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09-17-2019, 03:46 PM | #71 |
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So, here's one of my usual contrarian opinions:
Cross-Z Charge is probably my favorite Cross-Z design. Which is weird, because I also resent it for changing Ruuga's motif from "Build #2" to the silver counterpart to Grease's gold. This has no connection to the story since Ryuuga and Sento are still very much the Best Match Duo during that part of the show, AND regular Cross-Z had barely been around before it got replaced, which is just sad. But despite all that, I can't help but love the suit. It's both my favorite colors, sleek and sexy without a lot of overly busy detail, and the translucent bits just pop in a way they don't on Grease. What can I say, it just looks cool to me. I also have a major soft spot for Rider upgrades that are treated as dangerous to add tension to the story, which certainly helped ingratiate it with me. Also, I've gotta disagree hard about that scene with Misora being melodrama. Considering the level of crap she was already dealing with, I think it's more than understandable that seeing a huge war break out would be enough for her to have trouble keeping it together. The specific detail of her impotently smashing her wrist on the ground, knowing it won't actually break that bracelet, because she's just that desperate to find some kind of escape from the situation she's stuck in? I don't know, that seems like a pretty visceral and realistic depiction of someone having a freak out to me. The thing about both Misora and Sento is that they tend to internalize their angst for the benefit of others, and when people do that, it tends to result in those emotions building up to a point where they can't contain them at all. I'd argue bad acting, too, but you've got a lot of scenes between those two left that can do it better than me.
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09-17-2019, 03:49 PM | #72 |
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*cut to Sento frantically digging through the weapons closet for the Dark Roaster, the only weapon capable of beating Blood Stalk*
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09-17-2019, 04:06 PM | #73 |
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So, here's one of my usual contrarian opinions:
Cross-Z Charge is probably my favorite Cross-Z design. Which is weird, because I also resent it for changing Ruuga's motif from "Build #2" to the silver counterpart to Grease's gold. This has no connection to the story since Ryuuga and Sento are still very much the Best Match Duo during that part of the show, AND regular Cross-Z had barely been around before it got replaced, which is just sad. But despite all that, I can't help but love the suit. It's both my favorite colors, sleek and sexy without a lot of overly busy detail, and the translucent bits just pop in a way they don't on Grease. What can I say, it just looks cool to me. I also have a major soft spot for Rider upgrades that are treated as dangerous to add tension to the story, which certainly helped ingratiate it with me. Quote:
Also, I've gotta disagree hard about that scene with Misora being melodrama. Considering the level of crap she was already dealing with, I think it's more than understandable that seeing a huge war break out would be enough for her to have trouble keeping it together. The specific detail of her impotently smashing her wrist on the ground, knowing it won't actually break that bracelet, because she's just that desperate to find some kind of escape from the situation she's stuck in? I don't know, that seems like a pretty visceral and realistic depiction of someone having a freak out to me. The thing about both Misora and Sento is that they tend to internalize their angst for the benefit of others, and when people do that, it tends to result in those emotions building up to a point where they can't contain them at all.
I'd argue bad acting, too, but you've got a lot of scenes between those two left that can do it better than me. For the rest of it, I just like Sento and Misora when they're more muted because we almost never get to see that kind of reaction on a Kamen Rider show. Everyone's usually Shouting Their Feelings, which, fine, that's the franchise, but I'm enjoying the different looks Build usually gives. Especially for a way to differentiate Banjou from Sento and Misora. He's the fiery one, they aren't. The beginning of that scene, I really liked it! It feels funereal, them looking over the city, quiet and small, aghast at their culpability. Then it's screaming and shouting and, I don't know. It's warranted, maybe, but it's also typical in a way that Build usually isn't. Does that make sense? If Build was an all-the-time Loud Emotions show, then I'm not kicking about it. Once they show me a variation on that, I'm going to wonder why they'd go back to the routine.
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09-17-2019, 04:13 PM | #74 |
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For the rest of it, I just like Sento and Misora when they're more muted because we almost never get to see that kind of reaction on a Kamen Rider show. Everyone's usually Shouting Their Feelings, which, fine, that's the franchise, but I'm enjoying the different looks Build usually gives. Especially for a way to differentiate Banjou from Sento and Misora. He's the fiery one, they aren't. The beginning of that scene, I really liked it! It feels funereal, them looking over the city, quiet and small, aghast at their culpability. Then it's screaming and shouting and, I don't know. It's warranted, maybe, but it's also typical in a way that Build usually isn't.
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09-17-2019, 04:19 PM | #75 |
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I should start a drinking game for all of these.
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09-17-2019, 05:01 PM | #76 |
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Okay, so, as a design on its own? Cross-Z Charge ALMOST works for me. It almost does.
But I just hate those shoulders so much. |
09-17-2019, 06:33 PM | #77 |
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Then it won't surprise anyone to find out that's actually my single favorite element of the design!
I mean, those are some quality Super Robot shoulder blocks right there. He looks like the Victory Gundam or something. It's great! I'm not even joking here. I'd take those things over regular Cross-Z's boring little spikes any day of the week.
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09-17-2019, 06:43 PM | #78 |
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Then it won't surprise anyone to find out that's actually my single favorite element of the design!
I mean, those are some quality Super Robot shoulder blocks right there. He looks like the Victory Gundam or something. It's great! I'm not even joking here. I'd take those things over regular Cross-Z's boring little spikes any day of the week. |
09-17-2019, 08:40 PM | #79 |
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Man, I love it. I love how big of a tent this fandom is. It's awesome how, not contrary, but diverse the opinions are. It's almost never (that I've experienced) a binary good/bad view, but a whole spectrum of likes and dislikes, and reasons why for each. I can't imagine anyone stating their honest opinion of anything Kamen Rider that wouldn't at least get me to go, "Okay, but why?" That's a very healthy fan community!
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09-17-2019, 10:11 PM | #80 |
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KAMEN RIDER BUILD SPECIAL: BIRTH! KUMATELEVI!! VS KAMEN RIDER GREASE!
WHAAAAAT IS THIS SHOW?! WHAT IS THIS SHOW?! Jesus Christ. Only Kamen Rider Build would think to take a DVD pack-in special, start it off in the most gratingly mugging-comedy way possible, pivot to a hilarious fourth wall-breaking gag with a TV lady who lives in a bottle providing exposition and commentary, then wrap it all up with a considered plea for empathy even during wartime, and an examination of the way traditional portrayals of masculinity in media disregard maternal influences, creating a toxic reliance on emotionally-withholding male mentors. Jesus Christ. This special was a whirlwind. It might be the most Build thing I've seen yet. It is insane how much this goofy-ass thing is trying to do. As always with Build, they could've done half as much and probably skated by. It's a TV-kun special; who's going to care if it's a partial-strength installment? Instead, this thing goes all in, hitting some totally unexpected heights. Like, weird to have one of the themes be a downbeat "but all soldiers are people" message. It generally leads to fights that aren't won, but stopped, which is pretty much what happens here. It's complex storytelling to say, Sure, we could just Rider Kick everyone, but this guy is hurting inside. He's confused, and needs to get his head on straight. That's an awesome lesson for everyone to learn. Incredibly cool to take what's probably a young and impressionable audience and say, Kamen Rider helps people. Sometimes with a Rider Kick, sure, but sometimes with compassion. That's unexpectedly brave. Similarly, for a franchise that is disturbingly preoccupied with emotionally-scarring father/son relationships, it's nice to get a thing that says it is not unmanly to thank your moms and grandmoms. The source of all wisdom is not necessarily taciturn men like Grease. The woman who raised you deserves your respect as much some fighting badass. This is on a special for a TV show about fighting badasses! Also there was a TV lady who lived in a bottle who knew everything about everyone and she had a stuffed TV on her head and I wish the rest of Build were about her and Sento teaming up to solve the world's problems! What the living hell! My head is spinning!
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