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06-09-2019, 01:52 PM | #11 |
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Really enjoyed the episode, that was basically an episode of Den-O, and I loved it.
And Grand Zi-O looks better then I actually believed it would, Decade Complete is still the worst final form look XD So the main power is basically the same as Decade Complete, summoning, which yeah, for an anniversary riders final form, one that lets them summon them for attacks fits. |
06-09-2019, 03:44 PM | #12 |
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really enjoys this episode. only question is the same one i had in generation movie. is did the writer forget that owner let imagine now henshin as den-o with out the need to have host. as i was also looking forward to geiz posses by momo to henshin in to Den-O and also so does this mean sougo and co forgot who momotaros and the other where and meeting them in film along with another den-o.
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06-09-2019, 03:50 PM | #13 |
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Well, remember; Sougo and co. never actually met the Imagin before -- they only met 'Ryotarou' who assumed 4 forms of Den-O. Technically, they've never seen any of these people before.
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06-09-2019, 07:43 PM | #14 |
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They should of explore the myth and lore of ohmaZio more. The rules of obtaining the ride watch change so much. The time jackers are easily the least threatening enemies. In any cases, they are more like allies with schwartz diliberaly handed out watches indirectly. Build and other shows had it flaws near the end with mvoie tie in and expectation differentiation, but there were moe stakes and struggles. You feel the cast slowly and rapidly gaining power to compete against one and another. Zio feel like the typically filler motw that recently do a better job at tributes, but the main story is lackluster. They really got decade back to drag the tsukiyomi storyline since the 20s. We're reaching 40s. I honestly think ohma zio should of could of been a midseason boss. Time jackers and maybe another 3rd party like ginga could be a bigger fold later on. The happy go lucky and bland cast + underdevelop trio of time jackers keep getting ourshine by the guest of the week. I'm more intrigue about the guest than the main cast. The tsukiyomi/Schwartz is so slow at trying to plant seed at this late in the game. They should of reveal the twist during agito arc and raise other mystery and questions instead of dropping or delaying until the end. The same with lupin ranger, but lupin ranger did a better job at character developments even in fillers. |
06-09-2019, 07:44 PM | #15 |
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They didnt even recognized another deno, which was the main time jacker for most of the movie. Given w and kuuga watches were acknowledge in the show, but debut lacklusterly in combat.
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06-09-2019, 11:04 PM | #16 |
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Gonna address this one by one (LONG POST AHEAD):
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Watch comes from the future, is given/obtained by Sougo in the past. Which in turn leads to Sougo still having the watch in future episodes up to the 2068 timeline. The only exception this early on is Ghost, where the future watch is destroyed, and the present one is created, making another causal loop since the watch came from 2068. Zi-O II (at least one half) came from Woz, but the watch was inactive due to lacking its pair. The second part was given to Sougo by his Mirror Self after Sougo decided that he would accept the good and bad in him instead of trying to turn a blind eye or outright prevent it (like he had until now). In fact, it is Sougo's declaration of his acceptance, in addition to his time powers, that causes Tsukuyomi to turn on him. But we'll get to that later. Quote:
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Also, it raises qs about is showa retcon, the creation of watches and timeline deletion, etc. ex-Gattack and many secondary riders could still henshin and their tiemline is unchange. why didnt they come in to olay in history. It's geiz and time jackers just fulfiling a time paradix because obviouly woz srill exist and loyal to ohma.
Well, I should think the timeline thing would make a bit of sense- Another Riders (in the first half of the show) take over the role of their respective Rider, thus, erasing the timeline (events of the show, destroying the mooks, no rider powers); basically making a giant gap where that Rider's show should be, until it is corrected. And as for the show's retcons? They're not exactly retcons? This is a time travel story. I don't know what you want. If you want a cohesive narrative, you're not getting it with time travel. And it seems they're going to be doing that in the movie, judging by all the info we've been getting about its story. We might also get some explanation in the show; it's been stated that the Zi-O II watch used on Oma Day turns Sougo into his Oma form in the OG timeline. That's pretty much all we need to know at the moment. I mean, kinda? From what I've seen, the watches are made by absorbing the Rider's powers. We see this in the Build, Blade, and Kabuto arc: Sento's memories returning activates the watch, Blade's Joker powers are absorbed into the watch, the Kabuto Zecter (or what I/some believe is the legit Kabuto Zecter) simply morphs into the watch. Quote:
As we've seen in-show, they often fight one another. Swartz gave Heure a Japanese Christmas gift meant to teach kids the importance of money, effectively looking down on him; Hora and Swartz basically abuse Heure as Another Kikai; Hora and Heure are shocked by Another Zi-O. Swartz and Heure got ice cream together, but I dunno about that. They seem like they put up with each other more than they're actually working together. Although they do appear to have a common goal (at least to Heure and Hora's eyes). We all know Swartz is pulling the strings. But for what, we don't know. The story seems like we're gonna get some backstory for all three Jackers soon. Quote:
And Sougo's struggle is against a horrible future 90% of the cast have experienced, that he himself caused. Geiz's initial fight (up until Revive) was a conflict with his moral compass; kill an innocent for his future crimes or see if he can change. Tsukuyomi's got three dilemmas that I can see; one with Sougo becoming Oma via Zi-O II, potentially making her attempt to change him for naught; the other involved her powers potentially making her a Time Jacker, the dudes they've been fighting all this time; and the shocker that she has amnesia and was apparently siblings with Swartz. Quote:
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I don't think you can exactly kill the ruler of all time when you're at that level of power. Not to mention, they had other things to worry about, like Sougo and Geiz's big fight to decide which timeline will be the one "currently active". Can't exactly put that on hold to go fight the hero's ultimate form. Quote:
Bland? Have you been watching the same show as us? Sougo is a young dude with grand dreams (hehe). And despite taking the inital blow hard (meeting his future self), he's resolved to stop it. His Mirror Self even mocked him, talking about his way with words and how he effectively convinced Geiz to kill himself beating Another Ryuga. Geiz is a battle-hardened man who has only known the reign of terror his ruler imposes over him and is sent back to off his younger self. Upon seeing his overlord's less-than-humble beginnings, he begins to wonder if he should do the deed. He flip-flops between this, ultimately deciding to give him one last chance (episode 15, IIRC) by convincing him to toss his belt. And even then, when confronted with the split timeline, he hesitates. Sougo's his friend. He wouldn't kill him! But then he gets Zi-O II, and even Tsukuyomi, who beckoned to spare him at first, is rooting his his blood to spill. His hesitation leads him to believe that Tsukuyomi is dead, which pushes him over the despair event horizon and gives him access to Revive. When Tsukuyomi is revealed to be alive, the trio rejoice and now work towards Sougo's goal. Tsukuyomi is a hard one to pin down, being that we don't know much about her yet. But she is Swartz's younger sister and both have time-stopping powers. But apparently back in 2008 (IIRC) was Swartz's first time meeting her? There are some timey-wimey shenanigans going on and I can't wait to figure out what. That's not even mentioning her awesome combat prowess. Not backing down from a monster and actively shooting at them (Another Build)? A slide kick to an assailant (Kasshin)? Even if she doesn't fight much, that's EPIC. Woz is a wacky hypeman and I love him and he is mine~ Junichiro is the best uncle ever, with his "it's close enough to a clock, I can fix it" gag and his unwavering "uh-huh, sure" parent attitude towards Sougo's wacky adventures ("He's up in space? That far? He's gonna be hungry when he gets back!"). This cast is very quirky and I really, really enjoy them. Just because the show started off slow doesn't make it bad. Also, yeah, the cast is small, but that allows the writers to dole out development evenly, instead of assigning a few traits to everyone and hoping that interactions flesh them out. This cast is good! Quote:
In the Agito arc, it was revealed that she has amnesia and some pretty nifty Za Warudo powers. Now, in the Kabuto arc, 'twas shown that she is actually the sister of the leader of the faction she's fighting, but doesn't know more than that. She's got more usefulness than your typical token female. _____ Overall, all I can really boil this down to is... You hate Zi-O. You're watching it because of the past Riders and are hoping the show will get better. But here we are, near the end of the show, and it still "hasn't improved" in your eyes. I just think you're watching the show for a reason to hate on it. Not just for the tributes. That's unhealthy; I ruined two friendships because of my rants on Build. Zi-O isn't for you. And that's okay. But watching the episode and coming into the thread to hate on it isn't. A lot of us like Zi-O and, while we enjoy a good discussion, you seem to leave no doors open. Starting to wonder if you're just trolling us, ngl. All I've ever seen you do is complain about the show. Say the show has bad writing. Say the cast is worse than any other. Say the forms are given out like candy. "It's bad and it'll never be redeemed unless it does exactly as I say." Last edited by MangaArtist18; 06-10-2019 at 12:05 AM.. |
06-10-2019, 05:29 AM | #17 |
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Even though the Imagins have made reappearances over the years more often than anyone else, something about this episode felt more authentically like the original Den-O show then other times. Maybe it's because of just the fact that so many of them are here, including Yuuto and Deneb, and they're actually interacting with the cast and each other in a natural way instead of just spouting catchphrases.
Throw in a stray Imagin with his own goals along with the Another Rider's personal story, and we've got a really chaotic series of events going on, but it's a fun kind of chaos instead of a confusing one! There probably isn't much point in talking about Grand Zi-O since it won't properly debut until two weeks from now, but I do like how it's 'summoning' power works, which seems to literally pluck the other riders out of a moment from their history and they proceed to act as they would have from those moments. I can see Sougo summoning a Build Genius shouting "This is the power of Kamen Riders, Evolt!" just to kick some mook in the face for example, or summoning Putotyra in the middle of a rampage and sic him on whoever Zi-O is facing. |
06-10-2019, 05:44 AM | #18 |
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There probably isn't much point in talking about Grand Zi-O since it won't properly debut until two weeks from now, but I do like how it's 'summoning' power works, which seems to literally pluck the other riders out of a moment from their history and they proceed to act as they would have from those moments. I can see Sougo summoning a Build Genius shouting "This is the power of Kamen Riders, Evolt!" just to kick some mook in the face for example, or summoning Putotyra in the middle of a rampage and sic him on whoever Zi-O is facing.
So Grand Zi-O is like Decade Complete but instead of the Kamen Rider that is summoned just copying Decade's movements, it literally is the Kamen Riders themselves but taken from some point in their time to aid Zi-O (possibly unknowingly).
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06-10-2019, 04:59 PM | #19 |
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Let me say this to start...
I have no idea what the show is even doing with Drive at this point. Sougo has always had the future Drive Ride Watch but he also needs to get the present Drive Watch so he can unlock his ultimate form - the show has been making a big deal out of still needing the last two Ride Watches. Except Sougo just unlocked Grand Zi-O with the future Drive Watch. And now it looks like we won't be getting any Drive tributes until the summer movie, which isn't out until late July. How the hell does any of this work? Anyway, this episode was definitely a Den-O tribute. Couldn't possibly care less about the rando with the stupid hair and his dead sister, but it's good to see Yuuto and all the Imagin again. Gotta love Sougo's priorities, though: Another Den-O is about to steal the Den Liner, so let's use our finishing attack on Zeronos instead. That was productive. |
06-10-2019, 05:32 PM | #20 |
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Let me say this to start...
I have no idea what the show is even doing with Drive at this point. Sougo has always had the future Drive Ride Watch but he also needs to get the present Drive Watch so he can unlock his ultimate form - the show has been making a big deal out of still needing the last two Ride Watches. Except Sougo just unlocked Grand Zi-O with the future Drive Watch. And now it looks like we won't be getting any Drive tributes until the summer movie, which isn't out until late July. How the hell does any of this work? |
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