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12-24-2017, 12:40 AM | #11 |
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ok im happy we are getting more smash monsters with these 3 guys but i hate to say this, they look like a rejected 80s japanese attempt to weaponize mc hammers pants
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12-24-2017, 04:15 AM | #12 |
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are we going to get that Template Anti Hero guy again ?
the face looks so familiar to me, i bet his act and role is also similar with the prev series |
12-24-2017, 04:59 AM | #13 |
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12-24-2017, 05:45 AM | #14 |
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Is the Sclash driver Sento is building for Ryuga? It's kinda nice he's always thinking of his love-errr best friend.
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12-24-2017, 06:13 AM | #15 |
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Got round to seeing the subbed version.
Honestly this episode was kind of by the numbers. The explanation as to what happened in regards to Katsuragi's "murder" was pretty much what we expected for the most part although the two parts I don't think we were aware of was Katsuragi's desire to quit Faust and the fact that Sento's memory had been erased BEFORE he was even exposed to the Nebula Gas. There's something going on with Soichi which I don't think we will necessarily get answers to for a while, then again this show has never left a mystery hanging for too long. While how this episode played out was kind of predictable, it was a necessary episode just to get the war arc going and up the stakes from 2018 onwards. 2017's section of Build was a good show, but it seems like it's focus is switching when it comes back in January and the addition of the Sclash driver and a new rider is probably going to change how this show feels going forward, at least for now. We're getting Cross-Z Charge and Grease as soon as the new year arrives and given we know Gentoku has been responsible for being the trigger of war in the first place it's likely he will employ the rider system not before too long and use the Crocodile full bottle in some capacity. Just have to hope that amidst a war the plot can find ways to still be engaging for another 30 episodes at least.
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12-24-2017, 10:00 AM | #16 |
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The impression I'm getting from this is that BloodStalk is a war profiteer, dealing arms to all sides, while manipulating Katsuragi/Sento into creating weapons for him. Although there's probably a lot more that we don't know.
Pretty heavy shit for a kid's show, especially given Sento's backstory.
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12-24-2017, 10:26 AM | #17 |
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So here are my thoughts on Build up to and including the current episode.
The thing that keeps me watching is the flashes of inspiration, the strength of the performances and the chemistry between the cast. Everything else about this show, so far for me, has been awful. The show has practically zero identity of its own, drowning in cliches and trite developments continuing the painful homogeneity of toku shows. The emotions never mature, the special effects never improve and the moral compass never becomes more focused. The show does attempt a few swerves but any twist can be seen from another dimension they are so telegraphed and all each twist does is make me aware of how little emotional investment I have in this show. I also don’t care for the actual Rider’s so far. The mostly serious tone of the show completely clashes with the silliness of the Riders (including the villains). What happened to Riders evolving meaningfully? These shows have always been about selling toys, I get that, but Build is a walking advertisement for himself, nothing more and it is so egregious in its execution, everything just makes so much noise, so much shouting and so many sound effects but it is all low quality, painful, nonsense. I can’t concentrate on the action because the Driver is just shouting away while other props screech out horrible low res loops of the equivalent of an industrial blender being filled with metal. It looks like they are using the literal toys as props, they don’t even bother to paint the props on both sides. Also while I’m here, how is Rider post Gaim? I hear Ghost is garbage but it seems like people quite liked Drive and Ex-Aid. I could never properly get into either of them. Should I push through and try and finish them?
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12-24-2017, 10:47 AM | #18 |
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Maybe the last bosses of this show would be aliens from Mars?
Maybe Soichi is preparing all 3 states for war with aliens?! Now we have Smash who retain their minds...maybe in the end humanity will use riders and Smash against aliens! also just 7 eps in...and Cross-Z gets his upgrade. I really hope he gets another since there is room for 1 more unless its just gonna be Build getting his Hazard Trigger and that 'All-Bottles' final form... and unless someone else is becoming Rogue, Gentoku is properly not gonna be PM long, or he will lead an army of MP riders as Kamen Prime Minister Rider Rogue. Or his personality is reverted and he becomes a heroic rider. Last edited by Hiikomori; 12-24-2017 at 10:56 AM.. |
12-24-2017, 10:59 AM | #19 |
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So here are my thoughts on Build up to and including the current episode.
The thing that keeps me watching is the flashes of inspiration, the strength of the performances and the chemistry between the cast. Everything else about this show, so far for me, has been awful. The show has practically zero identity of its own, drowning in cliches and trite developments continuing the painful homogeneity of toku shows. The emotions never mature, the special effects never improve and the moral compass never becomes more focused. The show does attempt a few swerves but any twist can be seen from another dimension they are so telegraphed and all each twist does is make me aware of how little emotional investment I have in this show. I also don’t care for the actual Rider’s so far. The mostly serious tone of the show completely clashes with the silliness of the Riders (including the villains). What happened to Riders evolving meaningfully? These shows have always been about selling toys, I get that, but Build is a walking advertisement for himself, nothing more and it is so egregious in its execution, everything just makes so much noise, so much shouting and so many sound effects but it is all low quality, painful, nonsense. I can’t concentrate on the action because the Driver is just shouting away while other props screech out horrible low res loops of the equivalent of an industrial blender being filled with metal. It looks like they are using the literal toys as props, they don’t even bother to paint the props on both sides. Also while I’m here, how is Rider post Gaim? I hear Ghost is garbage but it seems like people quite liked Drive and Ex-Aid. I could never properly get into either of them. Should I push through and try and finish them?
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12-24-2017, 11:54 AM | #20 |
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I feel like you're simply not getting some stuff. Everyone else I know praised Ryuga's development yet you're claiming Riders "aren't evolving meaningfully". Build DOES have subtle things other shows don't have. The Smash are almost exclusively mindless monsters, which means them usually being overpowered with ease makes sense, the mystery of Blood Stalk was something fans wanted to know because of Stalk's outright fun personality, the show's doing something unique with the political stuff and some extra world building, see Hokuto, which looked pretty damn bleak and which we now learned is their government's fault for sticking the funds in military, shit, in what other recent toku did a man get shot down by an actual gun? And the blaring belts are a valid complaint, but they do tone them down quite a bit, hell, in the first episode, when Sento reversed to RabbitTank for the finisher, it didn't play the whole jingle, and a few episodes ago, the sound effects got drained out by the rain which made the excellent cinematography of the shot of Build VS Stalk feel more chilling. Not saying you're wrong, just feel some of your criticisms aren't entirely valid
Everything you've listed there can be found in multiple other Rider series, though.While it may be true that it hasn't appeared in the last few series Drive/Ghost/Ex-Aid (I haven't watched any of these), all of the stuff featured in Build appears verbatim in various series before it. Also that Rain scene was one of my favourite in the whole show exactly because it finally shut the Driver up.
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