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06-08-2020, 09:06 PM | #561 |
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oh thank god you saw it too
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06-08-2020, 10:38 PM | #562 |
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The Three Belt song is so brilliant, I really wished they released an instrumental/karaoke version.
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06-08-2020, 10:44 PM | #563 |
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It's a super solid song! Musically, it's pretty beautiful, and lyrically it is incredibly thorough. Like, you could run that song as a Previously On Faiz with almost no editing!
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06-08-2020, 11:09 PM | #564 |
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Welcome to the club Kamen Rider Die. The I-Saw-The-Faiz-Hyper Battle Video-And-It-Was-Glorious-Club.
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06-08-2020, 11:15 PM | #565 |
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It's all been leading up to this, all hundreds of hours of Kamen Rider I've watched, and it was worth it.
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06-09-2020, 05:42 AM | #566 |
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As one internet commenter put it, “Takumi’s Brain scares me.”
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06-09-2020, 09:42 AM | #567 |
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-He doesn't know what Smart Brain is or how it works or what its plans are, so he just gave them a vague World Domination scheme! -He can't communicate with his friends the way he wants to, he feels like they don't really hear him, so he wins the day with a machine that's all about being loud! Pretty much everything about Takumi is in this HBV.
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06-09-2020, 09:50 PM | #568 |
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I don't know if I'd call it "deep hatred"? He certainly vacillates more between anger and forgiveness than Kusaka every does. A lot of Takumi's story is built around finding something to protect in some Orphnochs (he lets his pizza boss go), and when he does swear them off as a species he doesn't really mean it. Like, after Saya's death when he's gritting his teeth and swearing that All Orphnochs Must Die, Mari immediately says that doesn't sound like him.
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Again, I get it if this all feels forced. It’s a bit of a clunky device to have a misremembered message make a falling-out worse. But, for me, this isn’t wacky Kaido and Keitaro screwing up. This is confirmation bias. It’s Yuuji assuming he’ll get hurt, so he keeps Takumi at a distance. It’s Takumi waiting to be hated, so he responds with hatred. It’s a frustrating spiral, these two people abandoning hope for sadness, letting their worst instincts lead the way. I get that it can feel exhausting to watch. I really do like how it’s all rooted in character, though. Great story for that.
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Similarly, A++ episode for Houjou being a terrified coward! The way that nightmare sequence was shot, with Kitazaki going for the handshake, glowingly lit from below, all smiles. Houjou smiles back, glad to be done with this anxiety-inducing rivalry. His hand dissolves, that over-the-top reaction, big and broad and so funny. And then he wakes up, leaving Kitazaki hanging. Fifteen seconds or so of pure joy.
There’s a brief discussion about Lucky Clover getting back in synch, working as a team, but we don’t really see it in this one. It’s that goofy-ass Houjou nightmare, and that’s about it. Quote:
Yeah, it’s pretty much all about the Mari/Sawada plot (which is not the most robust story when they don’t even share a scene until the end) and the Yuuji/Takumi plot (which, hey, they also end up not sharing a scene at all).
It’s an episode about trying to kindle some hope, to allow for reconciliation despite everything that happened. It’s all pretty tentative, folks dealing with their feelings first to understand what outcome they want. It makes for an episode of good scenes that somehow feels incomplete. I didn’t dislike anything in this one, but it feels like it’s more about mood than content, if that makes any sense. Great mood, though.
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06-09-2020, 10:04 PM | #569 |
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Yeah, probably Takumi's claim of Kusaka-like Orphnoch hatred can be his usual outwardly asshole ways, though I got caught off guard more with his claim regarding Orphnochs. Probably because of him forcing Mari and Keitaro to give up on people they like that are Orphnochs. For simple description to Kusaka, he's someone downright racist to Orphnochs.
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06-09-2020, 10:12 PM | #570 |
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KAMEN RIDER 555 EPISODE 32
--1-- Not really sure why this one didn't do it for me. It's got some interesting ideas behind it, for sure. There's a few really fun ideas about how best to open yourself up to people while still protecting yourself. But, man, a messy episode to explore those ideas. --2-- And, yeah, that's why it didn't work for me. Glad I wrote that paragraph! It's too messy of an episode. Like, the core threads, the Mari/Sawada and Takumi/Yuuji stuff, yes. The idea of Sawada feeling conflicted about his nature and choosing to snuff out his humanity, that's a perfect story to tell while Takumi's trying to find a reason to patch things up with Yuuji. And it plays out great, too, with Takumi trying to listen to opposing points of view, to let people explain themselves. I always love when a Kamen Rider wants to hear from a monster instead of just fighting, and the why of that is so present in this story. Takumi needs Sawada to make a case for amnesty. He wants Sawada to convince him. He's ready to fight, but he'd prefer not to. It's optimism, tempered with pragmatism. But then it all goes sideways, with Sawada brutally attacking Mari, trying to close that door and embrace evil. It's a scene that's a little hard to watch. There's the physical violence, sure, but there's also Mari's confusion and despair. It's tough to see someone get their hopes crushed, even if we're very much in a Hopes Crushed phase of Faiz. --3-- All of the Sawada/Mari stuff, it's really there to add more complications to what Takumi and Yuuji are dealing with. Well, mostly Takumi. He's trying to decide if he should view all Orphnochs as enemies, and Sawada makes that sort-of an easy Yes. Once again, I like that Kusaka's shown to be right in this situation. There's wanting to see the best in people, and then there's being reckless with your sympathy. Sawada killed two Ryusei School alumni, and had threatened Mari's life just a few days earlier. (Plus the dozens of kills to which Mari wasn't privy.) He's a member of Lucky Clover, the definitely evil Orphnoch group. He also just killed Saya, which was the reason Takumi was so conflicted about Orphnochs in the first goddamn place. It is literally the thing that started this storyline. Like, this was straight-up a bad call by Takumi. Sawada should've been given a wide berth, not a clandestine meeting. (I mean, I'm okay with it on a storytelling level. Takumi was letting his desire to patch things up with Yuuji maybe cloud his judgment here, and Mari was 100% not taking no for an answer. Kusaka tried to help!) For Yuuji, he gets his answer from Takumi through Kaido and Keitaro, which is naturally garbled. Takumi's "I was a fool to trust you" comes back as "Fool." It's heartbreaking, to Yuuji. Someone he trusted is laughing at him. It gets worse (trademark Faiz) when Yuuji sees what's happened to Mari. Holy shit, Kusaka lying to Yuuji and blaming Takumi. Highlight of the episode, by the way. It's not just that Kusaka lies to Yuuji about what happened to Mari, claiming it's Takumi who attacked her. It's that he leverages Takumi's guilt, so when Yuuji asks Takumi if he's the reason Mari's injured, Takumi says yes. It's so goddamn clever of Kusaka. Honestly, man, all issues I had with this episode aside, it's a great continuation of Yuuji and Takumi's dissolution. It's these little decisions, little recriminations, that keep pulling them apart. That stuff came out great. --4-- It's just, man, a really distracted episode. Like, prime example, Mari's beating at the pier. Huge, emotional moment. Mari, bloodied, watches the symbol of her friendship with Sawada burn as she passes out. Next scene, Kaido and Keitaro are having an adventure in the city! Tonally, it's an insane swerve. There's a reason it's in the episode, it's more about the innate humanity of Team Orphnoch, but it's a massively distracting shift. At least that scene has a reason to be in this episode, because, I love Houjou, but what in the hell was that Delta scene doing here? The only Lucky Clover stuff that works in this episode is the Kageyama scene, because it's directly supporting the key plotline of the episode. The Houjou and Kitazaki scene, it's like they're filling a quota. It doesn't do anything for the main plots in this episode, and it doesn't do anything to set up another plot. It's just a wacky scene of Houjou and Kitazaki's rivalry, but it's got no reason to be here. --5-- There's a real lack of discipline to this episode. There are some smart ideas, and good scenes, but it's just not structured in a way that feels right. Too many side plots, maybe? (I don't know that you needed the Keitaro and Kaido stuff, even if it fit in thematically.) And yet, I'm not sure that what works in this episode is enough for a full installment? The Yuuji and Takumi stuff is good background material, and it's about the two main characters. But the Sawada stuff, maybe it didn't need to be two episodes as the main-ish plot? Maybe it's too thin? It doesn't help that Sawada's been around for only a couple three episodes before we're supposed to feel for his plight. I don't know. I liked what this episode was saying, but I didn't really love how it said it.
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