd like to see him hang out with Burgmon.
Anyhow, I'm not everyone so I can only say for myselfthat Ghost's final stretch didn't kick my puppy or anything, just that in hindsight it's probably the least exciting part of the whole series for me. Hope you manage to enjoy it to the end. Last edited by FreshToku; 08-24-2019 at 09:55 PM.. |
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