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06-04-2020, 05:21 PM | #461 |
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Of course, he still has his moments, by for the most part, we're seeing Takumi hanging out with people he's gotten to know. Presences that he accepts as part of his life. What Kimura showing up accomplishes is letting the show inject like, just a concentrated dose of Takkun by having him interact with some stranger he'd rather not put up with. It's a lightning-bolt reminder of all his issues, and, knowing what's coming up, I think this was a smartly placed point for the show to basically take inventory of his character traits. Also, the scene in episode 26 where he walks into the room to grab that soda and actively ignores Kimura's presence is one of the funniest bits of the whole show in my book. Quote:
I heard Delta is so incredible, he can do three surgeries at once. No, actually, I have two! I heard Delta is so powerful, he can make Tezuka get off his couch after he predicts he needs to crash at Delta's house for the next week or two. Quote:
The Delta name... is it too straight-forward? It's not as weird as the other two, but I feel like this show already established Weird as the way it generated names? I don't know. It's fine.
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06-04-2020, 06:48 PM | #462 |
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I don't have much to say about the Ryuusei Children (the callous way they get slaughtered whenever they show up is endearingly Faiz-y?), but I will stick up for the Takumi/Kimura stuff a bit. I don't think it's a big problem that it fails to do anything new with Takkun, because the way I see it, the whole point is looking backwards. For the past 10-ish episodes, Takumi's jerkiness has been toned down a fair bit from how it was early on. He's almost totally warmed up to Mari and Keitarou at this point, significant time has been spent showing his compassionate side through his interactions with Yuka, he's bros with Yuuji after working at that pizza place together, heck, after hearing that bit about Mari replacing his mom, his attitude towards Kusaka has even shifted from straight animosity to cautious curiosity.
Of course, he still has his moments, by for the most part, we're seeing Takumi hanging out with people he's gotten to know. Presences that he accepts as part of his life. What Kimura showing up accomplishes is letting the show inject like, just a concentrated dose of Takkun by having him interact with some stranger he'd rather not put up with. It's a lightning-bolt reminder of all his issues, and, knowing what's coming up, I think this was a smartly placed point for the show to basically take inventory of his character traits. Also, the scene in episode 26 where he walks into the room to grab that soda and actively ignores Kimura's presence is one of the funniest bits of the whole show in my book. I'm not sure it works super great for me, for a couple of reasons. First, I don't know if it's deployed that great, considering everything else going on in this episode. I see what you're saying, about it needing to be here as a reminder of how Takumi's grown, but it feels so weightless and incidental, so basically irrelevant, that it's tough to feel like it's more than just a Hey Remember When storyline. Second, I feel like we see Takumi be a dismissive asshole to the Ryusei School alumni in both of these episodes, so the Kimura stuff even feels like a bit of a retread of that. Yeah, I see what you're saying, but I'm not sure it's terribly effective by those standards. Quote:
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06-04-2020, 07:12 PM | #463 |
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I'm not sure it works super great for me, for a couple of reasons. First, I don't know if it's deployed that great, considering everything else going on in this episode. I see what you're saying, about it needing to be here as a reminder of how Takumi's grown, but it feels so weightless and incidental, so basically irrelevant, that it's tough to feel like it's more than just a Hey Remember When storyline. Second, I feel like we see Takumi be a dismissive asshole to the Ryusei School alumni in both of these episodes, so the Kimura stuff even feels like a bit of a retread of that.
Yeah, I see what you're saying, but I'm not sure it's terribly effective by those standards. Quote:
I heard Delta is so powerful, Daguva stopped smiling.
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06-04-2020, 07:17 PM | #464 |
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I hear Delta's so awesome, he's already onto a Blade watch thread!
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06-04-2020, 07:22 PM | #465 |
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It's not perfect, for sure! I will add that the key difference with Takumi's abrasive attitude towards the Ryuusei School guys is that those guys are jerks back. The fact that's it's a mutual feeling makes it less easy to process that Takumi is being a jerk there. I mean, most viewers are probably going to be very supportive when he decides to blow that entire plotline off. When he's telling some random nice girl to shut up just because she's being slightly nosy, it actually makes him look bad to a level I don't think he has in a good while. "Weightless and incidental", though? Yeah, maybe. I don't know. I do agree that Kimura's personality is rather dull, especially by the standards of this show.
I heard Delta is so tough, he can cut through Kamen Rider Brave.
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06-04-2020, 07:23 PM | #466 |
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I heard Delta is so awesome, he tells Bandai what SO-DO to make.
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06-04-2020, 07:32 PM | #467 |
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Funnily enough, when people were first pulled about which older kamen riders they'd like to see in SO-DO Faiz finished fifth or forth, I can't 100% remember.
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06-04-2020, 07:36 PM | #468 |
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I would eat up a SO-DO Chronicle set for Faiz. I'm only halfway done with the show, but: Faiz, Kaixa, Delta (unless he's too powerful to be sold), Horsepower, Faiz Accel, maybe another Orphnoch (a Lucky Clover, or Yuka). Seems like an easy set to produce!
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06-04-2020, 07:38 PM | #469 |
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Heard Delta beat em all up though
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06-04-2020, 09:39 PM | #470 |
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KAMEN RIDER 555 EPISODE 28
--1-- My main complaint about all of this Ryusei School stuff is that it sucks, and I hate it, and it sucks. My secondary complaint about all of this Ryusei School stuff is that it's too backwards-looking, too beholden to a version of Mari and Kusaka that we never saw. I'd rather see how they're responding to present-day circumstances than see them rehash an idyllic/insane past. So, my compliments to this episode for immediately and successfully reframing the stakes as Mari's mental well-being. All of this Delta belt shit, all of Sawada's spree-killing, it's destroying Mari. These are people she grew up with, cares for deeply. This is her family, and they are literally killing each other in front of her. It sets the stakes as something greater than survival or victory, and I appreciate that. Mari's a character that often feels like a way into a storyline that she can't really participate in. She'll give exposition about the Ryusei School, and then the Kamen Riders will go investigate it. Here, she's integral to the emotional core of the story. It's not about getting a belt or stopping an Orphnoch, it's about trying to heal a frayed family. I really like that. Seeing Mari take the lead on a crucial plot, to see her treat a Kusaka vs Sawada fight as a nightmare scenario, I dug it. It didn't redeem all of the time spent on the lemmings of the Ryusei School, but it definitely locked in this chapter's human element. --2-- The Orphnoch element, though, I assume that's going to be everyone's favorite part. Because, like, Kitazaki. He's otherworldly, detached from the trappings of the flesh. His presence is terrifying. He invades space, holds stares, forces other people to run, to blink. He views the world as a playground, and everyone in it as a toy. He reminds me a lot of Parado from Ex-Aid. (Admittedly, some of it is the hair.) Both of them have this joy at destruction, at maybe being challenged, at feeling something through that challenge, finally. The performance is captivating, all whispered questioning and disturbing demands. The way he hovers over Houjou's shoulder, and then floats to the other shoulder, it's like a cat playing with a mouse. (Incidentally, I'm predisposed to love this episode since it gave me what I've been missing out of Houjou's appearances on this show: Cowardly Houjou. When that dude is shook to his core, nearly hysterical from terror, I am truly alive. Seeing Houjou almost bug-eyed from fright, it is a gift.) More than anything, Kitazaki's energy completes the Lucky Clover dynamic for me, giving them the brains (Houjou), the looks (Kageyama), the muscle (Sawada), and the wildcard (Kitazaki). It's not just lucky, it's perfect. --3-- Less perfect is the Kimura stuff, which... man. I liked some elements of this plot, for sure. It's not a disaster or anything. The part where she asks Takumi why he fights, why he saves people, and he's like, "I'll tell you in ten years,” that's killer. It's so Takumi to tell a bedridden person that you'll give them an answer to a deep question in a decade. It's a great, asshole deflection. And she rolls great with it, hoping he's still saving people in ten years. There's an acceptance of Takumi's... likeable unlikability, I guess. She's okay with him being an asshole, because he's an asshole who cares about people. Making Kimura actually be Saya is a smart move, giving her a reason to be around instead of being some random subplot. I guessed it (probably way too late) when she came in at the start of this episode, since I realized we'd never seen her around when Kusaka or Mari was. Since Skullcandy ended up being Sawada, it figured Kimura was really Saya. But, man, the specifics of this story! They are not great! First of all, she just walks in and collapses. Wh--- why? It shouldn't be from being Delta, since no one's mentioned that it was harmful to use. (Unless you count a crippling addiction to that sweet, sweet Henshin.) So, is she just generically weak? It's corny as hell to have the female character faint, like she has a case of the vapors or something, so it did not get the episode off to a great start. It's the end that felt the most compromised by how the show wrote Saya, though. Her getting killed by Sawada, it should mean something. And it does, to a degree. It's devastating to Mari, I assume, despite her not being around to react to it. It signifies that Sawada's a lost cause, and that's dramatically interesting for future stories. But her as a character that dies, it doesn't feel like anything more than a plot point. She brought the Delta belt, got killed, Lucky Clover wins. Almost as soon as she dies, she's irrelevant to the plot. They managed to get a good scene out of her presence, but the rest of it... not a great use of a guest star. --4-- I love that ending, though. So much. It's a total victory for the villains. They shoot it great, with Skullcandy killing Saya, she drops the belt, and suddenly the rest of Lucky Clover is just there. It's a massive escalation in the fight, turning it up to ten, before Kitazaki puts on the Delta belt and it goes up to eleven. This episode, I feel like it really did the work to make Lucky Clover seem unstoppable. All of the pieces are in place. They've been a fun collection of adversaries, but I feel like here they became a group that I want to see more of, a group where I get what each of them wants. It's been some hard work to get here, but I love the result. --5-- The only problem is, boy does this show not have room for another compelling group of diverse character types. Like, zero Team Orphnoch this episode. Zero! And there aren't even any Ryusei School turds to blame for it, it's just too little show for all of these awesome characters. Good problem to have, a surplus of talent, but it's still a problem. Also a problem, my schedule. The next thing I've got to watch is the Faiz summer movie, but I don't have time to watch it until Saturday. So! That means a couple days to discuss this episode and come up with more Delta Is So jokes. Speaking of jokes, I heard Delta is so funny, he made Mashin Chaser laugh.
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