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07-14-2020, 08:55 PM | #41 |
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Japan has always been big on bad guy redemption. Lunar silver star did it with Ghaleon. Lots of animes do it. I think they handled it very well in this ep.
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07-14-2020, 09:17 PM | #42 |
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So considering the particular content of this episode, I actually decided to wait quite a while after I had seen the subs in order to sort of think about what I want to say before jumping on here and saying something.
But just as a quick disclaimer, some of the stuff I'm about to write will possibly still be sound dumb or scatter-brained anyway. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Personally... I actually sort of like the twist (if you can call it that) with Dog-Thouser, its another one of this "Who is Gemn?" style twist where it makes more sense when you look back and notice how it all lines up.
I won't deny that this could've been foreshadowed and handled much better, especially if the writing and production crew had the time, but for the most part the pieces do sort of fall in place. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As for the bigger question of "Did this episode really just try to redeem Gai and expect us to like him now because the Ark became the central villain?" No. Let's all be clear here, the whole reason the entire cast is even in this mess to begin with is because Gai corrupted the Ark in the first place. The fact that Gai has basically pulled an Ebenezer Scrooge (god I hope that's how I'm supposed to spell that), doesn't automatically undo all the HumaGears he's scrapped or the fact that he did all of this just so he could play Arms Dealer with Hiden Intelligence's resources and technology And I think/hope the writers do know that we (or rather the main audience in japan) know this, which is why they have that small moment with Gai acknowledging to Dog-Thouser just how bad he screwed everything up: "Even after everything I did... You'll still stand with me?" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To me, all they've really done is finally give us the context to understand why Gai is the way he is, which I assume is supposed to be the final nail in the coffin for Gai's intimidation factor as a villain. Gai's not some sneaky chess-master like he was in the competition arc anymore, he's not some wacky maniac constantly out for HumaGear blood (or Oil I guess?) like he was in the Hiden Manufacturing arc, he's just Gai now. |
08-08-2020, 09:01 PM | #43 |
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... man. I feel bad for saying this because so many people here have connected so much with this episode, but...
That was... pathetic? Like. Just very lazy and very little effort it felt like. Fish summing it up as a parody is a much better way to put it than I ever could have because it really feels that way! There's no real depth here, not much of a revelation, just... he gets two short flashbacks to having a bad father (wow! The scumbag had a bad parental figure?! I never would have guessed!), and got to cry over a wee robot dog. Turns out all he needed to do was talk to an AI whipped up in under an hour to make him IMMEDIATELY come to terms with all childhood trauma and do a complete character turnaround! It's just that easy! They just... didn't even try to sell me on this, and it was a damn hard sell to begin with because Gai is just not set up as this type of character. It is genuinely as if someone looked at Kamen Rider's history of trying to give every villain a sympathetic side and decided to parody the dumbest examples of it. Nothing about this came across as legitimate or like a story anyone actually wanted to tell. How the hell did Gai get more of a backstory and a redemption than Yaiba by the way
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