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10-08-2019, 08:56 AM | #31 |
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then you have Accel in 'W' who literally turns into a bike. hahaha
Kuuga had some seriously great bike scenes. The one where he chased the guy through the abandoned hospital and is riding up the staircase and everything? Really cool. I watched that scene a couple times I liked it so much. Seriously fantastic motorcycle (er,.. dirtbike) skills were on display. the motorcycle fight in The First movie is really fantastic as well. For me a Kamen Rider and his motorcycle is like Batman and the Batmobile, you just can't have one and not the other. |
10-08-2019, 09:10 AM | #32 |
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I'd disagree only in that I feel the bike is -more- important to a Rider than a Batmobile. Maybe it's just the particular stuff I grew up on but I never thought of the Batmobile as terribly important to Batman and it was kinda messing with his theme a bit. But a Rider's bike? It's literally in the name!
I can again excuse it easily for stuff like Drive or Ex-Aid where they're deliberately going for something different, but a lot recently it's just felt like "alright, we got the bike out of the way, let's move on". Just a pre-requisite that no-one wants to bother with, which is a shame. I swear Gaim used Ichigo Arms more than his bike. |
10-08-2019, 09:31 AM | #33 |
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I can again excuse it easily for stuff like Drive or Ex-Aid where they're deliberately going for something different, but a lot recently it's just felt like "alright, we got the bike out of the way, let's move on". Just a pre-requisite that no-one wants to bother with, which is a shame. I swear Gaim used Ichigo Arms more than his bike.
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10-08-2019, 11:17 AM | #34 |
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I'd disagree only in that I feel the bike is -more- important to a Rider than a Batmobile. Maybe it's just the particular stuff I grew up on but I never thought of the Batmobile as terribly important to Batman and it was kinda messing with his theme a bit. But a Rider's bike? It's literally in the name!
I can again excuse it easily for stuff like Drive or Ex-Aid where they're deliberately going for something different, but a lot recently it's just felt like "alright, we got the bike out of the way, let's move on". Just a pre-requisite that no-one wants to bother with, which is a shame. I swear Gaim used Ichigo Arms more than his bike. |
10-08-2019, 12:00 PM | #35 |
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Jin is Parado 2.0, but even more sympathetic from this early on. You can tell there's hints of him going to turn good in the future.
Holy damn Lightning Hornet is beautiful, considering that this will be Valkyrie's only alternate form for the time being I'd expect her to use it often. Also, I'm noticing that ever since Fuwa and Yua knew Aruto is Zero-One it kinda feels odd that they never treat him like either ally or rival, especially Fuwa. The two are set up to clash, yet till now Fuwa doesn't consider him as an enemy but never really outright considers him as an ally as well, it even translates into the action scenes where the two are fighting the same enemy, but not together.
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10-08-2019, 03:28 PM | #36 |
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I would partly agree that Jin is a bit of Parado, but Parado's dynamic was that his desire was to beat and best Emu. Jin is more to me like Chase, a mechanization that is slowly coming to terms with human concepts.
This episode while packed with various action and elements was also a real argument for ethics. It's not so far fetched that when we reach the singularity of AI and robotics we would institute the same laws to prevent someone from recreating a deceased individual. It would cause a moral and ethical dilemma in real society. I felt a real emotional pull from the father trying to grieve for his daughter, unable to let go. It really does give some Ghost In The Shell vibes that the daughters videos became part of the Humagear's actual personality. (it was her videos because of the perspective of her in the memory versus if it were her memories, it would be from her view perspective). But the Humagear actually took that and extrapolated it into her persona. I'm glad I'm not the only one that noticed actual use of a motorcycle in a Kamen Rider series. Build had some good sequences, and Zero-One capitalizes on it. I also really like the bike design. It's less gaudy than Build's and less wacky than Zi-O. The use of it was well timed. Jin's transformation and suit are again a real treat. I love the elements that keep the suits simple, but at the same time give them function. Lightning Hornet is in my top five list of favorite suits from this series so far, right behind Zero-One's main and Flaming Tiger.
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10-08-2019, 04:36 PM | #37 |
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The Henshins in this series have been very creative. And there's a lot of acrobatic flips and somersaults this season.
...and my inner Showa fan is still in love with the fact we finally have a Grasshopper again. |
10-08-2019, 05:00 PM | #38 |
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I'd say I like how creative the henshins have been too, but there's certainly been no shortage of it in recent years. Ex-Aid's video game areas; Build's snap building; Grease's vat; Cross-Z Magma's bucket of magma and dragons...
Zero-One, really, is just keeping up a VERY good trend |
10-09-2019, 05:27 AM | #39 |
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I'd say I like how creative the henshins have been too, but there's certainly been no shortage of it in recent years. Ex-Aid's video game areas; Build's snap building; Grease's vat; Cross-Z Magma's bucket of magma and dragons...
Zero-One, really, is just keeping up a VERY good trend Fuwa would punch a bullet for Wolf and he would backhand the bullet for Kong (but it wasn't shown again so we wouldn't know) Yua however remained the same throughout both forms. |
10-10-2019, 06:50 AM | #40 |
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So I kind of just realised something. Despite the small connection between this episode and the last... Zero One hasn't had any strict 2-parters so far. Every episode has been a self-contained story.
I didn't wanna jump the gun at the first two episodes because, well, first two episodes; but it looks like we're finally breaking that mold, and I for one am all too happy to see that happen. The 2-part structure isn't inherently bad or anything, but in the entire Heisei era we've only had... what, Gaim, Build and Ryuki eschew that structure? So I'm very happy with this. |
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